Barkeroo wrote:Lightning McQueen wrote:whufc wrote:
is that a serious thing......especially clubs that have senior colts cant seriously find one kid that is willing to run boundary.
Man I live in a life of luxury, we don't have a single issue getting boundary and goal umpires.
Country footy vs City footy is incomparable.
Your comp has town vs town where boundary umps would work on a roster from the kids that played the game before.
Blokes don't mind being the goal ump as it means not having to listen to the missus and they don't hit the piss as early so they are still in reasonable tact by the time the A's finish.
City juniors play on Sunday's, only the kids that are too young to do boundary would be watching the seniors, those capable would probably be playing B's.
100% this.
I've played Country footy in SA and WA and everyone has to boundary umpire once a year at a minimum.
The situation was as follows:
A Grade would umpire and boundary umpire the junior colts first thing in the morning.
B Grade would boundary umpire A Grade.
Senior colts would boundary umpire B Grade
Junior Colts would boundary umpire Senior Colts
If you didn't do this atleast once during the season you wouldn't be allowed to play finals but no one ever had a problem pitching on and no one ever got paid. Played one season in the city in Perth and we has to pay people $30-40 game to do it as there was no one volunteering to do it.
I watched an A grade game in Perth when I lived there and the kid running the boundary was that far behind the play the umpire let people in the crowd throw the ball in. Some people were putting down their cans before doing it. Was a shambles of a competition.