Trying to promote the changing of when our league season starts and ends on the basis that more people will buy the TV rights to Scottish football just because no other league would be playing at that time of year probably isn't the best way to try and sell Scottish football.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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Thread: Winter break
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01-03-2018 09:31 PM #31
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02-03-2018 05:27 AM #33
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02-03-2018 05:53 AM #34
This thread is full of the same old arguments against summer football. I've never heard anyone suggest that summer football would cure all of our problems, yet we always get people picking one issue with it as the reason not to change. Summer football is not without its issues but would it be better than the current set up of playing right throughout the winter in scotland? Absolutely.
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02-03-2018 07:36 AM #38
Too much of this debate is around televised top flight football, and how summer football would or wouldn't work for scheduling or logistical reasons.
It makes more sense to examine it for schools and boys club level, when players are learning technical skills and benefit most from lack of call-offs and improved playing surfaces.
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02-03-2018 07:58 AM #40This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
This is similar to the Hampden debate for me. The main reason to stick with the current set up seems to be tradition.
If we had never played football in this country before and were due to start our first league season in 2018, when would we have our season? Anyone that suggested that we don't play in the summer, but should instead play this outdoor sport in the coldest, harshest months of the year would need their head looked at IMO.
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02-03-2018 08:04 AM #41This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Also, the World Cup/Euros being in the summer isn't a major obstacle to Scottish summer football. You're lucky if half a dozen Scottish based players ever play in these tournaments anyway.
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02-03-2018 08:20 AM #42This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Surely if the aim of summer football is to improve the overall standard of our game then one of the direct consequences of that is that Scotland will hopefully get better at football and playing in major tournaments will become a regular occurrence again.
What would we do then?
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02-03-2018 08:33 AM #43This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
If we do qualify for a tournament again in 2032 then we can surely do whatever the Scandinavian countries do. It'd probably involve bringing the season forward a month, or extending it by a month. Either way, having to do that once every 20 years is hardly a major obstacle.
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02-03-2018 09:44 AM #44
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Yeah the main attraction for me is utilising the best of the weather for the best possible experience at the ground primarily for climatic and pitch conditions. I’ll go and watch Hibs in the harshest of weather because that’s when the games are scheduled at the moment but I’d rather being doing it when the days are at their kindest.
As for the World Cup/Euros clubs the league could adjust in the same way as the upcoming winter World Cup in 2022. In fact now I think of it 2022 might be the ideal opportunity to see what league games in the current close season might be like.
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We managed it in the 70s, 80s and 90s when we qualified for 8 major tournaments in 24 years between 1974 and 1998 so why can't we aim for that again?
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02-03-2018 10:16 AM #46This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
We are currently in March.
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02-03-2018 01:58 PM #47
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We'd still have to travel to games in October, November, December, February, March so the experience for the fan would be the same except for what? 8 game in June/July?
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03-03-2018 06:06 AM #49
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That is before you factor in those who go on holiday over this period and would not buy a season ticket as a consequence.
Thank goodness those who run the game have more sense than to fall for this stupid idea.
Even Russia have abandoned a Summer season. Who else runs with it apart from the League of Ireland? I can think of Sweden, Norway, Iceland and Finland. Maybe the Baltic States and the Faroes?
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03-03-2018 09:25 AM #51
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Does anyone know how attendances have changed since Rugby League moved to summer or how much the tv deal is worth?
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03-03-2018 10:04 AM #52
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03-03-2018 10:24 AM #54
Our teams would do much better in Europe.
That would make us feel a lot better about ourselves.
Competing on a level playing field with nations of a similar climate would help us.
The 2 things I think we need to change most in Scotland are to get more kids playing more regularly, and to have more of our top players playing regularly in Europe.
Summer football delivers on both these fronts. I'm open to the idea, if not completely sold. The main argument against it is that winters would be especially pish without football.
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