Rugby Football Union Championship side Doncaster "will play home games at the Keepmoat Stadium" next season if it is promoted to the Premiership while temporary facilities are installed at Castle Park to meet the Minimum Standards Criteria. The club leads Yorkshire Carnegie 30-17 after the first leg of its Championship play-off semifinal with the second leg at Castle Park to come this weekend. If it earns promotion, then the criteria set out by the RFU and Professional Game Board state that it must be able to play at a stadium with a minimum capacity for 10,000 spectators -- "double the current approved capacity of Castle Park" (RUNNING RUGBY, 5/5).
East Kilbride Sports Council has "thrown its weight behind" the Field of Dreams campaign this week -- "insisting a new stadium is required to bring the town’s sports facilities into the 21st Century." The News "is urging South Lanarkshire Council to back East Kilbride Community Trust’s plans for a community stadium in Langlands." Despite no public funding being needed for the stadium, the Trust "has endured a five-year struggle to get councillors to engage with their ambitions." But on May 25 "their plans for a 4000-seater sporting hub will go before the local authority" (Scotland DAILY RECORD, 5/5).
