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Saints groundsman Andy Gray (not the Sky pundit) has won League One groundsman of the year.

 

I've beaten the OS to it! :D

 

Saints have been in the top 3 pretty much every season for a number of years - whilst in the Premiership, Championship and now League One.

 

http://www.football-league.co.uk/latestnews/20100422/groundsmen-of-the-year-announced_2245681_2031037

 

The St. Mary's pitch is one of the best in the country and puts a lot of big Premiership teams to shame. Like a bowling green throughout the whole season.

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Fantastic surface and well deserved over a number of years, but was I the only one who noticed how wonky the grass-lines between Chapel and Northam were cut on Tuesday ?

 

Usually they're well-defined edges, but these ones were meandering all over the place.

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Fantastic surface and well deserved over a number of years, but was I the only one who noticed how wonky the grass-lines between Chapel and Northam were cut on Tuesday ?

 

Usually they're well-defined edges, but these ones were meandering all over the place.

 

Maybe the groundsmen had a little drink to celebrate their award before they cut the grass:p

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Saints groundsman Andy Gray (not the Sky pundit) has won League One groundsman of the year.

 

I've beaten the OS to it! :D

 

Saints have been in the top 3 pretty much every season for a number of years - whilst in the Premiership, Championship and now League One.

 

http://www.football-league.co.uk/latestnews/20100422/groundsmen-of-the-year-announced_2245681_2031037

 

The St. Mary's pitch is one of the best in the country and puts a lot of big Premiership teams to shame. Like a bowling green throughout the whole season.

 

He should do consultancy for Wemberly

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He should do consultancy for Wemberly

 

To tell them what ?

 

"Your problem here is that you keep having to get rid of the pitch to stage non-footballing events and the light can't get in either?

 

My rate is five grand an hour, by the way".

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Credit to the groundstaff,I was quite concerned when Dave Roberts left that our pitch would suffer but it still looks immaculate week in week out! Anyone know if our ground staff still look after Bournemouths pitches?

 

Me too. Dave would be the perfect person the advise Wembley, and that mudpan of Stamford Bridge [or have they finally sorted it, after all these years..?], as well.

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Me too. Dave would be the perfect person the advise Wembley, and that mudpan of Stamford Bridge [or have they finally sorted it, after all these years..?], as well.

 

Pretty sure Dave's right hand man left us to join the ground staff at Wembley not long before it opened. Don't think it really matters who they get in,that pitch needs to be dug up properly and seeded instead of just laying turf on top of the gravel underneath.

 

They should have considered putting a transparent/sliding roof on the stadium to allow more light in,just like the Amsterdam Arena rather than the pointless half sliding one they have.

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If Andy Gray was the chap who was Dave Roberts right hand man he was always the one to come up with the prettier patterns in the cut. The pattern that always threw me was the one that follows the line of the centre circle: if you are sat higher up in the Chapel or Northam it actually makes the pitch look like there is a bloomin great big dip with the centre line at the bottom of it.

 

Well done Andy and his team!

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If Andy Gray was the chap who was Dave Roberts right hand man he was always the one to come up with the prettier patterns in the cut. The pattern that always threw me was the one that follows the line of the centre circle: if you are sat higher up in the Chapel or Northam it actually makes the pitch look like there is a bloomin great big dip with the centre line at the bottom of it.

 

Well done Andy and his team!

 

he was.

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