Expectations of captains
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encoded: Captains have an important role at PPT, we will support you in that role (far more than similar organisations) but we have the following expectations. Note these also apply to anyone acting in the role of captain, so if you are absent whoever you are delegating the captaincy to should also be familiar with this: Captains are expected to: Minimise fill ins Captains must endeavour to minimise fill ins. They ensure the team has adequate committed players. This involves being pro active and if there aren’t adequate players the captain you should either recruit organically or ask for our assistance in adding players to the team from our single player pool (ideally permanently). Noting any fill ins should be limited to only those players needed to ensure the game goes ahead, asking players from other teams should be a last resort, and needing fill ins should be very infrequent. Our reasons for this approach are explained here. Recruit the right way Captains are responsible for who is on the team list, in order to ensure the health of the our social competition we require captains to ask permission from the committee if: Wish to have more than two representative players on the team. Wish to recruit a player from other teams that normally play that season Wish to recruit a player from SWITCH or the pre season night player pool (who they do not know outside of SWITCH/preseason) Organise a uniform for the team Before week 3 teams must be in uniform. A uniformed in simply similarly coloured tops in any colour except white (as that colour is used by our referees), white and another colour is okay. The tops do not need to be identical but they do need to be similar enough that the referee can tell players are on the same team.The tops must also have a unique number on the back, numbers can be drawn but they must be legible to the referee and permanent (not taped on). Teams not in uniform may be penalised in the form of tries per player not in uniform awarded to the non offending…
content: Captains have an important role at PPT, we will support you in that role (far more than similar organisations) but we have the following expectations. Note these also apply to anyone acting in the role of captain, so if you are absent whoever you are delegating the captaincy to should also be familiar with this: Captains are expected to: Minimise fill ins Captains must endeavour to minimise fill ins. They ensure the team has adequate committed players. This involves being pro active and if there aren’t adequate players the captain you should either recruit organically or ask for our assistance in adding players to the team from our single player pool (ideally permanently). Noting any fill ins should be limited to only those players needed to ensure the game goes ahead, asking players from other teams should be a last resort, and needing fill ins should be very infrequent. Our reasons for this approach are explained here. Recruit the right way Captains are responsible for who is on the team list, in order to ensure the health of the our social competition we require captains to ask permission from the committee if: Wish to have more than two representative players on the team. Wish to recruit a player from other teams that normally play that season Wish to recruit a player from SWITCH or the pre season night player pool (who they do not know outside of SWITCH/preseason) Organise a uniform for the team Before week 3 teams must be in uniform. A uniformed in simply similarly coloured tops in any colour except white (as that colour is used by our referees), white and another colour is okay. The tops do not need to be identical but they do need to be similar enough that the referee can tell players are on the same team.The tops must also have a unique number on the back, numbers can be drawn but they must be legible to the referee and permanent (not taped on). Teams not in uniform may be penalised in the form of tries per player not in uniform awarded to the non offending…
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