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Helping England Rugby to train at Brighton College
Sports & Stadia protected the pitch at Brighton College last night (Monday 2nd January) so that it was ready for the England Rugby team to train on this morning despite the heavy frost and -5 temperature.
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Is this the start of Winter 2016 ?
Frost covers deployed at Pennyhill Park yesterday (Monday 28th November) and removed this morning (Tuesday 29th November) to allow England Rugby to train at 9am. Frost has definitely hit the country this morning!!!
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County Cricket Clubs get results from the Evergreen™ Radiant sheets
Both Northamptonshire County Cricket Club and Yorkshire County Cricket Club have used the Evergreen™ Radiant sheets on their squares at the end of the season this year and have achieved great results.
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Results from the Evergreen™ Radiant covers at Northampton Saints
On Sunday 15th May Wayne Billing, Head Groundsman, and his team at Northampton Saints deployed a set of Evergreen™ Radiant covers from Sports & Stadia Services at Franklins Gardens. Pitch was fully covered - Monday 16th May After 8 days of coverage - covers removed Monday 23rd May Cover rolled and restacked ready for re-deployment ...
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Evergreen™ covers at Franklins Gardens – Home of Northampton Saints
Wayne Billing@WayneBilling 18h18 hours ago Great view of the @EvergreenCover at franklins ...
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Video taken under the MacLeod Cover at the American Express Community Stadium, Brighton.
Click on the link to our You Tube channel to see footage taken under the MacLeod Cover recently during an installation - Under the MacLeod Cover at Brighton & Hove Albion FC
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Ricoh Arena, Coventry delighted with performance of Evergreen™ Radiant sheet
I would like to take the time to thank Nigel and the team at Sports and Stadia for providing me with this Evergreen™ Radiant sheet. It has improved the grass sward massively here at the Ricoh Arena as you can see from the photos below Paul Currier Head Groundsman (Ricoh Arena) From this ....... To this.......
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Busy weekend for Sports & Stadia at Blackburn FC and Wigan Warriors
Last weekend (20th / 21st February) saw MacLeod Pitch Protection systems deployed at Blackburn FC for their FA Cup round 5 televised tie against Liverpool, and also at the DW Stadium where 19,000 supporters watched the Wigan Warriors Super League tie against Brisbane Broncos as part of the World Club Series.
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Colchester FC say ‘Thank You’ to the Sports & Stadia team and praise the MacLeod Covering System service retained by The FA for the FA Cup live televised ties.
Nigel, Thought I would drop you a line now the game is played and done with,to thank you and your staff for your most valuable input into this event. With about a week to go your support and back up started with site visits,weather reports and general dialogue,and carried right through to the day ensuring whatever the weather may do,we were going to make sure the game played. As a groundsman I don’t mind telling you that ...
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FA Cup Round 4 televised ties protected against Storm Gertrude
The pitches at Carlisle FC and Colchester United FC have been protected from the forces of Storm Gertrude ready for their FA Cup ties this weekend that are being shown live on BT Sport. Colchester United FC play on Saturday against Tottenham, whilst Carlisle FC play Everton on Sunday back at Brunton Park on their newly turfed pitch following the floods before Christmas.