from what i've read it only needs sweeping for 5 hours a week

Can't see Widnes paying the going rate for a full time groundsman for that!

You are just searching for negatives now. You have no idea about the groundsman or what's going on down there.

What is is the groundsman going to do then if he ain't got grass to cut and lines to paint?

The Wolves scholarship & under 20's use the 3G pitch up at Birchwood High every week & the 1st team has used it when the grass pitch @ Padgate has been frozen

What's this groundsman's name?

pete or doug ?

Groundsman? Usually facility managers now so no worries

touchy! it was an observation ffs

No, it was idle irrelevant speculation and if you think I'm touchy based on one unemotive sentence what am I to gather from yours, "ffs"?

i kinda thought these forums were a platform for speculation? irrelevance is subjective. idle ....maybe, but lets be honest internet forums are the home of idle speculation & debate.
the "ffs" was to emphasise that in my opinion there was no need for your percieved touchyness (if theres such a word)

I'm not looking for negatives at all.. I think it's a pretty good idea and I like everyone have read all the questions and answers about it. It's obviously been bought to a)save the club money and b)to make the club money. I was saying that I expected the groundsman to lose his job as part of “saving the club money”

Padgate Campus doesn't seem a particularly elaborate place for an elite rugby league team to train. Especially the rather scabby field at the side of the halls where Sky filmed the section with Town where the played football.

Are there no plans to develop a more appropriate training facility for the Wolves, like the one Saints developed recently?