Re: Catalans Game to be rescheduled : Tue Feb 14, 2012 1:21 pm  

It was going to happen some time February being the coldest month and its no help to the fans who have gone over to France.All they can do is make the best of a bad situation.Now I aint a specialist or have a ba or ma but what clown would water the pitch when its going to be freezing conditions.

Re: Catalans Game to be rescheduled : Tue Feb 14, 2012 1:58 pm  

les-goose wrote:

It was going to happen some time February being the coldest month and its no help to the fans who have gone over to France.All they can do is make the best of a bad situation.Now I aint a specialist or have a ba or ma but what clown would water the pitch when its going to be freezing conditions.

oh,that's easy to answer - almost any french groundsman who have the brain the size of a pea !

and as for the match comissioner to endorse it just shows his level of intelligence !

what a pillock !

Re: Catalans Game to be rescheduled : Tue Feb 14, 2012 2:17 pm  

I dont think he has an allotment do you

Re: Catalans Game to be rescheduled : Tue Feb 14, 2012 2:23 pm  

he'd starve if he had one !

the french are brilliant at some things but absolutely carp at others

having worked with them on sports courses over many years - groundsmanship isn't one of their strong points - you can't beat a good old british trained groundsman,despite the usually difficult conditions they have to work under

Re: Catalans Game to be rescheduled : Tue Feb 14, 2012 2:32 pm  

sanjunien wrote:

he'd starve if he had one !

the french are brilliant at some things but absolutely carp at others

having worked with them on sports courses over many years - groundsmanship isn't one of their strong points - you can't beat a good old british trained groundsman,despite the usually difficult conditions they have to work under

to be fair, the individual concerned probably hasn't trained as a groundsman, they are probably more used to looking after geranium plants and mowing the grass!

Re: Catalans Game to be rescheduled : Tue Feb 14, 2012 2:38 pm  

Standee wrote:

to be fair, the individual concerned probably hasn't trained as a groundsman, they are probably more used to looking after geranium plants and mowing the grass!

And onions of the Kershaw variety

Re: Catalans Game to be rescheduled : Tue Feb 14, 2012 2:53 pm  

Standee wrote:

to be fair, the individual concerned probably hasn't trained as a groundsman, they are probably more used to looking after geranium plants and mowing the grass!

you're dead right Standee - hit the nail on the head mate !

what usually happens with council workers is that they are not personally trained as groundsmen/women but have a basic qualification in gardening and is then seconded to a certain taem in a certain area - where I work now (for a private company sub-contracted ou to the city council) in Limoges there are five different teams of gardiners one for each of the four points N,S,E,W plus a team for the city centre - every few years they are shuffled around to different parts of the city.
The guy that was the in charge of one of the areas became head greenkeeper of the local municipal golf course,without any formal training and a few years later was transferred as head of a team in a different part of the city looking after the maintenence of the parks etc
He was/is a good man but has no formal training in any particular area - this will be the same system in Perpignan with I suspect no one one in particular having had any really specialised training in this kind of maintenence.
Problem is,because he or she is a government employee it's almost impossible to sack him or her just get that person transferred to another part of the city.

Re: Catalans Game to be rescheduled : Tue Feb 14, 2012 2:56 pm  

sanjunien wrote:

you're dead right Standee - hit the nail on the head mate !

what usually happens with council workers is that they are not personally trained as groundsmen/women but have a basic qualification in gardening and is then seconded to a certain taem in a certain area - where I work now (for a private company sub-contracted ou to the city council) in Limoges there are five different teams of gardiners one for each of the four points N,S,E,W plus a team for the city centre - every few years they are shuffled around to different parts of the city.
The guy that was the in charge of one of the areas became head greenkeeper of the local municipal golf course,without any formal training and a few years later was transferred as head of a team in a different part of the city looking after the maintenence of the parks etc
He was/is a good man but has no formal training in any particular area - this will be the same system in Perpignan with I suspect no one one in particular having had any really specialised training in this kind of maintenence.
Problem is,because he or she is a government employee it's almost impossible to sack him or her just get that person transferred to another part of the city.

a fair number of the lifties/piste basher drivers I've met are seasonal workers who do gardening type stuff for the municipality during the spring/summer months.

Re: Catalans Game to be rescheduled : Tue Feb 14, 2012 3:22 pm  

les-goose wrote:

Now I aint a specialist or have a ba or ma but what clown would water the pitch when its going to be freezing conditions.

Now Kershaw, being an ex-schoolmaster, more than likely does have a BA or an MA, probably in some 'ology' or other

Re: Catalans Game to be rescheduled : Tue Feb 14, 2012 3:25 pm  

Standee wrote:

a fair number of the lifties/piste basher drivers I've met are seasonal workers who do gardening type stuff for the municipality during the spring/summer months.

apparently the chap responsable for the upkeep of the pitch is someone who the club have been trying to replace for a while but the problem is that with true french inflexibilty he carries out his duties to the letter of his contract
so,it states for example that he will,the evening prior to and on the morning of the game, give water to the pitch - this contract applies in february as much as it does in mid july in the eyes of the groundsman..........

he is not allowed to think for himself !

more likely he is not capable of thinking for himself ?