field of dreams wrote:After being very impressed by Willunga last week, I was very surprised to see how well Bays did. What did think BJ?
Dud you see the yank-Victor game Yank-man, I'd appreciate your thoughts as I couldn't get there.
Yes fod, saw the whole game. Victors best team is right up there and they had a good one saturday. My old mate saucy was brim full of confidence before the game and it obviously spread to his players. Not much in the game but Victor took control in the second half and never looked like being beaten. Williams is a real quick clever forward and kicked 5, but they had a very even contribution all over the ground. Yank are in trouble for mine, with injuries and a lack of intensity. Grand Final loss 'blues' and they need to find something to just make the 5. Make or break against Mt Compass this week. A couple in the ressies are going ok and should get a gig this week, one of them a two time premiership player at Creeks. Time to shake the trees.
Do you really want to be known as the umpire who posts this stuff on SA Footy? You are putting a target on your back for every game you umpire from now on. You would be well advised to take that post down before your Umpiring Panel asks you to.
FWIW, Muffler has umpired for 6/7 years, by coincidence in the opposing league you will be umpiring in your curtain raiser game, who also supply an umpire for this game..... I hope the Umpire's Director has a sense of humour
Do you really want to be known as the umpire who posts this stuff on SA Footy? You are putting a target on your back for every game you umpire from now on. You would be well advised to take that post down before your Umpiring Panel asks you to.
FWIW, Muffler has umpired for 6/7 years, by coincidence in the opposing league you will be umpiring in your curtain raiser game, who also supply an umpire for this game..... I hope the Umpire's Director has a sense of humour
field of dreams wrote:After being very impressed by Willunga last week, I was very surprised to see how well Bays did. What did think BJ?
Dud you see the yank-Victor game Yank-man, I'd appreciate your thoughts as I couldn't get there.
Yes fod, saw the whole game. Victors best team is right up there and they had a good one saturday. My old mate saucy was brim full of confidence before the game and it obviously spread to his players. Not much in the game but Victor took control in the second half and never looked like being beaten. Williams is a real quick clever forward and kicked 5, but they had a very even contribution all over the ground. Yank are in trouble for mine, with injuries and a lack of intensity. Grand Final loss 'blues' and they need to find something to just make the 5. Make or break against Mt Compass this week. A couple in the ressies are going ok and should get a gig this week, one of them a two time premiership player at Creeks. Time to shake the trees.
Cheers YM. Good to see us beat a quality side. Getting the best side on the park is part of the challenge. With 3 rounds played we've used 28 through the A's already. Off the top of my head I can think of 5 of our best side that didn't play Saturday either (4 yet to play at all).
Out of interest - number of players played A's so far:
24: Go, EB, St, MtC 25: McL, Wi 28: My, Ya, VH 29: LC
Muffler wrote:Well.... I will make a couple of points
1. I dont have the time in my day to go through that whole thing. 2. I Have been an Umpire for 7 years now. Currently one of my roles in the MSJFL as one of the senior umpires in the leauge is to be developing "Green Shirt" umpires, for those who don't know they are currently new umpires and generally young ages from 10-15/16, and I am teaching them about positioning, use of voice and the whistle, decision making etc all the things that umpires do. This is done in Under12's the mentoring process. I then go and do an Under 16.5 game after. 3. I umpired an Under 12's game the other day(I KNOW IT IS DIFFERENT TO A GRADE FOOTY), but it was the First time these bunch of kids were ever allowed to tackle and play normal football rules, The kids had a massive crack at the footy and the body it was fantastic to see and I would have balled the ball up 50 plus times. There was alot of congestion but I did not involve myself unless the free kick was 100% there. That is an umpires job. Not to call the 50/50 ones that might be there, thats not right. We are their to make sure nobody gets injured we don't need to be noticed. 4. Positives, From memory you paid all the free kicks that were there. AKA high tackles, Holding the Balls etc. . As an umpire, you were thickskinned (which you have to be), you have a strong personality which is also needed. . I believe you were the stronger umpire out of the two in terms of the way you presented yourself. . You took a majority of the play IMO which means you want to work hard and get the best out of yourself
5. Constructive Criticism . I think free kicks were paid too much to open up the game, the way the weather was it was going to be one of those tight in close games. . As i said you paid most if not all of the 100% free kicks from memory. As a player/umpire if both teams have their head over the football and there is a 50/50 free kick you'd rather it not be paid and let the game flow on in the hard style that it is. . Sometimes I thought you were on the blind side when a free kick was given, Not your fault due to were the ball was and were you were backing out, but i felt as though the frees were actually a guess.
Umpiring is not easy at all, it is a thankless task I do understand that. Maybe i was a little bit to harsh Saturday and On here but what i can't take it back. Hopefully we can learn from it and who knows I can try hook up a game in the MSJFL that we could umpire together and learn off of each other.
Geez Muffler, you would want to be a great umpire yourself after the crack you had at the young lad! Did you say you coach young umps, bet your league would love to read your dummy spit spray. As an umpire abuser I hope the gloves are off on your performance next week, you had better be flawless cos we all know umpires don't make mistakes. Good luck to the young fella we haven't been lucky enough to have him yet, but he sure seems to know the rules.
Muffler wrote:Well.... I will make a couple of points
1. I dont have the time in my day to go through that whole thing. 2. I Have been an Umpire for 7 years now. Currently one of my roles in the MSJFL as one of the senior umpires in the leauge is to be developing "Green Shirt" umpires, for those who don't know they are currently new umpires and generally young ages from 10-15/16, and I am teaching them about positioning, use of voice and the whistle, decision making etc all the things that umpires do. This is done in Under12's the mentoring process. I then go and do an Under 16.5 game after. 3. I umpired an Under 12's game the other day(I KNOW IT IS DIFFERENT TO A GRADE FOOTY), but it was the First time these bunch of kids were ever allowed to tackle and play normal football rules, The kids had a massive crack at the footy and the body it was fantastic to see and I would have balled the ball up 50 plus times. There was alot of congestion but I did not involve myself unless the free kick was 100% there. That is an umpires job. Not to call the 50/50 ones that might be there, thats not right. We are their to make sure nobody gets injured we don't need to be noticed. 4. Positives, From memory you paid all the free kicks that were there. AKA high tackles, Holding the Balls etc. . As an umpire, you were thickskinned (which you have to be), you have a strong personality which is also needed. . I believe you were the stronger umpire out of the two in terms of the way you presented yourself. . You took a majority of the play IMO which means you want to work hard and get the best out of yourself
5. Constructive Criticism . I think free kicks were paid too much to open up the game, the way the weather was it was going to be one of those tight in close games. . As i said you paid most if not all of the 100% free kicks from memory. As a player/umpire if both teams have their head over the football and there is a 50/50 free kick you'd rather it not be paid and let the game flow on in the hard style that it is. . Sometimes I thought you were on the blind side when a free kick was given, Not your fault due to were the ball was and were you were backing out, but i felt as though the frees were actually a guess.
Umpiring is not easy at all, it is a thankless task I do understand that. Maybe i was a little bit to harsh Saturday and On here but what i can't take it back. Hopefully we can learn from it and who knows I can try hook up a game in the MSJFL that we could umpire together and learn off of each other.
Muffler wrote:Yesterday Witnessed one of the worst umpire performances EVER at the Mclaren and Compass Game. Didn't impact on the final result I will say too. This young kid umpire who looks 14/15 not sure on age, over umpired and tried to involve himself in the game basically calling free kicks just because he could. Is there a rule in the GSFL that when a player ducks his head before he is tackled and gets tackled high is it still a free kick for to high???? That is the rule that this particular umpire said was being enforced and the players ask their coaches about it? I'm pretty confident that isn't a rule, nor has it ever been a rule in any game of Footy ever! I am interested to see what others think if they have had this umpire? I am all for young kids umpiring too, we need it but it has gotta be done the right way.
Muffler something is rattling... i think its your tongue and your brain has stalled i think you should just stick to the muff....ler the kid wins keep up the good work three cheers for the ump hip pip hooray
field of dreams wrote:After being very impressed by Willunga last week, I was very surprised to see how well Bays did. What did think BJ?
Dud you see the yank-Victor game Yank-man, I'd appreciate your thoughts as I couldn't get there.
Yes fod, saw the whole game. Victors best team is right up there and they had a good one saturday. My old mate saucy was brim full of confidence before the game and it obviously spread to his players. Not much in the game but Victor took control in the second half and never looked like being beaten. Williams is a real quick clever forward and kicked 5, but they had a very even contribution all over the ground. Yank are in trouble for mine, with injuries and a lack of intensity. Grand Final loss 'blues' and they need to find something to just make the 5. Make or break against Mt Compass this week. A couple in the ressies are going ok and should get a gig this week, one of them a two time premiership player at Creeks. Time to shake the trees.
Cheers YM. Good to see us beat a quality side. Getting the best side on the park is part of the challenge. With 3 rounds played we've used 28 through the A's already. Off the top of my head I can think of 5 of our best side that didn't play Saturday either (4 yet to play at all).
Out of interest - number of players played A's so far:24: Go, EB, St, MtC 25: McL, Wi 28: My, Ya, VH 29: LC
field of dreams wrote:After being very impressed by Willunga last week, I was very surprised to see how well Bays did. What did think BJ?
Dud you see the yank-Victor game Yank-man, I'd appreciate your thoughts as I couldn't get there.
Yes fod, saw the whole game. Victors best team is right up there and they had a good one saturday. My old mate saucy was brim full of confidence before the game and it obviously spread to his players. Not much in the game but Victor took control in the second half and never looked like being beaten. Williams is a real quick clever forward and kicked 5, but they had a very even contribution all over the ground. Yank are in trouble for mine, with injuries and a lack of intensity. Grand Final loss 'blues' and they need to find something to just make the 5. Make or break against Mt Compass this week. A couple in the ressies are going ok and should get a gig this week, one of them a two time premiership player at Creeks. Time to shake the trees.
Cheers YM. Good to see us beat a quality side. Getting the best side on the park is part of the challenge. With 3 rounds played we've used 28 through the A's already. Off the top of my head I can think of 5 of our best side that didn't play Saturday either (4 yet to play at all).
Out of interest - number of players played A's so far:24: Go, EB, St, MtC 25: McL, Wi 28: My, Ya, VH 29: LC
Very very interesting and your point is
Think it is about depth and injuries my good man. The more you play the more chance you have of a good squad when it counts in September. It's ok fod, we're on the same page, I think.
Yes fod, saw the whole game. Victors best team is right up there and they had a good one saturday. My old mate saucy was brim full of confidence before the game and it obviously spread to his players. Not much in the game but Victor took control in the second half and never looked like being beaten. Williams is a real quick clever forward and kicked 5, but they had a very even contribution all over the ground. Yank are in trouble for mine, with injuries and a lack of intensity. Grand Final loss 'blues' and they need to find something to just make the 5. Make or break against Mt Compass this week. A couple in the ressies are going ok and should get a gig this week, one of them a two time premiership player at Creeks. Time to shake the trees.
Cheers YM. Good to see us beat a quality side. Getting the best side on the park is part of the challenge. With 3 rounds played we've used 28 through the A's already. Off the top of my head I can think of 5 of our best side that didn't play Saturday either (4 yet to play at all).
Out of interest - number of players played A's so far:24: Go, EB, St, MtC 25: McL, Wi 28: My, Ya, VH 29: LC
Very very interesting and your point is
Think it is about depth and injuries my good man. The more you play the more chance you have of a good squad when it counts in September. It's ok fod, we're on the same page, I think.
If LC were undefeated this might say something about depth, instead all it says is they have had alot of outs and haven't covered them very well. On the other hand Bays have had the least changes and are top, which suggests a strong core group and maybe lucky to not have injuries. Also with their Bs going well would suggest their depth is pretty good.
What a round of footy so far Myponga beating victor is a huge upset, victor had been the talk of the comp before the season started great result for Myponga. Did victor gave a few out 'fod'? Creeks losing to the bays by 21 goals shows that the bays are the real deal! Yank god knows what's up with them? Strath got out of jail v goolwa after leading for 95% strath nearly lost it late after goolwa missed a few easy shots infront. Strath ended up winning by a goal. Rugoulu is a great pick up for the pies in the middle, lees went down early in the game so didn't see much of him. Smith at full fwd hasn't got any smaller was very hard to stop nearly winning it for the pies. Agree "fod" when you've got three games decided by 7pts or less great for the comp.
Nup probably the best side we've put on the field this year....., on paper. Kicked 5 goals to nil into the wind in the first, then were bloody terrible after that. No disrespect intended to pongy - they played the better footy and deserved to win. Wendeborn was very good. Our list still looks very good, long way to gel as a team though.
LuvsFooty wrote:Wow!!! Bays impressed me round 1 but that's an unbelievable score line. Heart stoppers in the other 3 games! Comp is alive and well
Creeks were NEVER ever in the contest today at any stage. Been many many many years since the Creeks have been towelled up like that. Creeks have lost a lot of experience from last year and results like todays will be a real reality check for their many younger players finding their way in 'A' grade as to how much harder you have to work compared to playing colts footy. Not having a go at them at all, E.Bay were simply classes above the Creeks and it showed on the scoreboard. Early days i know but already it's hard seeing it not being a Bays v Willunga GF. After todays results, 3 - 10 is anyones guess ?
Don't mclaren play for b grade flags ?? I mean you don't fork out and cash for those ones plus when the a grade can't make the finals you can drop half the team back to b grade
watched the bays v LC game. forward entries were the best i've ever seen in ammature footy, in particular to Welsh, who is almost impossible to stop him marking it if he can get two hands to the pill.
defence was no-frills, just got the job done. creeks didn't look to have a dominant forward target though.
