Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People

lemonjelly

chewmylegoff wrote: »

When I was playing 5 a side regularly it was always if you turned up you got to keep your place, so if you missed games because of holiday, whatever etc you had to wait until someone else missed a week to get back into the team. But then we weren't in a competitive league so results were kind of irrelevant (in fact we preferred to get relegated!).

Generali wrote: »

Teams, mostly soccer, I've played for have had an unstated rule: turn up for training every week and you'll get picked after the 1 or 2 very talented players who will definitely be in the side even if we have to pick them up from the wake (in some cases their own!).

I have the risk of a couple of kids, and also a couple of newbies in the team.
I want them to play often, for experience, for confidence, & also to feel part of the team.
We have some good players too. I don't want to load the team with the good players & alienate the less experienced players.

It's trying to find that balance. That & not upsetting people when they're dropped.

We also don't have training, so that option is a no-goer.:o

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

...grim.... p'd off

I blame this relentless wet weather and grey skies.... days of rain and greyness... relentless.

Generali

vivatifosi wrote: »

Mine still needs doing. Every day I have off work it rains.

Went to the tip today to remove the remainder of the three storage heaters (all now gone, hoorah!), got very rained on.

On the way to the tip saw a little old lady who looked as though she was on her way to church (resplendent in her Sunday bonnet), she pulled out onto the road facing in the wrong direction and then drove the wrong way round a roundabout. It was like watching something in slow-motion. Nobody tooted, they just drove calmly out of her way. Very bizarre.

It reminds me of the old joke about the woman that called her husband to warn him that someone was driving the wrong way up the motorway he was on.

"One person?", he replied, "there are hundreds of them!".

PasturesNew

Nikkster wrote: »

I'm only surprised I didn't find an abandoned shopping trolley or similar in there.

The thing with keeping the exterior and gardens tidy/smart is that it keeps ferals at bay. If the house is neat it doesn't draw attention to itself..... so gardening etc is part of security.

Is it worth investing big bucks in one of those automatic mowers? Just lob it out then sit inside behind the net curtains while it does its thing?

Scratch that ... I just checked... they're £600-1000

PasturesNew

lemonjelly wrote: »

It's trying to find that balance. That & not upsetting people when they're dropped.

That's the trouble with team sports.... you're not always in a team because of your abilities - and everybody has a different opinion about who is best.

Sometimes it's just about being the pushiest or gobbiest.

You need to be open about what you're doing, so those dropped don't think it's because you thought the losers were better than them.

lostinrates

Willost on French drains later.....

michaels

Bowls team - could you put in place a strict rotation say 2 on 1 off with perhaps an extra but if you lose you are off after one (but still only off for 1 game)? This assumes you are all playing for fun rather than taking the competition serriously which is always my outlook on life but I know there are other attitudes.

Generali

lemonjelly wrote: »

I have the risk of a couple of kids, and also a couple of newbies in the team.
I want them to play often, for experience, for confidence, & also to feel part of the team.
We have some good players too. I don't want to load the team with the good players & alienate the less experienced players.

It's trying to find that balance. That & not upsetting people when they're dropped.

We also don't have training, so that option is a no-goer.:o

It's a hard balance.

If you're not playing professionally then you're playing for fun while trying your best, not just to win every week. Maybe that should be the point you should try to get across.

If players want to be in a team with a stick out the best 11(?) mentality then perhaps they should look elsewhere.

The soccer team The Boy plays for has the same ethos at all levels and age groups. We play to play and then to win. It's a family club with a few adult teams attached.

PasturesNew

Generali wrote: »

"After 4 years, the dust doesn't get any worse" QUENTIN CRISP

I can confirm.

PasturesNew

silvercar wrote: »

Expect a posh alert from PN, those boxes would be made of cardboard in anyone else's home.

I dream of cardboard.... a lot of my bits/bobs are in plastic carrier bags.

I've got stuff that's been bagged/boxed up since 2007 now .... even my shoes are wrapped individually in supermarket carrier bags ... looking forward to finally constructing the shoe rack I was bought for Xmas (2005-2006?) and putting them on it!