I’ve had a quick look at the Facebook page for the other club. They have a big post up from 4 days ago about appropriate behaviour and codes of conduct etc.
They obviously have a lot of issues.
I’ve just smashed out a 300 word essay to them.
It was some of the worst parent behaviour I’ve experienced.
Imagine if a 17 year old kid rocked up and had to deal with that.
40 year old grizzled sailor higdawg can happily tell them to fuck off.
Yep. And that’s how you lose referees and then struggle for coverage.
The ref for my daughters 18s game today has been modelling himself off Alireza Faghani.
Wanted to demonstrate that he knew every rule in the book and was prepared to enforce them all.
So it wasn’t ideal when the opposition manager decided he’d talk back after the ref requests players being subbed off should exit the field on the same side where the benches were.
Cue a 5 minute pause in game play while the manager cops a lecture from the ref about respecting his authority (which is fair enough).
This is my lad’s first year playing soccer, U8s also. It’s astonishing how bad the sideline coaching is. I’m noticing some clubs are much better than others but the mind boggles.
Once again highlighting how much better cricket is.
Umpired today again. Big appeal for a ball sliding down leg around 4th stump. Tell old mate that and he says “yeh i know, i just like appealing!”
Gentleman’s game.
Isn’t u8’s still basically just a mass of bodies trying to kick a ball at the same time? My nieces is at least, how much fucking coaching can be done.
Parents are idiots for the most part, so maybe I’m not so surprised.
After all my concerns about lack of offseason fitness, no pre season and no time for training sessions… ran out feeling relatively fine for one and a half games. Then some oaf of a defender fell on me in a tackle and I’ve broken my hand, out for 8 weeks.
What a sport.
Partially tore my meniscus in my knee in the first pre season game… came back last week, scored, tore the meniscus in my knee again… probably season over.
Goals per minute is outstanding right now though
Won our second game of the season yesterday 2-1. All three goals were penalties, two handballs for our goals and one bad tackle for theirs. I had a goal disallowed as the ref claimed offside, although it was a complete bs call. I was easily on and the ref was about 10m away with no linesman.
Managed to hold onto the lead even though, by the end, we had zero subs, I was playing with a jarred knee and strained groin, on top of all the other injuries in our team.
So on the weekend, my boys under 7 team was winning 5-0 in the first half and apparently the opposition said that they were allowed to put a 5th player on because it was 5-0. The game leader knew nothing off this, and we just let it go - Interesting if so, and I can see the merit in this if it is a rule, but I can’t find anything about it anywhere. Anyone heard of this before?
I can’t imagine that’d be the case - isn’t up until like U11 non-competitive and technically noone should be keeping score, etc?
my nephew was playing under 6s and had to change teams as they were 11-0 up in the first half
That is right, we are not meant to keep score, though of course everyone does - but it is a good point that should make this ‘rule’ non-existent. The argument apparently is that very one-sided games is not fun so adding this extra player ‘evens things up’ so it is enjoyable for both teams - which I actually get and am not against if true - just an odd one as we have been in this position a fair few times and no other teams have ever done it.
My son’s team won a few 10+ and some 15+ games in under 6’s - but that is because you can have kids who are six playing kids who are 4 going on 5 etc… they probably could have a 5’s to stop this happening - its really not that fun for anyone.
My daughter is playing AA3’s in ESFA. Three games into the season they decided that one of the teams in AA4 was too strong so they moved them up a division. They also let them keep all the points they’d earned in the lower division so all of a sudden they’re top of the league. Is this common? I know it happens in youth football but I’ve never heard of it at AA level. Seems a bit unfair that they get to keep the points.
That’s absolute madness… even if they were too strong, they just romp the league for the season and get moved the following season.
what happens to the fixture lists? Does the bottom team move down to even up both comps?
Central Coast Football did loads of regrading. Teams were reset to zero points in those comps affected.
They’ve replaced one team with another from the same club. They weren’t even the bottom team in the comp. The whole thing is just bizarre. Although maybe not that bizarre for ESFA.
That sounds way more fair.
I haven’t heard of this but I can’t say I’m surprised.
I’m playing in the St George district competition and they’ve recorded a forfeit against us, and gave the team we beat 6-0 the win simply because the results from three weeks prior didn’t go through correctly on the Dribl platform most districts are now using and this was ‘discovered’ that round. This is despite the table and results correctly showing the score and points tally for a full three weeks.
I still can’t comprehend the rationale to give 3 points for a forfeit to anyone, let alone the team who had nothing to with the supposed error. We also won both those games.
Unfathomable stupidity seems to exist in all areas of football administration in this country.