Heard about this on the radio this morning, where did all this come from? All for the first part of the league cup format but as others have said, why leave it so long to play the semis and the final? Are they working on the assumption that Scottish teams will still be in Europe up until Christmas? Personally, I can't see the point in a winter break, weather is unpredictable, trying to find a few weeks where there might be less bad weather is impossible. We have shit weather in the summer ffs.