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On Tue, 24 Mar 1998, Roger Thomson wrote:

> Dear All,
> 
> My final words on tournie reports as Ben's flower pot appears close to
> bursting:

Flobalobalob

> 1) We all agree we need good ones.
> 2) We agree it takes >1 person.
> 3) We only need to decide whether it should be an Ultimatum, TD or
> BUF-driven job. I don't know who decides, that's officialdom's job and
> you lot wear the uniforms. At the moment Si Hill is dealing with it,
> cheers Si. As far as I know, things are in such a state at the moment
> that we'd struggle to work out who won such and such a tournie two years
> ago if we didn't know it was Shotgun. We should be archiving this shit
> on the web. You guys want to look back and tell your grandchildren don't
> you? 'We came second in this....'. More seriously, it's good for
> publicity/recognition/sponsorship/history (when we're the biggest sport
> in town rather than the smallest pondlife wearing cleats) etc.
> 
> SERIOUS READERS PLEASE LEAVE THIS MAIL NOW.
> On a lighter note:
> 
> 4) Sort it out you load of noncers! 
> 5) Chris Hughes may think he can delegate to me, but Chris, you delegate
> down the food chain, not 400 generations into the future. By the way,
> how's your pet sabretooth?

Harsh - but fair!

> 6) Quote Ben Ravilious: "I am grateful to you for the British Open. I am
> not *quite* so grateful to Roger who seems to have had an awful lot of
> 'good ideas' just as I'm in a blind panic trying to get Tour 1
> organised! I just don't like being lectured by players who dont *appear*
> to do any organising themselves." 	Shit Ben, do you think the best
> team in this country runs itself? Well it doesn't. Nor does the Gun
> website, the Gun accounts; 

Hey Nolan, how much will you pay me not to post your last letter?!
And which team had to be bailed-out by a certain other top UK team cos
they didn't get their entry fee in on time?

> oh and while my memory's working, Strange
> Blue didn't start all by itself either all those years ago while I was
> at university. 

Better go check 'em out then cos all their best players deserted long
ago....


> but my toys are still in the pram. 

As are your tantrums.

> 
> Flame all you like - but didn't your Mum ever tell you: 'don't play with
> fire'?
> 
> YOU'LL ONLY GET BURNED!

Raaaaaa!

> Kind regards,
> 
> A de-fingered GUNNER
> 
> 'He's rude and he knows he is, he's rude......'


OK Roger, you're pretty experienced in this game and you've done a lot in
the past. But the one thing I notice about this sport is that it is
filled by apathetic players, and worse, apathetic players with
a gob on them. Perhaps you're not apathetic but your general tone is one
of "you should do this, that and the other" which is not conducive to
discussion or motivation.

I can't help but notice that you voice isn't really represented in the
BUF. Why don't you get a little more involved in that? 

Well its long past my bedtime now and the floor is a mess of mangled
toys...seeya....

Ben