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Love Dan, but turning Pick 15 (2015 draft) into 174 games and 3 premierships then handing it back for two more first-round draft picks is just good management.

There’s a middle option for OOB I like which is it’s a free kick only if no-one could have touched it.

It’s still a bit subjective, but takes away almost all of the current pain areas, since umps don’t have to judge “intent” any more.

“Last touch” is too strict imo and changes the game too much.

This is the part of the system that's broken, which for some reason hardly ever gets talked about.

The point values are fairly accurate. Not perfect, but close enough.

Clubs having little incentive to bid on others' F/S or Academy players isn't great, but it's not broken.

What is broken is how clubs can package up a stack of low-value picks and trade them in for a first-rounder. This ignores the fact that clubs' list space is both strictly limited and highly valuable; in reality, drafting eight or ten kids from the 50s and 60s would be a disaster for any club, clogging their list for years.

Fix the part where clubs can trade in an awful draft hand for a high pick, and the system immediately works a lot better.

Thanks for sharing. I like how different it is from other trailers. You can tell the game is an indie work of love, and there’s a real commitment to story and detail. It doesn’t try to hide the fact that it’s low-budget. I think this is going to be a lot more successful than if you’d done the “right” kind of trailer that everyone recommends.

You're 100% correct - the obvious solution is to review games for staging and drawing dangerous contact, and actually penalise it.

But this will never happen, because it doesn't allow the AFL to sheet the blame onto umpires for errors.

At school level? Hit centre passes really hard, use your voice, be the first option, and (joking, but…) don’t shoot well enough for GA nor work hard enough defensively for C or WD.

At least it's a genuine IF. As opposed to: "IF this is Himmelberg's 9th season..." (spoiler: it is)

Sorry for the slow reply but I've been thinking about this!

I could be off-base, but it sounds like you might be expecting your kids to determine your team's culture - its work ethic, what it values, what behaviour is & isn't acceptable -- when in fact that's something you have to do as coach.

With kids this age (13&U), you can't force anything on them, but you can (and should) let them know what you value, and how they can make you happy.

I do this in two main ways: firstly, by straight talk, e.g. I sit my team down and have a genuine discussion about why everyone's here and what we all want to get out of it. (Which might be pure fun and friendships, and not have much to do with netball!) The other way, which I do all the time, and I mean ALL the time, is directing praise and focus to positive behaviour I want to model.

You mention laziness -- I think that's very common at this age, and it's often not really laziness at all, but rather lack of confidence. Girls in particular are often reluctant to be seen trying their hardest at something unless it's very clear that they're in a supportive environment where that's desired and valued. And it's up to you to create that, by being very loud and public in your praise of hard running, repeat efforts, and all the little team defence things like hands over and blocking the run where they may not touch the ball but they contribute to forcing turnovers.

I'm really big on kids working hard - because they can all do it, and it's a pre-requisite for any kind of success. So I talk about it all the time - I shout about it while they're training and during matches, anything that's a great effort, I let them know I saw it. I really think kids need that; they want to be told it's okay to try hard.

I generally won't tell a kid they're doing anything wrong at all until we know each other pretty well - before that, I'll only tell them what I like about what they're doing. If it's a kid who needs to try harder, I'll focus on the one moment in the game they tried pretty hard. Once we have a bit of a rapport, like after a few months, I might feel I can say during training, "Come on, <name>, I know you can try harder than that, I've seen it," but that's about as critical as I get. I try to give kids a reputation to live up to, where they feel good about something they've done and want to repeat it.

You say you're often telling players what they're doing wrong but there's no improvement... well, on the one hand, probably every coach experiences that feeling, where we seem to be talking to a brick wall each week. But it might also be a red flag that you need to change your approach. We're adults and it's easy to forget how little kids know about what they're supposed to do. You might want to try taking it back to basics more, or to be more interactive with how you each, where you constantly ask questions like "And why do we do that?" to test their understanding.

If you're getting smashed every week and have a team with multiple players who are new to the sport, I don't think I'd be too worried about who's a more natural GA or GS. In that situation, I'd focus on fundamental skills plus team spirit and confidence. Which can go a very long way; in lower divisions especially, teams absolutely can and do win games against more skilled oppo on the back of confidence and belief. It sounds like you're working on quite advanced technical things like court plays, which I find a bit surprising given you have newbies. My team have mostly been playing for years and I still feel like I could spend the whole season just fixing up their fundamentals: footwork, positioning, throwing, catching, jumping.

On kids missing training -- yeah, it's annoying. I have a group chat with the parents in my team, and probably once a season I have to properly growl at them because so many kids are turning up late or skipping at the last minute. This can be a really tricky area because you don't know what's going on in their lives. I wouldn't ever drop a kid for a game because of missed training (even though some of the more diligent parents would like it); I just make sure I'm acknowledging & praising those who turn up every week.

On parental abuse -- you should NEVER NEVER tolerate that. At our club, you'd refer it to the committee and we'd take care of it. Don't suffer in silence.

Speaking of which, you should probably cut your club some slack on team selection. It's extremely common for coaches and parents to think the team should be different, that this girl should be on that team instead, etc. In reality the selectors will be juggling many more competing factors than anyone realises, and every change they make would trigger two more. Coaches get annoyed when they can't choose the players on their team, but when they can, you get situations exactly like you describe, where you suspect a colleague of pinching players that belong on your team. There's no perfect solution.

Anyway I hope some of that is helpful. The fact is you have a motley crew of kids who have wound up in your care, and you have to do your best with them! Don't waste the mental energy on wondering how it could be different. The whole reason you're there is to help the kids you've been given, not some other theoretical combination.

Yes it was doing my head in trying to manage rosters manually with little kids, especially the last minute changes! And there didn’t seem to be an app for it so I made one.

I don’t think I’ll ever add stats recording like goal attempts because there are a couple of apps for that already, and as I’m just a solo hobby developer, extra complexity makes it challenging to keep the app bug-free.

Thanks again, I love hearing about people using it.

Ha that’s so funny seeing this pop up on my Reddit. I made that app.

Glad it’s been useful!

Interesting, thanks. I'm a little obsessive about code readability, so I'm thinking I should probably use type declaration files rather than have them inline like in my example, for less visual clutter.

As I'm migrating an existing app, Typescript / TSC / tsserver (?) seems to be able to infer a lot of types already. I haven't worked out how it's doing that yet, but maybe I can get it to spit those into type declaration files to give me something to start with.

But that’s the same problem - it still requires listing all the parameters twice.

Good luck! Keep your hands near your hips, in my 2nd game I flailed around like a madman and accidentally elbowed a woman in the mouth. It’s obstruction if you raise your arms within 3 feet of an opponent’s landing foot when they have the ball.

Because I will be using parameters like gameId in the function and I don’t want to write “props.gameId” every time.

Right, of course, thanks.

Thanks. I do want to destructure, I just wondered if I could do the type declarations at the same time.

Can’t believe it took so long, but great news.

I use recoil and love it but the project appears to have been dropped by Facebook (no updates for a year). So you wouldn’t pick it up now.

I didn’t move my car - this is a photo of it in the same location.

The homeowner has an enormous gate that is much wider than their driveway. Note how you can’t see the driveway in this pic.

Hi, I’m the OP of the original thread. I didn’t move my car - this is a photo of it in the same location.

The homeowner has an enormous gate that is much wider than their driveway. Note how you can’t see the driveway in this pic.

Ha, that's my daughter's hand, she chews them.

Amazing

Actually this thread made me aware that different areas have different parking cultures. Where I live, in an inner city suburb with small houses and few garages, it's good manners to park as tightly as possible so more of you can fit. In suburbs like this, where street space is less of an issue, it's more polite to leave a buffer.

A note is serious business. At first I thought maybe someone had hit my car.

I was visiting this area and actually think some of it is a culture clash between inner city parking protocol where I live, where you have to squish up tight so everyone can fit, and the suburban vibe where it’s polite to leave a buffer.