From britdisc-owner@csv.warwick.ac.uk Wed Oct 30 18:37:06 1996 Received: from thistle.csv.warwick.ac.uk by clover.csv.warwick.ac.uk with ESMTP id SAA01738; Wed, 30 Oct 1996 18:32:19 GMT Received: by thistle.csv.warwick.ac.uk id SAA21658; Wed, 30 Oct 1996 18:25:33 GMT Received: from hil-img-5.compuserve.com by thistle.csv.warwick.ac.uk with SMTP id SAA21606; Wed, 30 Oct 1996 18:24:33 GMT Received: by hil-img-5.compuserve.com (8.6.10/5.950515) id NAA09342; Wed, 30 Oct 1996 13:23:55 -0500 Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 13:21:28 -0500 From: Ian Peter Stebbing <106040.3441@compuserve.com> Subject: Team Structures/Formations To: Britdisc <BRITDISC@csv.warwick.ac.uk> Message-ID: <199610301323_MC1-B72-976C@compuserve.com> Sender: owner-britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Status: RO The geo / non-geo debate has many factors, I would like to add a slightly different slant to it. Shotgun are the best team in the country outdoors and have proved it time and again. This is not however purely because they can train together but has other equally important factors. 1) Aram brought with him from the States many new ideas and strategies the rest of us did not know and it took us a long time to counter and then be able to utilise them ourselves. This advantage has all but disappeared against the other top teams as the knowledge is now widely known, thanks mainly to Shotgun and Aram making it available. 2) Shotgun had enough quality players to be able to continually rotate people without having to put exploitable players on the pitch. No other team was in this position. The size of the Shotgun squad at tournaments was always bigger than any other. This meant that against weaker sides they could rest their top players leaving them fresh for the crunch games and vica versa against stronger teams. There are reasons why I believe these were just as important and how the non-geo teams have approached closing the gap, because we after all want to be the best and do not see it as a lost cause. The only real advantage a geo based team has is the extra familiarity that playing week in week out with your team mates brings, not fitness, new plays and new strategies. On the other hand if you are an old boys team there is a good chance you've just spent the last 3 years playing together although this familiarity can soon fade. Ian Stebbing Fluid Druids