Well, I don’t really post up much but what the hell!
We brought up all our camping gear on the Saturday but were unsure what we'd feel like at the end of the day, eventually deciding not to camp due mainly to the weather, but toilets and showers had something to do with it.
I only had the odd burger here and there which seemed pretty uncooked but to be fair there was quite a bit on offer and wasn’t ridiculously priced, so that was alright.
There were quite a lot of questionable calls and incidents with ‘reffing’ but I think everyone did their best and some people over reacted big time. I do understand the shortage of refs on the fields, some of whom had little experience but honestly there wasn’t that much to complain about.
The nspl scoring seemed to work quite well too as everyone could relax a little on the Sunday as points didn’t contribute to the league, and also battle it out against teams of a similar level and although the times on fields changed from the sheet, Saturday was pretty good too.
I don’t know why I’m posting, as no one probably cares what I thought and I've written so much, anyway this years Heavens Gate seemed to have a lot to live up to, although things weren’t perfect, I had a great time, hopefully the nspl will only improve in the future.
We brought up all our camping gear on the Saturday but were unsure what we'd feel like at the end of the day, eventually deciding not to camp due mainly to the weather, but toilets and showers had something to do with it.
I only had the odd burger here and there which seemed pretty uncooked but to be fair there was quite a bit on offer and wasn’t ridiculously priced, so that was alright.
There were quite a lot of questionable calls and incidents with ‘reffing’ but I think everyone did their best and some people over reacted big time. I do understand the shortage of refs on the fields, some of whom had little experience but honestly there wasn’t that much to complain about.
The nspl scoring seemed to work quite well too as everyone could relax a little on the Sunday as points didn’t contribute to the league, and also battle it out against teams of a similar level and although the times on fields changed from the sheet, Saturday was pretty good too.
I don’t know why I’m posting, as no one probably cares what I thought and I've written so much, anyway this years Heavens Gate seemed to have a lot to live up to, although things weren’t perfect, I had a great time, hopefully the nspl will only improve in the future.
), but all this again is largely down to the shortage of marshalls in my opinion. Aside from the lack of marshalls in general, many of the regular refs seemed not to be there. Most notably Pinki who I would rate alongside Kitch as one of the top refs in the NSPL. I think its also worth pointing out that in the majority of cases the players were very sporting and this helped to compensate.
