From britdisc-owner@csv.warwick.ac.uk Fri Jul 17 10:11:33 1998 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by pansy.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.8.7/8.8.8) id KAA29830 for britdisc-outgoing; Fri, 17 Jul 1998 10:09:35 +0100 (BST) Received: from smtpmail.watsonwyatt.co.uk (smtpmail.watsonwyatt.co.uk [193.114.232.134]) by pansy.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id KAA29823 for <britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk>; Fri, 17 Jul 1998 10:09:33 +0100 (BST) From: Wayne_Retter@watsonwyatt.co.uk Received: from ccMail by smtpmail.watsonwyatt.co.uk (IMA Internet Exchange 3.01 Enterprise) id 000173C1; Fri, 17 Jul 98 10:10:02 +0100 Mime-Version: 1.0 Date: Fri, 17 Jul 1998 09:57:33 +0100 Message-ID: <000173C1.CE21337@watsonwyatt.co.uk> Subject: Re[2]: Advance Notice To: britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Description: cc:Mail note part Sender: owner-britdisc@warwick.ac.uk Precedence: bulk <Alan.Baldwin@eml.ericsson.se> >The problem we had is that everyone in this team was due to graduate at >different times. and were mostly due to be moving onwards/homewards, rather than staying in Southampton... This made the theory of an 'graduates' team (most graduating Uni clubs discuss this, surely?) shakey on the grounds of lack of practice and uncertainty as to whether we'd all be committed after we'd all got spread out... >Forming a team out of these players when the first batch graduated >would have destroyed the skunks, so some of us played for Strollers, 'cos that was the traditional "place to go"... and/or Druids, 'cos (through Jeff) they'd been nice to us (!) and taken us abroad, got us drunk, etc, etc. Over the course two/three years, it turned out we were *all* playing for Druids, improving individually and doing quite well as a team. By then, there weren't really enough "real" Druids left for us to be able to go and do our own thing, if we'd wanted to... [Anecdote: At World Clubs in 95 we managed to play a "Real Druids" Offensive Line (no pun intended!) that failed to score, and a "exSkunk Druids" Defensive Line that got the turnover and scored! Sadly, this occurred in our game against the Funky Monks!] > I want to play at world clubs, qualified by "while I still can" seems to be a major reason why the 'stars' of geo teams don't have the willingness to stick with their geo teams that won't quite qualify, but move (back) to the telephone teams that will probably qualify. >However you can bet your bottom dollar that I'll still organise >practices in Southampton outside of the skunks practices, and we'll >still train some of the upcoming stars from the skunks team in our >practices. No doubt. But the question is surely, for all 'geo-teams' that are based on graduating Uni students staying local to Uni, are you willing to go out and get the LOCAL POPULACE involved too? Will you let them into your select and chosen group of team*mates*? Will you actually INCREASE the playerbase. On the other hand, why won't the telephone team players go to their local teams and help them *more* If they want to play for a "quality" team, there's the option to get committed and fit and try out for GB... Red are doing good things. (Nobody has disagreed yet!) The benefits are long term, and I applaud their current players for the sacrifice of fame NOW for the knowledge that, when Leicestershire becomes the new strength of British Ultimate, they'll have been a part of it. Wayne apparently "Too Nice to be a Druid", but a Druid nonetheless. - hoping there's some sense and useful info somewhere in all that drivel - feeling old from the memories - but wondering how much older Oz feels :) - realising he ought to be working ________________________________________________________________ Notice of Confidentiality This transmission is intended for the named addressee only. It contains information which may be confidential and which may also be privileged. Unless you are the named addressee (or authorised to receive it for the addressee) you may not copy or use it, or disclose it to anyone else. If you have received this transmission in error please contact: ~admin@watsonwyatt.co.uk or IT Manager: +44(0)1737 241144 Fax: +44(0)1737 241496 Watson Wyatt Partners is regulated by the Institute of Actuaries in the conduct of UK investment business. _________________________________________________________________