SIR, I'm sure there are already plans to cover the Monmouth Town Football Club's great achievement in this week's Beacon, but sadly promotion isn't an easy step to make. I understand that cricket and rugby clubs find themselves facing the same problem, without their own ground they cannot progress to higher leagues. There has always been the need to rearrange fixtures because using the same sportsground often means dates clash, plus the beginning and end of season overlap with the cricket clubs need to prepare and play is not ideal, I'm sure everyone can understand this. The sportsground has served the town well for about a 100 years, but now, just as in the past, sports clubs need the help of the town to set themselves up for the next 100 years. The sportsground has village green status. It belongs to the town's people and can't really be developed in the way needed, but council's do have the authority to allocate land for recreational use only I believe. Houses appear year after year on flat fields around the town, but what our sports clubs need now, before it's too late, is for somebody to point at an area of land and say "these fields are for sport" and each club will gladly take up the challenge. There are funds available, but green fields don't seem to be readily available. The Vauxhall Camp would be ideal, the meadows off Beech Road along the Monnow or the meadow beyond the old Troy Station, this is the type of area needed. Some towns smaller than Monmouth even have six lane running tracks, something I'm sure all of Monmouth schools would welcome. Maybe schools, clubs, and the local authority, can form some kind of allegiance and take the town sports clubs and ambitions forward for many more generations. Fred Beach (Coleford)