<div dir="ltr"><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><b><u><span style="font-size:24pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Rule of the Week.</span></u></b></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Wow!  Who
would have thought it would be possible to fill out, or not, team sheets in so
many different, and at times, creative ways. And yet, it’s easy to see how
so many of us misinterpret and misunderstand what is required on the team sheets.
Makes me wonder about sheets I have filled out. </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">‘Why does it matter,’
I hear you cry. There are several things that the team sheets are used for.
Firstly, they are used to collate scores. Secondly, they record the player’s
presence in each game and the refs in each game. If the team sheets are not
filled out correctly, the collated scores may be incorrect. It may mean that players’
presence is incorrectly recorded meaning they are ineligible for finals. Or maybe
a team is recorded as not providing enough refs and are penalised which leaves
them out of the finals. There are many, many more possibilities and arising
issues which then need to be corrected by the committee, teams and the captains.
</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">But most
importantly, someone has to collate and enter the data on the sheets. These people
are volunteers, who we rely on to keep things ticking along in Hockey land and
I believe it’s just bad manners to expect our volunteers to spend even more
time interpreting team sheets completed in various and sundry ways. </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Please take the
time to watch the very short video Craig has made which shows how to fill out
the team sheets. Even if you know how to fill them out please watch this youtube
clip. After all, how hard can it be. And therein lies the problem. </span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif">Finally, At the end
of the game, it is up to the captains of the teams playing to ensure that the
sheet has been filled out correctly, especially players names. It’s to your
benefit.</span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm;line-height:normal;background-image:initial;background-position:initial;background-size:initial;background-repeat:initial;background-origin:initial;background-clip:initial;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif"><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:Arial,sans-serif"><a href="https://youtu.be/3RrF6eKOyIc" style="color:rgb(5,99,193)"><span style="font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">https://youtu.be/3RrF6eKOyIc</span></a></span></p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Cheers</p>

<p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 8pt;line-height:107%;font-size:11pt;font-family:Calibri,sans-serif">Dave H</p></div>