Paint the Tiger, Carve the Swan

Well, first game back in Men’s A Grade, and a fair start it was too. Playing with a about 4-5 guys I’ve coached, and two I’ve actually played with, along with a whole host of new guys (including one playing his first game!), it was, as always, a little slow to start. New teams generally tak e while to iron out all of the bugs.

About level with Diamontec at half time, we drew away from them in the second half. Lacking fitness, I had to rely on skill (that’s a dangerous choice!), and managed to post home a couple of touchdowns myself. The last of which was really only because Paul and Hully wrapped around me, but the nice little fake settled it.

The nicest thing is that after a 6-2 victory, we are top of the ladder!

No Dumps next week, at 6:15. Should be a bit more challenging, I’d say…

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I’m in a situation where I need to send out large numbers of emails - now, settle down, I’m not talking Spam! Rather, I am the Member Communication/Liason Officer for a sporting organisation, and need to send many emails out to either a subset of the community, or in some cases, the whole community.

I’m thinking about different methods to streamline my communication processes. I think I have a few options:
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I’ve spent the last week in Darwin, NT, coaching a team in the School Sport Australia National Touch Championships. This is my fourth year coaching the SASSSA 15s girls team, and I just thought I might share some thoughts on my experiences this time around.
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I spent all day yesterday coaching the Mariners, one of the two South Australian Men’s Open Mitchell Cup teams. The Mitchell cup was a new project run by TouchSA (specifically Tracey Frith), and was intended to provide a better standard of games than the State League competition, as a build up to the State Teams. Selection for Men’s Open and Women’s Open teams, as well as a Mixed Open team was made during the Mitchell Cup, and teams were announced at the Presentation Night.
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Project Officer - Communication & Game Development
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This weekend was the SASSSA/TouchSA Touch trials. I coach the 15s Girls’ team, and we had a great turnout again. More than 40 girls, with most of those of an extremely high standard.

We’ve selected a squad of 20 girls who I’ll train over the next month or so, before choosing my final team of 14 and shadows.

I’m looking forward to the trip to Darwin in mid-September…

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Thanks to the fantastic new filter at school which blocks any blogger blogs (http://*.blogspot.com), I can’t post to the csta website, so I’ll write the draw in here instead.

Monday
• CSTA Experiments: 7:05
• CSTA Assassins: 7:55
• CSTA Datsun 180B: 8:45
• CSTA Derelique: 7:05
• CSTA Sparkle Motion: BYE

Wednesday
• Where’s The Kentish: 6:05
• CSTA Berry Spoons: 7:45

Thursday
• CSTA Mixed Lollies: 6:55
• Arab Steed Pornstars: 7:45

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Central Scorpions Touch Association Mens Open had their first training session yesterday. I am the coach.

I’ve coached plenty of Womens and Girls touch, and the occasional boys team, but this is the first time I have coached a team of Real Men ™. It is kind of intimidating (and I probably need to stop worrying about stepping on feelings), but I’m quite looking forward to it.

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That’s purpose is just to trigger Wordpress to update the Post count of each Category.

I’ll leave it here incase I need to redo this operation. It took me ages to tick each category box…

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