The traditional croquet playing times were established many years ago – before daylight-saving, before flex-hours and part time work, before many women had paid employment, before Golf Croquet came to Tasmania and when few people played sport on Sundays.
Perhaps we should look at the way things are now and think about reorganising our playing hours and days to take advantage of the changes, especially in summer.
For example we could have twilight pennants, family Sunday mornings, early morning coaching/training sessions.