WaffenThinMint Posted February 25, 2017 Share Posted February 25, 2017 A CRICKET club? FFS! The existing cricket clubs have problems enough getting players, let alone some club with no history of interest in the sport. This stinks of trying to do anything in the vain hope they'll get some of the local Asian businessmen to back it. "A spokesman for the local Asian community" - quite aside from why the coyness as to whom this is, for fks sake, this is the 21st century & you've still got people falling for this pish? Like Asians are some homogeneous lump who will do whatever Big Chief Mighty Khan has negotiated with White Man in Big House after smoking Pipe of Pot? Get with the programme, unless THEY are running it or stand to make some sort of material benefit from it, you can wait until doomsday before they're going to help - least of all a club with fleeting links to the British armed forces. "We also want to encourage people who play badminton, squash and other sports." Um, ever get the feeling this has got "knocking down Cathkin & building some soulless jerry built Community Stadium with a lifespan of 15 years tops" written all over it? What happened to John Sweeney bankrolling a rebuilt Cathkin for the Juniors or Lowlands last April? Or has that been another load of hot air they hoped would attract other investors looking to get a slice of the action? If they are now going to go pratting around Govanhill hoping to appeal to the multiple nationalities to join in with such tales, perhaps Alexander & co ought to know every Slav child is told the tale of the Axe Soup - which is exactly what this whole business sounds like. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongTimeLurker Posted February 26, 2017 Share Posted February 26, 2017 Given Labour are likely to lose their majority in May, there probably isn't much point negotiating anything with the Glasgow City council at this point. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hillonearth Posted February 26, 2017 Share Posted February 26, 2017 Not only is their approach borderline racist: "We'll play cricket too...youse like that, don't you?" but they seem to not really have a handle on the area they're trying to pimp their club to. The wealthier Asian punters who would be in a position to potentially help them have long since moved away from Govanhill, which is an area which since time immemorial has been home to successive groups of the newest - and poorest - arrivals in the country. A lot of the businesses in the area are still Asian-owned, but the local demographic is a lot more skewed towards Romanians and Slovakians now. To be taken seriously at all, they need to ditch the Cathkin Park idea once and for all - it's romanticised bullshit. The ruin of their park is literally ringed with sporting facilities already - Toryglen, Hampden itself, Lesser, and even the Queen's Park Recs - there's no reason for the (probably outgoing anyway) council to pump further money into that area. Like many others on here, I'm sceptical if there's any crowd left to follow them; given the passage of time their original fanbase are either dead or OAPs, and the demographic changes in the area since their demise would suggest a new team would struggle to attract fans. Until they come up with a plan that doesn't involve local government pumping what would probably need to be a couple of million they don't have into their crumbling white elephant, the resurrection of Thirds is likely to remain just a silly season story to be run ad infinitum whenever some blawhard wants his name in the paper. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenconner Posted February 28, 2017 Share Posted February 28, 2017 Could always rename the Hi Hi, Partizan Third Lanark. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WaffenThinMint Posted March 26, 2017 Share Posted March 26, 2017 Congrats to the Hi Hi on winning their league yesterday - interesting tweet from their official account. Why include The Juniors "official" (sort of) website in their shoutouts. Looks like at least some of them do have pipe dreams of making the Juniors, although still nothing tangible has been discussed. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Le Tout P'ti FC Posted April 8, 2017 Share Posted April 8, 2017 Cathkin today, stopped in on way home from QP. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
edinabear Posted April 16, 2017 Share Posted April 16, 2017 More pie in the sky or the first steps back to senior football? http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/reborn-third-lanark-unveil-5million-10235432 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jacksgranda Posted April 16, 2017 Share Posted April 16, 2017 33 minutes ago, edinabear said: More pie in the sky or the first steps back to senior football? http://www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/scottish-news/reborn-third-lanark-unveil-5million-10235432 Hmm, that's a toughie. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HibeeJibee Posted April 16, 2017 Share Posted April 16, 2017 Certainly ambitious - if I'm reading the plans right the terracing would be cleared of trees bringing it all back into use? Or are only the bits between the white/grey lines meant, with the rest remaining overgrown? Would also build a 2,000 seat grandstand... There is even a nod to the old pavilion with the clubhouse to the left of the 5-aside pitches appearing to have a pitchside balcony. If all that came to pass you would have a stadium along the lines of Somerset Park in Ayr - albeit with a more modern stand and larger terraces (but without cover). One thing that did immediately strike me was that, for a proposal apparently motivated by a "synergy" of football and cricket, there doesn't appear to be a cricket pitch in the complex? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LongTimeLurker Posted April 16, 2017 Share Posted April 16, 2017 More substantial than the slow news day stories of the past. Would be interesting to see what phase 1 looks like as that's the part that's more likely to happen. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sloop John B Posted April 16, 2017 Share Posted April 16, 2017 2 hours ago, HibeeJibee said: One thing that did immediately strike me was that, for a proposal apparently motivated by a "synergy" of football and cricket, there doesn't appear to be a cricket pitch in the complex? They'll probably just play on the same pitch, which is never ideal but isn't unheard of in Scotland. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ampie Posted April 16, 2017 Share Posted April 16, 2017 Hi, I'm the Manager of the current amateur team. Todays article has provoked a lot of reaction which is good. I try not to involve myself in these things as I just stick to trying to improving the team. I've been at the club many years. Firstly as a player and in last few years in my current position. To be honest, Cathkin is something that i've seen more so as a distraction in the past. The talks with council never really went too far and things were stale in that area for a while. A new Chairman came in this year and with that came greater connections in the community. The talks with the council have went further than ever to a point that we were asked to show proof that the funds are there which we obliged. The local elections seem to be causing the delay at the moment but we'll keep pressing. The cricket addition is a recent addition and contact with the people we have making all these plans have advised us that they have plans to incorporate both. As I say, I don't know all the answers. My job is simply the Manager of the team but I can say that with the current board, I'm more confident than ever that this will happen. What I can say is that if we don't get it this time, this story will not run again. We will build the ground somewhere else. We've no divine right to the ground but we couldn't use the name Third Lanark and then not try our hardest to get this ground. With this attempt, theres nothing more we can actually do to get the ground. We've proven the finances are there and we have the backing of the local community. Theres a lot of people working hard to make it happen but theres only so much we can do. Thanks for all your support. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tamthebam Posted April 17, 2017 Share Posted April 17, 2017 with Meadowbank's redevelopment looming could you find a home for these magnficent b*****ds at Cathkin- they'd put Third's on the map (literally) and I don't suppose Edinburgh Cooncil would be hard to deal with....! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenconner Posted April 17, 2017 Share Posted April 17, 2017 1 hour ago, Ampie said: Hi, I'm the Manager of the current amateur team. Todays article has provoked a lot of reaction which is good. I try not to involve myself in these things as I just stick to trying to improving the team. I've been at the club many years. Firstly as a player and in last few years in my current position. To be honest, Cathkin is something that i've seen more so as a distraction in the past. The talks with council never really went too far and things were stale in that area for a while. A new Chairman came in this year and with that came greater connections in the community. The talks with the council have went further than ever to a point that we were asked to show proof that the funds are there which we obliged. The local elections seem to be causing the delay at the moment but we'll keep pressing. The cricket addition is a recent addition and contact with the people we have making all these plans have advised us that they have plans to incorporate both. As I say, I don't know all the answers. My job is simply the Manager of the team but I can say that with the current board, I'm more confident than ever that this will happen. What I can say is that if we don't get it this time, this story will not run again. We will build the ground somewhere else. We've no divine right to the ground but we couldn't use the name Third Lanark and then not try our hardest to get this ground. With this attempt, theres nothing more we can actually do to get the ground. We've proven the finances are there and we have the backing of the local community. Theres a lot of people working hard to make it happen but theres only so much we can do. Thanks for all your support. Support??? More like geeky old nosey bazzas, moi included. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LeedsPhil Posted April 17, 2017 Share Posted April 17, 2017 I was at Cathkin Park on Saturday morning - Hampden AFC had a home game there for the first time since September so I couldn't resist making the pilgrimage. The guy putting up the nets is from the Jimmy Johnstone Academy - it is they who have the (25 year) lease, so use of the park is a sub-let from them rather than direct from the council. It was made clear to me that they're not about to step aside for any Third Lanark takeover of Cathkin Park... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Glenconner Posted April 17, 2017 Share Posted April 17, 2017 Another Third Lanark story bites the dust. JJA sounds more plausible since they have serious backers. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ampie Posted April 17, 2017 Share Posted April 17, 2017 The council told us otherwise about JJA's let. If that was the case then i'm certain we wouldn't have got this far in talks with the council. A recent meeting between the clubs did not go well..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Snakebite Posted April 17, 2017 Share Posted April 17, 2017 I played on Cathkin Park in 2003-2004ish and it was covered in dog shit and pot holes then Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Doonhamer doon south Posted April 17, 2017 Share Posted April 17, 2017 The council told us otherwise about JJA's let. If that was the case then i'm certain we wouldn't have got this far in talks with the council. A recent meeting between the clubs did not go well..... Should everything go right for you guys when do you think the team will be ready, on and off the pitch, to rejoin the pyramid? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ampie Posted April 17, 2017 Share Posted April 17, 2017 Theres no real timeline on that yet. We're playing Amateur football at the minute. To even be considered to get into leagues that allow us to climb towards Lowland etc we need a ground. If it were to be Cathkin, there's a lot of work needs done to bring it in line with the criteria for these leagues. I'm sure once the ground comes, the board will have a timeline and i'm also sure they'll want it soon. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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