this sporting life, an ongoing saga.
Dec. 3rd, 2003 11:32 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
hnpccSporting teams seem to go through cycles and not just of having a good/bad season.
One of the most common, and most frustrating for me at least, goes like this:
1. Team is short 1-2 players consistently.
2. Team gets people willing to play, usually 1-2 extra players.
3. People either get frustrated with "I'm not getting enough time on court" or come out with "Ohh, there's always extra, so I won't show up".
4. Team is short 1-2 players.
This is happening with all my teams at the moment. It would bug me less, except that I'm getting a little jack of finding out on the day that, oh, we will need fill ins. This is despite having 9 (i.e. 4 more than required) players for soccer and 8 (i.e. one more than required) players for netball. Netball is actually frustrating me even more, because oh yes! that's right! Alison's injured! so therefore we don't have a full team if one of us decides not to show at the last moment! Sunday I was just about ready to go and stand on the court with my crutches, so that we would have a full team, for crying out loud.
I don't mind it when people give advance notice, and I don't mind it if people are sick or have car accidents or the like. Advance notice is fine, if you can't make it, you can't make it. Sickness and car accidents both happen, nothing you can do. But to get an e-mail at 4pm saying "oh if you've got enough players then I won't show" for a 7pm game is really pissing me off. In what fucking universe do we have enough players already, and in what fucking universe does that consist of adequate notice? You want to pull that shit, then e-mail me to say you've found a fill in and that they'll be playing. Fuck.
Also, I'm personally of the opinion that if you've agreed to play with a team, you turn up unless you are (a) sick, preferably on your fucking deathbed (I've played with flu for Christ's sake - if I can, then you bloody well can), (b) trapped in your car awaiting the SES and other emergency services to get you out or (c) you have a totally non-cancellable family or theatre engagement that can not possibly be on another night. If you're off to see (pulling example wildly out of the air here) Bon Jovi and they're only playing at that time in Melbourne, fine. I won't admire your taste necessarily, but I'll deal. As long as you've given me advance warning. Hairdresser's appointment is not a non-cancellable engagement unless it something to do with a wedding that night. You don't make arrangements to do something at that time on that day because you're playing sport. Or if you do, phone me with the name of your fill in. ARGH.
Obviously I'm ranting here so that I don't come out with essentially the same statements in quite that language when I bring it up with the person concerned[1].
My mobile bill's going to be absolutely fucked this month.
[1]in the interests of fairness, and because I'm guessing that![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
epideme's going to be making guesses as to who this person I'm currently pissed off at is[2], they haven't done most of the examples I've mentioned, that's kind of a collation of examples since 1997. Except Bon Jovi, which just happened to be the first thing I thought of. Having said that, I've played netball and then gone to a Kiss concert... bloody Dean.
[2] I'm mostly just frustrated at timings, and (as you've probably guessed from the answering machines) I'd forgotten where you were this weekend. And I need your new mobile number, so I can stop harrassing Claire.
One of the most common, and most frustrating for me at least, goes like this:
1. Team is short 1-2 players consistently.
2. Team gets people willing to play, usually 1-2 extra players.
3. People either get frustrated with "I'm not getting enough time on court" or come out with "Ohh, there's always extra, so I won't show up".
4. Team is short 1-2 players.
This is happening with all my teams at the moment. It would bug me less, except that I'm getting a little jack of finding out on the day that, oh, we will need fill ins. This is despite having 9 (i.e. 4 more than required) players for soccer and 8 (i.e. one more than required) players for netball. Netball is actually frustrating me even more, because oh yes! that's right! Alison's injured! so therefore we don't have a full team if one of us decides not to show at the last moment! Sunday I was just about ready to go and stand on the court with my crutches, so that we would have a full team, for crying out loud.
I don't mind it when people give advance notice, and I don't mind it if people are sick or have car accidents or the like. Advance notice is fine, if you can't make it, you can't make it. Sickness and car accidents both happen, nothing you can do. But to get an e-mail at 4pm saying "oh if you've got enough players then I won't show" for a 7pm game is really pissing me off. In what fucking universe do we have enough players already, and in what fucking universe does that consist of adequate notice? You want to pull that shit, then e-mail me to say you've found a fill in and that they'll be playing. Fuck.
Also, I'm personally of the opinion that if you've agreed to play with a team, you turn up unless you are (a) sick, preferably on your fucking deathbed (I've played with flu for Christ's sake - if I can, then you bloody well can), (b) trapped in your car awaiting the SES and other emergency services to get you out or (c) you have a totally non-cancellable family or theatre engagement that can not possibly be on another night. If you're off to see (pulling example wildly out of the air here) Bon Jovi and they're only playing at that time in Melbourne, fine. I won't admire your taste necessarily, but I'll deal. As long as you've given me advance warning. Hairdresser's appointment is not a non-cancellable engagement unless it something to do with a wedding that night. You don't make arrangements to do something at that time on that day because you're playing sport. Or if you do, phone me with the name of your fill in. ARGH.
Obviously I'm ranting here so that I don't come out with essentially the same statements in quite that language when I bring it up with the person concerned[1].
My mobile bill's going to be absolutely fucked this month.
[1]in the interests of fairness, and because I'm guessing that
epideme's going to be making guesses as to who this person I'm currently pissed off at is[2], they haven't done most of the examples I've mentioned, that's kind of a collation of examples since 1997. Except Bon Jovi, which just happened to be the first thing I thought of. Having said that, I've played netball and then gone to a Kiss concert... bloody Dean. [2] I'm mostly just frustrated at timings, and (as you've probably guessed from the answering machines) I'd forgotten where you were this weekend. And I need your new mobile number, so I can stop harrassing Claire.
