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Originally Posted by DaveASA/FED
I beg to differ! I use the wheel when I am the up official. I take a big binder clip, one of those black C shaped things with chrome extensions that will fold either way, and I clip that baby on the net, center on the rope so it kind of hangs to either side of the rope and I can easily grab the wheel and turn it as the sides rotate! Works great. It may be a security blanket for me but I am SO much more in the game when I have it up there with me. Also I can glance down during the action and see if I missed something(second guess if 6 was back row). Also I have yet to have the teams waiting on me this year to write down a sub on my wheel. One more tip since we are on the wheel kick, get a 2nd one. Now you have can have one with team A on the right team B on the left and one with team B on the right and A on the left. Great thing is a lot of teams dont change their lineups so after the 1st game erase the subs from the outer ring and you usually have your card all ready for game 3!
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Consider yourself lucky
Here we have been told specifically we're not allowed to use a wheel or card as R1.
That said, I still take it up with me. Having noted who the setters are during warmups, I note the opposites while R2 is checking lineups. Then the thing goes in my pocket, until I need a quick check. I also note subs for either of those players as they occur.
It usually doesn't take too long to identify a pattern to how the coach subs the setter and opposite. Sometimes it's never. Sometimes it's subbing a hitter for the setter when she rotates to the front in a 6-2. Sometimes it's swapping a blocker for a passer as the opposite in a 5-1 rotates to the front. Those substitutions help me, because I recognize that if player X is in the game, then my setter is back row, while if player Y is in, my setter is front row.
Oh, and I also write down who won each game. I can't ever seem to remember from game to game. And I don't want everybody's final impression of me to be that I told everybody to switch sides when it was end of match, or vice versa.
