I agree with Pat Rayment that the Halley Stewart playing surface is a disgrace.
The pitch has never been in first class condition and has never been properly maintained for years.
The council do not have the expertise to look after the pitch properly.
There’s more to looking after a football pitch than just a cut now and again, or do they call that maintaining it?
Another thing that I can’t understand is why the council in their wisdom sometimes decide to cut the pitch on a Monday after the game has been played on the Saturday before.
Surely a pitch wants cutting before, not after, a match.
The council’s excuse for the poor state of the pitch is due to the high level of use and the recent wet weather.
It certainly does have too many matches on it, but I can inform the council that when Spalding played Heanor Town in the FA Cup in August, the Heanor supporters said that the pitch was the worst that they had ever seen and that was at the beginning of the season, so what’s the council’s excuse on that one.
The pitch is not even fit for cattle to graze on and the surface has got more divots than there are craters on the moon.
It’s a wonder the players don’t do themselves a serious injury playing on that heap.
It’s an embarrassment to the town of Spalding and it’s time it was sorted.
Mick Smith
St John’s Road
Spalding
