There are a number of options that have been looked at before and will be looked at again. Most of them just won't work, and here's a brief look as to why.
First of all, there's the much suggested idea of summer football. Instead of running our seasons from August to May, we run it through the year - say from March to November. This sounds like a good idea in principal. The weather should be better, which will lead to fewer postponements and bigger crowds. Sounds wonderful and makes you wonder why it hasn't been tried before.
However, you have to realise this is Scotland and it's unique climate we'd be dealing with. I have known games to be called off in August due to heavy rain, so whose to say that wouldn't happen if we switched the calendar around? Besides, the current calendar is tradition. Going to football at Christmas time is all part of the fun. The season should climax in the good weather - and while it may not affect us, the fixture schedule fits in nicely with the World Cup and European Championships.
Plastic pitches could lead to more games being on. The only game in Scotland this weekend was on Alloa's artificial surface, where they drew with Peterhead. However, the SPL games this weekend were not called off due to the state of the pitches, but the state of the roads. It was deemed too risky for fans to travel - so unless you can come up with roads tat are usable in all conditions, plastic pitches won't make much of a difference. They are fine for training, but for games? No. I'm a firm believer football should be played on grass, but the artificial pitch issue can wait for another day.
Then there's the idea of the winter shutdown. This sounds like a good idea as it means we play in better weather but keep the traditional calendar. But do you remember last season? The problems were in late December and early January. This season the problems are in early December. When exactly would you have a shutdown in Scotland? Would you just stop games for the whole of December and January?
That would lead to more fixture congestion, but at least clubs could plan for midweek games rather than arrange things for games in December and January then have their plans thrown into disarray by the weather. The alternative is to reconstruct the leagues so there are fewer games to fit in - but again that's a different debate for a different day.
Fact is, there is no easy way around the problem - and if there was, someone would surely have come up with it by now.