We had a good dump of rain the other day and apparently they held up well. We’ll see how they go after tomorrow though i guess.
We had a good dump of rain the other day and apparently they held up well. We’ll see how they go after tomorrow though i guess.
Actually, I can’t say that because then it’s obvious where I am if you know the paddocks
Proper park football in my son’s cup game.
Goes to a penalty shootout, notice that the referee doesn’t have a notepad out during the shootout.
They score their 5th penalty to go 3-1 up, game over right?
Ref says that we have to take our 5th shot, ok then, maybe we had it wrong.
We score, everyone goes yay, we must be tied, sudden death it is.
Team manager from the other team says hang on ref, the score is 3-2, we win. Ref isn’t sure, they look at their phone and compare, our coach is saying wtf.
I yell out at the ref, this is your job, keeping a record of the game is probably the most important part.
Ref finally says yeah they win. Probably the first time I’ve ever seen a referee not keep score in a game and not be sure when the game is over.
Strained my hammy last week, not through any rough contact though. Its the weirdest thing… the whole lower half of my hammy and now the top of my calf has come out in this insane deep purple bruise. The bruise isnt even where the hammy is tender. Has anyone copped anything like that before?
The bruising should be below where you injured it. That is just blood pooling from the injury and gravity pulling it down.
Hope the recovery goes well.
Had a great two days last weekend. Most players on the Coast didn’t get a game because of the rain. I managed to play both days.
Saturday our 45s played Wyong and we won 4-1. I potted two goals.
On Sunday with our father’s son All Age team we played last year’s grand finalists Kariong. I had to go in goals as our keeper was out.
I made a number of saves, kept a clean sheet and saved a penalty. We won 2-0 and my son scored the second goal.
The football Gods were kind.
That was me about every 3rd week last season (first one back after a few years out). Never felt beyond the mildest twinge but yeah, some of the bruises that developed days later were hectic.
I could feel it wasnt right in training and then sure enough it got worse in warm-up. Managed to play a full game but it was pretty sore afterwards.
Torn my hamstrings a total of 6 times and each time I did it, my leg was purple from my arse to my ankle. There are some hectic photos if you google hamstring tear.
Refereeing my son’s under 16s game.
Had the goalkeeper pick the ball up, put it down on the ground, then pick it up again.
Oh shit, can’t do that. I think I’ve only had that happened once before in a match.
How’d the indirect go?
They kicked it straight at the keeper.
Oh dear!
They still won 6 nil so it didn’t make much of a difference.
4 weeks in to the season and all 3 teams in our small community club are undefeated and sitting top their tables.
It’s 4 weeks into the season and I’m not surprised but we haven’t seen a referee once.
Football west is doing a pretty ordinary job of admin and this seems to be a symptom of that.
We are also struggling with what seems like a few teams playing state league players in the under 16s.
State league has 1st, reserves and under 18s.
State league div 1 is the league below NPL. So it’s like NPL players playing junior football as well, even if they are 16 years old they aren’t allowed.
Football west seems to be just shrugging their shoulders about it.
We’ve had a ref once this year in AA9s but to be fair I can understand why there would be a shortage. I couldn’t imagine giving up my Saturday only to have dickheads argue and abuse me over low division park football.
And as a bonus the side we played today only named 13 players on their team sheet but had at least 3 subs…
Surely a parent has film of the game? If their bench has 3 players kitted up then they’re done. Only people named on the match sheet can sit on the bench.
Sounds like a pretty easy allegation to prove?
Yeah one of our parents has already shared a photo of 3 players warming up during the match.
We will see if anything happens.