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Post by onemoreyear on Aug 6, 2018 10:12:57 GMT 10
We play in the over 35/3 comp and have played about 5 Friday night games this year that we voted against as our team prefers Saturdays as we have a few that cant do Friday nights. but thought we will just take our medicine and play the games we were allocated.
But now we hear we are playing all the finals on Friday nights and we will have at least 4 or 5 that cant make this week at all.
Surely we can still play on the saturday as you would think ground availability would not be a problem. oh well will have to see how we go I suppose.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 6, 2018 11:45:59 GMT 10
We play in the over 35/3 comp and have played about 5 Friday night games this year that we voted against as our team prefers Saturdays as we have a few that cant do Friday nights. but thought we will just take our medicine and play the games we were allocated. But now we hear we are playing all the finals on Friday nights and we will have at least 4 or 5 that cant make this week at all. Surely we can still play on the saturday as you would think ground availability would not be a problem. oh well will have to see how we go I suppose. Onemoreyear I sympathise completely with your predicament. I suggest you contact your Club Secretary immediately & get them to contact Kurt Johnson the GM Hills Association to see if you can get your game moved to Saturday, 11th August. The O35/3 Semi-Finals are scheduled to be played at Hills Centenary 1 on Friday, 10th August. Good luck. Let us know how things go.
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Post by demonski on Aug 7, 2018 0:29:26 GMT 10
We play in the over 35/3 comp and have played about 5 Friday night games this year that we voted against as our team prefers Saturdays as we have a few that cant do Friday nights. but thought we will just take our medicine and play the games we were allocated. But now we hear we are playing all the finals on Friday nights and we will have at least 4 or 5 that cant make this week at all. Surely we can still play on the saturday as you would think ground availability would not be a problem. oh well will have to see how we go I suppose. Yep that's ridiculous. Also played in same division and didn't make semis so no impact to me now but we had to play 4 Fridays despite not nominating for Fridays and some of those were scheduled at 6:20 which is almost impossible for those working or living near the city. The forcing of a disproportionate number of Friday games for teams in 35/3s just because they got lumped with those who did want it has been an absolute farce and appalling handling by the association.
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Post by budman on Aug 7, 2018 11:34:06 GMT 10
The Friday games should have been spread across all O35 divisions so as not to benefit / disadvantage certain teams.
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Post by hey on Aug 10, 2018 10:39:15 GMT 10
Don't think so budman, div 3 was the only div with Friday night teams.
Just scrap any idea of running Friday night comps, only play Friday night for teams that allocate them as their home game (35s our seniors).
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Post by HappyFeet on Aug 10, 2018 12:18:38 GMT 10
The entire Friday night thing has not made a lot of sense this season as there are always spare fields around on Saturdays from what i have seen. Your comments above hey make sense.
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Post by budman on Aug 10, 2018 13:18:09 GMT 10
Hey; I know that the Div 3 was the only Division playing regular Friday nights, my point is that the Friday games should have / could have been spread across a number of O35 divisions and even possibly age groups. A mute point at this stage, but as per your suggestion, what if the away team(s) cant play Fridays for the same reasons (whatever they may be) the home teams can only play Fridays. If the team that nominated Friday night this season finished first - does that mean that they now play Div 2 in 2019 on a Friday to suit them again, or do they stay in Div 3 because that is the nominated "Friday night Comp"?
All I am saying is we have fields available (some better than others) that can handle Friday night matches so why not use them to their capacity across the whole competition? I am sure that most O35 teams would rather play on a Friday night rather than a possible 3pm on a Sunday. In fact, it may even be better to have some of the younger teams play under lights as 2 games could be possibly played, then an O35 match at 8pm (solves the issue of 620 starts). Then still done by 930. Throughout the season, on any given day, some teams would have players unavailable but i don't think that any one team would be advantaged any more or less by spreading the opportunity to play on a Friday night. I am sure across all divisions at some stage during the season teams have had players unavailable , whether it was Friday Saturday or Sunday due to work, social commitments etc. We have 2 comments above saying their team did not nominate for Friday games yet still played 4/5, with 1 team now having to maybe play all their finals on Friday night, which they may not like but I do think that you would still make every effort to play your finals game regardless if it was Friday, Saturday or whenever.
There is no hard and fast solution that will appease all of us. Someone at some stage is going to be for it and someone against and personally, I don't care either way, if I am available to play I will, but it will be raised again as an issue next season and I think some form of compromise (better than what was afforded this year) should be discussed limiting the impact on or advantage to on any one team or teams.
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