SA Footy

I've never had an issue with any club i've played for, but i've seen a few people leave.
I find it hard to leave clubs once i'm in them, so what pushes someone to leave a club?
What's some stories out there that people have been tied up with or heard, that pushed either themselves or teamates away to a different team?

Pissed as I write this and will probably regret it tomorrow.My Dad was a Life Member of this particular Club,I am a Life Member of the same Club,includes over 200 A Grade games,commitee member,junior coach,bar manager etc.We were playing in mid range amateurs and a regime change on committee decided to chuck it in and go to SAFA so the club could declare itself to be A2 rather than A5.SAFA was near dead and in my opinion it was a totally dead end move.The rationale I believe was that the supposedly higher grade would attract a higher calibre of player,maybe win a flag and give some impetus to a future return to Amateur League. A2 SAFA at the time,if memory serves me, was a 6 team comp and our Club was about the only one to sign on as others were falling over themselves to get out.
I was devastated as the new committee who drove this change were also my mates who I had played footy and drank piss with for years.I just thought it was the absolute wrong decision and stopped playing.They say footy clubs are like families and I felt I had been disowned.I know the blokes who did what they did acted in good faith and when I see them today I can go up and have a chat but I will never get over the sense of betrayal I felt and the fact that I gave the game away while I could still play.I suppose for good or bad I turned my resentment on to the Club rather than the individuals and I have been back only 4 or 5 times over the last 16 years including a Presentation Night when I presented the A Grade B&F trophy which had been renamed in honour of my Dad.The other times were reunions and Club anniversaries and I went and had a beer with old team mates.
Thats the short of a long story,sad or pathetic,I wonder myself sometimes.The Club is bigger than the individual as they say,and the Club is now doing well,as am I,although I will regret forever it is no longer MY Club.No big deal in the scheme of things,a hissyfit.

I had a hissy fit (yeah hard to imagine) with my cricket club, the Noarlunga Cricket Club.
I'd played footy and cricket many years for the club, had been on the committee and captain of various grades at the club so was pretty well into the club.
Was having a casual year because of a young family but still averaged close to 50 in C grade, no other regular C grade player would have averaged over 20 and I was in the top 2 keepers at the club too.
A good mate of mine had taken over the captaincy that year but was having a shocker of a year lucky to get 10 each game but still got put up to the Bs as he was in politically and trained harder than I did and I took over the captaincy at various times.
Come finals time we were 2nd, played in the 2nd semi and got smashed, all out for 50 something. I opened and was the 2nd to last person out and got 30.
Anyway, come around to selections the next week the B Grade had won their final and had the week off so they dropped 5 players back to the C grade.
I was told I was dropped while 6 others in the team were still in including the captain who was averaging about 5 a game and got a duck in the first final.
I spat it, told them they could stick their club up their arse, they told me to settle down as I'd be opening in the Grand Final (the prelim final win was a formality). I told them to stick it up their arse again.
The coach was a great bloke but had to back up the captain (ex friend of mine by now) and me and the coach had a slinging match over the club rooms which had a few extra spectators because footy training was well and truly in action by then.
I left the club never to play cricket again.
As, Bs and Cs all lost the Grand final the following weekend with the Bs and Cs noticably not having a decent opener or keeper of which I was both of.(captain also thought he was a keeper, shocking to say the least)
Bad and good ending, I never talked to my mate ever again who was captain but later that year I was filling in for our footy club's C grade and our cricket coach (who was also an A grade footy player and went on to be a A grade coach of footy) was filling in one Sunday at Bice Oval, Christies Beach.
Anyway, he knew as well as any that I couldn't kick at footy, I took a mark 35 m out and kicked a goal (my first ever in 50 odd games) and he was the first bloke to give me a big hug, not that it made any difference as I'll always respect him but it meant a lot to me.
I only played about 2 games of footy after that (did a hammy celebrating my goal).
Caught up occasionally with the coach and love the guy and his family, he's a legend, to this day have never spoken to the captain, he went on to do nothing too except be a fat slob.

I left a club to go play football elsewhere because I couldn't get a game and they prefered to play short than play me. I went off to the other club and the next year I had the coach of the club I left telling me that he wants me back at this club and here is a clearance that he wanted me to sign to go back. What did I do so i signed the clearance and called the club I was playing for telling them what happened and not to clear me. I haven't been back to the club i left and I have no intentions of returning.

Christ, where do you want me to start. Here comes yet another chapter in the drama that is FC vs PNUFC.

I told our chairman/full back he was weak as PI55 after losing by 1 point on the weekend (after the siren). Apparantly I was out of line for slandering the great man I've seen some shit football in my time at that place and have never opened my mouth and the first time I do i get torn to pieces.

and well I'll be buggered if the female trainer/secretary of the club is allowed to have a friggin opinion, because what the hell would I know about football? I was indirectly described as having "questionable character" by the coach at presentations for voicing my opinion and I'm going to stop now because my mother always said if you can't say anything nice don't say anything at all

Last year, before the June 30 deadline, I left a club I had been playing at, for the preceeding 3 seasons.
The previous year, I was not getting much of a run- an ankle injury which kept me out for the remainder of the year helped to mask the fact I was not in the C grade coaches plans, despite having anough ability to be selected for the B grade side.
Had pneumonia in pre-season, which resulted in me being hospitalised. When I returned to the track, I gave notice as to why I had been absent for 3 weeks (this is C grade by the way...), & didn't miss training from there on in.
I was never selected, even as an emergency, for the remainder of my time at the club.
I consulted the captain & assistant coach, as the coach is unapproachable- they could not offer me a reason for my non-selection.
I rang the President, informing him that I required a clearance, & a speedy one at that- he sympathised with my situation, stating that the C grade coach no longer had their support, but given that he was a life member, would not be sacked, just not re-appointed at season's end .

I was approached at the end/start of the season to return, playing under a new coach- I declined, stating I was more than happy at my "new" club (I had played there previously, leaving only because I chose to try a few things away from football), & they also had since asked to coach their C grade.

Looking back, I 100% made the right decision.

Falcon Chick wrote:
I told our chairman/full back he was weak as PI55 after losing by 1 point on the weekend (after the siren). Apparantly I was out of line for slandering the great man I've seen some shit football in my time at that place and have never opened my mouth and the first time I do i get torn to pieces.

2 issues here:
a)Would you have said what you did if you had won?
b) depends also on what context you said what you did, sarcastically, or blunt and serious?

silicone skyline wrote:

Falcon Chick wrote:
I told our chairman/full back he was weak as PI55 after losing by 1 point on the weekend (after the siren). Apparantly I was out of line for slandering the great man I've seen some shit football in my time at that place and have never opened my mouth and the first time I do i get torn to pieces.

2 issues here:
a)Would you have said what you did if you had won?
b) depends also on what context you said what you did, sarcastically, or blunt and serious?

a) well we didnt win so it doesnt matter
b) blunt and serious

Dare I ask what your point is?

I left my club of around 11 years at the turn of the century ... No hissyfits as such, a couple of things I wasn't ultra impressed with but no burning issue ... My intention at that time was to retire as I was struggling with a few personal issues, but I eventaully played 3 more seasons at 2 different clubs, just because mates of mine were coaching teams so I decided to (try to) help them out.

Noone should live with regrets, but if I had my time again I would have remained a one club player, although I made some good mates along the way at the other clubs.

I saw plenty of hissyfits throughout the 90's and nearly all of them had the same theme:

- Player gets dragged and spits the chewy
- Player gets dropped and spits the chewy
- Same player has an overvalued opinion of his ability and wasn't a consumate team player in the first place.

Mine is a cricket club story.Pre Xmas I umpired that dreadful last 2 overs of the day after we bowled Rostrevor O.S. out near the end of day 1 in the D-Grade . Last ball of the first of the 2 overs the bowler who was bowling Left Arm Over hits our opener on the back foot on the full as he played back to dig out a yorker and was the most obvious LBW I had ever seen.My only doubt was wondering if it would have actually gone under middle stump as the lefty was about 6'6 I reckon....Up went the finger.I thought nothing of it as coming from the country and playing all my cricket at home straight out cheating could have meant no credit at the other teams home pub so the thought of not giving him out never even crossed my mind.All the way from Rostrevor back to Grange to do ther right thing and have a drink and dinner back at the club only to be taken aside by a persons nameless and told its club policy not to give anyone out in those circumstances WTF . I could not believe it .A meeting with 4 who held positions on selection and office bearers of the club behind closed doors . Thankfully my numbers stood the test and I finished the year in the club B-grade which was umpired so I didnt have to make the big moral decision .Was player of the finals and told I had the spinners spot in the A's the next year if I didn't go elsewhere but I had no intention of ever returning and played out the year for my team mates only and see if i could crack the A-Grade .I didn't do the tissy just refused to go back and told them I was going to play elsewhere .

Fair play. Well done.

Falcon Chick wrote:

silicone skyline wrote:

Falcon Chick wrote:
I told our chairman/full back he was weak as PI55 after losing by 1 point on the weekend (after the siren). Apparantly I was out of line for slandering the great man I've seen some shit football in my time at that place and have never opened my mouth and the first time I do i get torn to pieces.

2 issues here:
a)Would you have said what you did if you had won?
b) depends also on what context you said what you did, sarcastically, or blunt and serious?

a) well we didnt win so it doesnt matter
b) blunt and serious

Dare I ask what your point is?

My point is your criticism was hardly constructive, that sort of thing is detrimental to a club and team, especially coming from a person who is deeply immersed in the senior support of the team.
I'm not surprised you were condemned.
I know how i would feel if a woman who has never played a senior game in her life told me i was week as piss after a close loss.

silicone skyline wrote:

Falcon Chick wrote:

silicone skyline wrote:

Falcon Chick wrote:
I told our chairman/full back he was weak as PI55 after losing by 1 point on the weekend (after the siren). Apparantly I was out of line for slandering the great man I've seen some shit football in my time at that place and have never opened my mouth and the first time I do i get torn to pieces.

2 issues here:
a)Would you have said what you did if you had won?
b) depends also on what context you said what you did, sarcastically, or blunt and serious?

a) well we didnt win so it doesnt matter
b) blunt and serious

Dare I ask what your point is?

My point is your criticism was hardly constructive, that sort of thing is detrimental to a club and team, especially coming from a person who is deeply immersed in the senior support of the team.
I'm not surprised you were condemned.
I know how i would feel if a woman who has never played a senior game in her life told me i was week as piss after a close loss.

You make some good points on a general level, but most of what you've written (as usual) is BS and fairly chauvanistic to boot. I've probably been around football longer than you've been alive, and even though i am a mere female I am still entitled to my opinion last time i checked. Are you saying that if a male had said what I said, that it would have been acceptable?

This should develop nicely.Do go on......


(pssst FC,you're right)

Booney wrote:This should develop nicely.Do go on......


(pssst FC,you're right)

As if you'd dare disagree...

Falcon Chick wrote:

Booney wrote:This should develop nicely.Do go on......


(pssst FC,you're right)

As if you'd dare disagree...

Hell hath no fury,like a woman scorned....

Please Booney, you're kissing more arse than elton john in his communal all-male spa bath.
Now, FC, like i said, you, as a trainer/secretary, are in the role to SUPPORT your TEAM and CLUB.
Heat of the moment comments after a close, emotion charged loss that football does bring never helps anyone and is discouraged at all clubs, regardless of sex.
Now, when a man's honour is questioned (or thus labelled "weak as piss") after giving your all, (or near to it) that is when he is most vulnerable.
Why you chose this particular day to tell him how gutless he was/is, is quite purely motivated by the loss of the team on that particular day.
Football is an emotion charged game.
Things are said.
But they are by no means right, nor tolerable, and i think you were deservedly cut down to size.
Finally, i don't care how long you have been AROUND the game, being IN the game is completely different.
There are different levels of courage poeple have and can play to, but for you to label a player weak as piss, as a supporting member of the team, is wrong.
People are entitled to their opinions and supporters are sometimes the worst at criticising, but when you are part of the very essence that builds a team, which you claim you are as a trainer/secretary, that criticism is detrimental.
It is not your role to decide who is weak as piss or strong as shit, and i hope you recognised that with the reprimand.
P.S. Well done on playing the Chauvinistic Card, didn't see that one coming.

Falcon Chick wrote:Christ, where do you want me to start. Here comes yet another chapter in the drama that is FC vs PNUFC.

I told our chairman/full back he was weak as PI55 after losing by 1 point on the weekend (after the siren). Apparantly I was out of line for slandering the great man I've seen some shit football in my time at that place and have never opened my mouth and the first time I do i get torn to pieces.

and well I'll be buggered if the female trainer/secretary of the club is allowed to have a friggin opinion, because what the hell would I know about football? I was indirectly described as having "questionable character" by the coach at presentations for voicing my opinion and I'm going to stop now because my mother always said if you can't say anything nice don't say anything at all

FC

We would welcome you with open arms !!!

I agree Punky !!!

I have seen some shocking decision making by lower grade club coaches that can often see good footballers and good people lost to other clubs !!!

It's a dick thing FC! Never malign a bloke with his pants down!