The existing grass training pitch was constructed 12 years ago using mostly volunteer labour from within the club. At that time, our club only fielded 3 senior teams in the Northern NSW Football premier competition and the training pitch was able to cope adequately with the workload. Today, we have 11 teams in our club plus 8 WPL teams from our neighbour club which shares this facility. There has been a 600% increase in the usage of this facility since it was established in 2009.

The intent for this training pitch is to reduce the training load on the main pitch which is primarily used for NPL and WPL football matches. Therefore, high intensity training sessions including small sided games are conducted on the training pitch but the playing surface cannot cope with the average 25 to 30 hours of training that this pitch receives on a weekly basis from early February to late October.

Prolonged periods of wet weather or drought conditions further impede the capacity of the training pitch to cope with the training loads. It is anticipated that an additional 3 WPL teams will need to access this grass facility within the next 2 years.

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