Not easy to manage for mini-roos at all. 40 players on a pitch at a time means the mini-roo training takes a lot more time than usual. We will need to allocate 6hrs for mini-roos which cuts into how we manage the rest of the club.
Our U8 and U9 squads when you factor in coaches will all exceed 10 easily, so its not going to be a walk in the park at all to manage ground availability and scheduling.
Hardly surprising.
The instruction from one club is - don’t train on our ground as we will get in trouble from Council - go and find another local ground.
As a result there are community club facilities that everyday have NPL and WPL teams training in small groups on them - poor form.
Wonder what would happen if clubs started to send their players to other Open council facilities Like Adamstown, Edden or darling at ovals.
Seams reasonable to me
Just 10 kids rocking up or did it have the coach as well?
While I appreciate wanting to preserve the fields I always find it amusing when clubs kick off public users off a public field.
Though Adamstown and Edden are locked up behind fences.
Full kit, bow net goals, club branded balls/cones. Good enough for me. Person who turned up with the gear was young, but older than the rest. Coach, who knows, not from our club so I don't know the make up of the squad/coaching staff.
Hypothetically, say it was a group from a club training unofficially. Train at your own grounds. Don't train elsewhere. Its shear arrogance to avoid your own pitches and train elsewhere under the guise of them being "public pitches". We've had enquiries from the public asking why our teams are still training. They aren't.
Maybe we should be telling our teams to turn up in groups of 10 to the NPL/NL1 pitches and have a kick around while we cant train.
Never kicked public users off a pitch, but when its clearly a club squad, they can jog on or pay the fees everyone else pays to train.
I hear what you are saying Sammy but it obviously this depends on how many Miniroos teams a club has. Ours is not as extensive as some others, and teams are currently allocated a 1/4 of a pitch for an hour at a time, so I see no major changes for us, other than some additional hygiene management (sanitiser available pre and post training). Totally appreciate this will be more of a challenge for some clubs than others.
Newcastle Football have asked clubs to circulate a questionnaire for parents to see if their kids play again and, if so, whether parents are willing to help out more. It will take a lot more volunteers to make community, SAP, youth work this year, and I suspect we see some teams not being able to go ahead, certainly in community football.
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Yes Barry I have heard of similar. The problem is a lack of clear communication on the issue - the Feds say you can have 10 people train together, FNSW release guidelines but say they are draft, Northern say nothing and everyone is waiting on the Office of Sport guidelines before committing fully. It makes administration completely impossible, I can tell you!
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Fair enough sounds more organised than a few people in the area doing it.
Depends if some are locals or not. It's a public park and like it or not people can, will and our entitled to use it. If football was set up properly Newcastle, you would all have your main fields locked up.Hypothetically, say it was a group from a club training unofficially. Train at your own grounds. Don't train elsewhere. Its shear arrogance to avoid your own pitches and train elsewhere under the guise of them being "public pitches". We've had enquiries from the public asking why our teams are still training. They aren't.
Which is the end of itWe've had enquiries from the public asking why our teams are still training. They aren't.
And so they can do so if they want. The local park near my place is an NPL ground I go use it when I need to. I take in mind the goal mouths when the ground is damp (as I would even if just used by an interdistrict club) but if they don't want me using it have it fenced off.Maybe we should be telling our teams to turn up in groups of 10 to the NPL/NL1 pitches and have a kick around while we cant train.
I've come across some club people trying to kick us off when it is only 4 of us having a kick around.Never kicked public users off a pitch, but when its clearly a club squad, they can jog on or pay the fees everyone else pays to train.
Any other clubs back training? Macquarie Football started back on Monday under restrictions, but was still good to finally see all the kids back out there training.
Hi onlooker,
Our SAP teams were due to return this week but Newy Council are yet to sign off our risk assessment so we don't yet have permission to use the grounds. A couple of our youth teams have had sessions at Speers Point under an invite from Northern. I am told that the paperwork involved to ensure track and trace is annoying but is a small burden to get the kids out on the paddock.
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I have heard that about a number of clubs in the Newcastle area being ready to go but not being allowed to use their fields.. yeah from what I saw on Monday it took a little bit to sort out but we had a meeting about it all the Friday before so we knew what to expect.. and from what I can tell that paperwork will be here for a while to come so as you said a small burden but worth it in the end..
Hey Steve,
May I ask what the feeling is around NLFC at the moment? I heard the news that the club have pulled out of miniroos and I-D this year ( you mentioned having a son that plays I-D)
So SAP is going ahead? I feel for the club. Such a tough spot to manage 1100 kids at a time like this.
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