i know our weather is unpredictable to say the least but surely it makes sense,i only ask as in the last 2 days i have watched my 2 kids play with there boys clubs.yesterday it was fucking baltic and took me about an 2 hours to thaw out.this morning it was torrential rain with an ice cold wind on a park that resembled a farm yard.

surely it makes sense at all levels of football to play in not so much decent weather but decent parks where all teams can actually play passing football?

thoughts?

In terms of adult football, the winter break can only go ahead in order to give players a rest. Any other argument is totally stupid - how on earth can you confine the Scottish winter to a period of 2 weeks in say early January? Bad weather and bad pitches run for a majority of the year IMO.

It might be better to move the Youth and Schools seasons to March-November, but that still leaves a few months at either end where the weather will be bad; it will reduce the number of playing weekends and therefore the number of games a season (positives and negatives TBF); and it means playing through the summer, which is a problem with holidays, schools out, etc.

Even if you go the whole hog and want Summer football, then you are still going to need to play 9 or 10 months of the year. So if you have December and January off - you still need to play in
November, February and March. Put simply, we have bad weather half the year round - or more.

To give examples in non-league football, there have been 30+ postponements in the South of Scotland League so far this season, and 50+ in the East of Scotland. August was terrible, with entire cards washed out or near enough - yet Gordon Smith will tell you that it's the middle of the sunny, dry summers that can apparently last 9 or 10 months, simply by moving to 'summer' football. This is a pipe dream, but it sounds good for the PR, and it will continue to be his policy.

Anyway - there is no solution that doesn't involve the SFA and government spending money. We need to spend more cash (in some cases, any) on better maintaining grass fields. We need to lay a decent number of community artificial pitches each year. And we need a dozen indoor venues.

Sadly, we live in the fat man of Europe/sick man of Europe/violent man of Europe, and our gross spending on 'weather resistant sport facilities' is tiny compared to other Northern European and even many Southern European nations. This is unlikely to change: so it's back to the farmyard...

This arguement has been brought up once again by the teams down south. I think it's a shit idea but even if it were to go ahead, who honestly believes that the teams would let their players rest? They'd all be off to Dubai or Australia for pointless friendlies against some diddy teams.