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Speaker 1: Now I've actually got on the line Jacob Brandt, who

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Speaker 1: is the president of the Palmerston Cross Get a Jacob,

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Speaker 1: how are you?

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Speaker 2: You're not bad? Gay?

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Speaker 1: Thanks so much for having a chat with us this morning.

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Speaker 1: I got your message a little while ago. Obviously we've

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Speaker 1: been talking about the grounds out there at Malden that's

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Speaker 1: where you guys also train.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, we've been there for since I was a junior

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Speaker 2: though I'm going to say roughly that thirty years maybe.

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Speaker 1: While been there a while and like, how has the

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Speaker 1: state of the oval gone over the years?

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Speaker 2: Oh? What really were saying? Every year teams to go

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Speaker 2: as soon as the wet stops, it gets a bit CFA.

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Speaker 2: But with the issues with the ball, it's amazing again

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Speaker 2: without fail, it's just it's gone rubbish with the Olympic

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Speaker 2: seventh team come out for Australia. The rugby union side, yeah,

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Speaker 2: two weeks ago or so and it was just kicking

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Speaker 2: the backside to kind of show that field in that

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Speaker 2: kind of condition. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: Right, so at the moment, you know, from what we

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Speaker 1: gathered a little while ago with Aaron, it's like it

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Speaker 1: was not only dry and not overly well maintained. But

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Speaker 1: then you know, over Territory Day, it's obviously ended up,

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Speaker 1: it's also been set alight.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so without bashing territory and I we all love

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Speaker 2: our Territory Day, but it's going to happen if something

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Speaker 2: dry and you've got fireworks is going to go up obviously,

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Speaker 2: but it's just one of those things. A bit better

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Speaker 2: planning and maybe a bit quicker response might have saved it. Yeah.

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Speaker 1: So for you guys, now, what's going to be the

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Speaker 1: situation in terms of, you know, not being able to

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Speaker 1: utilize that field. Are you guys in the middle of

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Speaker 1: your season or are you sort of it outside your season.

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Speaker 2: At the moment, we are in the talk to starting

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Speaker 2: our pre season, which for our seniors this is pretty important.

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Speaker 2: And then for our juniors we host the parmersan junior

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Speaker 2: sevens combat at the Oval, which I don't know if

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Speaker 2: we have a meeting with our committee Yett and decide

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Speaker 2: what we've got to do around that space and hopefully

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Speaker 2: it's fixed before then. Yeah, but if not, that's that's

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Speaker 2: an event we hold every year out at Parmesan and

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Speaker 2: it's great for the kids.

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Speaker 1: Would be how many how many kids do you usually

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Speaker 1: have involved in that?

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Speaker 2: We usually get I don't know the numbers, but we

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Speaker 2: usually get quite a few. Yeah. Last year we had

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Speaker 2: a soccer club put a team in, which is awesome.

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Speaker 3: Everyone's having to go.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, but that's and that's what it is. It's just

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Speaker 2: a little pre season for the kids to get around rugby.

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Speaker 2: Nothing too crazy, and we do from under fives right

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Speaker 2: through the seventeen year old.

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Speaker 1: Yep. And so mate for you at this point in time,

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Speaker 1: by the sounds of it, you know, like potentially one

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Speaker 1: of those junior carnivals is up in the air because

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Speaker 1: of the state of the oval.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, so we're gonna, like I said, we're gonna have

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Speaker 2: a meeting and see what options we've got out of there.

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Speaker 2: There's plenty of schools and I'm pretty sure most apartments

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Speaker 2: and would get around it. I'm hoping so. But there's options,

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Speaker 2: but we just don't want to have to use those options.

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Speaker 2: We would love to use outfield.

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Speaker 3: Yep.

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Speaker 2: That's one of those things. Any time will tell.

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Speaker 1: So what do you reckon? Needs to happen there at

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Speaker 1: mold and Oval like as quickly as possible. It sounds

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Speaker 1: like this irrigation and the tank system needs to get

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Speaker 1: sorted sooner.

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Speaker 3: Rather than later.

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Speaker 2: Without bagging that on any of the departments involved of

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Speaker 2: drilled holes. Yep, we've got companies in dah and that

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Speaker 2: drill boards. They had to order a pump part from interstate.

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Speaker 2: They could have probably go on locally. I think those

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Speaker 2: time consuming you know, freight and sutching one out just

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Speaker 2: because they're preferred contractor or a supplier or whatever is

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Speaker 2: a bit crazy. And then they could have pulled the

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Speaker 2: bore out the pump out tests that it make sure

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Speaker 2: it was that part, rather than wait for that partner

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Speaker 2: go oh, the electricals are broken to the pump would

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Speaker 2: never have worked in the face. It's just a long

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Speaker 2: way around it. But that's just it.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, So they've got like, really, this needs to get

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Speaker 1: sorted sooner rather than later. Like I've got people messaging

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Speaker 1: going Katie. Surely someone can install some battery operated controllers

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Speaker 1: installed until they get the wiring sorted. I'm sure that

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Speaker 1: that there'd be people that would be happy, happy to sponsor,

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Speaker 1: you know, like this is a thing.

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Speaker 3: The community is listening this morning and they can't quite

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Speaker 3: believe the situation that you guys are in because you know,

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Speaker 3: wondering why it's been like why you know, the like

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Speaker 3: because the clubs, this is the thing. Clubs are run

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Speaker 3: by volunteers.

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Speaker 1: You guys are doing your best. You know, it's not

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Speaker 1: your land, and I know that you guys do your

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Speaker 1: best to try and you know, to try and utilize

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Speaker 1: with what you've got. But you're actually not in a

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Speaker 1: situation where you can go out and fix the irrigation

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Speaker 1: yourself or do any of that.

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Speaker 2: Now, look to me easy, I'd want to put a

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Speaker 2: generator there. I'd been more than happy to pay for

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Speaker 2: the diesel to run the pump if it's the electricals

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Speaker 2: all the way, the switchboard. Yeah, I've done it before,

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Speaker 2: two holes before, but now we used to run out

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Speaker 2: our balls when we were doing it. Yeah, everyone do

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Speaker 2: a generator and it works. Yeah mate, I'm lost for

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Speaker 2: ideas the words we've tried.

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Speaker 1: Yeah, oh your poor buggers. So it looks like does

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Speaker 1: look because we're going to try and follow this up

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Speaker 1: for you guys. As we said to the Nightcliff Dragons,

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Speaker 1: you know, with their situation with the ballards, I just

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Speaker 1: to me it beggars belief that we're in a situation where,

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Speaker 1: like where the ovals haven't been maintained, particularly you know,

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Speaker 1: if it's been allowed to get as dry as it

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Speaker 1: has and then someone lets off a firework or does

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Speaker 1: whatever they do, and the whole field then ends up.

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Speaker 2: Bugge.

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Speaker 3: I just can't I just can't believe it. I can't

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Speaker 3: believe it's been able to get to that point.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, hierocrats, it's always good fun.

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Speaker 1: Oh mate, thank you for having a chat with me

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Speaker 1: this morning and for messaging through and letting us know

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Speaker 1: what's going on. Let's we'll try and follow it up

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Speaker 1: for you. And yeah, I hope that this is able

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Speaker 1: to get sorted. I want to see everybody out there

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Speaker 1: able to use that.

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Speaker 3: Oval, absolutely so we Yeah, and.

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Speaker 1: I want to see that kids like the Sevens, the

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Speaker 1: Junior sevens kind of all able to happen as well.

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Speaker 2: Yeah, and like you said that, every Friday, we'll get

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Speaker 2: together and go down and yeah, do that for a

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Speaker 2: couple of hours, put on a barbecue, put some lights up.

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Speaker 1: It's good day, good night, it would be it'd be awesome. Well,

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Speaker 1: I really appreciate you having your chat with me this morning, Jacob,

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Speaker 1: thanks so much. Getting thanks mate,