Sean Kenney

Agreed

That’s me busted!! To be fair, I hide it really well with nobody at the club getting paid and myself driving a 1 litre polo! Master criminal [emoji23][emoji23] To be honest I think it’s just a windup from Izquierda, I wouldn’t get too worked up about it. Merry Christmas folks [emoji1335][emoji16]

Hi guys, just going to let you know where we are with regards to changing rooms. The current changing rooms as you say are in the school but we’ve been working since December to have changing rooms and public toilets adjacent to the pitch. This would probably have been done by now in normal times but unfortunately like so much else in the world Covid has held things up a bit. We are still confident we will have these in place for the start of pre season. Even if there was potential flexibility with the rule on this one it’s not ideal for us and our opponents to have to go back to the school at half time so we’re working hard to make sure this isn’t the case. Cheers, Sean

Hi mate, just going to try and answer some of the questions raised. The current changing rooms as you say are in the school but we’ve been working since December to have changing rooms and public toilets adjacent to the pitch. This would probably have been done by now in normal times but unfortunately like so much else in the world Covid has held things up a bit. We are still confident we will have these in place for the start of pre season. Even if there was potential flexibility with the rule on this one it’s not ideal for us and our opponents to have to go back to the school at half time so we’re working hard to make sure this isn’t the case. Obviously I’m not 100 percent on the clubs mentioned situations with their grounds but I think our arrangement will be a similar one to theirs. Apologies if I’m wrong here but both those grounds are owned by the council and they are on long term lease arrangements, we’ll be similar. Just the final one about the support. This will be our 25th season as a club. We have a group of faithful supporters who follow us home and away already. We won’t be looking to steal any supporters from any other clubs. Again, I’m not sure about other local teams supports but we don’t want to be stealing or harming anything to do with the other clubs. We have very good relationships with all the local teams and a massive amount of respect for them all. All the points raised above are legitimate and fair questions, I hope I have answered them as well as possible. Cheers, Sean

Good eye Stanley! We have modified the badge over the last couple of years for a personal in-house reason but the original badge is a bit of a rip off you’re correct.

Thanks very much mate.

We’re currently amateur football Nomads as we’re originally a West Kilbride team who are registered in Saltcoats and play out of Kilwinning in the winter to make sure our games are always on. Yip, looking forward to getting stuck in.

I can’t speak for any other team obviously but can say we’re speaking to the council about a similar agreement to what the other WOSFL teams have with regards to a long term lease and then doing the work that needs done. To their credit they have been a great help so far.

This is correct. We will be applying to join the WOSFL for the coming season. We have been talking to the league since around October last year and had a very good meeting with Kilwinning Rangers chairman Colin Boyd who got in touch on behalf of the league. Colin was a massive help and everything was positive from that. We are now working to make sure our new ground at St Matthews Academy in Saltcoats will be ready for the new season. As well as the first team looking to join the WOSFL we will have our under 20s looking to join the Development league and potentially keeping an amateur team and a new under 19s team as well. Exciting times for the club.

We all know the rules now and as much is it’s not ideal it’s quite simply really, if you want to play football then go and do it, if you’re not happy with the regulations then don’t play.

We’re sorted for both days now mate. Thanks for the offer and good luck for the season.

Kilbride Thistle are looking for Saturday and Sunday friendlies this weekend. If anyone is interested please get in touch. Cheers