We have received this message from Hamilton City Council:

All parks will need to remain closed for rest of this week, between Tuesday 26 to Friday 29 July, but you can train off the actual playing field if still needing to do training. This includes our mower operators.

We are currently working on the aeration schedule which will greatly improve sport field playability.

We have had excessive rain meaning our moisture rate on our fields is sitting over 50% when it should be around 20%.

The reasoning behind closing the fields is if play continues, given the current conditions, our fields will blow out and we risk losing them later in the season.

Our current soil temperature tells us we can still gain germination and growth helping us establish and strengthen our plant health. Excessive stress under these wet conditions will result in less uniformity and traction towards the end of the season increasing chance of injury.