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GIRL footballers in Haverhill say they cannot use the mini-goalposts bought by their club because they cannot afford the £400 the district council wants to move them.
Haverhill Rovers Under-11s girls' team now has 17 members after successfully appealing in the News for more players.
However, joint manager Karen Smith is furious St Edmundsbury Borough Council wants so much to move the posts to the Chalkstone playing fields where the girls now play.
The team has not been together long and started off playing at Puddlebrook but decided to move, along with other Rovers youth teams because the pitches there were so muddy.
The club raised £250 to buy the posts and had to pay another £250 to have them put up at Puddlebrook. Now they are in storage and the club is having to borrow portable posts from another team for their games.
"I am quite angry about it as £100 seems an awful lot of money to put one hole in. The club is already paying £1,000 a year for the use of the pitches, which just seems to be for cutting the grass. I don't see why the £400 cannot be taken out of that.
"They would not just be for our players. Anybody else could use them once they are up," Mrs Smith said.
Eric Armstrong, Haverhill Leisure Centre manager, who handles pitch lettings for St Edmundsbury, said: "Although £400 might seem a lot of money there was quite a lot of work involved in moving the posts, which had to be concreted in for safety.
"We are trying to accommodate them and we do want to support ladies' football. If they contact me again, I will arrange another meeting to see if we can sort out some sort of compromise."