Hey guys, this is NUSensei.
For those who have been following, I mentioned
just yesterday that I turned up to my club
to train and kind of found this.
This is kind of like the ultimate disaster
in terms of club management.
What's actually happened is that I received
an email an hour ago informing me that the
water company was doing some installation
of pipes and I kind of guessed as much.
It's just the fact that no one told us.
This is a pretty big deal.
This is like our field. In the background
you can see trucks, a porta-loo, some diggers,
digging up the field and putting in pipes
or whatever underneath.
This is a pretty major work.
You'd expect the authorities to actually inform
you before going ahead.
I mentioned before that this is the middle
of our season, the outdoor season, and the
weather is perfect for shooting.
Our kids from school will be coming here to
train and practice for the state championships
and it's a bit of a shame that it's been closed
off.
I've been told that this will be finishing
today, so it's only been three days - that's
Monday, Tuesday and today, that's Wednesday.
It hasn't been a huge disruption. It's just
the audacity that this happened and no one
knew about it.
I don't want to label the club has handled
it badly or the council handled it badly.
It's just somewhere along the line, someone
hasn't said something. You can't just go to
the field and dig it up and expect no one
to care.
So I was quite angry when I first came across
this.
Now I've chilled now that I know what's happening
and it's going to finish off this afternoon.
I'm not sure about the condition of the field
afterwards. The field's not great anyway - lots
of clay, not much grass, it gets very muddy
during the wet season.
I wasn't really sure about how the field would
turn out towards the end.
I think it would be okay. It looks very disturbed
and there's a lot of topsoil that's loose.
If it's a windy day or a rainy day, it can
become hard to shoot.
It's so shocking to come to your club and
you find the whole thing has been cordoned
off with mesh and tape.
It's like coming home to your front yard and
someone's dug it up to find treasure
or asbestos.
It's a shame.
There's some irony. If we turn the camera
to the cricket oval.
It's so green.
It's great. It's well irrigated, lots of sprinklers,
great for the cricket season right now and
I find it surprising that
they would never do this to the ground here.
We're five metres away.
They would never think about digging this
up, it's unthinkable.
Yet our archery range on this side, it's common
ground.
They've used this for putting materials like
sand and dirt piles to spread on that oval,
but they're putting it on our field.
We've resolved most of this already.
Like I said, it came as huge shock to find
this here.
For the most part it's been resolved. It's
been handled in the best way it could. We've
been informed by the people in the Council
that it's been fixed up.
Just really unfortunate that it's come up
like this.
Hope this will come up again tomorrow.
We've got a pretty big week ahead of us.
Hopefully back to training for the long term.
Anyway, this is NUSensei. Thanks for watching
guys. Thanks for caring and I'll see you next
time.
