Common Good campaigners in Girvan have told the town's youth football club that they are not their enemy.
The campaigners have objected to a 20-year lease to Girvan Youth Football Club as they believe that the agreement would see the land would revert back to South Ayrshire Council rather than the common good.
However, the council has said that, as the common good account has no legal position, the lease has to be between SAC and the tenant and has no bearing on its common good status.
The campaigners have also been concerned that the football club has misinterpreted their action as an attack on them, with a social media post criticising the campaign.
The group said that the main issue was that the post included the photo from a news story on the common good, but no link to the article itself.
In a statement, the group said: "The context explaining that we do support having the building work done and having the lease extended is not included."
They said that this omission had 'created a negative backlash' and had been 'designed to drive a wedge between members of the Girvan community'.
"It portrays us as just a group of people who are against the whole development, inciting the followers of Girvan Youth FC to post unpleasant comments about us."
The group also expressed concern that the same post was shared by South Ayrshire Council's Active Schools Girvan account.
A council spokesperson said: “The pavilion and land is owned by South Ayrshire Council and held in the Common Good account.
"There has never been any intention to remove the land from the Common Good.
"The pavilion and land on which it sits will be held by the Common Good throughout the term of the lease, at the end of the lease it will revert to the Council but remain an asset held in the Common Good account.
"The current lease is between South Ayrshire Council and the club.
"Common Good funds are not recognised legal entities and cannot enter into a lease. It has to be the local authority, as the owner of the asset, which enters into the lease."
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