Kenny Thompson, the BAA director of football, said the Bermuda Football Association’s plans to bring more of a family atmosphere to Premier Division games could do with a rethink.

Thompson, speaking after his side’s 8-1 thrashing of Hamilton Parish in the First Division on Saturday night at Goose Gosling Field, appreciates the intentions of the BFA, but added that “these things need to be sorted out with a little bit more details”.

The BFA’s plans include starting under-15 games at 12.30pm on Sundays, resulting in a 2pm finish, meaning that there will be a gap of an hour to the start of the Premier Division games.

“It’s a good idea to try to bring a family atmosphere back to football and to give the young players a chance to play in an atmosphere that they might not normally get on Saturday mornings,” Thompson said.

“But at the same time we have to look at a little bit of the details. The details, in this regard, are that if a match starts at 12.30 it’s going to be over too soon for a Premier Division crowd to come in and create an atmosphere for young players and to expect that families will remain for an hour to wait for a Premier Division game after that.

“It doesn’t make sense to me. These things sometimes need to be thought out with a little bit more details.”

Meanwhile, Tyrell Burgess scored a hat-trick of penalties in BAA’s victory on Saturday night, with Erick Correia adding two. Mical Hartman, Marcus Brangman and Laquan Thomas scored BAA’s other goals, with Pedro Medeiros scoring Hamilton Parish’s lone reply.

“We have a young core of players but now we are starting to see some of [our] college players returning, so they’re still relatively young as well, but they have experience,” Thompson said. “They help to give the young locally based players some confidence.

“Like any other season, we have the objective to try to be champions and try and get promoted.

“But there are a lot of teams in the division who have the same objective and have a realistic chance of thinking about promotion, so we just have to take it step by step.”

Thompson was also effusive in his praise of Andrew Bascome, the former Bermuda coach, who has been assisting him at BAA.

“Andrew’s been brilliant to bounce things off of,” Thompson said.

“In the training sessions, we complement each other really well. We love to talk about football and different ways to get the best out of the players.”