Carrick agree gorundshare with Crusaders

With just days to go until they make their long-awaited bow in the Carling Premiership, Carrick Rangers have announced a groundshare with north Belfast outfit Crusaders until work on a new 3G pitch at Taylor’s Avenue is completed.
By The Newsroom
Published 3rd Aug 2011, 12:10 BST

The move has been welcomed by club captain Davy McAlinden who said it will be nice for the newly-promoted club to “have a place we can call home” while manager Stephen Small also said it was “a good decision”.

A statement released on the club’s official website on Tuesday morning read: “Carrick Rangers are pleased to announce that they have entered into a groundshare agreement with Crusaders. This agreement will run until the new 3G pitch at Taylor’s Avenue is fully operational, and commences immediately.

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“Over the next few days both clubs will arrange suitable dates for matches on those Saturdays were both teams are scheduled to be at home.”

Back in March, Rangers were granted £245,000 in funding to help install new state-of-the-art playing surface, open to the entire local community, at their home ground.

It had been expected that work on would begin in June but, as yet, most of the work has been going on behind the scenes.

Read the full story in this week’s Carrick Times

PLUS! Don’t miss our comprehensive preview of Carrick’s big Premiership kick-off with interviews from Paul Heatley and Paul Owens

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