Aussie Community Rugby

[Kiwiwomble]

@antipodean thats cool, good initiative, sure it made prep a bit more difficult but if everyone is on the same page then all good

[NTA]

There are midweek matches going on for lower grades in Sydney to catch up games that were washed out. Premier Rugby doesn't hold any reserve weekends for washouts.

[booboo]

Stopped in to watch the first half of a local match here in Port Douglas yesterday arvo. I'd noticed some signs up in my travels during the week.

Nice vibe. Glad I stopped.

Port Douglas Reef Raiders v some team full of "Kiwi Looking" guys. Maybe @mariner4life could help me out? Black jerseys with red trim? Didn't seem to match any team colours from the Cairns website.

Visiting team looked big, strong and organised. However home team all as fit as buck rats (probably all foreign workers) crushing it at halftime jumping on half chances.

Kinda funny. Organised enough to have music to accompany the team running on to the field, but no flags or markers on the half or 22.

Fun. Will keep an eye out for other games.

[mariner4life]

Port beat Southside yesterday. And yes, Southside always packed full of pacific islanders

[Kiwiwomble]

1 v 2 across all three grades in Melbourne, got wins in 3s and 1s...huge, down with 10 to go and our lock chases down the kick off after their try, one hand palms the ball out of one of their hands, hits the soft shoulder of their halfback and charges over the line....it straight up breaks them and we score two more in the final minutes

[mikedogz]

You guys use the Rugby Xplorer App? It is coming to NZ later this year in preparation for next year.

[Kiwiwomble]

yeah, thats what we use....its fine...a long way from perfect...but fine

other than a bit clitchy, freezes etc....my biggest annoyance is stuff like the squad list is listed and firstname, surname...and listed in alphabetical by last name...pretty straight forward

but, if they didnt capitalise their last name then that goes too the bottom of the list

and when you remove someone from a match day 23....they go back into you list of available players....but at the bottom....not back into alphabetical

so not huge once you know but i always get new managers messaging me asking why they cant find someone because they logically didnt scroll past X on their list

[antipodean]

@mikedogz said in Aussie Community Rugby:

You guys use the Rugby Xplorer App? It is coming to NZ later this year in preparation for next year.

It's better than nothing but not by much given how clunky the UI is.

I only use it to look at fixtures, but from a club perspective we use it for rego and selling merchandise.

[NTA]

@NTA said in Aussie Community Rugby:

One of them won't be there to see it. lifted our 47yo hooker at a ruck. Ball was long gone. Big ban coming up

Four weeks.

Four. Fucking. Weeks.

I've called the competition manager for a "please explain". One question he had was over any injuries sustained and whether we put those in the report.

Completly fucking irrelevant. The level of injury determines the level of sentencing? Fuck no. Intent of the player should be the determining factor, and the intent here was clearly to harm. That could have been anything from a sore shoulder through to life in a wheelchair. Does the guy get two weeks if nobody got hurt?

Livid.

[Kiwiwomble]

100% its well established things like intent or how bad they are injured is irrelevant or at most a tiny consideration

[NTA]

I love being a club AR, particularly when circumstances promote an air of bias.

As I'm a qualified ref, I wear my ref's kit to try and stifle any claims of "just being a touchie". Occasionally one of the refs will notice me if I call a knock on or forward pass in addition to the foul play stuff. Mostly they don't pay attention unless it's foul play,

I don't always get it right, but I'm doing my best.

The opposition yesterday knocked on a couple of times. I called it as the ref was unsighted. It was early in the game and the opposition (some of whom I know from their previous stints at our club) had a chuckle. During this entire period, either our guys didn't knock it on or the ref picked it up as he was closer.

Later in the game we're pounding their line and our centre passes out the back of his hand to the winger right in front of me to score. Momentum carried it forward - he was running at full pace - but it was backwards out of the hands. I made no signal as the ref was in line with it and had a clear view. He awarded it and asked if I was happy. I said "yep" as I jogged past.

A couple of opposition players blow up and one guy in particular was borderline accusing me of cheating. I stared at him, waiting for him to say anything else, and he muttered away. The same guy who made a show of getting back 10 late at every penalty or lineout.

Game was a 17-all draw. We fucked their scrum and the ref eventually realised they were walking around the side. Then changed his mind.

But it just shits me that you're trying to help and some dumb fuck wants to put himself in red card position because he thinks he knows better.

It didn't help that our guys were getting stuck into their AR as well, who is a clubbie just doing his best.

[NTA]

Hey @Kiwiwomble are these jerseys from the Melbourne comp?

[Kiwiwomble]

definitely not the Dewer Shield, dont recognised them from the other comps either but not an expert, whats up?

edit: some on line sleuthing, that might be Masterton Marist v Featherston back in NZ

[NTA]

@Kiwiwomble new guy registered for the club. Moved from Melbourne recently.

[Higgins]

@Kiwiwomble said in Aussie Community Rugby:

definitely not the Dewer Shield, dont recognised them from the other comps either but not an expert, whats up?

edit: some on line sleuthing, that might be Masterton Marist v Featherston back in NZ

Maybe not, last time I saw Featherston play they wore black shorts.

[Kiwiwomble]

@Higgins i think thats quite an old photo as thats "Leslie" jersey for the green and white and they havent been around for a while

[NTA]

Bit of rain fell in Sydney today. Some competitions had lower grades finished but higher grades postponed

[NTA]

UNSW play 2nd division Subbies at the same facility where the Waratahs are based (insta post above)

[Kiwiwomble]

perfect day on sat

our "ladies Day" so had a marquee set up, sold tickets as a big fund raiser. first time we had all 4 mens teams and our ladies team playing not only at the same place...but at home and all playing the same opposition....the joint top of the table rich club from Toorak

clean sweep, 5 from 5, all the old mates were coming out saying no one can remember ever clean sweeping unicorns

[NTA]

Been a trying season for our division with many sides dropping their 2nd grade here and there.

We've been short of numbers on a few occasions but never a forfeit. When opponents keep doing it to our home games it starts to fucking suck. Second grade this year:

R1 @ home we played with 12 and nearly won
R2 away we played with not many more than that and lost in sideways rain
R3 away we registered a crushing win over the likely wooden spooners
R4 at home we got run over but barely had any subs
R5 at home the opposition forfeited
R6 away (local) was a decent game - lost by a point and only had a couple of subs
R7 at home the opposition forfeited
R8 away (vs R1 opponent) we had 14 and got smashed

R9 at home this Saturday we're having our major charity day, and the opposition just called me and said they had 22 confirmed. "Could we play 10s for second grade?"

Well, officially you need 11 for a match. But it's an event day so I'm unlikely to enforce that now, am I? They'd forfeit tomorrow and I'll lose a game and potentially income for us and the charity.

FFS