If the sacked lads were the same ones who did Boothferry Park, I'd say they were ****ing good at their jobs.
Recent issues with the pitch? **** me, that only occured because FC played on the pitch less than 24 hours before City. A simpler solution would be the scheduling of fixtures being worked so that this doesnt happen again, not sacking the ground staff/volunteers.
Reminds me of when Ken Richardson took over Brid Town. For donkeys years the couple of turnstiles had been operated by the same volunteers who were happy to do it for free then watch most of the match. He wouldn't believe people would happily give up their time for nothing for the love of the club, and so must be on the fiddle, so he sacked them and employed people on a wage.
The green keepers at Brough Golf Club have asked the secretary to ban all members and players for not replacing divots properly. Apparently they've been stamped in too hard. A similar idea has been put forward at Beverley racecourse sacking divot replacers as they feel that one replaced incorrectly could trip up 500k of horse flesh resulting in a pile up.
Is it just me that doesn't give two ****s about this and thinks it is far from a stick to hit Jnr with? We all complain the pitch is **** and we have had volunteers doing it with exactly what expertise? So we look to replace them with fully qualified skilled, professional employees. Lets not bother with a physio or sports science team either, when we can go back to the days of a former player who blagged a job and knows little more than how to carry a bucket and sponge.
Do you not think it's the the way it has been handled that people are upset about. Again not looking at the help, support and commitment that people have given over the years just thrown away this is just another example of this happening with many other loyal people being treated badly in the last few years
I think the issue is how & not why it happened. It further highlights the club's & Jnr's pettiness & tackiness. The Allams are ****s, you know it, I know it, they know it, we all know it. ****s keep a ****in'
After reading the lad's side of events my view was that the discovery of people gaining tickets for labour was the issue. They'll consider volunteers as free labour. If they're receiving tickets they're not free. They've been happy with the free service for near on 7 years, what changed on Saturday apart from the discovery that it wasn't free. Amateur, tacky, petty & greedy.
It's sacking volunteers while in the middle of doing their volunteering that's the ****s trick, not who actually looks after the grass. And they replaced them with stewards, who presumably know far less about how to look after a pitch than people who've been doing it for the past fifteen years (it's certainly not replacing them with fully qualified skilled professionals, not unless we happen to have particularly green-fingered stewards).
You've mebbe hit on something there Lammie - it's a fact most of them are **** at stewarding, no wonder, they're all horticulturalists!
So after all those years would they not have gained a lot more knowledge than merely whacking a divot back in place ??
