Aussie Community Rugby
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im always borderline about throwing it in when just doing actual club stuff like packing up the training ground (driving back at sunset this morning to try and find one of the new guys phone, no luck)...let alone that kind of stuff....but when those beautiful bastards win a game and sing the song i'll be back in
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@Kiwiwomble I also realise I'm like this every March ... then a bunch of players come out of the woodwork and things move ahead.
The rest of the Committee are all busy people. Senior positions in government, or someone who is the only position at their small company. I work from home most days and am good enough to make what I do look hard and time-consuming while being easy and rapid. But that is also a trap...
I'm also sick of being told to "build culture" by the traditional clubs, when they don't understand Western Sydney; a lot of these guys work 6 days a week or more, and just want to play footy. They don't want to help pack up or set up. They don't want to spend 2 hours a year helping run the raffle at the club. They just want to play footy. Full stop.
We tried having events to attract people. Only the Committee showed up with a couple of die hards. The presentation night tickets were $40, and we realised the team manager - who has his own financial and medical issues - was paying for tickets for 4 players and a partner - these are guys who earn good coin as labourers, and must think that their $150 rego is enough to cover bloody everything.
Fuck it. I'm going in circles and just venting for the sake of it.
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@NTA i hear ya
i think ive talked about this before but our club rooms is more than a km from our ground, we use a few of the Melbourne F1 pit lane garages as changing room....so at the start of the season im explaining to people all that stuff and that we'll be training somewhere else for 3 months until the F1 is all packed up and we can go home...and even then most people (including myself i admit) hardly ever make the trip back to the dungeon after a game for a beer....and then i go to other clubs and see the old mates in the club ties on the balcony or propping up the bar and think...thats what we need
its tough
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big weekend coming
for some unknown reason we have decided to do out annual camp (cant get accomodation so its a day trip) to play a rural vic club (albury steamers) on the same day as the pre seasons 10's tournament
a good sign of where we're at is not only can we send 30 to albury...but we're putting in two mens teams and one womens into the 10's tournament
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We're similar, with our first trial Saturday against a local club in the division above us. Missing a few guys because of cricket (!!) so interesting to see what happens. Just a trial - no injuries is my goal.
Don't have trial games for 23rd or Charity Day on 6th April. This is a fucking shame as going into the season without a month of contact work is rubbish.
Frees up my weekends tho
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@NTA your still doing contact in training though? not the same i know
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@Kiwiwomble yeah but it isn't full noise. Training accidents or internal trials are the fucking worst
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@NTA tell me about it, remember a trial game is where i ruptured three ligaments in my knee and ended the great comeback ....an epic 15 mins though, one of the coaches still mentions i should have got a penalty before the dude cleared me out
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First trial for us yesterday (and only trial, at this stage).
New tackle height ELV in place - LOT of penalties early but as the day wore on the players were adjusting.
The team that held the ball scored the most, because every few phases there would be a penalty for high tackle. A lot of tap n go. Some kicking for lineout.
There was a lot of muttering about the game being ruined but there's some brain rewiring that needs to happen in the players - fighting their instinct to go high and effect hot contact or choke tackles - and the people on the sideline who will end up with a product that will probably have some growing pains but ultimately be better.
First few weeks of competition will be interesting.
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....our women won the 10's comp...two means teams didnt win a game....the majority of our first grade were in albury...but a bit of awake up call
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preseason game against the private school old boys club (Melbourne Unicorns), we had 3 squads with only a few playing in more than one team so probably 60 guys....they rocked up with 30 guys and had to call 2 of the 3 games early
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Saturday no trials organised so went to look at a couple of clubs in our Division.
Spectated the first game, did the Board Member thing in terms of making sure everyone was good to go.
Planned to spectate the second game, but the ref didn't show. Drove home (10 minutes), grabbed my gear, and ended up doing about 65 minutes before calling the game off when a fight broke out. Couldn't be arsed giving out red cards.
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@NTA Although the referee is the sole judge of time and fact don't games over there that are blown up because of reasons you described have to go through a referee's report and a Rugby Union Judicial hearing? I know I had to attend two in my role as a Club Captain in Wellington because of that.
Probably a case of six of one and half a dozen of the other as red cards would also mean you have to complete a report and attend the judicial heading of the players involved. At least in your situation you could use the game was late starting and I had decided the correct number of minutes had elapsed so the game was not officially "called off" but simply the alloted time had expired! -
@Higgins said in Aussie Community Rugby:
@NTA Although the referee is the sole judge of time and fact don't games over there that are blown up because of reasons you described have to go through a referee's report and a Rugby Union Judicial hearing? I know I had to attend two in my role as a Club Captain in Wellington because of that.
In the event I presented a red card, I'd have to fill out an online report describing what happened. TBF I didn't see any punches thrown even if there were some. Lot of jersey pulling.
I would not have to attend the Judiciary unless it was exceptional circumstances.
Plus it was a trial game, honouring a guy who was a Life Member at both clubs, so limiting the damage was probably the best way out. Fuck the paperwork.
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Woke up just after 3AM. Stared at the ceiling, wondering how the club was going to meet financial commitments this year.
Sponsors have been tardy about getting money to us. Agreements have been in place for a few months, and we've ordered playing kit with logos and everything. Yet to see any money.
I got a quote on some ground signage to mount to our seating - just over $2k. Figured I could sell 4 spots for $2k each and turn a profit. Even 2 spots and we're ahead. Only got one so we're running at a loss. That bill has to be paid as well as the first round of kit, so we're in the red zone.
Trying to get players to pay is like pulling teeth - out of 40ish registered I've got 4 paid to date. We're only asking $150.
This weekend is meant to be our last trial round but there is a shitload of rain forecast, so we'll be lucky to get on. Players don't respond to the TeamList platform emails we send out, so I'm spending money on SMS trying to get more.
Round 1 on the 13/04 is scheduled for a home game but the oversowing of our ground means we might have to move all our shit a couple of fields over, which fucking sucks as it means no easy canteen or ameneties access, and hauling all our shit down there. Inconvenient to say the least.
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the struggle is real
our rego is double that, i get it guys dont always have the money...but theyre also the ones that ask why no one bought water bottle for them or if they get injured why the club isn't covering expenses
we have 161 registered across mens, womens, colts....but 66 of those are "training" only...which was supposed to be only for preseason and they should have fully registered when we went into contact
our last trial this weekend, 4 games....long day
hope it comes right for you @NTA
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@Kiwiwomble said in Aussie Community Rugby:
our rego is double that, i get it guys dont always have the money...but theyre also the ones that ask why no one bought water bottle for them or if they get injured why the club isn't covering expenses
And the ones shoving money into the pokies or asking for free beers.
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@NTA said in Aussie Community Rugby:
(or if there's free beers, asking why it isn't bourbon)
i mainly get asked why i didn't go and get the free beers...whilst i was running around sorting everything else out, when i played back in the day we had a roster, everyone had a turn to get a slab
