THE situation with the Gipps St Sporting Complex is ridiculous.

Football (soccer) on these fields has been called off week-in and week-out after little rainfall. One week there was less than 10mm of rain on the fields and the council closed them.

If these fields needed more time to grow, then the council should have maintained Federation Park and had football play there for another season.

As I said at the start of the season, the fields won’t be ready in time, and obviously they aren’t with the continual cancellations each weekend.

How do the children feel when football is called off nearly more times than it has been on?

How do the parents feel after paying registration fees just for the council to close the fields after a little rain?

The council should have thought ahead and made other areas available for sports if the fields needed more “growing” time.

It just isn’t good enough!