Yes indeed, you have put your finger on a Catch 22 situation here which began to emerge last winter.
When USH is used to make a pitch playable the game is often postponed anyway under circumstances imposed by forces outwith the club which was obliged to instal it.
There's something of an irony here that clubs have been using the USH which "SPL Rules" insist they have, manage to get their pitches playable... then the SPL imposes a blanket ban on all its games irrespective of local circumstances.
It wll be interesting to see if any SFL games go ahead... possibly in certain areas of Scotland without the assistance of USH?
The purpose of USH was more to do with the number of games being called off because of frozen pitches and not because of snow. Having said that is it a criteria of any other top leagues in europe or is it an SPL thing?
Charles, the way things are looking at the moment I'd be very surprised if any SFL games, other than those in the south west of the country, were to go ahead.