Radstock Town Go Undercover

Over the past season Radstock Town FC lost 22 fixtures across their three representative sides due to a waterlogged pitch. This gave the Miners a huge backlog of games and prior to the Clovid-19 outbreak, the team were scheduled to be playing upto four games a week.

The Radstock Committee have been putting together plans to improve the Southfields playing surface, however to transform the pitch into a 3G ground will take long term finance and planning. Therefore the management have been looking at short term options to ensure that games get played.

Radstock Town are pleased to confirm that with the support of the Toolstation Western League and The Football Association (FA) games between November 2020 and March 2021 will be played indoors, with the installation of a Dome at Southfields.

The construction will be a temporary structure similar to many Tennis Domes across the world. There are similar structures used on football 3G Training facilities such as the Swindome at Swindon Supermarine FC.

The Miners have signed an agreement with The LTA who’s developers Connerie who will be constructing the dome, which only takes 1 day to build.

As the playing surface will remain natural it will still continue to be maintained as normal. During the period of November-March there is little growth. To allow Photosynthesis to take place the canvas of the Dome allows UV light and Floodlights to penetrate the lining. To maintain an element of moisture to the profile of the pitch 6 sprinklers are built in the roof.