the_shrimp Posted August 8, 2014 Share Posted August 8, 2014 Riga, Groningen and tonight against Real... All amazing nights with the sun beating down and the cool summer breeze... Imagine that. Or January pissing rain, freezing your arse off watching St Mirren.... 2 Link to comment
Dynamo Posted August 8, 2014 Share Posted August 8, 2014 I agree. It can quite easy be pissing rain and blowing a gale in July too mind you Link to comment
elephantstone78 Posted August 8, 2014 Share Posted August 8, 2014 Summer football is the way forward. If rugby league can do it so can we. Link to comment
The Cockney Don Posted August 8, 2014 Share Posted August 8, 2014 The summer is for Cricket . Link to comment
StandFree1982 Posted August 8, 2014 Share Posted August 8, 2014 True. However, there is also this scenario: It's 27 degrees, not a cloud in the sky and you are sitting having a few pints in a beer garden. You have the choice of staying in said beer garden or head to Pittodrie to queue for 30 minutes for a pie and get shat on by seagulls.... It's all rosy right now because we are playing European Football, but playing shite like Killie or St Mirren would be a bit different. I personally would still rather head to Pittodrie regardless, but there will be some who would just not bother if it's nice...or get dragged somewhere by their missus to a fucking garden centre or something just as monotonous.. Link to comment
tightbreeks Posted August 8, 2014 Share Posted August 8, 2014 we play football in winter coz of the deep-rooted working-class Calvinistic ways of Scottish fitba. I'm sure there's a few old boys out there who mind going to watch a fitba match on Christmas day, coz Christmas day was more of an English thing. it would be a good idea to have a break, give a chance for the pitches to recover. maybe hire one of those uv light massive hydroponics they put on the pitch for the epl teams. a local Vietnamese marijuana growing cabal could supply the hydroponics for a free pass. playing fitba on a balmy summers evening kicks ass. all the chicks at pitchside in their summer togs, cheering on the team. 1 Link to comment
dave_min Posted August 8, 2014 Share Posted August 8, 2014 Nit. Football is better in winter. Link to comment
Dynamo Posted August 8, 2014 Share Posted August 8, 2014 True. However, there is also this scenario: It's 27 degrees, not a cloud in the sky and you are sitting having a few pints in a beer garden. You have the choice of staying in said beer garden or head to Pittodrie to queue for 30 minutes for a pie and get shat on by seagulls.... You're right. Folk are more likely to leave the warmth of the bar at 2:45 on a Saturday in December when it's 2 degrees to head to Pittodrie. Link to comment
Henry Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 75% of Scottish clubs would consider summer football Summer football 'complex' says Huncaster. Link to comment
thedandydon Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 It might be considered ‘complex’ if there wasn’t a precedent to follow but it seems plenty other countries manage it ok, including our near neighbours Ireland. If, as we seem to be constantly led to believe by those in the upper echelons of the game, that Scottish football is on the decline then surely such a radical change could be seen as trying to do something that might just benefit the game in this country. The alternative is to leave it as it is and hope it magically revives itself. A more settled climate, less disruption from TV companies when there’s not a clash with Premier league fixtures (games played at more palatable K.O’s), Potential for increased sponsorship revenue, potential for a revised league re-structure (16 -12-12?), potential for better European runs as we’re not playing crucial ties during pre-season. It makes sense in my book. Link to comment
BWG Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 Makes perfect sense and there's obviously an appetite for change from he clubs.. apart from Queen of the South and Peterheid but lets face it who gives a single solitary fuck what glorified pub teams like them think. Scottish fitba has fallen behind after years of piss poor management. We need to start thinking outside the proverbial box and get away from this idea that the Scottish game should take its' lead from England. If it'll result in a more lucrative sponorship deal, make us more competitive in Europe and more importantly me not having to freeze my bollocks off at Pittodrie while clutching to a bovril for dear life then I'm all for it. Link to comment
newcastlered Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 I don't agree with it really, messes up transfer windows, don't think that it would increase tv revenue because it would still clash with EPL for most of the season and when it doesn't I can't see people who ridicule Scottish football suddenly watching it on a Saturday rather than down the pub with their mates. Also on Europe were Groningen and Sociedad not on preseason to? Winter break is the best way forward not a radical change. Link to comment
ebbe Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 Should have changed to summer football years ago. Link to comment
Byrne Baby Byrne Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 Boring debate now. Why do they keep talking about it every few years only for nothing to change. Just leave it and shut up 1 Link to comment
thedandydon Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 Can't see how it would mess up the transfer windows as it would still be one pre-season, one mid season (assuming a March-Nov or Dec season). True enough those teams were also in pre-season but theres every chance we or the other Scots representatives could draw a club thats well underway in their own campaigns this time around and be turfed out early, as has been the case serveral times in recent years. Having 12-15 games under out belt before taking on the likes of Sociedad who are in their pre-season gives us a slight advantage which could just make a difference. Link to comment
Clydeside_Sheep Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 we play football in winter coz of the deep-rooted working-class Calvinistic ways of Scottish fitba. I'm sure there's a few old boys out there who mind going to watch a fitba match on Christmas day, coz Christmas day was more of an English thing. The reformers said Christmas - remembering the birth of Christ - was a "Catholic thing", which is why Hogmany became a big thing in Scotland after the reformation. It was always an odd type of Christianity, which is - of course - the reason it has essentially petered out after an embarrassingly short period of time. Link to comment
Clydeside_Sheep Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 So, summer football. Im not for it - (1) I like going to games where its dark with flood-lights on and snowing; remember we could never have had the "snowball game" v ra sellick if we played in summer (2) It would balls up the world cup and euro championships (3) It would give the Scottish Government more opportunity to interfere and nanny us; I can easily imagine mandatory sun-screen laws etc, if we switched to summer football. Link to comment
King Street Loon Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 No.Its for diddy leagues and Baltic states. Link to comment
tup Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 Nit. Football is better in winter. That is complete rubbish, unless you are talking in some sort of masochistic sense for all those involved. Link to comment
tup Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 I would say none of those who are against summer football are actually involved in the game. It's a total no-brainer. I cannot believe we even have to debate it. The grass grows in the summer. It disna grow in the winter. Work it out for yourselves. I've even heard bullshit like 'the pitch needs a chance to recover in the summer' from utterly clueless football officials. Link to comment
dave_min Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 That is complete rubbish, unless you are talking in some sort of masochistic sense for all those involved.You are wrong. I am 100% correct. Please do not argue back. Link to comment
Henry Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 I am all for summer football, on the basis that taking the opposite view to Clydeside Sheep is a good approach to most matters. Link to comment
tup Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 I'm not sure how you won best newcomer award twice dave min. I've never heard you say anything of note yet. 1 Link to comment
robbojunior Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 I'm not sure how you won best newcomer award twice dave min. I've never heard you say anything of note yet. He was up against the likes of 360 Link to comment
BrianFaePerth Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 No.Its for diddy leagues and Baltic states. There's talk here of moving to winter football, which in reality would mean the season running August-November and then March-June Link to comment
tup Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 He was up against the likes of 360 I can see why he won it twice now, in glorious Technicolor. We need some new members that are more like me and you min, interesting, not annoying. Link to comment
robbojunior Posted June 10, 2015 Share Posted June 10, 2015 I can see why he won it twice now, in glorious Technicolor. We need some new members that are more like me and you min, interesting, not annoying. Agreed, unfortunately there's a lot of new posters in the shooftamoolaaawhateverthefuckhe'scalled mould. Cue the obligatory 'good banter' post from that cunt from Eastenders. Link to comment
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