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Hey guys -
I'm not gonna start rabble rousing on anything today, frankly, I'm mentally and physically exhausted from the past week. However, I would like to say a few things:
1. I may be leaving the country soon, for how long I'm not sure. I need to get a job that will sponsor me (I don't qualify for PR...yet)
2. I've been doing a lot, as people know, and I don't want it to end.
3. People are acting like things are going to hell in a handbasket and they aren't, unless people let them
So with that, I ask - who's going to put their hand up? I want people e-mailing me, PMing me, whatever, to ask what they can do to further the sport. I'll need people to help take over the gazette (it's insanely easy to do folks, I just use publisher), people to help run clinics at high schools to get people out to the junior program, people to run promotional events at unis and other places, etc. Guys, what I and others do isn't hard work - frankly, it's a lot of fun believe it or not (well, except registrar), but everything else is, and I need people to pick up the slack.
So - who wants to help make this sport great?
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I think the silence speaks for itself and is a testament to why this sport is going nowhere, and I get the feeling people are thrilled to death about it.
I've had 2 people PM me about helping, out of 160+ views. 2. That's embarrassing.
I realize people are involved in their own club, but that's not enough. We need people willing to go past their club, to think above and beyond it and focus on developing the sport on a metropolitan level. Myopia is harming the league, ambivalence is killing it, and lethargy is digging the freakin grave.
Two out of 160. No fucking wonder.
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Last Login: 5/04/2012 2:16:24 AM
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I think at this point people should concentrate on their own clubs as some are barley stringing along. Once all the clubs are strong and equal lets work on the broader horizon.
Once again this comes down to the fact that this is a recreational sport and we all have lives outside of it making it very hard for us to grow our sport let alone have time to play.
I'd love to help out if I didn't have a job and a wife. It's hard enough just to get motivated enough to practice with low numbers let alone work for a bunch of players who don't care enough to turn up to their own practice session.
Instead we have guys who bag anyone for trying hard and say shit like we have no athletes here. Yeah, we would do real good with more exposure maybe good for a laugh. So once again we need to work on our own clubs till the league is more competitive.
Don't take it the wrong way I appreciate the people who take care of our league and hope for the best.
I do what I can on the side if I meet someone who would do well I tell them about our sport and what team is close to them.
"It's not the strongest guys, its the toughest guys" - Coach Armijo
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Last Login: 27/02/2012 8:15:51 PM
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Just a question ... who the hell is Olderdan? ... I've never heard of him or know what the hell he does ... No offence, I don't even know if he's in the same state as me as these details were never mentioned in the post
"The trouble with quotes on the internet quotes, is that it is difficult to determine whether or not they are genunine" - Abraham Lincoln
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Dave, he is an American who's done a heap of work to try and prop up Gridiron Vic in his short time in the country.
Put together a full business plan for GV, did some work to try and find a synthetic playing surface in the face of water restrictions, put together a monthly newsletter etc.
Get the feeling he isn't getting much support hence the post.
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