This weekend will be Sipthorpe's last in the capital before he takes up a new position as the senior operations manager for Recreational Services, which takes care of more than 400 parks for the Christchurch City Council.
What's this year been like with so much sport on in Wellington? You've had the Cricket World Cup, Super Rugby and the Fifa Under-20 World Cup.
It's been a hell of a challenge trying to keep a grass cover on a field that's getting hammered. We've done what we'd normally do in an entire year by the end of this weekend.
Do you cut certain patterns into the grass?
Rugby have got a pattern that they prefer so we generally stick to that. The A-League have got their 5m pattern that we have to adhere to, then we've got cricket where we've pretty much had an open slather ... that's where we can get creative. At the Cricket World Cup they had a stipulated 10m pattern, so we all had to abide by that.