Is underway. Beyond the usual business, it looks as though there are some new drainage systems being installed which should hopefully help with postponements and its general condition next season. Looks like it’s being done by Botham’s Prestige who seem to be specialists in this sort of thing, working with Sheffs Weds and United, Barnsley, Rotherham and Donny amongst others.

I’m the sort of saddo who finds this kind of thing quite interesting…

https://twitter.com/lincscga/status/1658411807260782593
https://twitter.com/lincscga/status/1658459551392231424
https://twitter.com/lincscga/status/1658757597158162433/mediaViewer?currentTweet=1658757597158162433&currentTweetUser=lincscga

Looks like the same principle as the drainage on a golf course, which makes sense as it’s grass !

You’re not alone! Love a bit of tractor watch. Interesting to hear a few times from JS and AP that they eventually want a 5g hybrid pitch.

I see they say “there is tons of waste” I assume they’ve found few of our more useless players from years back!

Quoted from Gaffer58

I see they say “there is tons of waste” I assume they’ve found few of our more useless players from years back!

Nothing new there; a good number of Mike Newell’s reprobates were no stranger to a hoe.

Quoted from Poojah

Nothing new there; a good number of Mike Newell’s reprobates were no stranger to a hoe.

Or bush!


(Especially after a bbq !)

Hope they remember where the sprinkler system pipes are!

Makes a welcome change to the groundsman and his assistant with forks and rakes in the close season.

We should have a fantastic playing surface when we kick off the new season.

Please tell me there's a few weeks of #tractorwatch to come, might relieve the boredom..............in fact can we assemble a weekly highlights show presented by John Tondeur and Monty Don (to explain grass stuff) for mariners tv viewers?

Quoted from Poojah

Is underway. Beyond the usual business, it looks as though there are some new drainage systems being installed which should hopefully help with postponements and its general condition next season. Looks like it’s being done by Botham’s Prestige who seem to be specialists in this sort of thing, working with Sheffs Weds and United, Barnsley, Rotherham and Donny amongst others.

I’m the sort of saddo who finds this kind of thing quite interesting…

https://twitter.com/lincscga/status/1658411807260782593
https://twitter.com/lincscga/status/1658459551392231424
https://twitter.com/lincscga/status/1658757597158162433/mediaViewer?currentTweet=1658757597158162433&currentTweetUser=lincscga

Thanks Poojah, I've always been jealous of Lincolns pitch and always thought it looks like its just been newly laid everytime i see it..

Quoted from Meza

Thanks Poojah, I've always been jealous of Lincolns pitch and always thought it looks like its just been newly laid everytime i see it..

There is no doubt that Lincoln have more and better tractors than we do.

They also use them to fetch their stranded fans home when they try to get to Blundell Park in bad weather.

Drainage going in all over the pitch by the looks of it. This should hopefully represent a tangible step forward in the quality of the pitch - the first drainage upgrade since about 1905, isn’t it?

https://twitter.com/lincscga/status/1658875561567977493/mediaViewer?currentTweet=1658875561567977493&currentTweetUser=lincscga

Quoted from Limerick Mariner

There is no doubt that Lincoln have more and better tractors than we do.

They also use them to fetch their stranded fans home when they try to get to Blundell Park in bad weather.

Yeah. Me and Grantham Mariner drove around Lincoln on the A46 bypass to get to Cleethorpes for that game in  December 2005. The roads were fine.

Wont those narrow trenches be dangerous if any players forget they are there ?

Quoted from GollyGTFC

Yeah. Me and Grantham Mariner drove around Lincoln on the A46 bypass to get to Cleethorpes for that game in  December 2005. The roads were fine.

Ah yes, the infamous Blizzard of 05, such treacherous conditions that effected only the routes from Lincoln to cleethorpes, stopping swathes of Lincoln fans in their tracks, rendering their attempts at visiting Blundell Park futile…I remember it well…

A town win, a drive back to Lincoln in clear conditions and little snow to be greeted with Lincoln City’s answer to Michael Fish in my then local, informing me that travel was dangerous, impossible, and you’d needed to have been Sir Ranulph Fiennes to get there…before raining on his parade, or snow if you prefer and telling him that I’d been at the match and managed to get get back safely in my knackered Rover without so much as a skid or swerve…

Quoted from golfer

Wont those narrow trenches be dangerous if any players forget they are there ?

It's the metal covers they'll need to watch out for

Quoted from aldi_01

Ah yes, the infamous Blizzard of 05, such treacherous conditions that effected only the routes from Lincoln to cleethorpes, stopping swathes of Lincoln fans in their tracks, rendering their attempts at visiting Blundell Park futile…I remember it well…

A town win, a drive back to Lincoln in clear conditions and little snow to be greeted with Lincoln City’s answer to Michael Fish in my then local, informing me that travel was dangerous, impossible, and you’d needed to have been Sir Ranulph Fiennes to get there…before raining on his parade, or snow if you prefer and telling him that I’d been at the match and managed to get get back safely in my knackered Rover without so much as a skid or swerve…

You're being a bit harsh mate, it's a genuine medical condition round Lincoln that the locals are indeed allergic to snow.  They had to cancel the christmas market a couple of years ago after 0.2mm of snow devastatingly hit the bailgate. Terrible scenes.

Since there’s sod all else going on at the minute, here’s the latest on the pitch. Looks to be some significant coin being invested into it.

https://twitter.com/lincscga/status/1659168284422414340
https://twitter.com/lincscga/status/1659496887911579649
https://twitter.com/lincscga/status/1659877426363547649
https://twitter.com/BothamsPrestige/status/1660011169145290759

Lincoln has a long-standing engineering industry.  Maybe they make tractors and get “Mates rates” for re-doing their pitch?  

Please feel free to discus. ☺️

I can see it now ....in a galaxy far far away...

" John, the pitch needs extensive sand treatment in pre season "..

"OK Mike I hear you, I have an account at Samuel's Bazar, go get half a dozen bucket and spades and  over the next few days pop over Fuller Street bridge and get all you need"

Quoted from moosey_club

I can see it now ....in a galaxy far far away...

" John, the pitch needs extensive sand treatment in pre season "..

"OK Mike I hear you, I have an account at Samuel's Bazar, go get half a dozen bucket and spades and  over the next few days pop over Fuller Street bridge and get all you need"

intercourse off! No chance he’d spend money on buckets and spades, even with a huge discount, he’s just make them use a wheelie bin and an existing shovel…

Quoted from aldi_01

intercourse off! No chance he’d spend money on buckets and spades, even with a huge discount, he’s just make them use a wheelie bin and an existing shovel…

.. ...... and get the players to do it as part of their pre-season training

Quoted from moosey_club

I can see it now ....in a galaxy far far away...

" John, the pitch needs extensive sand treatment in pre season "..

"OK Mike I hear you, I have an account at Samuel's Bazar, go get half a dozen bucket and spades and  over the next few days pop over Fuller Street bridge and get all you need"

I bet it was some show watching him and Wraith faffing around with mowers and tractors - every penny was a prisoner I think .

There seems to be a few subtle digs at the old regime.  
Saying all about the clay still under the pitch, how old the pitch itself is etc etc.
perhaps we didn’t realise what an amazing task it must have been for the ground staff under Fenty !!

Quoted from aldi_01

he’s just make them use a wheelie bin and an existing shovel…

Ohhh...do you know what...it now all makes sense....Suggitts Lane crossing bridge being made wheel friendly and who was largely involved in that ?

This pitch is not just going to be beautiful on the outside, but a work of art on the inside too.

Quoted from OddShapedBalls

This pitch is not just going to be beautiful on the outside, but a work of art on the inside too.

You’d certainly hope that we’ll see fewer postponements for water-logging than we have in recent years. Particularly in August - 3 or 4 abandonments in the last 5 years or something daft.  

Quoted from Poojah

You’d certainly hope that we’ll see fewer postponements for water-logging than we have in recent years. Particularly in August - 3 or 4 abandonments in the last 5 years or something daft.  

It's got to be better hasn't it!   I wonder how close the training pitches are to the new Blundell Park surface, you'd think having an identical twin to practise on would give us an advantage at home.....and now I'm thinking of a huge training complex with multiple fields with grass at different heights so the lads can train on a surface each week close to what they'll be playing on for each away game.  If I win the euromllions tonight please don't let me buy the club, the only signings this summer will be Claas and John Deere.....

GREEN !!!!    Does it have to be green?  Green is an unlucky colour!  (anger3)

Quoted from Civvy at last

There seems to be a few subtle digs at the old regime.  
Saying all about the clay still under the pitch, how old the pitch itself is etc etc.
perhaps we didn’t realise what an amazing task it must have been for the ground staff under Fenty !!

100%!

And the wheels only really came off when the groundstaff were furloughed and Ian Fleming was given the job card of looking after the pitch.

I'm sure Fleming did what he could, but a groundsman he never was.  Mike Phillips and his very small team were literally keeping that pitch together by a thread, but once the final thread has snapped...

Latest from Martin Deans, groundsman:-

https://twitter.com/i/status/1661294961634025472

Quoted from Gaffer58

I see they say “there is tons of waste” I assume they’ve found few of our more useless players from years back!

They found Brodie buried

Quoted from Bristol Mariner

They found Brodie buried

What about Hockless?  Perhaps there was a more sinister meaning to him "going down under" than we first thought?

Been a while ...anyone seen how the new surface has taken ?
Anyone near BP got a drone 😄

Most recent photo I’ve seen is a couple of weeks old now. A couple of bare patches, but should have spot on come the Hull game on the 15th July. The real test will be how well it holds up during the season, but there’s been some significant drainage work done so I’m fairly hopeful it will be more resilient (and we can avoid yet another August abandonment).

https://twitter.com/lincscga/status/1667151044944510978/photo/1

Robot groundsmen at BP. What a time to be alive.

https://twitter.com/lincscga/status/1673772108843720704

It must be a fking nightmare to replace a pitch with seed in May, given the lack of rain and amount of sun. If it looks anything like, then they’re geniuses.

Quoted from Poojah

Robot groundsmen at BP. What a time to be alive.

https://twitter.com/lincscga/status/1673772108843720704

I thought they were marking out the turning circle of Ben futcher for a minute there

Quoted from 140381

It must be a fking nightmare to replace a pitch with seed in May, given the lack of rain and amount of sun. If it looks anything like, then they’re geniuses.

Generally that’s the start of the growing season but I accept there has been a lack of rain. Obviously the sprinklers will have got some hours in

The most memorable thing about an otherwise completely forgettable night away at Barrow last season was the quality of the pitch which is remarkable given its location in one of the wettest regions of the country.

Looks like we will have a surface to rival it this season.

We have our own water supply now, so no problem on that front. One of first things they installed was that huge water tank in the Ponny corner.

Quoted from aldi_01

Ah yes, the infamous Blizzard of 05, such treacherous conditions that effected only the routes from Lincoln to cleethorpes, stopping swathes of Lincoln fans in their tracks, rendering their attempts at visiting Blundell Park futile…I remember it well…

A town win, a drive back to Lincoln in clear conditions and little snow to be greeted with Lincoln City’s answer to Michael Fish in my then local, informing me that travel was dangerous, impossible, and you’d needed to have been Sir Ranulph Fiennes to get there…before raining on his parade, or snow if you prefer and telling him that I’d been at the match and managed to get get back safely in my knackered Rover without so much as a skid or swerve…

I came up from Sleaford via Horncastle and I couldn’t get past Belmont, all I did though was drop down towards Rasen and it was fine. Any Lincoln fans who couldn’t do it were too busy choosing what PL game to watch in their living rooms.

Quoted from ginnywings

We have our own water supply now, so no problem on that front. One of first things they installed was that huge water tank in the Ponny corner.

We have had our own water supply for quite a while now. I assume the water tank was installed to provide a back-up and regular flow for the newly installed sprinkler system.

What feeds the tank ? Don’t recall them digging a bore hole and we havent had any rain.

Quoted from supertown

What feeds the tank ? Don’t recall them digging a bore hole and we havent had any rain.

Pretty sure it's just fed by the water main. The tank is just so there's enough back pressure for the sprinklers to run smoothly isn't it?

I imagine we are going to put a lot of emphasis on playing on the floor, with quick tempo football. Therefore a nice home pitch such help that. However some away days will be tricky I'm sure.

Quoted from Poojah

Robot groundsmen at BP. What a time to be alive.

https://twitter.com/lincscga/status/1673772108843720704

I'd genuinely go and watch this live if they allowed it, please god let the new season start soon......

I could be wrong, and often am, but I thought we had installed our own water supply, which would be a borehole if correct.

Quoted from ginnywings

I could be wrong, and often am, but I thought we had installed our own water supply, which would be a borehole if correct.

I can recall reading on here that somebody confirm the ground's water supply came from its own borehole.

Quoted from DB

I can recall reading on here that somebody confirm the ground's water supply came from its own borehole.

I was under the impression that the borehole had left the Town and was now living in Liverpool or Spain !!! 😉

UTM

Quoted from ginnywings

I could be wrong, and often am, but I thought we had installed our own water supply, which would be a borehole if correct.

You are correct. Somebody associated with BP informed me 20 years ago that we had our own borehole ( artesian well).

Quoted from golfer

Wont those narrow trenches be dangerous if any players forget they are there ?

Don't worry, Diddy retired a few years ago ;)

Surely with our new found Green Town credentials we should be collecting the rain water from the ponny and main stand roofs now instead of using groundwater

Quoted from Civvy at last

I was under the impression that the borehole had left the Town and was now living in Liverpool or Spain !!! 😉

UTM

So, a deconstructed borehole