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SPL may consider extended season due to fixture pile-up Blair faces an arduous task to reschedule numerous SPL games Scottish Premier League secretary Iain Blair says continued disruption to fixtures may force the SPL to consider extending the season. Four of Saturday's SPL games were called off due to weather-related problems, adding to several postponements earlier in December. "It's not something we're looking at this point in time," said Blair. "But if there's severe congestion and no other alternatives then it's something we have done once before." Blair is hopeful of rescheduling the outstanding fixtures but admits further cancellations would put the league in difficulty. "It (extending the season) is not the first port of call in terms of resolving the problems," said Blair. "We would see to what extent we can actually get the fixtures played. "The unknown at this point is progress in terms of the Scottish Cup for all the Premier clubs, because they only come in in January, and obviously we've still got Rangers in Europe and hopefully they will continue to be in Europe for some time. "What actually happens is that the opportunity to slot games in reduces and there does come a point at which you think, 'well the only way we can do this is by extending the season'. "But before we get to that stage, we would consider things such as having four games in eight days, which we try and avoid doing. We had a situation where Dunfermline had to play four games in a week, I know it happened to Rangers in 2008 and it has happened on one or two other occasions. It's a difficult situation, only a fool would say that it wasn't Iain Blair "I certainly don't remember quite so much congestion by this stage in the season previously. "There is still some flexibility in the calendar in terms of getting matches played midweek. We can schedule matches up against the Champions League and the Europa League. It's not something we like to do but that is a possibility. "There is a real difficulty in terms of those matches that are scheduled in that way, we're simply not allowed by Uefa for those to be broadcast live so there are issues then about talking to the broadcasters about the best way to resolve the whole situation. "It's a difficult situation, only a fool would say that it wasn't but if we were to get the matches played reasonably regularly from now on then I think we can cope with it." One further complication to the rescheduling process concerns games that were due to be broadcast live on either Sky Sports or ESPN. "We certainly talk to the broadcasters when a televised game is postponed," said Blair. "Nine times out of 10, the broadcaster selected the game because it's a game they want to cover and they will follow the game. "Very occasionally, there is simply a situation which doesn't allow that to happen, perhaps because we need the game to be played on a particular date and the broadcaster simply cannot cover for whatever reason on that date. Hamilton's match with Celtic was called off on Saturday morning Two of Saturday's postponements, Rangers v St Mirren and Hamilton v Celtic, fell victim to problems relating to burst pipes. "It's very disappointing and obviously the clubs are working to ensure that they don't lose games," said Blair. "Believe me, neither Hamilton nor Rangers would in any way have wished for these games not to take place. "But we have had some very extreme weather over the last two or three weeks and that's what's caught folk out and presented the problem. "I certainly wouldn't like to have been the maintenance manager at Ibrox to tell Walter Smith that he wasn't going to be able to get his game on because I know that he has expressed concerns about fixture congestion relatively recently. "At Hamilton, my understanding is that there was a burst pipe of some description, which was in close proximity to some electrical installation and the electrical installation was part of the undersoil heating system. "So there seems to have been concerns about the electrical system because of a burst locally. I don't think the burst was actually in the undersoil heating. As we do in any of these cases where something unexpected happens relatively close to the game, we will investigate the situation."

Your having a laugh mate , Dingwall is having the T shirts printed as we speak

The Europa league draw is actually a brilliant draw fron a scottish coeffcient point of view as the two Swiss teams got crackers and I firmly believe we can do a wee bit better than them

Time to get the money out and strengthen , speculate to accumulate or am I being too optomistic

At his age he will be very up and down , if he was the finished article he wouldn't be going out onloan , it aint rocket science

Why are we called Glasgow Rangers but they are just Septic , that really pisses me off

tsk tsk , 3 players on yellow cards it,s a conspiracy I tell youse

Do you honestly believe that if that had been Celtic ,ICT were playing and the same thing happened that Butcher would have come out in the press with it

To be honest we dont have any real problem with any type of language on this site , or have I been missing something

Sorry bmck I missed your point on this thread I thought you were talking about on here , what anyone sings or doesnt sing , your correct that is up to them , unless they are caling themselves a Hun which really pisses me off , and has led to many heated arguements . At the end of the day whether it,s ****** , Fen1an or f****n at the end of the day everyone knows what it is , if however you are facing any action against you personally through this site through the words or actions of anyone else then that is entirely different , we are all responsible for our own actions however in Internet land that's entirely different and your call

If we go down this route then surely we are just playing into their hands ...naw naw and thrice NAW

come on guys you know it makes sense , dont forget gersnet needs you

cheers zappa , my mate just texted me it was on his debut which he made in the cup , european debut which was against steau and as you say on appearances , still at least it,s more into the non existent transfer kitty

I may have asked this before but does anyone actually know how his transfer was structured , was it a payement based on a set number of games or everytime he played up till a set amount , stuck record loyal :blush: Also as an aside how good is that Utrecht strip

This would be the same Neil Lemmon that was quite clearly caught calling Rangers fans " Orange Bastards " live on tv just before he spat on a Rangers scarf , and the press reaction was the square root of feck all ....... one Scotland as long as it's a **** one

Then we take everyone down with us , or we have a grown up debate about what we are and how we start behaving as a nation , the offended bus needs parked forever never to be let out again

The worst bit is the usual suspects are trying to find a cupboard to hide in yet again , hopefully this silence is a good thing after all the bluster and pish talked via the media . The fact the press dont know anything is the only thing keeping me sane at the moment

Seemingly Craig Broon was on the verge of resigning ............

No , Liverpool have come out and denied this , the power of the internet , amazing how these rumours gather pace , mind you seemingly Tevez is in Glesga for signi......I'll get my coat

agree to disagree , when we are down to the bare bones such as now , it's only because of players like McCulloch that we get results , and thank god we have players like him at the moment

Please explain , I am amazed when ever this line is trotted out , McCulloch might not be good enough but to accuse him of hiding is laughable .

Actually there might be , just checked and it is being run by Dingwall ..... who knows where the money might end up

Unless I am mistake at the moment there is such a thing as , under European law , Freedom as Expression , now I am no lawyer but I would put any amount of money on any Fan of any club taking any ban the whole hog to the European Court of Human Rigts and winning . Tell a lie often enough and it becomes the truth , aout time we stamped on these arseholes

It always happens when he brings in his own players , he always does well with other peoples squads , he would be well suited to the european model of just being a coach and leaving player recruitment to others .