Sven wrote:No need for any changes to the football season.
If cricket is a problem then cricket should move its season or shorten its season. Something like 3 times as a many kids play football compared to cricket and the majority rules.
Football is heading towards being an all year sport anyway. The summer/winter sport split is a thing of the past.
You would be including E&D kids in those stats? they kick off in April so there’s no issue with cricket there (Aussie rules too). When the comps clash kids will pick cricket finals over preseason every day so it’s the football that loses out.
Look cricket can look after itself, the issue is, is it better to have kids starting pre-season in Jan/Feb when it is mostly stinking hot or March when it starts to cool down. Our season starts this week having played only 2 rushed friendlies and missing out on over half the training sessions. Training in excessive heat one day then missing a week coz it’s even hotter, this is not a good situation.
west_ham wrote:Its too hot to play in February - that's the main/critical point of this topic. Games and training get cancelled regularly during February.
The FFSA hot weather policy will ensure there will be plenty of cancellations in February.
We live in South Australia and the Bureau of Meteorology records over the past 50 years proves that February is the hottest month of the year in South Australia year after year. There's no getting away from the extreme hot weather days and weeks in February.
Avoid February...
Let kids play cricket if they want.
I don't get how moving it forward will change that? If you start in January then do they just stop playing in February. If Feb that much hotter than January?
Start training in March or late February at the earliest. No training or games in January.
west_ham wrote:Its too hot to play in February - that's the main/critical point of this topic. Games and training get cancelled regularly during February.
The FFSA hot weather policy will ensure there will be plenty of cancellations in February.
We live in South Australia and the Bureau of Meteorology records over the past 50 years proves that February is the hottest month of the year in South Australia year after year. There's no getting away from the extreme hot weather days and weeks in February.
Avoid February...
Let kids play cricket if they want.
I don't get how moving it forward will change that? If you start in January then do they just stop playing in February. If Feb that much hotter than January?
Start training in March or late February at the earliest. No training or games in January.
God is an Englishman wrote:
So, move it backwards then.
I think you are getting your forwards and backwards mixed up. Isn't he saying move it forward from March to April? January and February are not even in the equation. Pre-Season March, games start April.
God is an Englishman wrote:
So, move it backwards then.
I think you are getting your forwards and backwards mixed up. Isn't he saying move it forward from March to April? January and February are not even in the equation. Pre-Season March, games start April.
Surely if you moved it forward from March to April, we'd have to play next season this season. Or we could move it back one month to April
God is an Englishman wrote:
So, move it backwards then.
I think you are getting your forwards and backwards mixed up. Isn't he saying move it forward from March to April? January and February are not even in the equation. Pre-Season March, games start April.
Surely if you moved it forward from March to April, we'd have to play next season this season. Or we could move it back one month to April
March to April is backwards, not forwards.
I thought March was month 3 and April was month 4. Going from 3 to 4 is usually considered to be forward. Anyway, start the season in April instead of March is not that hard a concept.
