Under_Scrutiny wrote:Sad to hear about the demise of Cobdogla. Were a strong club at the start of this century.
Surprising too after they picked themselves up off the bottom of ladder and made finals this year. Thought they were on the rebound as a club. I understand it is purely about volunteer numbers not player numbers which I think gives them a better chance of turning it around before they make a final call on 2022.
Maybe some of their paid recruit$ could take on extra roles off field to help out. At most clubs already it is the local players who are really stepping up in absence of volunteers by doubling up as trainers, submitting team sheets and online results, managing bar and canteen stock, manning gates, preparing the playing surface during the week etc. Just to name a few.
There is so much the players can do to ease load on volunteers aside from gametime roles such as umpire 1 field and one goal, canteen(if home game), timekeeper and be on duty trainer. By my calculation that's 5 non playing volunteers a club needs bare minimum to get a game played.
Last possession rule has to come in to independants to allow the scrapping of boundary umpires too. If it goes out under pressure no clear last possession then field umpire brings it in 30m and throws it up. Simple
Furthermore players already do and can easily choose to commit their time to fill both general and executive committee roles when required so the good news is it can be done if they want it bad enough and by announcing this now it gives people time to put their hand up and find more volunteerswithin. Hopefully they do! And hopefully the few whispers of Lyrup trying to reform get more momentum too.