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Page 3 of 4 Kick thy ball
To me, a patch of grass is simply...a patch of grass. A field is just a bigger patch of grass that people associate with football, Beckham and rugby.
Green, green grass of home
But did you know, that for this not-so-little patch of grass, extensive maintenance works are actually undertaken on a regular basis? And I don't mean grass cutting.
Yihang (one of the captains of the men's soccer team) shed light on the high level of maintenance needed to keep the field in tip-top condition. During the monsoon season, the field is reduced to a soggy and muddy mess. The Sports and Recreation Centre's management hence needs to regularly drain the field, and after a particularly heavy storm, the field even needs to be closed for a day or two, with workers called in to fill in potholes with sand.
The field is one fitness facility that passes with flying colours.
Netball without a net
Net(less)ball
What the world need is some enlightenment, just like what the SRC management needed from NUS netballers, before they realized the necessity of mending the torn net in the netball courts.
To be fair, Yvonne, a member of the Netball sub-club, conceded that the nets in the court get torn very easily and need constant mending. (All the same, the nets only began being routinely mended after the girls raised the issue with SRC.)
Another point of contention with the netball courts is the faulty lighting, which hinders play when it gets dark. In those cases, one end of the court would seemingly be brighter than the opposite end of the court. I wonder which team would want to move to the Dark Side. Haha.
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