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Author: Jamie Birch🔥 Date: Category: Likes: 0 URL: https://www.skool.com/coachingacademy/rain-stopped-play-postponement-season
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Ross Whitehead🔥
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Ross Whitehead🔥 • 2dOur A team in now on week 6 without a fixture. Although they are trying to arrange a friendly for this weekend.For me the solutions are:
- move indoors during the winter, but that’s not likely as there aren’t enough facilities for everyone.
- change the season start and end times to take into account the bad weather. Obviously it gets very hot during the summer months, so that’s also an issue. For example our league is played from end of September to end of April. May is always a month of lovely weath… See more
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Ross Whitehead🔥
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Ross Whitehead🔥 • 2dOur A team in now on week 6 without a fixture. Although they are trying to arrange a friendly for this weekend.For me the solutions are:
- move indoors during the winter, but that’s not likely as there aren’t enough facilities for everyone.
- change the season start and end times to take into account the bad weather. Obviously it gets very hot during the summer months, so that’s also an issue. For example our league is played from end of September to end of April. May is always a month of lovely weath… See more
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Ross Whitehead🔥
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Ross Whitehead🔥 • 2dOur A team in now on week 6 without a fixture. Although they are trying to arrange a friendly for this weekend.For me the solutions are:
- move indoors during the winter, but that’s not likely as there aren’t enough facilities for everyone.
- change the season start and end times to take into account the bad weather. Obviously it gets very hot during the summer months, so that’s also an issue. For example our league is played from end of September to end of April. May is always a month of lovely weath… See more
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Jamie Birch🔥
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Jamie Birch🔥 • 2d@Ross Whitehead lots of teams are in a similar position around me. I think season start and end times are the easiest solution.There’s barely no football played in May or June in the UK which is crazy and July is friendlies for the most part. It’s hot but you could have earlier kick offs, or play 3 x 30 mins with more drinks breaks. Seems a much better solution that just postponing 2 months straight and damaging pitches.1Reply
Kevin Middleton⭐🔥
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Kevin Middleton⭐🔥 • 2d@Ross Whitehead We always used to move indoors and do Futsal in the winter, Ross. This is because we only have one astro locally (and that was a recent build), so not all teams can be accommodated.3Reply
Brian Willis
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Brian Willis • 2dWe deal with this to a lesser degree at a different time of the season. It depends on how congested fixtures are but we either move to a plastic pitch or indoors. Grassroots doesn’t have that option and we missed three weeks of matches and not all of them were rescheduled.We already start in August when temperatures can be well above 90/30.2Reply
Jamie Birch🔥
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Jamie Birch🔥 • 2d@Brian Willis what’s the shift in weather like where you are Brian?0Reply
Brian Willis
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Brian Willis • 2d@Jamie Birch We tend to get rain in late Oct/Early Nov. Temperatures don’t drop significantly till then either but we get days of summer weather here and there all winter too.1Reply
Kevin Middleton⭐🔥
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Kevin Middleton⭐🔥 • 1dA few years back, I was going to build an indoor facility locally and I wish I did. I thought the problems with a lack of pitches would disappear but they haven’tThere is a lesson in this!3Reply
Ross Whitehead🔥
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Ross Whitehead🔥 • 23h@Kevin Middleton I have always had this idea in my head. Unfortunately my bank account will never let the idea become reality 🙁0Reply
Kevin Middleton⭐🔥
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Kevin Middleton⭐🔥 • 22h@Ross Whitehead There is so much admin and red tape to these things as well1Reply
Nicolas Andrews-Gauvain
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Nicolas Andrews-Gauvain • 1dAlready lost one game this season due to the weather and glad I’m away from home this weekend as I’m certain that our home pitches will be out of action…..WRT suggestions discussed above:
- U16’S & above has to stop by May for GCSEs & A Levels but younger teams could carry on
- June in England there’s a ban on 11v11 matches which if you lift for “U15’s” why not adults? And then there is no break…..
- I think greater investment in drainage would help improve the sustainability of the grass pitches.
- L… See more
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Jamie Birch🔥
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Jamie Birch🔥 • 24h@Nicolas Andrews-Gauvain great suggestions Nicolas. The deadline to have your games finished in May is always really early in the month as well2Reply
Nicolas Andrews-Gauvain
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Nicolas Andrews-Gauvain • 22h@Jamie Birch yeah we finish either first or second week in May….1Reply
Nicolas Andrews-Gauvain
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Nicolas Andrews-Gauvain • 22hI also don’t think leagues help themselves by not front loading games in the season knowing they can put postponement’s later in the season. For example in my U12’s league some teams will have finished 1st half of the season by Xmas but others won’t be at that point till late Jan/Feb (Inc my team) and we had free weekends in the first few months of the season. 🤷2Reply
Mark Wiltens
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Mark Wiltens • 22hIn the Netherlands we use 3g pitches widely spread. Some clubs still lack them, but about 80% of all clubs have atleast one 3g pitch.At our club with training sessions we just have to give in space, but so we can still train 2x a week. Sometimes the grass fields get cancelled for training, just to have them all ready for games. On saturday some planning gets into it, but most of the time half of the teams can still play with really bad weather.3Reply
Kevin Middleton⭐🔥
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Kevin Middleton⭐🔥 • 21h@Mark Wiltens Mark, I remember I walked from the centre of Amsterdam to the Johan Cruyff ArenaI was tripping over 3g pitches that belonged to grassroot clubs. Can’t believe how far ahead the Netherlands are compared to Scotland2Reply
Mark Wiltens
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Mark Wiltens • 20h@Kevin Middleton It’s the complete structure which has formed decades ago around sport making it so good.All villages have atleast one club, but also not more than 2 or 3 except for the big cities. They rely mostly on volunteers, where playing a full season of football will only cost between 150-400 euro depending on age and the club. Our local club has like 800 playing members, from U6 till 35+ teams all using the same facilities.The local government helps with projects like placing a 3g pitch … See more2Reply
Stephen Kavanagh
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Stephen Kavanagh • 19h(UK) I’ve long thought that we could play more in the nicer months - especially May and especially at the younger age groups where travelling for 90 minutes for 20 minutes of 5-Aside in the freezing rain is just nuts.I’d go for more midweek games, but that’s really hard September with work commitments for coaches and parents. Hardly anyone has floodlights. It might be more do-able in May & June perhaps. But 75% of my team play cricket from May onwards so we wouldn’t get any of them to turn up. P… See more4Reply
Ross Whitehead🔥
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Ross Whitehead🔥 • 19h@Stephen Kavanagh Excellent post Stephen!0Reply
Stephen Kavanagh
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Stephen Kavanagh • 19h@Ross Whitehead pitches and all the constant juggling is the think most likely to stop people from coaching or to pack it in - you spend so much time and energy on what is a real basic thing ‘can we get a game on?’. My biggest bugbear is pitches on a slope. I don’t get it. When you create a pitch surely the first thing you do is get rid of the slope? Who looks at a big slopey bit of ground and thinks “yeah, football pitch on there, two goals at different heights, and a bit of left to right imbalance, perfect”. It is just lazy thinking and lazy doing.2Reply
Brian Willis
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Brian Willis • 17hMy takeaway from this is that I’m really annoyed that I’m handed a list of teams we have to play between Sept 1 and the first weekend in Nov, and then have to schedule everything ourselves.Thanksgiving creates a firm end point for the season but we can’t start any earlier. We start training in August and there are days where it’s still too hot and 5:30 training gets cancelled due to the heat. So mid-day matches on the weekend would be out of the question and you can’t fit everyone into earl slots. High temperatureas are an issue well into September.2Reply
Ross Whitehead🔥
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Ross Whitehead🔥 • 17h@Brian Willis It sounds like Tennessee needs some air-conditioned indoor pitches.1Reply
Brian Willis
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Brian Willis • 14h@Ross Whitehead Interestingly, most indoor pitches here are not air conditioned because they’re mostly used during winter.2Reply