By Martin Morgan

Last updated 12:01, Thursday, 01 May 2008

Workington Reds hope a decision over the long-running saga of a proposed new super stadium for the town will finally be made before the start of the next soccer season.

The club have been waiting since last year for an Allerdale Council announcement on whether the authority will invest in a single new facility, based at Derwent Park, or opt for smaller redevelopments of Workington Town RL’s stadium and Reds’ Borough Park, with cash from the sale of land to Tesco.

“The decision was supposed to be made last September, and the last we heard it would be April/May,” said Reds chairman Humphrey Dobie, who remains adamant that the football club will not move across the road to ground-share with Town.

“It’s all in limbo and we are hoping to know by the summer. If we moved it would be the death knell of Workington Reds, which would be very, very sad.

“I don’t think it’s a good idea to move, and our supporters and shareholders definitely don’t.

“I’m hoping common sense prevails and they spend a couple of million doing up the two stadiums, and spend the other £10 million on something else. We’d then have a ground for the next two or three decades.”