It’s not a real break but it must mean something: Messina is looking around, due to objective difficulties or even to send a signal, the fact is that they have asked some municipalities in the Tyrrhenian province for information in order to host Serie D matches and first team training. At the moment these are just contacts, requests for information, but which could lead to something concrete in the not too near future. A situation determined by the lack of synthesis between the ACR’s requests and the Municipality’s responses. With which, president Justin Davis was quick to reiterate several times, relations are and remain good on a generic, theoretical and mutual will level, but then there is the “practice” represented by the club’s needs which clash with administrative measures.
Which? The desired remodulation of the tariffs requested by the Acr, which had been positively received by the mayor Federico Basile and the councilor Massimo Finocchiaro, as reported in the response note to the councilors Carbone and La Fauci, will not materialise, at least now. The reason is that the process for defining the change cannot be completed in the times that are leading to the resignation of the mayor. Therefore, everything is postponed until a possible re-election or successor.
The use of the “Franco Scoglio” for weekly training, in addition to the stable finishing on Saturday, was also formally denied. Or better yet, it would have been proposed to use only the external areas (pitch edge) of the pitch, in order to protect the pitch for official matches. This is, among other things, because they are ongoing “regenerative agronomic interventions for the turf which would require a settling period which would be compromised by trampling”. Furthermore, fire sensors are being replaced.
All valid reasons, which are not disputed by Messina, who however once again find themselves having to deal with logistical difficulties with respect to the sporting needs of the team. A constant over the years. Not a problem for this week, given that in Favara we will play on artificial turf and therefore the course at the “Marullo” will be closed, albeit in an armored time given that the Bisconte facility, like every weekend, must prepare to host matches in the rain until late in the evening. But for sure, something to solve. Even in perspective, if we wanted to raise the bar.
A solution could come from the “Celeste”, but the end of the interventions has been postponed several times and we will have to understand next summer whether we will finally be able to use the basin in via Oreto again. In the meantime, in fact, Messina is studying other solutions to avoid being caught unprepared which at the moment also sound like a “provocation” in the face of needs that have remained unheeded.