SAASL Hot Weather Policy

Ollo Ollo · Post by **Ollo Ollo** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 9:35 am

Too all clubs and players who are not aware of this, the SAASL has a hot weather policy. If the temperature is predicted to be 33 degrees on the Friday night news (not sure of Friday night of Saturday night), all games must kick off no later than 11am and no earlier than 5pm. I guess if clubs do decide to play in between these times then the league will not provide a ref and the game is probably not covered by the leagues insurance.

I believe in the last 2 weeks or so, the league has attempted to call all clubs to inform them of this policy.

mooks1304 · Post by **mooks1304** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 9:46 am

yes, you'll find this is the FFSA policy - which now that the SAASL Referees and Clubs are members of, is the appropriate policy..

Find it at http://www.ffsa.com.au - policies

Forecast is basically taken 48 hours prior to games - ie saturday games use thursday night forecast, sunday games friday night forecast.

maco 12 · Post by **maco 12** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 12:01 pm

dont think they should have made this rule up. we are all a bunch of men and can handle the heat. Come off it is all i have to say.

LION · Post by **LION** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 2:38 pm

id rather play in the heat then in the cold and rain!

avenell_road · Post by **avenell_road** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 4:37 pm

Will be interesting to see how closely followed this policy is within the Amateur League given that most clubs do not have the facilities to play their pre-season friendlies in the evening.

CR7 · Post by **CR7** » Wed Feb 14, 2007 6:02 pm

hopefully very closely tho preseason

need to get fit tho

Anonymous · Post by **Anonymous** » Sat Feb 17, 2007 8:09 pm

LION wrote:id rather play in the heat then in the cold and rain!

football is a winter sport, you have to be a keeper to make a comment like that

Los Del Eague · Post by **Los Del Eague** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 6:01 pm

We've changed our game to 5pm this week on mutual terms, (Cheers Mick) but surely its still gonna be as hot when we finish as it woulda been at 3pm!
Strange rule.
plenty of water and water breaks as they did in the world cup.

Redders · Post by **Redders** » Wed Mar 07, 2007 6:13 pm

avenell_road wrote:Will be interesting to see how closely followed this policy is within the Amateur League given that most clubs do not have the facilities to play their pre-season friendlies in the evening.

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might have to kick off at 7am then

dont really like the rule, but rules are rules.

Why cant they just have extra drinks breaks and keep the games at the same time?

Paleon Patros Germanos · Fri Mar 09, 2007 9:10 am

In the past common sense has prevailed.

To Mati · Post by **To Mati** » Fri Mar 09, 2007 5:25 pm

stupid rules. The maximum tomorrow will probably hit at 11am, with a cool change in the arvo...