Results Update

The new update will only be available on Monday 4 May 2009.

League Results Log

League Results Was Updated.

League Results Log

League Results have been updated on 27/04/2009 @ 14:03

Meet our results blog. As from the first matches all results will be published the day after the matches have been played.

If you have any comments or suggestions please feel free to send me an email:
marmar@rhodesfield.co.za

Upire Lists

Please note that I have still not received ANY names and gradings of your schools umpires.

Please fax to 011 975-7646 or 011 970-1229 and ask for ext 25 (Fax in my class room.)

If you have any problmes please contact me on 082 686-0567.

Updated League Fixtures for Pool A

I a sorry to do this to you all but I had to change the fixtures again. This was to reallocate home games to all the different schools.

All schools now have THREE home games.

Please download the updated version of the league fixtures for Pool A.

Download New Pool A Fixtures

Should you have any probles please contact me urgently to see where I can assist.

League Fixtures Changes

Please note that Pool A will be changing to accommodate two private schools namely Ashbury & Mandorren.

The new league fixtures will be published over the weekend.

URGENT REMINDER

NETBALL TRAILS FOR ALL U/12, 13, 15 & U/17 THAT MADE THE EKURHULENI TEAM AT EG JANSEN THIS SATURDAY 18 APRIL. REGISTRATION FROM 07:00 TILL 08:00. BRING BIRTH CERTIFICATE AND/OR ID DOCUMENT.

Registration Fees

Please note that payment for league entry and affiliation was received by the following schools only:
Dawnview
Jeugland
Benoni High
Sir Pierre
Norkem
Brandwag
Birchleigh
Goudrif
Kempton
Zitikeni
Rhodesfield

I kindly request that schools meet their obligations as soon as possible and fax the proof of payment to Susan Esterhuizen on 011 393-1611.

League Fixtures 2009

Please note that the league fixtures have changed. There will now the THREE Pools.

FIXTURES:
Pool A
Pool B
Pool C

Pool A: Birchleigh, Hans Moore, Norkem, Rhodesfield, Sir Pierre.
Pool B: Dowerglen, Downview, Edenglen, Edenvale, Goudrif
Pool C: Bedfordview, Benoni, Brandwag, Noorderlig, Petit, Primrose, Vryburger, Wordsworth

Please have a look at the new Pools and should you have any queries or questions please feel free to contact Gina vd Berg.

To The Parents Of Netball Player & To The Players

I am a educator. I am the coach. I am the umpire. I am human. I do make mistakes. I observe you as parents and players, and from what I see and hear I form an oppinion of you and your child. This is natural, we all do it. This is what being human is all about.

I stand on the sideline and hear and see most of what goes on around me. I hear you as parent shout for your child’s team to win. I also enjoy your friend shouting to cheer you on. I still to this day, find it amazing to see how people and players from all walks of life can bind together in a team. And when the victory is yours I am celebrating in the quiet with you, but at the same time I am sad because for you to have won, someone had to lose.

Why then do you as parents and players start swearing, shouting & use profanities when things are not going well? Why then do I have to stand on the sideline and hear “take her out”, “write her off” or “use your elbow”? This is not nice. What has happened to the cheers of earlier, what happened to the “come on try harder”? And then the best one of course “can the umpire not open his/her eyes”.

I you are better than me, please by all means take the whistle and come and umpire the game with me, and maybe I can learn from you. If you are not sure ask and I will gladly explain the rule and my decision to you.

May questions are the following:

a) What did you teach your child, that winning is everything and that there is no place for losers?

b) If you lost, blame the umpire?

c) That if your training was not good enough, to start playing dirty?

d) That swearing and cursing at the opposing team and/or umpire is accepted?

e) How clear is your conscience when you go to bed tonight?

I might not be rich, and I might not be teaching at a privileged school, but all the money in the world cannot buy you respect, class and manners. My coaches and players know that once the final whistle blows for a mach, and irrespective if they won or lost, they will always first shake hands. Now how much did it cost them to do that? Nothing. What will it cost you to do the same? Nothing.

I have one request for 2009, please let’s respect one another next to the courts, let’s play the game and not the person and if we have nothing nice to say, let’s rather keep quiet.