Aussie Pro Rugby
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@nta said in Aussie Rugby in general:
And in the new season of "How to Fuck a Rugby Club Until It Dies":
- The local Council have decided that our ground - and 33 others for various sports - need to be shut all of March for maintenance. Season starts 2nd week of April.
Hold training in the Botanic Gardens.
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so the Reds beat the Brumbies...
I am 0/2 this weekend, end story >here<
@taniwharugby said in Aussie Rugby in general:
so the Reds beat the Brumbies...
So while we're discussing the coaching of the Blues, did anyone else notice how crap these two looked last night?
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Start of NSW Suburban (Subbies) Rugby season today.
We're back in 5th Division in a 2-Grade comp (2nd Grade optional). Today we'll face off against last year's 6th Division finalists, who fall into the "optional" piece, Manly Savers. They've got a few ex-Premier players no doubt and have been a stalwart in 6th Division pretty much forever.
I expect we'll have a tough day of it, but at least its only 1 game, and maybe some of our Islanders will show up and make a contest of it?
I've already seen that a 6th Division club forfeited their opening round game. They used to be a top-division side, but then the demographics changed and they have had disciplinary issues the last decade or so ongoing. Last year they were in the Halligan Cup which is a "maybe this week" setup you can slap a team together and get yourselves going again. So these are not good signs.
Such is the nature of rugby here, if they forfeit again we'll be reaching out to them and asking if they just want to come play for us this year. I need players as well.
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Start of NSW Suburban (Subbies) Rugby season today.
We're back in 5th Division in a 2-Grade comp (2nd Grade optional). Today we'll face off against last year's 6th Division finalists, who fall into the "optional" piece, Manly Savers. They've got a few ex-Premier players no doubt and have been a stalwart in 6th Division pretty much forever.
I expect we'll have a tough day of it, but at least its only 1 game, and maybe some of our Islanders will show up and make a contest of it?
I've already seen that a 6th Division club forfeited their opening round game. They used to be a top-division side, but then the demographics changed and they have had disciplinary issues the last decade or so ongoing. Last year they were in the Halligan Cup which is a "maybe this week" setup you can slap a team together and get yourselves going again. So these are not good signs.
Such is the nature of rugby here, if they forfeit again we'll be reaching out to them and asking if they just want to come play for us this year. I need players as well.
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@nta keep the faith, grassroot stalwarts like you are what makes the game great. Hang in there.
@nzzp I'm good for today. Only having to run one Grade is amazingly stress-free! We should have numbers, and I'm not bothered by the result.
I'm worried about the state of the game generally though. What I'm hearing from guys in rural rugby here and NZ is troubling.
Club registration per year is set at $150 - includes shorts, socks, all the game day physio, and free food post-match back at our pub for home games.
Still got blokes asking if they can pay by the week. Wtf??
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@mikedogz said in Aussie Rugby in general:
$80 fees at my club here in NZ. If you don't pay you don't get to play for the A team.
That rule would work for me EXCEPT all the guys who pay their money just want a trot in the 2nd XV.
And, true to form, two of the "stars" who said they were showing up, didn't.
Luckily three handy Maori fellas showed up and paid their $10, signed into the team app, and got on the park.
Lost 33-14 against a team a fair bit younger, who clearly train together more than us. Was 19-14 at one stage and very competitive game.
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@mikedogz said in Aussie Rugby in general:
$80 fees at my club here in NZ. If you don't pay you don't get to play for the A team.
That rule would work for me EXCEPT all the guys who pay their money just want a trot in the 2nd XV.
And, true to form, two of the "stars" who said they were showing up, didn't.
Luckily three handy Maori fellas showed up and paid their $10, signed into the team app, and got on the park.
Lost 33-14 against a team a fair bit younger, who clearly train together more than us. Was 19-14 at one stage and very competitive game.
@nta said in Aussie Rugby in general:
@mikedogz said in Aussie Rugby in general:
$80 fees at my club here in NZ. If you don't pay you don't get to play for the A team.
That rule would work for me EXCEPT all the guys who pay their money just want a trot in the 2nd XV.
And, true to form, two of the "stars" who said they were showing up, didn't.
Luckily three handy Maori fellas showed up and paid their $10, signed into the team app, and got on the park.
Lost 33-14 against a team a fair bit younger, who clearly train together more than us. Was 19-14 at one stage and very competitive game.
I wish you'd stop posting all this sort of stuff. It makes me feel nostalgic and want to search out my old boots.
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@nta said in Aussie Rugby in general:
@mikedogz said in Aussie Rugby in general:
$80 fees at my club here in NZ. If you don't pay you don't get to play for the A team.
That rule would work for me EXCEPT all the guys who pay their money just want a trot in the 2nd XV.
And, true to form, two of the "stars" who said they were showing up, didn't.
Luckily three handy Maori fellas showed up and paid their $10, signed into the team app, and got on the park.
Lost 33-14 against a team a fair bit younger, who clearly train together more than us. Was 19-14 at one stage and very competitive game.
I wish you'd stop posting all this sort of stuff. It makes me feel nostalgic and want to search out my old boots.
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@catogrande i got a pair you can have ...
@booboo said in Aussie Rugby in general:
@catogrande i got a pair you can have ...
Great. I’m a size 9 on the left and a 12 on my kicking foot.
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@booboo said in Aussie Rugby in general:
@catogrande i got a pair you can have ...
Great. I’m a size 9 on the left and a 12 on my kicking foot.
@catogrande said in Aussie Rugby in general:
@booboo said in Aussie Rugby in general:
@catogrande i got a pair you can have ...
Great. I’m a size 9 on the left and a 12 on my kicking foot.
These are forwards boots, they dont how to kick. But size wise if you average them out you've got half a size to grow into ...
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@catogrande said in Aussie Rugby in general:
@booboo said in Aussie Rugby in general:
@catogrande i got a pair you can have ...
Great. I’m a size 9 on the left and a 12 on my kicking foot.
These are forwards boots, they dont how to kick. But size wise if you average them out you've got half a size to grow into ...
@booboo said in Aussie Rugby in general:
@catogrande said in Aussie Rugby in general:
@booboo said in Aussie Rugby in general:
@catogrande i got a pair you can have ...
Great. I’m a size 9 on the left and a 12 on my kicking foot.
These are forwards boots, they dont how to kick. But size wise if you average them out you've got half a size to grow into ...
Kicking? Who said inferred the ball?
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Just scanning team sheets of some old opponents. Three guys listed in our private group have fucked off to other clubs.
Sick of this shit. Some of these Islander guys will change their fucking mind on the way to the game.
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Just scanning team sheets of some old opponents. Three guys listed in our private group have fucked off to other clubs.
Sick of this shit. Some of these Islander guys will change their fucking mind on the way to the game.
@nta said in Aussie Rugby in general:
Just scanning team sheets of some old opponents. Three guys listed in our private group have fucked off to other clubs.
Sick of this shit. Some of these Islander guys will change their fucking mind on the way to the game.
Fair play for all the work you do but if I was at your club I’d piss off too, you sound like a real tosser to deal with
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There you go Nick. You’re a tosser.
Apparently.
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@catogrande I do suffer from the character flaw of despising liars.
If that makes me a tosser, so be it.The club has had people of all walks of life play for it (even a Muslim who finds Ramadan a struggle to keep his energy up). As long as they contribute, they're welcomed.
I could understand if the individuals in particular came to me and said they were going to play somewhere else, that's fine. Don't even give a fuck about the reason, but I give several fucks about the communication, or lack thereof.
What shits me is we set up game day plans based on who said they were coming earlier in the week, and some guys went to another club literally Saturday.
Others simply didn't turn up, and didn't give a reason - maybe they had emergencies and couldn't get in contact, so I'll give them the benefit of the doubt for now.
Look at it this way: if someone turned up when we promised them game time and then we let them rot in the bench, that would be no better.
We've done everything to try and make playing for the club easy, and value for money, without bias against anyone based on race, beliefs, or other preferences.
We were approached to accept pay by the week instead of committing the full amount (which is about the lowest in the whole competition anyway).
I fought for that despite opposition from several on the committee. Now it's there, the people who wanted it are gone, my stalwarts are going to pick up more injuries playing a Grade above their age, and we will be lucky to have 1 team by the end of the season.
In 2016 the club got kicked out of the comp because a few guys who never paid us a cent started a brawl in First Grade.
The committee at the time asked me to be President (I was second grade coach at the time - and the team was a mix of everyone from just about everywhere across Australasia and the Pacific), and help sort out the culture issues. At the very start we all agreed that financial commitment was important to get playing commitment. That gets tested every year when guys - who admittedly could go play league for $200+ a week - start getting cold feet about anything to do with money.
Over and above the fact the competition is fully amateur, we can't afford to pay anyone anyway. By the time we've paid our bills and donated some money to a local kids hospital as per our constitution, there is basically nothing left. We've got no club house, have to beg Council for anything we DO get in terms of a playing field, and no rich benefactors.
