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The great news is that we have done it, the pitch is clear and I believe the contractors have started laying the new rubber shock pad. So on behalf of everyone at Adel Hockey and AWMA can I say a HUGE thank you to everyone who has helped and especially Sam “How Hard can it Be?” Ransley for the heavy machinery. Looking back at the figures doing this has saved us about £15k excluding VAT. Read more…

Sadly we didn’t get enough numbers down tonight, sterling efforts from everyone who was there right up until 10pm means we are SO close to finishing this. So the plan is for one big push TUESDAY from 5pm til 10pm. Please bring a wheel barrow and shovel if you have one. If we can get 20+ folk out there it will get sorted in a few hours. Attached picture of what is left. Once that Read more…

Evening all, Bad light stopped play tonight due to the floodlights not working, so we still need some more help Monday night. Massive thanks to the big turnout tonight, especially given the awful weather. Plan is to meet at 5pm and get it finished, the more hands the quicker we will all be done and enjoying a drink in the bar. Even if you can only turn up for an hour we are going to Read more…

Massive thanks to everyone who has been down to the pitch over the past two weeks. We need one final push to get the remaining shock pad off the pitch before the contractors start on Monday. So the plan is to start work at 5pm this Sunday. Charles Lawrence are lending us a powered blower to clean up the old tarmac/sand/rubber crumb. So the plan is to use that in parallel to brushes and also Read more…