Okay, this is getting creepy...
Hey Gang,
okay, backstory "For those who came late"
Muddy plays Field Lacrosse (as compared to Box Lacrosse which is actually different).
Muddy started as a junior WAY back in the pre internet days at a club, which is how sport works here in Oz, unlike the US where everything is school based.
Muddy played through the junior grades and, after getting his first chest hair, started playing senior grades.
After several years, Muddy rage quit and changed to another club.
Muddy now plays, okay, plays in the lower grades as he is slightly Old and Slow(tm) these days, but plays for his current club and has done so for since last century. He has more senior games with this club (by a large margin), has held committee positions, has been Men's State League Timekeeper/Scorer for the last two seasons (which makes him a Club Offical(tm) and hence slightly higher up the food chain then simply being a player), has been doing pre-season fitness stuff (for the first time in.. well... FOREVER) with the senior men's squad for the past 10 weeks (on and off... and makes no claim that any of this fitness work is actually working) and, most importantly, LIKES BEING THERE.
So, mid Nov last year, I get a message out the blue on FBook chat from a guy at the 'old club' asking 'When I was coming home' and 'why don't you come play in our Div 2 team next year'.
(Div 2, aka SCUM GRADE, cause it's shite! :P )
I say, why? I got was getting Div 1 game last year. Why would I want to change clubs JUST to play a lower grade?
He says, blah blah we are going to have a strong team blah win final blah blah
I said, I am a club offical. Why would I give that up? And go on to make a serious of bullshit conditions before I agreed. Stuff like 'chicks' and 'being captain' and other total bollocks.
A month later I get a FBook invite to the 2015 Senior Players Meeting.
Huh?
Which I utterly ignore.
I get sent reminders that pre-season is starting.
Which I utterly ignore. (actually, no, I smug first because OUR club has been doing pre-season for two months. SUCK IT!!!)
Then tonight I get a FBook chat message asking me personally and directly if I am good to start training Tuesday and Thursday nights.
SERIOUSLY? WHAT THE FUCK??!
NO
SCREW YOU.
Part of me wants to politely explain. Part of me wants to bluntly explain and part of me wants to say nothing and see just how long they will continue to honestly believe that I have agreed to come play for them next season.
I should demand they pay my association fees in advance, and THEN I might consider it :P
okay, backstory "For those who came late"
Muddy plays Field Lacrosse (as compared to Box Lacrosse which is actually different).
Muddy started as a junior WAY back in the pre internet days at a club, which is how sport works here in Oz, unlike the US where everything is school based.
Muddy played through the junior grades and, after getting his first chest hair, started playing senior grades.
After several years, Muddy rage quit and changed to another club.
Muddy now plays, okay, plays in the lower grades as he is slightly Old and Slow(tm) these days, but plays for his current club and has done so for since last century. He has more senior games with this club (by a large margin), has held committee positions, has been Men's State League Timekeeper/Scorer for the last two seasons (which makes him a Club Offical(tm) and hence slightly higher up the food chain then simply being a player), has been doing pre-season fitness stuff (for the first time in.. well... FOREVER) with the senior men's squad for the past 10 weeks (on and off... and makes no claim that any of this fitness work is actually working) and, most importantly, LIKES BEING THERE.
So, mid Nov last year, I get a message out the blue on FBook chat from a guy at the 'old club' asking 'When I was coming home' and 'why don't you come play in our Div 2 team next year'.
(Div 2, aka SCUM GRADE, cause it's shite! :P )
I say, why? I got was getting Div 1 game last year. Why would I want to change clubs JUST to play a lower grade?
He says, blah blah we are going to have a strong team blah win final blah blah
I said, I am a club offical. Why would I give that up? And go on to make a serious of bullshit conditions before I agreed. Stuff like 'chicks' and 'being captain' and other total bollocks.
A month later I get a FBook invite to the 2015 Senior Players Meeting.
Huh?
Which I utterly ignore.
I get sent reminders that pre-season is starting.
Which I utterly ignore. (actually, no, I smug first because OUR club has been doing pre-season for two months. SUCK IT!!!)
Then tonight I get a FBook chat message asking me personally and directly if I am good to start training Tuesday and Thursday nights.
SERIOUSLY? WHAT THE FUCK??!
NO
SCREW YOU.
Part of me wants to politely explain. Part of me wants to bluntly explain and part of me wants to say nothing and see just how long they will continue to honestly believe that I have agreed to come play for them next season.
I should demand they pay my association fees in advance, and THEN I might consider it :P