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Boardroom Banter

New kit supplier announced (Tue 17 Jun)

The football kit supplier for the 2008/09 season has been confirmed as Umbro, the supplier used by the England national side.

The home kit will remain the same colours as last season, while the away kit has reverted back to our 'traditional' away colour of sky blue.


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Ground Grading (Tue 15 April)

Workington AFC are very pleased to announce that the club has achieved written confirmation of the "B" ground grading.

Council Task Group visit (Sat 05 April)

The directors of Workington AFC showed Allerdale Borough Council's "Task Group" around Borough Park on Friday night. Accompanying the councillors were a number of Allerdale officials. The group looked around the stadium, asked questions and listened to the board's plans for re-development of Borough Park.

After 40 minutes the group left to visit Workington Town's Derwent Park.

Councillors remained tight lipped about which of the two options they would go for; Re-furbishment of both Borough and Derwent Parks or a "new stadium" at Derwent Park. The only information gleaned on the night was that it appears Allerdale are no longer interested in running the "new" stadium themselves and that a full consultation exercise will take place with councillors visiting stadia were ground sharing has as they put it "worked" and also where it "hasn't worked".

This suggests a decision is unlikely this month or even in May.

Student discount offer (Thu 27 March)

Workington AFC are pleased to announce that the club are offering students half price admission (£5) on production of their student cards.

Ground Grading (Wed 26 March)

Workington AFC are very pleased to announce that the club has achieved a verbal "B" grading today which will enable us to continue in Blue Square Conference North. Representatives of both the Blue Square North and the Football Association spent an hour today going round Borough Park checking that the work required to receive the "B" grading had been done. The club will receive official confirmation very shortly.

New Stadium (Wed 26 March)

Workington AFC are to host a meeting with Allerdale District Council's Task Group who are charged with deciding whether the "new" stadium will go ahead or not. The councillors will visit Borough Park on the 4th April. After visiting the Reds they will visit Workington Town at Derwent Park.

Ground Improvements (Sun 23 March)

The board are confident that the improvements needed to meet the Conference ground grading requirements are now in place.

You may have noticed that the away dugout has now been moved further away (giving the chaps in the press area a much better view by the way !).

An extra place has been added to the press box to give the six berths that are required;

Concrete paths have been laid from the four turnstiles behind the Town End of the ground into the Town End;

Hand washbasins have been installed in the stewards room and in the players treatment room;

"Keep off the grass" signs have been prepared and are ready for installation.

The club is awaiting final confirmation that the provision of portaloos will be acceptable to the League although the club believes that this has been verbally agreed.

There will be a Conference ground inspection on Wednesday 26th March.

Allerdale and the "New Stadium" (Sun 23 March)

Latest indications are that Allerdale Borough Council will make a decision on this issue sometime in April or May 2008. This long running saga has had a number of decisions deferred, the latest being January 2008. This has impacted on the club regarding toilet facilities, hence the "portaloo" situation mentioned above. We will keep you posted with additional information when we receive it.