marbles wrote:i personally believe if your an A-Grader at a club who pays you and your team mates to play, the least you can do is present yourself as professionally as possible, as with cash being donated to your wallet, you therefore are a semi-professional sportsman
Ah, so its payment based then? Does that mean Colonel Light Gardens players should be rocking up in gold plated tuxedos?
I get that if you’re a paid player, you’re a professional, but lots of professionals don’t wear slacks to work. Many successful CEO’s don’t even wear them anymore.
Wearing club colours, tops etc is different, I think you should endeavour to wear your clubs colours where appropriate to show your numbers publically, but slacks and therefore dress shoes for Div 6 amateur football in the middle of winter is not practical and achieves nothing.
marbles wrote:it brings great pride i bet to all club members & spectators to see their stars looking super impressive for their club and representing their club as one uniformed unit and wearing the club agrade uniform in its highest esteem
Mate, we’re talking amateur football players here, not Nobel prize nominees.
marbles wrote:when ingle farm came to Henley and they all met in middle of oval with club colours shirts and black slacks, first impressions immediately noted we were facing a tough united outfit today
How does wearing black slacks make a team look tough? If anything if a team rocked up in army gear or high vis jackets I would be more inclined to think we were in for a tough day. When teams rock up all in black slacks I think they look like a bunch of try hards and to be honest … a weakness to exploit – their ego’s!
zedman wrote:smartest thing you have said for a month marbles!
You know you’re wrong when you’re agreeing with marbles zed old mate. Surely that should be a pretty strong indicator that your opinion is a bit askew.
zedman wrote:morell is just a college boy who wishes he was born a bogan so he pretends he hates wearing slacks
Hahahaha, whilst true, if you knew where and who I grew up with I would suggest there is no possible way you could question my bogan lineage.
And I wear slacks every day, that’s my point, it’s annoying, I don’t then want to wear them all day Saturday as well. Plus it means you have to wear dress shoes. I don’t particularly want to be traipsing through the middle of Mawson Lakes oval during winter in a pair of $300 Florsheim’s that I need to put back on Monday morning because some coach with a problem with authority needed to enforce his image into his charges.
zedman wrote:shows professionalism,self discipline and commits players..it also presents as a unified group..how can that be a bad thing for a club?
Oh what a load of crap. Yet another one of these old school football myths that get trotted out. It means nothing. It does nothing. It achieves nothing other than annoying players. Maybe that’s the point - unifying a team through a common bond of being annoyed? Some of the best, most professional, disciplined footballers I have ever known would know how to spell “black slacks”, let alone wear them. Some of the best most disciplined football teams I have played in and against rocked up in Adidas trackies and ugg boots.
On field discipline is achieved by having strong leaders, clear guidelines and a framework for play and dare I say it, getting the ‘effing pill first and kicking more damn goals.
zedman wrote:seemed to work well for brahma lodge..you may have laughed at them morell but what grade are they in now??
At the time they finished one spot above us. 3rd to bottom. Maybe they have relaxed their dress code and have since climbed the ranks?
But really, at this level winning and getting up the ranks you need these things:
Talent – players which can get the ball, kick it accurately, mark it, kick goals, defend and read the play.
Structure – each of the key positions along the spine are filled adequately FB to FF. Good balance in the midfield between offence and defence etc
Depth – Are there players who can step up not if you get injuries but when.
Luck – self explanatory.
And to a certain extent fitness, but I think that’s overrated too, but it does increase in importance the higher you go.
Have all of that in abundance and you could all rock up wearing a pink too-too and it wouldn't matter.
Phantom Gossiper wrote:And yes i think A grader should wear slacks and present themselves professionally and with a level of decorum.
First impressions last.
Whom are we trying to impress?
but you would also no doubt formulate an instant opinion on the club and it's personnell.
Spoke to Peter and the end of last season and congratulated him on an outstanding career....on what I understood to be his retirement from coaching....... Very surprising turn around but great news for Johnny Reardon and the Doggies....
