Moves to improve Stark’s Park

Raith Rovers interim chairman John Sim has revealed the role Scott Boyd will play in revamping Stark’s Park after admitting their Kirkcaldy home had become “a bit of a tip”.

Former Ross County defender Boyd was made redundant from his position as director of football at the Dingwall outfit during the summer as the impact of the Covid-19 crisis hit home.

However, hewasswiftlyoffered a newly-created job as stadium development manager at Rovers.

From seemingly mundane tasks like “pigeon-proofing” the concourse to bigger projects such as reducing costs by potentially installing state-of-the-art LED floodlights, Sim is adamant Boyd’s remit is a pivotal one.

“Scott Boyd has started as our stadium development manager,” said Sim. “Phase one was tidying up the stadium because, to be perfectly honest, it was becoming a bit of a tip.

“Phase two will be looking at how we can develop a masterplan for stadium development over a five to 10-year period.

“He has been working on various individual projects, all of which take a lot of time and can be expensive.

“As an example, there has been ageneralproblemwithpigeonsin the concourse so we are going to supposedly pigeon-proof it.

“We are in the process of replacingallofthedamagedseats in the north stand. Part of the problem was wayward shots, so we now have netting to protect the stands at both ends.

“We are looking at reducing our electricity bill, which is huge. We are putting LED light on the concourses and looking at what we can do with the floodlights because I’m told running those is about £40 an hour.

“LED could be as low as a tenth of that and we’d have far more control of the intensity of the light and the areas of the pitch we light.”