Welsh Premier secretary John Deakin is proposing a delay in the mid-season split until the first week in February to enable the current fixture backlog to be cleared.
Today's meeting of the league panel has been postponed due to the weather, but Deakin is contacting the members to make a proposal to try and rectify the programme, which has been decimated in recent weeks.
"We have virtually an unmanageable back-log and looking at the weather forecast, it looks inevitable that we are going to lose Boxing Day games as well. I will therefore be proposing an extension to manage this," said Deakin this morning.
One of the suggestions is that if the Boxing Day games are lost on block, as is likely to be the case, the secretary is proposing that all of those derby matches will be played on Saturday 5th February 2011, which would be the last games before the split.
This would allow those other outstanding fixtures to be played around the weekend of the proposed Loosemores Cup Final on Saturday 22nd January.
For those clubs already out of the Welsh Cup, the following weekend could also be used as well as the midweek dates throughout January.
Newtown manager Andy Cale agrees with the proposal. "There is no alternative, it would be impossible for us to fit all the games in, particularly with the festuive season games in big doubt already," he said.
