Possible rule change?

Dear Moffel and Viertje fans,

Already a bit more then a week ago, our second match took place. We had to go to Bentelo, of which Tom thought it was way too far, so he decided not to join. Luckily, Inez was able to step up and help us out. Therefore, we had a nice dinner, and went off to the match in time....

Just kidding, there has to be a bit of sensation in Moffel and Viertje, and therefore Julia decided to join a bit too late. The nice preparation turned into thinking of a backup line-up during the ride there, where one of the setters and one outsider had to be a middle, and we changed back to playing without a libero. The first two cars arrived just in time, quickly changed and went to warm-up. When we were ready to start attacking, luckily the last car arrived as well and did a rushed warming-up. Therefore, we decided to change back to the normal positions again, for the set... (spoiler). 

Due to the rushed warming-up, some players still thought we were warming-up during the first set. So therefore, our first set was not really played, it was just a bit of extra passing, running and practicing how to loose a lot of points. This warming-up routine for away matches will not help us for the competition, so if anyone has another routine: let us know!!!! We will not even disclose the result of the first set, it was just bad.

During the second and third set, we started a lot stronger. Eventhough we still were not winning, we were a lot closer, thought for every ball, had really nice attacks and our defence improved. The block was lacking unfortunately,  and our opponent knew how to make use of that. These two sets we lost with 25-17 and 25-18.

The last set we wanted to win, to make our opponent annoyed. We started strong, by scoring more points in a row then we got in the first set in total (not that hard, but still). We managed to keep this head start until halfway through the set. Unfortunately, our energy dropped, the opponent scored some really nice points and we started making more mistakes. So, we lost the last set with 25-21. 

In the end, we think from the two matches we now played, that the first set is not our strong point. Therefore, we suggest a rule change for dames 2e klasse: play 4 sets, but the first one counts as warming-up, so it does not affect the result. It would benefit us a lot, so we can koekeloere around!!