Post by Dave on Jun 14, 2013 16:15:02 GMT
Willand Rovers Ground Reviewed 19 April 2010
What a beautiful day it has been today and after driving nearly 300 miles I was in Wellington and decided instead of going back to the M5 at junction 26 to go down and call on the last two customers I wanted to see at Culumpton, I felt like a change of route and scenery and drove out of Wellington on the road that joins up with the A38 as it comes out on Junction 27 of the M5.
Just before I got to the junction and as it was still only around 1.30pm, I took the road to Willand as I knew it would take me in the end into Culumpton itself. I did not know where the Willand football pitch was and I was hoping I might just see it and if I did take a look and get some pictures of it if possible.
The good news was its right on the main road and there was a nice area of hard mud beside the entrance gate I was able to park on and the even better news was the gates were wide open and I could see no one around anywhere.
So in I went and I had only taken one picture on my camera phone when a man and woman who I would say were the very well off retired type were walking through the gates and into the ground. I said hello and asked them if they were anything to do with the club, I thought if they were then I would just explain who I was and why I was taking pictures.
Well it turned out their garden fence runs down one side of the pitch and it got damaged not for the first time over the weekend and they wanted to see the just how bad it might have been from the other side of their garden.
To be honest it was only very minor damage and they told me they were fed up informing the club about damage to their fence as the club never gets back to them (where have I heard that before) They did show me one new fence panel at the very end of the fence that the club had replaced earlier in the season.
It’s a very tidy ground and the only thing that disappointed me was I tried three times to take a picture of a lovely thatched cottage in the corner of the ground and each time It came up on my phone that the capture had failed, so I gave up in the end.
