Two good tough games of football. Ressies- Cooks Hill far too good.Originally Posted by Retro Jet
Firsts was pretty even pretty devoed to drop 2 points with 3 mins to go.
All this overshadowed by the events off the field in my opinion. We rock up to be told that our change room is a damountable building that has no power/lights or the women's toilet.
We then get told that there is no referee so what do we want to do about it? My understanding is that it'd be an unwritten rule that if we have no refs that the home team organises the refereeing. That's certainly how we'll be doing at Beresfield. After being told that they didn't have anyone, our 55 year old manager stepped up and did it, but not before being told that he'd have to referee the first 20 mins without a whistle. He asks for Cooks Hill to offer two linesmen of which one takes the line nearest to the benches and we get told by them to get one of our first graders to run the other as they didn't want there's out there. Ended up with 2 linesman and Cooks Hill win comfortably.
On to first grade, Cooks Hill find a bloke to referee but doesn't have a watch so someone on their bench presumably has a timepiece. So about 5 minutes in we realise that their reserve grade team pretty much get dressed and come back out and sit on the bench with their coach and substitutes and drink beer with their first grade coach while he coaches, which in my years of football I've never seen and to me it looks amateurish. I'm all for a beer as some guys on here would know but seriously that looks ridiculous. And frustrating as I'm trying to see the game and there's 10-15 blokes standing on the line. Then all of a sudden some woman presumably from out of the crowd just trots out to stand on the halfway flag post, drinking wine and chatting away to the Cooks Hill bench, I personally didn't see a duty officer in sight but I might've missed them. What tops the day off was our timekeeper from the Cooks Hill bench didn't know/wasn't told that first grade is 45 mins a half so we played 40's.
Now I don't know if I'm being a whinger but in my opinion we need to get rid of that shit from our game. And I don't know if you're directly involved Retro Jet but if it was me I'd be having a word with the organisation down there because that just isn't good enough.
