On what was a windy and blustery day, 10 of us gathered on Parkers Piece for our weekly game of three-sided football. The teams that we decided on were: team 1 (Rosa, Asim and Zevi), team 2 (Joe, Fiona, Caleb and Thomas), and team 3 (Ernest, Evelyn and Guy). We didn’t decide on any team names at the time, probably because we were eager to get going. We played 15-minute halves for the first two, then we decided on a 10-minute half for the third half, as it was getting a bit chilly. All of these halves were interspersed with welcome helpings of the leftovers of Rumi’s birthday cake and Thomas’ killer whale and turtle-shaped biscuits.
Again, we played with mixed teams, mixed gender as well as mixed ages, which works well. All in all, it was quite a well-balanced game with some tenacious individual performances, such as: Thomas and Caleb’s goal-saving, Rumi and Asim’s teamwork, Rosa and Fiona’s box-to-box running, Ernest’s tackling and shooting, Joe’s lobs (one of which nearly took out Asim), … I could go on. Anyway, team 2 just pipped teams 1 and 3 to it with virtually the last kick of the match when Joe broke forward, exploiting the tired legs of the rest of us, to slot the ball past Evelyn, who bravely tried to narrow the angle by coming off her line.
Observations: we were a bit more consistent at re-starting from goals and new halves by throwing the ball in the air in the middle of the field; and we also started introducing corners. We thought that next time, maybe, we could introduce a smaller football to make it easier for the children and a bit harder for the adults. Another idea was to re-introduce a higher value for children’s goals, which would encourage a different approach to team positional play, communication, movement and distribution.
<Thanks to Guy for this weeks match report, Cheers Guy!>
This week we also had copies of the latest DAMTP newspaper with a couple of articles on 3SF. See digital copy here: http://antisystemic.org/SW/DAMTP12.pdf
Again, we played with mixed teams, mixed gender as well as mixed ages, which works well. All in all, it was quite a well-balanced game with some tenacious individual performances, such as: Thomas and Caleb’s goal-saving, Rumi and Asim’s teamwork, Rosa and Fiona’s box-to-box running, Ernest’s tackling and shooting, Joe’s lobs (one of which nearly took out Asim), … I could go on. Anyway, team 2 just pipped teams 1 and 3 to it with virtually the last kick of the match when Joe broke forward, exploiting the tired legs of the rest of us, to slot the ball past Evelyn, who bravely tried to narrow the angle by coming off her line.
Observations: we were a bit more consistent at re-starting from goals and new halves by throwing the ball in the air in the middle of the field; and we also started introducing corners. We thought that next time, maybe, we could introduce a smaller football to make it easier for the children and a bit harder for the adults. Another idea was to re-introduce a higher value for children’s goals, which would encourage a different approach to team positional play, communication, movement and distribution.
<Thanks to Guy for this weeks match report, Cheers Guy!>
This week we also had copies of the latest DAMTP newspaper with a couple of articles on 3SF. See digital copy here: http://antisystemic.org/SW/DAMTP12.pdf
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