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Dave Roberts

From Dell Boy to Saint

We have a problem with drainage on the pitch at St Mary’s, Southampton. The pitch is built over a gravel raft/carpet with drains laid every 3m below...

in Football - on 20/1/07

Common sense prevails

Common sense prevails

After prolonged rain, the match day referee listens to Dave Roberts, the groundsman at St Mary's and delays the kick off to enable the match to go ahead-details...

in Football - on 4/1/07

Cologne Sports Show shows artificial bias

Cologne Sports Show

Saints Head Groundsman takes time out to visit trade show in Germany, reporting back with his observations-full story inside

in Football - on 3/11/05

Trials and testing at Southampton

Southampton FC

It has been a season of upheaval in terms of the managers at the club. First Gordon Strachan left and was replaced by Paul Sturrock, now we have Steve...

in Football - on 15/11/04

New manager, new ideas and a new training pitch

New manager, new ideas

Paul Sturrock is the new manager at Southampton, and Head Groundsman, Dave Roberts, is impressed with his awareness of the work required to maintain high...

in Football - on 19/4/04

High usage start to another season

The St Mary's pitch has been used 31 times already this season. Head Groundsman, Dave Roberts, talks about his maintenance and feeding regime.

in Football - on 12/11/03

High early season use at St Mary's

Just at the moment we're trying to compensate for the amount of usage that we have already had on the main stadium pitch this season. Our last game was...

in Football - on 29/11/02

Groundsmans awards

For the last few days I have been travelling around the south of the country and even over to Jersey, judging the newly created regional football awards....

in Football - on 17/5/02

Summer works at Southampton

The current mood is very good within the club at the moment. There are no worries about relegation as we've had in the past. It's a great weight off everybody's...

in Football - on 19/4/02

New worship at St Mary's

With four league games, two reserve matches, a friendly international and a pre-season friendly under our belt, I feel that the new pitch has made a good...

in Football - on 30/10/01

Southampton Groundsman Dave Roberts on the Clubs move from The Dell to St Mary’s.

We took over the pitch officially from the 2nd week in August, although we had been maintaining the ground since June. The contractors who have built...

in Football - on 24/9/01

Dave Roberts overview

From the time I left school to the time I joined ‘The Saints’ in 1994 I had been to college twice, worked for two borough councils looking...

in Football - on 1/9/01

DELL DIARY

Dell drainage

What can be said about the season 2001/02? Well it was the last season at the Dell where Saints have been playing football for the last 100 years. It was...

in Football - on 1/3/01

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