Thought I may as well start a thread on the travails of the OTHER senior football club in Richmond, the one in the D4 amateurs. As many of you know I am on the committee of this club as we rebuild for the future. (So far I have had a staggering ZERO PMs from PREnders aged 18-40 who have average foot skills but have no trouble slagging off blokes at AFL level for the same or lesser crimes. ;D Anyone who wants a kick give me a PM any time.)
We have Round 1 tomorrow away at Bulleen. Bulleen are a good side who are very crook at going out of the finals last year in straight sets. We will probably get flogged, although we have a very winnable match against Eley Park the following week. But we will look the part tomorrow.
Finally today at 5.30pm we got our new batch of jumpers. This is despite us placing the order on 31 January in order to get a discount. The mob who manufacture the jumpers have an exclusive deal with the league for pretty much all textiles-related activities (ie we are prohibited from using anyone else). I won't name them but they are worse than useless. The exclusive deal apparently being cause for wilful obstinacy and laziness on their part -- they didn't even start making our jumpers until about two o'clock on Wednesday afternoon! Slack, slack, slack. But the positive side is that this time we got our jumpers CORRECT.
Last year we did a minimal order, and something about them didn't look right. When we got the forms for this year they had our jumper as being black with a gold sash. No bloody wonder they looked funny. The president and I got into some strident correspondence with the garment people. We do not have a gold sash, we have a yellow sash, we play in Richmond colours and the Richmond colours are YELLOW AND BLACK, it's not in the song just for the hell of it and if you even think about making us jumpers with gold sashes instead of yellow we will find Ricky McLean and tell him you are a pack of nonces who enjoy doing questionable things to cute furry animals.
RESULT: I have a nice pile of black jumpers with yellow sashes to distribute tomorrow. I also have a bag full of yellow and black hooped socks to distribute. If any PREnder wants to buy Richmond socks at Rebel Sport in the next few days, don't go to any of the branches in town because I've cleaned out the lot. :thumbsup ;D
So we may get a pasting tomorrow, but at least we will look the part. And everyone is registered, and all the paperwork is done, and we have a whole stack of new blokes looking to take the club forward. Amateur footy is back*. Love it. C'arn Centrals!
* Not for me just yet. I have chronic groin soreness. Stop giggling like a schoolgirl. Yes, that means you. :spin
We have Round 1 tomorrow away at Bulleen. Bulleen are a good side who are very crook at going out of the finals last year in straight sets. We will probably get flogged, although we have a very winnable match against Eley Park the following week. But we will look the part tomorrow.
Finally today at 5.30pm we got our new batch of jumpers. This is despite us placing the order on 31 January in order to get a discount. The mob who manufacture the jumpers have an exclusive deal with the league for pretty much all textiles-related activities (ie we are prohibited from using anyone else). I won't name them but they are worse than useless. The exclusive deal apparently being cause for wilful obstinacy and laziness on their part -- they didn't even start making our jumpers until about two o'clock on Wednesday afternoon! Slack, slack, slack. But the positive side is that this time we got our jumpers CORRECT.
Last year we did a minimal order, and something about them didn't look right. When we got the forms for this year they had our jumper as being black with a gold sash. No bloody wonder they looked funny. The president and I got into some strident correspondence with the garment people. We do not have a gold sash, we have a yellow sash, we play in Richmond colours and the Richmond colours are YELLOW AND BLACK, it's not in the song just for the hell of it and if you even think about making us jumpers with gold sashes instead of yellow we will find Ricky McLean and tell him you are a pack of nonces who enjoy doing questionable things to cute furry animals.
RESULT: I have a nice pile of black jumpers with yellow sashes to distribute tomorrow. I also have a bag full of yellow and black hooped socks to distribute. If any PREnder wants to buy Richmond socks at Rebel Sport in the next few days, don't go to any of the branches in town because I've cleaned out the lot. :thumbsup ;D
So we may get a pasting tomorrow, but at least we will look the part. And everyone is registered, and all the paperwork is done, and we have a whole stack of new blokes looking to take the club forward. Amateur footy is back*. Love it. C'arn Centrals!
* Not for me just yet. I have chronic groin soreness. Stop giggling like a schoolgirl. Yes, that means you. :spin