Carlisle United are pleased to announce that work has started on the training pitch behind Brunton Park.
Following the end of the 2023/24 season, Stadium Manager Dave Mitchell and his award-winning team have immediately got to work on the training pitch.
Dave had the following to say after receiving the Grounds Team of the Season award.
"I'm pleased for everybody including Paul and Ben that help. We get 30-40 hours off them in a month on top of myself so I think we do okay.
"Its to be policed, managed, nurtured, cultured and looked after all the time. We've got to keep our eye on it.
"I'm pleased, its great for the club."
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Speaking on the work currently being done, Chief Executive Nigel Clibbens said: "Each spring, we have traditionally done very modest repair work on the training pitch.
"With the changes and new opportunities that have arisen from ownership, we are now able to make significant upgrades, which should improve it's drainage and condition throughout the year. We have significantly increased the drainage and improved the surface.
"This is aimed at making the surface last longer to allow more use, and extended use without deteriorating as quickly as in previous years."
Dave Mitchell added: "We're improving the back training pitch, we've put in additional gravel slits.
"There were gravel slits in there at two-metre intervals and now they're in at every metre on top of the original drainage system.
"There's 80-tonnes of sand top-dressed in, the sprinklers are on as we speak, the weather is getting warmer so hopefully that'll be ready by the end of June."
He also provided us with an update on the playing surface inside the stadium.
"The work starts at the end of May, it'll be a full turnover again.
"We'll take off the vegetation and horrible dead material off the top and get all of that away.
"Then we'll plough it over, put in 87-tonnes of fibre sand and 59-tonnes of sand - the same as what we did last year and hopefully we'll reap the same benefits."
Watch a short video regarding this work HERE.
