WE’LL PUT UP WHEN YOU END YOUR FEUD

NUNEATON Town have been told to forget about vital works being carried out at the club’s Coombe Abbey Arena – unless they end their feud with the town’s groundsharing rugby club! writes JON COUCH.

A number of incidents have seen relations publically sour between the Warwickshire town’s two biggest sporting clubs, the latest being a row over access to the ground’s entrance.

Now, the Nuneaton Town Supporters Co-operative Trust have stepped in and say that works to fix pot holes on the entrance at Liberty Way would not be undertaken until relations between the two clubs improve.

The Trust have previously worked closely with the Nuns rugby team and paid for repairs to be made to the main entrance of the club.

Skips, and now concrete barriers, have blocked the entrance to the ground used by National League North Boro for the past month. These were put in place by the rugby club following a row over costs incurred to playing on the main pitch at the site.

Now the Trust have had enough and insist that the pothole work will not be carried out until the two clubs settle their differences.

“Historically, the Supporters’ Cooperative have paid for, and physically done the job of infilling the pot holes on the entrance. It’s back breaking labour, taken up by a team of volunteers, and we would be happy to do it again, but only once an apology is made from the rugby club, and the situation improves.

“We urge all sides to draw a line in the sand on this issue. Withdraw the blockages to access, get around the table, and act like adults. As supporters of the Boro, we are fed up of being caught in the middle, as I’m sure are the fans of the Nuns.

“Supporters of these clubs do not deserve to be punished over what was clearly a poorly thought up agreement in the first place It has to end now.”