[BD] Pitch Water at Mansfield/The Copa

[Paul Holden]

Steve,

I hope you will have one trailer for each pitch othewise some players 
will need to waste valuable litter dropping time walking to the nearest 
trailer which I guess could be anything up to 2-300 metres away.

Regards,
Paul Holden	mailto: paul at oubliette.me.uk

Steve G wrote:
> There hasn't been a pitch water comment in a few hours.  Boring.
> 
> To put some minds at ease our plan is to have those giant water
> trailers at the Copa.  Something like 1000 litres each.  We'll report
> if this works out so others can give it a try as well.  We're
> arranging ours with the local council.
> 
> As for water at mansfield, something which was confusing and possible
> has led to some of the complaints was the unexpected shape of the new
> containers that Hannah purchased to make up for the lack of those
> shapeless big water bladders traditionally used by the UKUA.  It
> wasn't until the end of Saturday that my team realised that the sexy
> new blue cap topped 5L containers that seemed really popular with the
> players this season were actually the provided tournament water
> containers.  After this revelation we found that actually we had
> consistent pitch water throughout.  Up to this point however we just
> sat and complained like everyone else.  The downside being of course
> that once the water issue was solved we realised we really didn't have
> anything else to talk about.
> 
> So...if you think you had no water but do remember an oddly large
> amount of blue topped containers sitting pitch side, you probably did
> have water and didn't know it.  Or...and I did see this, teams didn't
> realise these were the tournament containers and just thought, 'hey
> great a big container I can go fill up for me and my mates' and took
> them away with them.
> 
> I suspect the water might not have been as bad as it seemed and that
> Hannah did put effort into trying to provide water but communication
> of the new container style was lacking.  The real complaint is of
> course the lack of tannoy system on the grounds to communicate issues
> to the players and of course the 'over doing it' with the whole
> sunshine thing.  Ok we get it Hannah!  It's usually rains in Mansfield
> so thanks for the sun but please, next time not so much.  As you can
> see it just causes problems.
> 
> At Copa and I assure you that the water/sun ratio will be monitored
> and should it shift out of balance we will take follow measures
> outlined in the Nottingham City Council Blame Initiative Scheme.
> 
> Cheers
> Steve
> "what's the comin over the hill, is it the Copa"
> www.thecopa.co.uk
> 
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