Umpiring Course

dereko1969

Very late in the day, I know but if you want to learn the laws of cricket and how to umpire the Leinster Cricket Umpires and Scorers Association
http://www.leinstercricketumpiresscorers.net/ are running a course starting tonight and running for the next few months (held in Clontarf CC). Unfortunately I can't attend as I'm unavailable on Thursday evenings but I've written to the association to see if they would consider running weekend courses which might be more suitable for some people. If a few more people would be interested in this option could you email Alan Tuffery through lcusa@eircom.net and perhaps they might be able to accomodate us.

DMC

I'd be very interested in this, but sadly, short notice and Thursdays are out

dereko1969

at the end of last season i was all gung-ho to do this course then forgot all about it until earlier today when i checked their site, i was as sick as a small hospital when i found out it was starting tonight:( but give them a shout and if enough of us do maybe they'll arrange a couple of weekends for those that can't make the thursday evening classes. having winged it as an umpire the last couple of seasons i'd like to get some more knowledge and advice. with darrell hair gone now there's a vacancy

TrueDub

I'm doing this course, and attended last night. It's very interesting, and promises to be a fun way of improving cricket knowledge over the next several weeks.

dereko1969

glad it's good, any chance you could annoy them into putting on a weekend course?

TrueDub

I'll certainly mention it to Alan.

dereko1969

are there many doing the course? i play for laois (but work and live in dublin) and i know a few people from our club and ballyeighan would be interested in the weekend option.

TrueDub

dereko1969 wrote:

are there many doing the course? i play for laois (but work and live in dublin) and i know a few people from our club and ballyeighan would be interested in the weekend option.

There's around 8 or so. I'll chat to Alan about the weekend option and get back to you

TrueDub

Lads,

I discussed this with Alan last night, and he said if they got sufficient numbers and suitable times he'd be delighted to run some sort of a course to facilitate you. The next step is to contact him directly, on the email in the first message on this thread.

HTH

dereko1969

HTH,
thanks for that, i've already mentioned it to a few team-mates so hopefully we'll get enough interested so that it's worthwhile doing. bumped into a former team-mate at the weekend who did this course and he reckoned it was great but fairly intense, hope my brain won't be melted at the end of a long weekend version!
derek

TrueDub

dereko1969 wrote:

HTH,
thanks for that, i've already mentioned it to a few team-mates so hopefully we'll get enough interested so that it's worthwhile doing. bumped into a former team-mate at the weekend who did this course and he reckoned it was great but fairly intense, hope my brain won't be melted at the end of a long weekend version!
derek

Hi,

Actually HTH isn't a reference to me, it stands for "Hope that Helps"...

The weekly course is fairly intense, we spent over an hour last night on LBWs and the thinking behind giving them or not. Afterwards I realised how much there is to think about beyond the basics, and that with the requirement for an umpire to be absolutely sure, it's quite feasible that you could turn down every single appeal.

Alan mentioned different formats and timings, so I reckon he'll find something that suits, assuming you have the numbers.

TrueDub (!)

dereko1969

what a dope i am!
thanks for that, am checking out numbers and will get back to alan when i've got a few together.
thanks true dub!