Guest Gladstone Posted December 1, 2009 Report Share Posted December 1, 2009 BBC Sport - Football - SFA chief keen on season changeSummer league? I can never decide if it's a good idea or not. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Adam Easy Wishes Posted December 1, 2009 Report Share Posted December 1, 2009 BBC Sport - Football - SFA chief keen on season changeSummer league? I can never decide if it's a good idea or not.No thanks.I like being able to throw snowballs at Stillian Petrov. :] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonade Posted December 1, 2009 Report Share Posted December 1, 2009 The logic is there. We live in a cold country, where it gets freezing in winter and warm in the summer. So how does it make any sense at all to play our outdoor sports over the winter? I may be a pussy but I only go to Pittodrie between August - October, and March - May. It's too fucking cold the rest of the time. I don't want to sit outside in winter thank you very much. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soda Jerk Posted December 1, 2009 Report Share Posted December 1, 2009 Just means you'll be watching football in the rain instead of the snow. It also means matches won't get postponed at the rate they do, meaning prize whingers like Walter Smith won't bubble about fixture congestion and such.Either that, or just get these jessies to harden up and play on the frozen solid turf, where a slide tackle will rip your leg open. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Scootray Posted December 1, 2009 Report Share Posted December 1, 2009 Either that, or just get these jessies to harden up and play on the frozen solid turf, where a slide tackle will rip your leg open.I went through a phase of doing that week in, week out on the astroturf pitch at Asda. Fuck me, never in my life has a shower been so painful. Hot water and red raw skin do not mix well.I've still got a pink patch on my leg where the new skin has healed over. Nice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soda Jerk Posted December 1, 2009 Report Share Posted December 1, 2009 I hear you. Being a goalie on astroturf was the worst. If you're not taking your skin off your knees, you're smacking your elbows right into the rock hard ground when you're diving at full stretch. Totally shit. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ca_gere Posted December 1, 2009 Report Share Posted December 1, 2009 I kinda like the idea. I hate summer coz there's no football. Todders on a baking summer's day (well, a non cloudy day, it is aberdeen after all) could be quite special. They could do chocolate sliders and slush puppies to go along with the pies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
delboy Posted December 1, 2009 Report Share Posted December 1, 2009 it works fine in the republic of ireland the old summer season. And right now the thought of summer football is very appealing as I get my winter woolies ready to go sell programmes then watch Cambridge v Chester - a fixture that hardly sets the footballing loins alight but it is a game we really should be winning! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonade Posted December 1, 2009 Report Share Posted December 1, 2009 I kinda like the idea. I hate summer coz there's no football. Todders on a baking summer's day (well, a non cloudy day, it is aberdeen after all) could be quite special. They could do chocolate sliders and slush puppies to go along with the pies.I'm tempted to say that that's the best idea you've ever had. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sam 45 Posted December 1, 2009 Report Share Posted December 1, 2009 What would happen if we actually qualified for the World Cup? All fixtures postponed. It could be a good idea in terms of generating interest in the league, with no other games in the summer people might turn to Scotland to get their football fix. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonade Posted December 1, 2009 Report Share Posted December 1, 2009 What would happen if we actually qualified for the World Cup? All fixtures postponed. It could be a good idea in terms of generating interest in the league, with no other games in the summer people might turn to Scotland to get their football fix.Surely Ireland have a contingency in place for that happening. We'll just nick their idea. It can't be any stupider than a league that splits in half after 33 games. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Gladstone Posted December 1, 2009 Report Share Posted December 1, 2009 What would happen if we actually qualified for the World Cup? All fixtures postponed. It could be a good idea in terms of generating interest in the league, with no other games in the summer people might turn to Scotland to get their football fix.There are other countries that play in the Summer that seem to make it work if they qualify. I think some Eastern European countries play over the Summer? That's why they're often really sharp in qualifying for Champions League, and we're, well - quite fat. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodsinho Posted December 1, 2009 Report Share Posted December 1, 2009 Have a midseason break for World Cup/Euros. Even if Scotland don't qualify there's an outside chance that some players from SPL sides will be off to play for someone.In Russia they have their season from March to November and last year they took a break from 16th May 'til 5th July for Euro 2008 so it can be done. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Gladstone Posted December 1, 2009 Report Share Posted December 1, 2009 Have a midseason break for World Cup/Euros. Even if Scotland don't qualify there's an outside chance that some players from SPL sides will be off to play for someone.In Russia they have their season from March to November and last year they took a break from 16th May 'til 5th July for Euro 2008 so it can be done.That would be far more sensible than the current set up in my opinion. A compromise would be 16 team league with a proper Winter break. The split is a farce, and playing teams 4 times a season is a farce. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soda Jerk Posted December 1, 2009 Report Share Posted December 1, 2009 Must be strange for Russian clubs having to stay fit for the winter Champions League ties even though their season is over. Football all year round. Nice one Russia. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ca_gere Posted December 1, 2009 Report Share Posted December 1, 2009 to be fair, Scottish football as a whole is a farce. They may as well make some huge change, whatever it is, just to shake things up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Soda Jerk Posted December 1, 2009 Report Share Posted December 1, 2009 Sudden Death Multi Ball! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Woodsinho Posted December 1, 2009 Report Share Posted December 1, 2009 European competitions don't run between the start of December and the middle of February so they aren't going to have to play that many games outside of their regular season. Plus it means that for things like Champions League/Europa League qualifying rounds that happen in what is pre-season for most leagues the scots and russians will already be in full flow. Advantage Northerners. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonade Posted December 1, 2009 Report Share Posted December 1, 2009 12 teams isn't enough for a top division. It should be 16 or 18, or even 20. They should also have some sort of regional conference-style pyramid system to allow some of the non-league teams a crack at the league. eg. the winners of the Highland league, the South of Scotland League and the East of Scotland league and the team that finished bottom of Division 3 go into a playoff, or something similar. That would be mint. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ca_gere Posted December 1, 2009 Report Share Posted December 1, 2009 Instead of splitting the league in two, they should split the teams in two. 5 a sides, running keepers, half the pitch each. Good, honest entertainment for all the family! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lemonade Posted December 1, 2009 Report Share Posted December 1, 2009 Instead of splitting the league in two, they should split the teams in two. 5 a sides, running keepers, half the pitch each. Good, honest entertainment for all the family!And if a team is winning by miles, the player that's scored the most goals for them has to move over to the losing team to level it out a bit. Them's the rules. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest idol_wild Posted December 1, 2009 Report Share Posted December 1, 2009 The only thing I like about the festive period is the build-up of football fixtures and all the excitement and drama.So summer football can fuck off. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ca_gere Posted December 1, 2009 Report Share Posted December 1, 2009 And the grass should be changed to a proper artificial surface. Drag-backs galore! 5 a sides aint 5 a sides without the drag-back and you just don't get the same purchase on grass. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gus Chamber Posted December 1, 2009 Report Share Posted December 1, 2009 While I'm at it, I'm going to write to the SFA and ask them if we can replay the 2004 Scottish Cup Final, with the Pars 1-0 up, just before the point that Badle handballed it in the lead-up to the equaliser. It's only fair.Swings and roundabouts chimp, the memory of Jimmy Bastard Sandison going utterly tonto in the '91 Skol Cup semi over our penalty-that-never-was still gladdens the heart from time to time...We scored it as well. LOL. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Alphas Posted December 1, 2009 Report Share Posted December 1, 2009 Instead of splitting the league in two, they should split the teams in two. 5 a sides, running keepers, half the pitch each. Good, honest entertainment for all the family!Just bring back the Tennents 6's. That was fucking ace! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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