Although all is relatively quiet at Huish Park at the moment, with players away on holiday and off-field staff taking their vacations too, elsewhere is seeing a lot of action!

Nowhere more so than at the Yeovil Town Community Sports Trust's training site at Alvington where all hands are to the pump sorting out the pitch ready for next season's commitments.



Last winter was one of the worst in the last generation for groundsman up and down the country with snowfall, ice, frost and rain all playing havoc with the pitches.

The Trust have brought in Templecombe firm Gartell & Son to sort out the drainage issues and as you will see from the pictures above and below, work is well under way to return Alvington to tip-top condition. The firm have been commisioned previously at both Wincanton Racecourse and Bath Rugby Club and are experts in their field, pardon the pun.



"Rubber Banding" is the name of the new system being used on the surfaces at the training site. It consists of a machine cutting slits into the turf before filling the slits with millions of tiny rubber granules. This is proving a better alternative in many cases to either sand or grit as there is less chance of clogging up the machinery.



Work will continue over the next few weeks and the Trust will hope for a kinder winter from Mother Nature as they head into the 2010/11 season.