santa sangria
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The OP asked about finding out results so a bit OT but...
Last season I had a game that went South. I was poor, I got rattled, on video, fell apart a bit. It was a senior game 35+.
I wasn't focused. And things went wrong. And match control went early with lots of players not happy. Coaches afterwards complained, not just to me, but to my refsec. It was my promotion review game and it cost me any chance of promotion.
I was distracted by work but also, in retrospect, I was rattled early because the game and players somehow did not make sense. Of course, we all have bad days (this was really bad) but we can usually rescue things. In the aftermath, I learned that, the game was much more serious than I thought, the tournament much bigger, teams and players had travelled further, the players much more experienced, the coaches also more experienced - they were mostly 40-50 and looked like pub stuff but I had a player with Champions League appearances on the field.
Would I have changed decisions? No. (Well, some of my decisions were so bad in that game, of course I wish I had got them correct). Would my game management and match control have been improved? Lord yes. Small thing but I booked said CL player and was very dismissive when he approached me, thinking he was a petulant pub player. I got my tone wrong and I am sure it affected the players and coaches feelings about me.
Making mistakes so you don't have to!
(By the way, the tournament happens again in 3 weeks and by quirk of fate I have the same two teams again!)
Last season I had a game that went South. I was poor, I got rattled, on video, fell apart a bit. It was a senior game 35+.
I wasn't focused. And things went wrong. And match control went early with lots of players not happy. Coaches afterwards complained, not just to me, but to my refsec. It was my promotion review game and it cost me any chance of promotion.
I was distracted by work but also, in retrospect, I was rattled early because the game and players somehow did not make sense. Of course, we all have bad days (this was really bad) but we can usually rescue things. In the aftermath, I learned that, the game was much more serious than I thought, the tournament much bigger, teams and players had travelled further, the players much more experienced, the coaches also more experienced - they were mostly 40-50 and looked like pub stuff but I had a player with Champions League appearances on the field.
Would I have changed decisions? No. (Well, some of my decisions were so bad in that game, of course I wish I had got them correct). Would my game management and match control have been improved? Lord yes. Small thing but I booked said CL player and was very dismissive when he approached me, thinking he was a petulant pub player. I got my tone wrong and I am sure it affected the players and coaches feelings about me.
Making mistakes so you don't have to!
(By the way, the tournament happens again in 3 weeks and by quirk of fate I have the same two teams again!)