The Albion Rovers board will meet to debate the potential of bringing kick-off instances ahead this winter to fight the price of dwelling disaster.
The Scottish FA introduced final week that golf equipment competing within the Scottish Cup this season shall be permitted to maneuver matches away from the standard 3pm kick-off to restrict the price of utilizing floodlights and heating in the course of the winter months.
And it's understood the SPFL would even be open to league matches being moved, if each golf equipment are in settlement.
It may see matches kick-off at 12pm or 1pm to keep away from the usage of floodlights and save on heating prices.
Vitality value hikes will hit Scotland’s smallest golf equipment the toughest this winter and League Two Rovers are amongst these contemplating bringing ahead their matches.
Membership secretary Colin Woodward has revealed officers will convene to debate their choices on the September board assembly later this month, however admits there are a lot of issues to be thought of.
He mentioned: “It's one thing the board are going to debate.
“A call hasn’t been made but and it'll rely on issues like how far our opponents can be travelling as properly, or hospitality the place lunch may flip into breakfast.
“Plenty of golf equipment may lose their afternoon hospitality, which is an effective supply of revenue for them, however they may maybe must stability out what they may miss out on with how a lot the floodlights are going to price them.
“As soon as actuality bites and the times get darker then I’m certain there shall be video games the place folks fancy an early kick-off.
“We're fairly lucky in the meanwhile that we don’t want floodlights but however we're the identical for as everybody else in the meanwhile, prices are spiralling.
“We're simply attempting to maintain issues at a minimal in the meanwhile. Solely put issues on after we actually need to, flip issues down and do what we will to maintain prices low.
“However no choice has been made on what we are going to do but.”
Rovers enter the Scottish Cup on the second spherical stage, which is because of be performed on the weekend of October 22/23, simply over one week earlier than daylight saving time ends within the UK on October 30.
Ought to they progress to spherical three, matches shall be performed on the weekend of November 26/27, which is when Monklands rivals Airdrieonians will enter.
A press release by the SFA learn: “The Scottish FA have written to golf equipment collaborating within the Scottish Cup to reiterate that they've the choice of scheduling earlier kick-off instances for his or her fixtures within the competitors this season.
“The Scottish FA Board is eager to helps golf equipment guard in opposition to a few of the impression from the present cost-of-living disaster, with earlier kick-off instances – to which each competing golf equipment should agree – doubtlessly resulting in decreased match day prices comparable to floodlighting and heating.
“Golf equipment collaborating within the first spherical would even have the choice of streaming any non-televised Scottish Cup matches scheduled to kick off previous to the standard blocked hours interval of Saturday between 2.45pm-5.15pm, with discussions ongoing with broadcast companions about golf equipment streaming matches in later rounds.”
Scottish FA Chief Government Ian Maxwell mentioned: “We're cognisant that the results of the present cost-of-living disaster are being felt by Scottish soccer golf equipment and we're dedicated to exploring strategies that would assist mitigate the results of the disaster inside Scottish soccer.
“This logical step to assist scale back match day prices is only one avenue wherein the Scottish FA will look to assist golf equipment all through this difficult interval and we welcome additional dialogue on methods to assist alleviate the rise in prices that could possibly be incurred over the approaching months.”
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