Can i use Kiln dried sand on a football pitch

[Elsa TLC]

@Mottie and others

It's my girls teams home ground

It's a bit knackered.
Well at least one goal is.

I had a little read up and bought some of this stuff.

Now I'm not too sure after a bit more reading up.

 

[Elsa TLC]

One goalmouth is a bit hilly.

 

[Mottie]

I found ordinary sand bags to be good. Lot's of 'em, just in front of the goal but don’t forget to move them at half time.

 

[JohnD]

It's too fine. If you have a muddy patch on a clay soil, you need a coarse grit. The players will work it into the soil. This is common in goalmouths. If it was a lawn you would have to rake it in. Lawn sand is sold by garden centres but a coarse grit may come from a place that caters for sports grounds and bowling greens. If you ask a local bowling club someone will know.

Interestingly, gypsum plaster scattered or dug into clay also lightens the texture but does not keep for long as it will harden in a damp shed.

You can make up a mix of top dressing for regular use. Peat used to be added, I don't know what the modern alternative would be.

If you're taking on the job of groundsman, these patches would benefit from hollow-tining to pierce the mud before brushing in the grit. You can rake broken ground to get it fairly level, this is hard.

You can flatten hollows by dragging a home-made lute over the surface after applying top dressing, but hills need to be scraped or dug away. A simple lute is made of boards or a metal grid long enough to bridge over the mounds and dips. Players can help with the effort in training or maintenance sessions. Maybe someone in the club has a garden tractor.

If posting photos, please include something to show scale.

 

[Elsa TLC]

I found ordinary sand bags to be good. Lot's of 'em, just in front of the goal but don’t forget to move them at half time.

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You ain't seen our goalkeeper. She's not only fantastic, she's been awfully upset with with your joke.

 

[Elsa TLC]

The picture is of the center of goal.

It's all about bit if a rush job as I was asked to inspect yesterday.
Im not groundsman , just a dad who wants to do the best for a bunch of 12 & 13 year old girls..

Love it, far better than watching Chelsea.

 

[Odds]

Mott's idea reminds me of the time i went to watch United play Derby Co. at the old Baseball ground in the '77-'78 season: stood in the Normanton Rd end behind the goal, watching the pre-match warm-up with much amusement as the goal was boarded up with the match sponsors logo - Butterley Bricks. They'd constructed a brick wall with their logo splashed across the front...suggestions to the goalkeeper, Colin B. were summarily ignored. Should've left it up. We beat 'em 1-0.

 

[Old Salt]

Go to you tube and watch Daniel Hibbert lawn expert. He does grass that resembles Wembley. I am not expecting you to follow suit but he will give you a step by step guide on how to improve and manage the grass. Whatever you do will improve it in the long run.

 

[Elsa TLC]

Mott's idea reminds me of the time i went to watch United play Derby Co. at the old Baseball ground in the '77-'78 season: stood in the Normanton Rd end behind the goal, watching the pre-match warm-up with much amusement as the goal was boarded up with the match sponsors logo - Butterley Bricks. They'd constructed a brick wall with their logo splashed across the front...suggestions to the goalkeeper, Colin B. were summarily ignored. Should've left it up. We beat 'em 1-0.

Cracking old ground , was the baseball ️ ground

 

[Odds]

Cracking old ground , was the baseball ️ ground

A fan was recalling her lifetime spent at Goodison Park before the final Derby game played this week and told how the stand would shake when people stomped their feet during a match, or the way seats would raattle when they stood to watch a player make a run. The smell of warm beer and hot pies around the ground...just the like Baseball Ground in its hayday. To that i'd add the unmistakable aroma of Watney's Red Barrel before the match and Bovril at half-time. To this day i've no idea how they managed to print and publish the Green 'un in time to read results on the way home.

It's a shame these old grounds are demolished but the demands of business in the modern game trump the fans memories...but leave room for new ones to made infuture, i guess. It's the break from the past i find hard to accept. A mate o' mine told me a seat in the Ley Stand was reserved for Steve Bloomer, Derby's record goalscorer back in the day: it was in front of a stanchion, so your view was restricted but in Bloomer's case it wasn't important. He'd gone blind in his dotage.

 

[Elsa TLC]

It's a shame these old grounds are demolished but the demands of business in the modern game trump the fans memories...but leave room for new ones to made infuture, i guess. It's the break from the past i find hard to accept. A mate o' mine told me a seat in the Ley Stand was reserved for Steve Bloomer, Derby's record goalscorer back in the day: it was in front of a stanchion, so your view was restricted but in Bloomer's case it wasn't important. He'd gone blind in his dotage.

Don't blame Trump.
Highbury had lovely old stands that I believe are now flats. Ill be disappointed if Everton didn't do something with their better stands.

loved it when Everton got their equaliser the other night.

Im more into watching my Girls and Harlow Town now. Chelsea are a pile!

 

[Mottie]

Highbury had lovely old stands that I believe are now flats.

Same with the Boleyn ground.