for the upcoming season if St. George's fail to field a team this season.

The east end club, whose plight was revealed yesterday in The Royal Gazette expect to decide tonight whether they will be able to put together a team. The departure of a number of team players has severely depleted their squad, leaving the club to consider withdrawing from the league if sufficient players do not show up for training this evening.

It is a situation the BFA are following very closely, particularly as they are in the process of finalising the schedule. The earlier withdrawal of BAA left the BFA with eight Second Division teams for the 1997-98 season.

"I think it will be sad to the community in St. George's, which for all intents and purposes is a sporting community, if they could not galvanise the support to participate in the football programme,'' said BFA general secretary David Sabir yesterday.

"I don't see our role as going into the St. George's community, but we encourage the community to rally around the club and give the club support.'' Meanwhile, Devonshire Colts are still looking for a home ground after being unsuccessful in striking up a deal with North Village.

Colts, whose one-year agreement to use BAA field has expired and will not be be renewed, recently wrote to North Village to enquire about sharing Bernard Park but the Red Devils' own busy programme prevented them from working out a deal. Village have a total of nine teams, from juniors to seniors, to look after.

"We are kind of all filled up,'' said Village secretary Wendell Lindsay.

"They wrote to us and we met on it to see if it was possible for us to facilitate them but practically we couldn't. "We are trying to upgrade our facilities down there and we are not in a position at this time to bring anyone else into the fold.''