It follows the decision of one parent to take to social media to vent their anger their child was no longer playing with the team.

The dad told the Reporter a number of players had been let go to allow coaches to concentrate on “super” players.

However, coach Gordon McPhail says the club was unable to support two teams with the current level of volunteers.

He told the Reporter: “Due to personal reasons and not being able to be in two places at one time, we have decided to drop down to one team with 11 players.” Gordon, who also runs Jamestown Amateurs, took over the running of the seven-a-side team in December 2012, which saw numbers rocket from 13 to 22.

In November the following year the coaching staff took the decision to split the team into an A and B team, playing the A team in the Paisley and Renfrew league and working with the B team so they could play in the Dumbarton and District Development league.

That saw kids move between the teams as their skill levels improved, and was working well.

Gordon added: “We started off poor in the Paisley league, but we started working with the kids and got better – they got used to the higher standard.

“Some of the players needed to learn more of the basics and some were more advanced. We wanted to train the kids the rights skills at the right level. We wanted to put the B team into the development league and were told to get a few friendlies under our belt.

“So we played four games throughout June, but parents let us down by not bringing the kids. Some kids turned up without their parents and didn’t want to play. We had kids crying because they didn’t want to be there and their parents were nowhere to be seen.” That led to the team taking time off in July, asking both teams to return to the same training session for a small interteam tournament.

Gordon added: “It was great and we had a good turn out. We had medals and a trophy there, and it was great fun.” Since then, however, interest has again faded and the decision was taken to disband the B team and focus on just one outfit at boys level.

Gordon said: “I feel as if the club, as a whole, has gone back the way. We played a team in a friendly, played them off the park and beat them easily. Then we played them in the league and got thumped.

“I started thinking, ‘what are they doing that we aren’t’? They were training twice a week, which helped to make the players better and let coaches work with the players more.” Gordon said parents were talking of taking their kids out of the team and that some of the boys didn’t want to play. The decision to move to just one club wasn’t an easy one for Gordon and his team, personally and professionally.

“One of the boys that no longer plays for us is my own son,” he added. “I asked him if he wanted to play and he said, ‘not just now dad’.

“Two of the other boys were actually born in 2006, so they dropped down an age group.” Gordon said he was disappointed parents were taking to social media and contacting the Reporter to highlight their concerns, saying this has upset the club and the parents of players still involved in the team.