Winter season poll
Following todays developments/speculation. We've seen the arguments for and against on this sub ad-nauseum. So what is the reddit consensus?
Posted Jun 19, 2020, 9:16 AM UTC
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winter switch would be suicide for the league, the solution is to play games in Australia at night
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And then people will complain that while the weather is nice, the games are too late. Especially in 2020 with the number of snowflakes in society, certain people won’t be happy with a 8:15pm Friday night game because Jimmy’s got swimming class at 9am tomorrow, or 7pm Sunday night game because school/work tomorrow. It’s a difficult balance to find.
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I’m partial to summer but believe better scheduling could help alleviate the worst of the summer temp issues. You might still get the odd game where it’s still 30 degrees late at night but Perth playing at 4pm in the high 30s shouldn’t be a thing.
The discussion is often too black or white - summer and it’s issues as they stand or move to winter.
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100% agree a full shift to winter would no doubt hurt tv ratings, membership, attendances, Canberra getting a new stadium if not playing in summer
a December to July season as what is the scenario for 20/21 and 21/22 if successful could be a good compromise but we will have to wait and see
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We are effectively going to get a free season to see if us playing in winter will actually work. Which is honestly brilliant, if it flops then we can move back to summer or alternatively keep the move permanent.
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Good luck getting any exposure at all competing with AFL and NRL
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I'm not sure if you watched the news at all over the last couple of summers, but we don't get any exposure anyway. In Dec/Jan, the sports section is usually cricket, then 3-4 minutes of NRL/AFL despite the fact that they're in the middle of the off-season, then about 15 seconds of A-League. You can't go downhill from rock bottom.
I think the only commonly raised concern that holds water is the ground availability issue.
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When A-League was the only league in Aus still going, the ‘Sport’ segment on 7/9/10 News were just stealing videos of AFL/NRL players doing Tik-Tok dances, dressing up in skirts and lipstick imitating the wife, posting vids of athletes cooking broccoli-chicken-rice (wow) and asking ”wen’s da footty comin bak mate?”. They even said there’s ‘no sport being played’ after A-League matches were being played nearly every day.
Anyone who thinks we’re getting exposure from 7/9/10 in Summer OR Winter is clueless. We just need to forget about 7/9/10, they’ve made their intentions very clear.
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We don’t get any exposure anyway on 7/9/10. No point trying to please that crowd, they hate football rain hail or shine (pun intended). We moved to summer for exposure from 2005-2020, and we still don’t get exposure... If that’s the case, then a winter move is more suitable climate-wise, and aligns us with NPL and Asian leagues. Those 3 channels would rather talk about Ben Cousins or an AFL player’s ‘tight hamstring’ in the middle of off-season than a thrilling 3-3 AL match or quality player performance from last night. I want to see players at peak performance, not dragging themselves around at 2km/h in heat getting injured.
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Personally, I liked the A-League running in the summer/AFL off-season.
Until last season, I was a member of both the Crows and United and liked that the two running 'opposite' eachother gave me a game to either watch or attend just about every weekend
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Both for sure
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There are benefits for both summer and winter but watching Perth Glory play in 38 degree heat is simply terrible.