| Give summer a chance, urges Woosnam |
| Tuesday 15 June 2010 |
 OUTGOING Welsh Premier chairman Phil Woosnam's parting shot to clubs was a call to give summer football a chance. Woosnam (pictured), who stepped down after three years in the role, urged clubs to push for a summer switch in his closing remarks at the league’s AGM in Llandudno. "I’d recommend you now look at the possibility of switching to summer football which I feel would improve the product which is the Welsh Premier League," he said. "We can’t compete against the Premiership - we never will - but we need to make our league much more professional and I definitely feel summer football is a way forward." Earlier this season, Woosnam advocated a winter break for the league to give clubs a better chance of success in Europe. Woosnam also revealed that the FAW had shelved plans for any further reduction in the size of the league, for the time being at least. "If the league is going well and the clubs are happy I don’t see any reason to reduce it to 10," he added. League secretary John Deakin added that the structure would be reviewed annually and confirmed that promotion and relegation would continue to two-up and two-down, provided feeder league promotion aspirants can gain the FAW's domestic licence. |