"PS. Rodders wasn't really hitting him" But I definitely did spike a disc on Dom from Ireland's arse! Any footage of that IS representative of the facts.
- Rodders 2009/4/27 Dave <[email protected]> > Hi all, > > Finally got our photos from the Sunday of Rylands up, sorry for the delay. > As per normal there is a highlights folder if you're in a rush: > http://ultimatephotos.org/ > > It's been mentioned already, but I agree that the best thing to come out of > the weekend was the method of speeding up play and keeping people onside at > the start of a point. I highly recommend that we adopt the same pull rules > used at the weekend to our own game, I think this is only the second time > (ever!) I've managed to get a photo of an entire team onside during a pull, > and you can see why: > http://ultimatephotos.org/uk-2009-rylands/01-selection/IMG_1341.html > > There was a lot of dirty fouling, particularly as someone caught the disc > and before they were told to back off by the refs: > http://ultimatephotos.org/uk-2009-rylands/01-selection/IMG_1388.html > > There were people forgetting about actually playing the game and instead > just appealing to the refs: > > http://ultimatephotos.org/uk-2009-rylands/02-scotland_midlands/IMG_0941.html > > And instead of discussion between players there was a lot of discussion > (aka arguments) with the refs. They should have been a lot more harsh with > their response to arguments from players, but I think this would come with > more experience refereeing: > > http://ultimatephotos.org/uk-2009-rylands/02-scotland_midlands/IMG_1027.html > > http://ultimatephotos.org/uk-2009-rylands/02-scotland_midlands/IMG_1029.html > > http://ultimatephotos.org/uk-2009-rylands/04-ireland_south-east/IMG_1084.html > > http://ultimatephotos.org/uk-2009-rylands/04-ireland_south-east/IMG_1152.html > http://ultimatephotos.org/uk-2009-rylands/05-north_west/IMG_1220.html > http://ultimatephotos.org/uk-2009-rylands/05-north_west/IMG_1256.html > > There was even the most spirited player in the country trying to deck some > poor chap from Ireland: > > http://ultimatephotos.org/uk-2009-rylands/04-ireland_south-east/IMG_1062.html > > Overall I thought it was an interesting experiment, if it were to be tried > again I've got a few ideas of improvements to the fouling rules (too harsh > in some areas, not harsh enough in others, add a sin-binning option, only > the captain can discuss decisions with refs etc), but I don't think we'll > see this type of tournament again in a hurry. > > Well done to the refs, you guys had to put up with a lot of c...@p from > players who were a lot more experienced than you. I did see some bad > decisions (although I thought the sending off was a good one), but in > general you guys dealt with that a lot more professionally than the players. > > Cheers, > Dave > ultimatephotos.org > > > > __________________________________________________ > BritDisc mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.fysh.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/britdisc > Staying informed - http://www.ukultimate.com/staying-informed > __________________________________________________ BritDisc mailing list [email protected] http://www.fysh.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/britdisc Staying informed - http://www.ukultimate.com/staying-informed
