Knaresborough Town Match day preparation.

Usually most of us know what goes on regarding the pre-match preparation for the players, I wanted to highlight what else goes on to get ready for the game on a Saturday.
What goes on to prepare for match days?
Take a normal Saturday First team game, early in the season when the grass is still growing and when the weather permits, the pitch is prepared on a Friday afternoon by either Nigel Ellerker or Barry Dodds. Don't forget that sometimes after a particularly wet match day the pitch may be badly damaged, as it was a couple of weeks ago this has to be put right for the following week. It is not a five minute job and takes a lot of effort and time to put things right.
Early on the Saturday morning (usually at first light) Phil Hudson and Steve Bradley will go down and put the goal nets in place. Kevin Heaton will follow up at about 8:30 to mark out the pitch, this can take up to 2 hours.
Away from the pitch Paul Howard is preparing the match day programmes, these have been made ready for printing through the week by Colette Hewlet and himself, and go to the printers on a Friday, ready for collection on the Saturday morning. On the Saturday they are collated then pinned together.
Chairman, Terry Hewlett and his Wife Anne are busy make the refreshments for the teams after the game.
Kevin returns about 12:30 to get ready to sell the programmes, bear in mind he has already been here 2 hours. He stands on the gate for another forty five minutes to an hour selling programmes.
Treasurer Geoff Waite comes down at 12:30 to get the bar ready and brings the playing kits down for both teams.
That is just the Saturday morning events but a lot of work goes in prior to this, weekly Monday night meetings where the club affairs are discussed and decisions made. Decisions made to try and improve the standards and facilities of Knaresborough Town Football Club. I have mentioned a few names there but all the committee members do other work in addition to this (there is too much to mention in this article).
Obviously this is not a unique situation, hundreds of clubs around the country are doing the same but I thought it was worth a mention. The work is done voluntarily and it is pride in their club that makes people do this sort of work.