Belle Vue groundsman Steve Dutton has been named Super League groundsman of the year! about time! never could understand how the Leeds groundsmen have won it before with the state of the headingley pitch for most of the year!
Anyway well done all at Belle Vue who make the pitch, one of the best playing surfaces in the country.

Is he the guy who walks around the City centre with a radio to his ear?

Didn't he win it a couple of years ago?

To be fair to the Leeds bloke, he has to contend with Rugby Union and his pitch been used as a car park for the cricket

and it's in Leeds

Isn't $*** good for the soil and grass and such fourth? Our pitch has had loads on it this year...

I have to say that I think the Cas pitch has always looked as good as , if not better than, than the wakefield pitch.

Congratulations to Steve Dutton, by far the best pitch in SL. A pity we can't take it to Newmarket.

Aye Leeds did play at BV last season a last we have found a use for them

You can guarantee that any pitch at Newmarket will not be as good thanks to Belle Vue being open to the elements - a great advantage over most grounds!

it would be ideal I'm sure it would be far cheaper to get ours cut up than purchase else where in roll form, the other option is seeding it from new but I'm not sure how long that would take to form a good ground surface,

there is also going to be the pitch outside the stadium as well

I believe the secret of the pitch, besides having a good groundsman, isn't the top few inches but the subsoil etc. laid down years and years ago. I seem to remember the power station had something to do with it, imported soil, coke, shale etc.