As we are currently experiencing the warmest temperatures on record for a December going into January can anyone explain why we have this enforced 3 week winter hreak from league football?
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Thread: Winter Break- what is it for?
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30-12-2019 10:46 AM #1
Winter Break- what is it for?
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30-12-2019 10:52 AM #2
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Don't get it either - intense schedule when we come back
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30-12-2019 11:29 AM #3
There's absolutely no justifiable football/weather related reasons.
All it does is force clubs to play 8 or 9 games inside a month, then are usually not so well prepared for the Scottish Cup game on their return.
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30-12-2019 11:34 AM #4
Mental but then most things usually are when it comes to decisions taken by Scottish football authorities.
We could quite easily have awful weather in February, meanwhile the next few weeks are predicted to be relatively mild.
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30-12-2019 11:37 AM #5
Whether there is merit in a winter break or not I’d like to see it over Xmas and New Year. With now having a young daughter we take turns about spending it here with my family and my wife’s family down south, so was away for the derby. I think it would make sense to have the break during Xmas and new year when things are most hectic and people are generally travelling all over. It would also ease the financial pressure to attend games at the most expensive fortnight of the year for most.
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30-12-2019 11:41 AM #6
As far as I know, the clubs welcome the winter break. In fact, was it not originally the clubs who asked for it?
It gives the players time to recover and freshen up, and work on any niggles they've been carrying.
It also means that clubs making early signings can work with them before exposing them to games.
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30-12-2019 11:53 AM #7This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Totally agree, that makes perfect sense.
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30-12-2019 11:56 AM #8This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
January is depressing enough without the football.😀
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30-12-2019 12:30 PM #9
Best to have it from a fans perspective, would be pre Xmas.
Money is tight and fans have Christmas to shop and buy for, plus it’s the darkest month in the year
Unfortunately with Champions and Europa League ties, running in December, clubs in europe wouldn’t vote for it
This week for instance loads of people have time on their hands, could have had great crowds
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30-12-2019 12:33 PM #10
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So the teams can swan off to spain, Dubai etc. Personally the weather tends to get worse in feb beginning of march so be better having it then if its for weather justifications
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30-12-2019 02:06 PM #11
We should switch to Summer Football, because the weather's always better in June/July......
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30-12-2019 08:14 PM #12
We play twice a week for weeks before it and the same after it. Seems pretty pointless from a physical break standpoint.
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31-12-2019 12:47 AM #13This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
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31-12-2019 01:23 AM #14
possibly the best break would be a week or 2 before Christmas? nearer xmas/new year lots of families meet up or travel to join friends and family. this should be the ideal period for increased attendances surely? the Dundee derby for example, looked like a full ground, on tv although I have not seen the attendance numbers.
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31-12-2019 04:03 AM #15
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It’s to allow £1m hybrid pitches the time to recover from the bashing they took from summer classical music concerts.
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31-12-2019 09:25 AM #16
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Not wholly against a winter break, but as many posters have said, the best time to take a break is impossible to determine.
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31-12-2019 09:32 AM #17
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I miss the New Year derby. If the rulers of our game had negotiated anything like a half decent TV deal, there would be zero chance of them bunking off for a holiday.
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31-12-2019 09:39 AM #18
There should have been one more game before the break, partly to complete the second round of fixtures but mostly because this is the holiday period and people are off work so attendances will be higher.
Instead we have Hamilton in midweek after the break.Mature, sensible signature required for responsible position. Good prospects for the right candidate. Apply within.
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31-12-2019 09:45 AM #19
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I thought it was brought in to give the players a mini mid-season break. I think it’s a good idea but if it was based on weather then we should be playing summer football
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31-12-2019 09:47 AM #20
A longer break in summer would be more preferable. The break post Christmas is nothing more than a nuisance which asks fans to travel midweek either side of it to ease fixture congestion in the darkest and coldest months of the year , but of course, those decisions are never made with the supporter in mind. We are way down the list of priorities (probably the last).
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31-12-2019 11:25 AM #21
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The answers are pretty simple, really.
It was originally mooted in the late 70's when there were severe winters eg 1978? when one particular game was postponed 23 times.
The rest of the league was in complete disarray. That was the start of the idea of a winter break. All the other reasons stem from that.
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31-12-2019 11:47 AM #23
Surely there is a case for having a full card on 2nd Jan rather than the ridiculous midweek card in mid December.
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31-12-2019 04:03 PM #25
The only sensible time to have any break would be immediately before the split.
That would allow time to catch up on any games lost between mid-January and mid-April, as well as providing more time to sort out the post-split fixtures.Mature, sensible signature required for responsible position. Good prospects for the right candidate. Apply within.
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31-12-2019 04:23 PM #26
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31-12-2019 05:39 PM #27
Its obvious...
To enable our “soft boy-band” players time to record another UK Top 10 hit single.
If only we had a manager/governing body who appreciated the value of puking up on Gullane Bents and avoiding Alsatian turds on Fettes Police Station frozen playing fields.
I do wonder how many folk on .net maintain appropriate BMI/Liver Enzyme levels [etc] and manage their delicate nutritional balance all while perceiving "softness" in our players. Not me, that is for certain, and it is the height of utter folly to compare what any fan does for a living to what a professional Hibernian player [of any gender] puts their body through on a daily basis.
This ain't 19-canteen. East Mains is a wonderful facility and the players are worked HARD every day, both psychologically and physically, every day, even during any alleged "break"
TL:DR - Professional sport is a legitimate science and although change may be scary at first it truly is the enemy of complacency - hence The Winter Break.
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It's an establishment conspiracy I tells yah.
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01-01-2020 01:40 AM #30
3 solid weeks where the yams are guaranteed to be bottom of the league? What’s not to like?
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