Castrol Performance Pitch - Day Two

It can get a bit frustrating once all the big stuff has been put up. Progress doesn't seem to be as visibly quick and all the hard work starts to go into the details.

Todays main task has been cladding the screen structure. A pain staking process of mounting, wiring and securing a series of 4.3 meter high flats gives the good folks from GTMS a(nother) day of hard graft.


While they ploughed on, the LED screen (PSL are looking after all the AV, wiring and the screen structure) is pieced together and winched up onto the truss, we spend a good while trying to get it's position spot on so the large banner will (fingers crossed) line up perfectly.


Inside the Lossberger, we get most of the first fix electrical in place, ready for the application of all the internal panels that will really make things start to look finished.

At about midday the strips of turf for the pitch arrive. Before this can go down we lay out a foam shock membrane that will help ease the impact on players feet. The turf is then rolled on top of this, cut and taped in place.


By 21:00 this is complete along with the front facade of the screen structure and it gives a real idea of how everything will look.


We manage a very enjoyable supper at about 22:30 with our client Toby, before heading back for some much needed kip.