Dunfermline are on the hunt for new training facilities after moving out of their Pitreavie home of the last 12 years following a long-running legal wrangle.
The Pars will now station themselves at East End Park after failing in their attempts to resolve a complex row involving Pitreavie’s owners, Fife Council, and subtenants The Pars Trust, a charity set up by former club owner Gavin Masterton.
The dispute, which has involved a security held on the lease by Masterton’s pension fund, at one point threatened to wreck the Fifers’ bid to come out of administration in 2013.
The League One outfit penned a 60-year agreement to use the Pitreavie training facilities in 2002 but ended their tenancy on Friday and are now seeking a new base.
Manager John Potter said: “We are now up at East End Park every day and we’re looking into a few training options.
“There are a few Astro pitches around about that we can use and I’m hoping we’ll get the use of a grass facility confirmed in the next few days.”
Potter is still searching for his first win as manager since taking over from Jim Jefferies last month.
Saturday’s 2-0 defeat away to Morton was his fifth in charge without a victory but he is hopeful the change in scenery from day to day could help spark a turn around in fortunes on a Saturday.
He added: “It’s good to get back to East End. It brings everybody back together in the one place and it’s important for the players that they are at the club every day.
“It’s something I wanted to do and hopefully it’s just a wee change that can give us a new freshness.”