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this sporting life (cont)
May. 10th, 2004 12:19 pmI sucked in the footy tipping this weekend, getting 3/8. All the home teams started losing! Bastards, it's a conspiracy to make me lose the tipping. Still, it was better than the week before the wedding where I tipped in a hurry and got 1. Oh well.
Speaking of foo-de-bal[1] (the world game) we're totally in the wrong division for indoor soccer. It's getting a bit ridiculous - we won last night 11-3. Which is stupid. We've played 2 teams that have been roughly the same standard as us, one of whom was promoted after the grading. But we stayed put, and as a result there seems to be a small group of teams (2 of us) at the top who are all of one standard, then a large glut of teams who are the same standard as each other but who probably shouldn't be in the same grade as the top teams. *sigh* I was really hoping there was another re-grading - it's not that I don't like winning, but I do feel that doing it against a team with a similar skill level is a better feeling. Last night was a bit too much like shooting fish in a barrel... I mean I took a penalty for crying out loud![2]
The netball gradings are even worse: there are 7 teams total in the competition. 1 team is head and shoulders above the rest (fig and lit - they're all pretty tall) and should probably be in another grade, were there one for them to be in. Then there's 3 teams, including us, who are all about the same standard - but who all get absolutely thumped by the top team (we're talking scores of 27 to 1 here btw. Not even in the same general league). Then, right at the bottom, are three teams who get thumped by everyone except each other (we beat one team 17-3 last week. With me shooting. Without glasses.) It's just silly. The competition's answer to this is of course "if you want a different grade of competition, maybe you should change nights"(?!?!). This isn't a guarantee that you'd end up with a better grade of competition of course, just a different one. Every season we've played with this mob during winter it's the same deal... because people tend to put in teams on the nights they're available to play rather than anything else and in winter a lot of teams go for indoor venues (God knows why, it actually rains more in summer I find). Still at least there ususally are two divisions in summer... sometimes. Last Thursday was entertaining, but hardly hard work. But then again, we're playing the top team this week, so that'll make up for it.
[1] Les Murray joke. What nationality is Les Murray? ;-)
[2] I'm very bad at taking penalties. Or not falling over the ball as I discovered last night.
Speaking of foo-de-bal[1] (the world game) we're totally in the wrong division for indoor soccer. It's getting a bit ridiculous - we won last night 11-3. Which is stupid. We've played 2 teams that have been roughly the same standard as us, one of whom was promoted after the grading. But we stayed put, and as a result there seems to be a small group of teams (2 of us) at the top who are all of one standard, then a large glut of teams who are the same standard as each other but who probably shouldn't be in the same grade as the top teams. *sigh* I was really hoping there was another re-grading - it's not that I don't like winning, but I do feel that doing it against a team with a similar skill level is a better feeling. Last night was a bit too much like shooting fish in a barrel... I mean I took a penalty for crying out loud![2]
The netball gradings are even worse: there are 7 teams total in the competition. 1 team is head and shoulders above the rest (fig and lit - they're all pretty tall) and should probably be in another grade, were there one for them to be in. Then there's 3 teams, including us, who are all about the same standard - but who all get absolutely thumped by the top team (we're talking scores of 27 to 1 here btw. Not even in the same general league). Then, right at the bottom, are three teams who get thumped by everyone except each other (we beat one team 17-3 last week. With me shooting. Without glasses.) It's just silly. The competition's answer to this is of course "if you want a different grade of competition, maybe you should change nights"(?!?!). This isn't a guarantee that you'd end up with a better grade of competition of course, just a different one. Every season we've played with this mob during winter it's the same deal... because people tend to put in teams on the nights they're available to play rather than anything else and in winter a lot of teams go for indoor venues (God knows why, it actually rains more in summer I find). Still at least there ususally are two divisions in summer... sometimes. Last Thursday was entertaining, but hardly hard work. But then again, we're playing the top team this week, so that'll make up for it.
[1] Les Murray joke. What nationality is Les Murray? ;-)
[2] I'm very bad at taking penalties. Or not falling over the ball as I discovered last night.
