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From: Ian Stebbing <106040.3441@compuserve.com>
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I'm really surprised about the disagreement my comment made about learing
from playing the occasional game against a significantly better team.

If you never learn anything from a game like that, maybe you should ask
why. (Of course, not every blow-out has something to teach.)

But maybe I have a North American bias here too.  Several of the top teams
in the States take games like that to share information- plays, defenses,
how to deal with junk defences and such.  DoG has set a high standard for
trying to help every team raise it's level of play.  I had thought the same
was happenning here, but maybe it isn't.  It doesn't happen all the time in
the States, either.

As for watching top level teams play- who said I never did watch those
games?  How can you challenge me that I wasn't on the sidelines. Why
patronise me or any other player by stating that we did not watch those
games?  In fact, I would guess that I watched as many of those games, if
not more, as the person who made that comment.  And yes- I did pick up some
things from those games.  I also saw alot of the same-old-thing because
team A's fast guy always covers team B' clever guy, etc.  Not the fault of
the Tour, but a function of that fact that it's a smaller player base here.
 (I know, it's a smaller country- what did I expect?)

Nancy Stebbing
Village People