MINI HOCKEY END OF SEASON FEEDBACK 2006

 

Comments are as received, and do not necessarily reflect the views of the Mini Management Board, or the guidelines set by Hockey NZ

 

Replies were received from:

School Organisers - 6

Coaches -18

Parents -16

 

Mini Newsletters were read by 19 respondents

 

Venues:

All respondents rated Gallagher Hockey Centre as GREAT

St Pauls rated evenly from great through to poor

Melville was rated Adequate by most respondents

The most common complaint was lack of toilets at the school venues

 

Other comments about venues:

Difficult when you have children playing at the different venues, prefer games at GHC   x 6

In particular, parents with children involved in other sports, such as soccer or rugby preferred their children to have all their hockey games at one venue.

 

Draw:

Most people got their draw information from the website.

Noticeboards at the turfs were also used by half the respondents. Only 4 people got draw information from the newspaper.

 

Almost everyone rated the game times as O.K. One felt they varied too much.

The most common negative complaint about the draw was the dislike of 8 a.m. games, but it was felt it was O.K. if these were shared around, and/or not given to teams with long distances to travel.

 

Clashes with other sports codes:

Mentioned by 8 people

 

Umpiring:

Most respondents said their team usually provided an umpire. Comments on the standard of umpiring was evenly divided between GOOD and OK. 4 respondents described the standard of umpiring as poor.

 

Comments about umpiring :

Concerns were generally about inconsistent application of or poor understanding of rules. Two comments about adult umpire/coaches intimidating or making negative remarks about school age umpires.

 

 

 

 

Other Positives:

 

  • Seeing the children enjoy themselves  x 11
  • Well organised x 8
  • Good fair competition x 4
  • Great atmosphere at GHC x 3
  • New water turf  x 3
  • New warm-up/practice area x 2
  • Seeing children develop skills and confidence x 3
  • Training day for coaches
  • Support from Bruce Rosemergy
  • Smallsticks programme appreciated

 

Dislikes & Improvements

 

  • More consistency of umpiring & rules  x 5
  • More 6 a side skills days x 2
  • Another training session for coaches
  • Poor sportsmanship by a few teams or coaches x 3
  • Improve understanding of positional play
  • More information for coaches such as ÒhousekeepingÓ details
  • Information about what to do when a team needs to default
  • Would like draw more than 1 week ahead x 2
  • Less variation in ability within grades i.e. more even games, especially at the beginning of the season
  • Points tables for all 8 a side teams x 2
  • Would like Friday night games
  • Would like 11 a side games with goalies
  • Longer games for 8 a side new
  • Longer games for 6 a side
  • Disliked two short games on finals day
  • No timekeeper at school venues
  • Timekeeping at GHC a bit inconsistent x 2
  • Change rep selection process (talent I.D. instead of trials)