Aussie Community Rugby
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@Kiwiwomble said in Aussie Community Rugby:
and now this coach has said he needs to "step back"...new jobs or something, this weekend will be his last game, wasn't there weekend just gone, said he was sick...cant help but feel ive scared him off so feel a bit shit, we need coaches
That's the sad truth - volunteers or even paid coaches aren't just lying around.
Our First Grade coach is a lawyer (but wasn't always - swapped careers later in life) and can get fired up as per his performance at the Judiciary last night.
He's had a couple of warnings via ref reports - nothing personal or abusive.
Bloke from another club, backed by a very large sports organisation including a licenced venue, said "just put together a package and get someone new". Yeah sure mate. I don't even have $2k lying around to just pay someone. You've got pokies and old boys living on the water in Sydney!
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@NTA decided to eat some humble pie and flicked him a message to apologise....would rather have someone who annoys me that no one, at least given him the option to come back with "new job didn't take as much time as i thought" if he wants
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@Kiwiwomble said in Aussie Community Rugby:
@NTA decided to eat some humble pie and flicked him a message to apologise....would rather have someone who annoys me that no one, at least given him the option to come back with "new job didn't take as much time as i thought" if he wants
Nothing wrong with being the bigger man.
We had one of our Life Members get antsy with the players on the day we got that red card and had the other fallout. Parading around with the "I'm a Life Member and Major Sponsor of this club - he can't speak to me like that!" which is unhelpful.
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About 40 players out on the weekend. Had to forfeit 2s.
Fourteen of them front row.So guess who played a full game* at tight head prop for first grade? This dumb fuck...
The guy opposite me was half my age and twice my size, but I managed to hold him off mostly thanks to my Fijian second rower and bringing the big bastard down low where he was very uncomfortable. I reckon our scrum gave away about 200kg.
We lost 76 to 5 but scored the last try.
*The ref - who I know - mercifully called it off with 6 to go
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@NTA said in Aussie Community Rugby:
About 40 players out on the weekend. Had to forfeit 2s.
Fourteen of them front row.So guess who played a full game* at tight head prop for first grade? This dumb fuck...
The guy opposite me was half my age and twice my size, but I managed to hold him off mostly thanks to my Fijian second rower and bringing the big bastard down low where he was very uncomfortable. I reckon our scrum gave away about 200kg.
We lost 76 to 5 but scored the last try.
*The ref - who I know - mercifully called it off with 6 to go
#clublegend
bit of drama around melbourne, one club has got some success on the back of...to be delecate....a direct and uncompromising style....but it has become a thing that players would rather forfeit and chip in for the fine than play them and get injured (jobs, family etc)....thts how bad its got, almost gauanteed if you play these guys someone will get a season ender
two weeks in a row they have had their first grade called of 20mins early as the score have either blown out (+100 - 0 or the other team had too many injuries)....but they now scream fowl about the nasty rumours and accusations....and that they havent been able to rake up more points
its wild, two teams have dropped out of 3rd grade and one of those might even drop out of second grade
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@NTA said in Aussie Community Rugby:
Funniest thing - we're playing white boys this weekend and everyone who had the flu or was otherwise sick last week against the big Pasifika club is now available...
...funny that.....
anyway, tops of the table clash friday night....nervous...excited....
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@Kiwiwomble as the coach said to me just now on the phone: call the Health Department - we've got a pandemic of 1-day man flu going on.
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@NTA said in Aussie Community Rugby:
About 40 players out on the weekend. Had to forfeit 2s.
Fourteen of them front row.So guess who played a full game* at tight head prop for first grade? This dumb fuck...
The guy opposite me was half my age and twice my size, but I managed to hold him off mostly thanks to my Fijian second rower and bringing the big bastard down low where he was very uncomfortable. I reckon our scrum gave away about 200kg.
We lost 76 to 5 but scored the last try.
*The ref - who I know - mercifully called it off with 6 to go
Last try wins.
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In Sydney Rugby this week:
7 Matches forfeited across Womens, Premier, and Subbies
Another 8 games in Subbies alone don't have referees.
In the meantime, there are 18 schools games that are getting officials appointed.And people wonder why I keep saying schools are fucking the game up.
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I never really got this thread, TBH.
And then I volunteered at my son’s cricket club. He’s decent, but will peak at prob club level.
And thus, I love being properly involved. Reading through this is so relatable in so many ways. Surrey cricket gets so much right, but the players parents have so little idea about how much small decisions, on their part, fuck everything up.
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@MajorRage there are parents who fuck it up for everyone.
For all the challenges of running a senior Rugby club, I would take it over running kids sport of any kind, because the egos your dealing with are far worse.
Good on you for getting involved. My Dad was the coach, bus driver, and manager for my junior cricket out in the country, and while it had friction occasionally it was a great experience, looking back.
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One for you @NTA https://www.bbc.com/sport/rugby-union/articles/cy0qg92de8vo
"In my experience, from what I see day to day, Australian rugby union is in fantastic health, when you are on the ground here and you experience the true reality of the [size of the] AFL and rugby league," he tells Rugby Union Weekly.
"The club game here is in rude health. You just have these two other sports that are thicker in the blood [of the Australian sporting public].
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@MajorRage once you take NRL and AFL into account, sure.
The Brisbane club scene isn't actually too bad - at Premier level. There is basically nothing below it of course, because QLD Subbies is a Friday night comp that is practically dead.
And this is the issue: people only see the green grass in their backyard, and ignore the neighbours' dusty wastelands.
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@MajorRage said in Aussie Community Rugby:
One for you @NTA https://www.bbc.com/sport/rugby-union/articles/cy0qg92de8vo
"In my experience, from what I see day to day, Australian rugby union is in fantastic health, when you are on the ground here and you experience the true reality of the [size of the] AFL and rugby league," he tells Rugby Union Weekly.
"The club game here is in rude health. You just have these two other sports that are thicker in the blood [of the Australian sporting public].
" If rugby league and AFL didn't exist in this country, I think the Wallabies would be hard pressed to ever lose a game."
