I'm just wondering how they will deal with the fixture pile up.
Due to the storms, the Welsh League already cancelled the WL Reserves and Youth football leagues last weekend, to much anger and frustration because they didn't even include the clubs in the discussion. That decision was taken to preserve the pitches for the first team games because too many games were getting called off (my understanding of it anyway).
We now have to go into April with an extra two weeks of backlog, plus cup games, which need to be done as a priority in order to get the finals ready for May.
Will the organisations decide to cram in mid-week games? Will we add an extra month? Will we decide all dead-rubber games (i.e. no promotion/relegation chance) will count as a 0-0 draw, just to get things over with?
Also, I'm thinking of how much impact will this have on referees and players fitness? This is two and bit weeks 'off', where the advice is to self-isolate where possible. For those of us without a home gym, do we risk going to the gym to maintain our fitness or do we stay home and deal with the resultant fitness issues? And this would be compounded if we have multiple games a week to do - I'd imagine there will be potential for plenty of injuries, especially at grassroots where they'll field referees at every day if possible.
Two season ago when the rain affected the fixtures so much that they took the midweek route; I was assigned a game for four days on the bounce and my legs were dead by the fourth day! The alternative was double-booking on the same day; i.e. a first team followed by a reserve fixture, then another first team game the following day. I hope they don't do this again because it is exhausting!
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