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From: "Wigsy" <mfix6can@fs1.art.man.ac.uk>
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Subject: RE:Re: Tour 99
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Big Funky wrote   

>  surely the tour was designed to find the best team in Britain. I
>can't see how that can be done if you immediately exclude all but 
>lastyears top 8. That way it would take many at least 2 seasons for an
>improving team to get into contension. 

At some point hopefully we are going to go into a league system. 
Whenever that happens there are going to be teams who suffer because 
they put into the second division. To get round this maybe we could 
have a seeding tournie where depending on where you come you are put 
into a certain division, the seeding for this tourinie based on this 
years nationals?

Wayne wrote
>Shouldn't they (BAF, for those who'ce just tuned in...) 
>have had the chance???

No becos you answer the question yourself below

>So, basically, BAF haven't complained about missing out on that 
>chance this 
>year, 'cos that's the system (right or wrong!) - they didn't make it 
>to Top 8 
>over the Tour, so they couldn't take the shot at 8 when they were 
>most pumped 
>for it...

Big Funky also wrote
> Nothing fires up a 'lesser' team more
>than scoring a few points on a top team and it can realy bring the 
>best out in people.

Not even the chance to play against these top teams for a whole 
season? I think that Will Parker put forward a very good arguement in 
the context of teams playing each other 

>Spirit is something that seems to be lacking in the higher
>positions: spirit changes from being "playing to enjoy the game" to 
>"not getting arsey when someone calls a foul on you". If you split the 
>tour so
This is something that I take offense to. The shouting we have on 
pitch or the seemingly bad calls we make are becos we are playing for 
something a little more important than 9th place. I think that the 
final at Nationals was a very spirited affair wih Andy Tucker "Norm" 
and Lee making some crucial calls against their own team. This is not 
a sunday practise where if you drop the pull we'll let you have it 
anyway..... would you do the same if BAF where playing to get 
promoted to the top division in a one off game?
Wigsy,
22, JTM, Dad, Bouffant