London Open - 2 days to go and Help needed!

does anyone have a contact phone number for Ryan (McCaig)?
I want to have a chat with him about building some proper goals.

Pm'd.

Where in London is the tournament taking place?

Where in London is the tournament taking place?

http://www.lhbpa.org/londonopen/

Great. Thanks dublinkevin. Hope to get along to it.

a clear case where the student as over past the mentor

Ja Ja, you will always be my Mr Miyagi.

It looks like I will be avail to help Thursday & Friday before tournament all day. Myself & cargo bike are at disposal of tourney.

I am willing to ref on the weekend.

Bill is back!!!

Thanks Bill!

Can anyone (semi)qualified do a risk assesment on Newington? I have some sample ones we have done for East festival which you could use as a guide. Cheers.

Thanks Bill!

Can anyone (semi)qualified do a risk assesment on Newington? I have some sample ones we have done for East festival which you could use as a guide. Cheers.

What does semi-qualified mean? I could go there after work one day and have a go if you tell me what to do.

there's no risk of Emmet passing to you at Newington

[am I helping here…]

There's a high risk of snoops getting angry though

[still helping?]

^ all very helpful. ali you'll be fine.

Hey Ali, that would be awesome! I've sent you a PM.

I'm available to help out with stuff, working most weekends up until the open but in the week i'm free.
Can help with some reffing over the weekend (unless of course Los Conos make it through to the final HA)

I'm coming down from Birmingham, playing for b-team. I'd be happy to do some reffing on the weekend if needed. I reffed nearly all of the losers' mini tournament in geneva on the second day and it was pretty fun. is there a definitive list of rules for the tournament somewhere?

The rules are being formulated this week, all refs will have a meeting beforehand to make sure everything's crystal... I'll add your name to the referee list, thanks.

I'll ref jono!

R

Awesome, thanks Ray: rules.

ray rules!

you should be playing. rong ray round.

With the balljoint/pass rule, please make sure all refs and goal-refs consistently see all balljoints, call them and have the same definition of 'pinning the ball'. Some refs in Berlin went out of their way to say those little side-to-side flicks count as balljoints and some said they weren't. Most goal-refs cannot see the other end of the court well enough to know if someone has pinned the ball or not.

Gormley won't always be there to clear up such matters.

yes! +1

Aloso, I think Gormley should just be left ferrel to roam the courts and scream at refs.

To be clear: A ball joint is when you pin the ball to the ground with any part of your mallet. A side-to-side "scoop", or "push" of the ball along the ground doesn't count and shouldn't have been called.

Also, an "egg and spoon" (or similar) is treated as a ball joint. A "scoop pass" to yourself is fine, but a "scoop shot" is not a goal.

Adam nearly passed out from shouting at one point, good lad.

Ref's discretion... in my experience pinning the ball for a second or more can be seen. Most "flair" moves where the ball sticks to the mallet briefly don't involved pinning.

If it's not seen then it can't be called. The rule exists to stop boring (BJ to goal) and dangerous (egg and spoon to goal) play.