From britdisc-owner@csv.warwick.ac.uk Sun Oct 27 11:29:19 1996 Received: from thistle.csv.warwick.ac.uk by clover.csv.warwick.ac.uk with ESMTP id LAA11029; Sun, 27 Oct 1996 11:28:03 GMT Received: by thistle.csv.warwick.ac.uk id PAA28325; Fri, 25 Oct 1996 15:55:21 +0100 (BST) Received: from violet.csv.warwick.ac.uk by thistle.csv.warwick.ac.uk with ESMTP id PAA28279; Fri, 25 Oct 1996 15:52:41 +0100 (BST) Received: from haymarket.ed.ac.uk by violet.csv.warwick.ac.uk with SMTP id PAA01156; Fri, 25 Oct 1996 15:23:54 +0100 (BST) Received: from srv0.civ.ed.ac.uk (srv0.civ.ed.ac.uk [129.215.60.200]) by haymarket.ed.ac.uk (8.6.13/8.6.12) with ESMTP id PAA15937 for <britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk>; Fri, 25 Oct 1996 15:23:50 +0100 Received: from CIV-SRV0/SpoolDir by srv0.civ.ed.ac.uk (Mercury 1.21); 25 Oct 96 15:25:59 +0000 Received: from SpoolDir by CIV-SRV0 (Mercury 1.30); 25 Oct 96 15:25:42 +0000 From: "BARRY O'KANE" <boka@srv0.civ.ed.ac.uk> Organization: Civil Engineering, Edinburgh Uni To: britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 15:25:37 +0000 Subject: Re: Something (else) to stoke the fire... Priority: normal X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.23) Message-ID: <C7852F4ACD@srv0.civ.ed.ac.uk> Sender: owner-britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Status: RO Scott wrote: > > However, our team is constantly feeling the pressure of aspiring > no-geo teams who would like to poach our better players with promises > of beating shotgun/playing at worlds/being seen by the GB selectors > which does nothing to help (I even remember in a flaming I once > had from Roger that he suggested I play for a serious team, erhem). > The promise I always return with is that in 3 years time we will have > the skills, player base and organisation to fight it out with anyone, > and this will only be because like shotgun we practice and recruit locally. > > I like the idea of limiting players to regions, tightening up on > rostering and *tarting* or at least doing something about the > consistency of team members. Am I on my own? > > Scott Indeed you are not... having all the members of your team being able to practice together is, IMHO, a much better way to promote a country wide improvement in Ultimate - rather than improvement of a small number of teams made up of great individual players from all over the place. Having said that, rules such as this need to be properly implemented and then enforced - mistakes can result in hiccups such as happened at the student outdoors last year. BARRY