Crawford Rae, Chairman of Greenock Morton F.C. commented on the funding award from The SFP to assist with a refurbishment of the Home Dressing Room, Physio Room and dug-outs “Cappielow Park is an old, traditional Scottish football ground full of character and memories. It is one of the best remaining examples of such in the Scottish game and we, as a club, cherish it. Such a stadium though brings its own problems, mostly in terms of maintaining it as fit for purpose in this modern age, an undertaking which does not come cheap! In recent years, in addition to regular maintenance, we have upgraded the floodlights, upgraded spectator toilets, modernised our police control room including a state-of-the-art CCTV system and upgraded our turnstiles at the Sinclair Street end with modern electronically controlled ticket scanning systems. This season we took steps to refurbish the home dressing room to include changing cubicles and ice baths (some players do not necessarily see this as an upgrade!!) as well as the player tunnel area and home and away management/substitutes dug-outs. We have also renovated our hospitality lounges, knocking what was two lounges into one large area renamed as the Douglas Rae Lounge as well as converting part of the groundsman’s shed into a gym for use as part of the player’s fitness regime. Many of these projects have been partially funded by The Scottish Football Partnership. They have assisted with infrastructure upgrades at Cappielow every year for the last four years to the tune of tens of thousands of pounds. Indeed, a couple of the projects might not have happened at all without their help and we are extremely grateful to them. The SFP fill a hugely important role in the Scottish game at a time when, for most clubs, every pound is a prisoner and we look forward to continuing to work with them.”
