Mark,
Sorry for not responding to you sooner. As you may
already know, my vote is for private team practice.
Since Tom decide to move the mid-week game to Tuesday
night, I suggest to have our practice on Thursday
night. However, the starting time is not necessary to
be as early as around 6 PM since some of us may not be
able to get home that early. Considering some of us
can
not make it at all or may miss the practice from time
to time, we may invite 4 ~ 6 ex-Dragons or potential
Dragons players to join our practice. This can ensure
us to have a 8 vs. 8 up to a 11 vs. 11 scrimmage
during
the practice.
Yesterday's game convinces me that it becomes more
important now to have a private practice session each
week. We can use it to have some specific drills
(e.g.,
slide tackle, one-touch pass, etc.) on purpose and we
can have a more organized scrimmage, which make us
know
each other's playing style better. More communication
(not just in the field) among teammates can help us
playing a better game. I believe we have a pretty
strong defense, which only allows less than one goal
per game in average in previous regular seasons.
However, in each regular season, seems there is one or
two games in which our defense crashes all of sudden
and allows 2 or more goals within 15 minutes (in most
cases, we were taking a big lead). It is not just
because our opponent playing very well at that time.
Instead, it is because we lost our concentration and
become too emotional after the referee's bias calls or
the opponent player's intentional fouls and eventually
we lost our confidence. This is a serious issue for us
to resolve. I think better communication among defense
players and appropriate subbing at this kind of
difficult time could help.
BTW, I suggest we may need to have some rules on our
behavior in the field as well as on the sideline. The
followings are my two concerns for now. First of all,
don't complain too much and never yell at the referee
no matter how bad the calls he has made. Pass your
concerns to your captain and let him deal with the
referee. Referee normally accepts complaints in this
way. If he realizes he made mistakes (sometimes stupid
ones), which may be normal because he is not a
professional, he may compensate us back later if he
thinks he get respected. If we push him too far, he
can
do whatever damage he can do to us and we can do
nothing about it during or after the game. Secondly,
we
may cheer for our goals and tease our teammates. But
never tease our opponent players loudly no matter how
bad the mistakes they made. This may embarrass our
opponent players and make the referee against us. We
can always enjoy our discussion after the game.
Go Dragons,
Huan Li
--- "Chen, Mark" <MChen@Santera.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Please let me know your thoughts on this for the
> record at least. I looks
> like we will have private team practice.
>
> Thanks,
> Chen, Si
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Chen, Mark
> To: dragon@ez.swmed.edu
> Sent: Monday, September 17, 2001 10:33 AM
> Subject: Updated voting count: [Soccer] change of
> mid-week game day
>
>
> Team,
>
> Following players' responses are needed!
>
> PENDING
> =======
> He, Yi
> Liu, Andy
> Cai, Dick
> Han, Ray
> Xing, Alex
> Wang, BinBing
> Li, Huan
> Zhou, Ge
>
> Here is the voting count so far.
>
> YES
> ===
> Bao, Scott,
> Chen, Gang
> Bai, Qiang
> Su, XianDong
> Chen, Si
> Tang, QS
> Yang, SL
> Dong, Jian
> Wang, Daniel
> Zhang, Eric
> Zhang, Cheng
> Chen, Jun
> Zhou, Wei
>
> NO
> ===
> 0
>
> Please respond ASAP!
>
> Thanks,
> -Chen, Si
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Chen, Mark [mailto:MChen@santera.com]
> Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 2:32 PM
> To: dragon@ez.swmed.edu
> Subject: RE: [Soccer] change of mid-week game day
>
>
> Dragons,
>
> It seems that we have to make a decision really
> soon. Please vote if Team
> Dragon shall have a private practice session on one
> of the weekdays only,
> for now. Dragon veterans are welcome to the
> sessions, no doubt about that.
> It will be auto-approved if 14 players say 'Yes'.
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: David Chen [mailto:qiudichen@hotmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 1:48 PM
> To: dragon@ez.swmed.edu
> Subject: Re: [Soccer] change of mid-week game day
>
>
> I agree. We should have at least one of the
> weekday for practice, which
> is controlable in time and injure.
> Any one else is welcome to join us if (s)he
> obeys the our rule. And
> there are enought people for others to play. It will
> be different story
> after season.
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Scott Bao
> To: Chen, Mark
> Cc: dragon@ez.swmed.edu
> Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 1:34 PM
> Subject: Re: [Soccer] change of mid-week game
> day
>
>
> Agree that we should not alienate any groups
> of peoples, especially
> most of them are good friends, even they are not in
> the Dragon team.
> Disagree that play chaos is caused by
> frequent location and time
> changes. The matter of fact is, we just have too
> many players in the
> field.
> So having a dragon team practice in one of
> the weekday, ( we still
> have a all-together practice either on Tuesday or
> Thursday) will solve
> this problem.
> If you have the energy and interest, you can
> play both days.
>
> It has been a failure to force play rules in
> this community, as we
> all have seen. Unfortunately soccer somewhat is a
> disiplined team game.
> Freedom won't
> bring you much fun.
>
> Please voice your opinions on this.
>
>
>
>
>
> "Chen, Mark" wrote:
>
> All,I share the same feelings as Scott has.
> Li Huan also has similar
> concerns regarding the chaos for quite some times, I
> think. The reasons are
> due to the frequently changing play locations and
> times, etc. Now those are
> all fixed.However, since 70% of the current players
> in practices are from
> team Dragon (including Dragon veterans), we really
> do not want to introduce
> any alienations or hostilities from the rest of
> soccer community. This is my
> major concern.I want to hear what rest of Dragons'
> thoughts are on this. BQ
> already expressed his.Enforcing the timing rules on
> practices shall help out
> the situation a lot, I think. Not just myself,
> anybody can enforce it.-Chen,
> Si
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Scott Bao [mailto:sbao@cisco.com]
> Sent: Friday, September 14, 2001 10:41 AM
> To: Chen, Mark; dragon@ez.swmed.edu
> Subject: Re: [Soccer] change of mid-week
> game day
> I always think Dragon team needs a private
> pratice session.
> That's how we know eachother better
> and improve the level of play, and more
> discipline and fun, of
> course.
> We can choose Thursday if the mass will
> be on Tuesday. Also the
> closed team practice can open to
> 2~5 guest players if the number is a
> problem. ( we have around 20
> players. If more than half can show up, say 12.
> with
> 4 guest players, an 8x8 scrimage will be
> an ideal. )
>
> Guest players: must play at the level
> higher than the norm of
> the team. Veteran priority.
>
> -ps:
>
> It has been troubling the way we having
> our practice,
> particularily on Sunday. With 30 or more players
> in the field without an
> even split,
> I can hardly imagine it is fun any more.
>
> Soccoer is a matchup and position game.
> If player running in
> the field without the concept of his position, we
> just become a bunch of
> kids playing on
> the street with chaos. If you see more
> than 2 players chasing the
> ball simultaneously, something is wrong. And you
> can figure out the level
> of play.
>
>
> The idea of the scrimage is to have more
> fun and improve. I
> think we can achieve that with a private session
> for the team.
>
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