From britdisc-owner@csv.warwick.ac.uk Wed Mar 3 13:28:43 1999 Received: by pansy.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.9.1/8.9.1) id NAA25023 for britdisc-outgoing; Wed, 3 Mar 1999 13:28:06 GMT Received: from daffodil.csv.warwick.ac.uk (daffodil [137.205.192.30]) by pansy.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.9.1/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAA25006 for <britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk>; Wed, 3 Mar 1999 13:28:04 GMT Received: from curlew.cs.man.ac.uk (curlew.cs.man.ac.uk [130.88.13.7]) by daffodil.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.9.1b+Sun/8.9.1) with ESMTP id NAA11020 for <britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk>; Wed, 3 Mar 1999 13:28:04 GMT Received: from fs1.eng.man.ac.uk ([130.88.29.100]) by curlew.cs.man.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.92 #2) for britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk id 10IBgu-0006Pv-00; Wed, 3 Mar 1999 13:28:00 +0000 Received: from UK-AC-MAN-ENG-FS1/SpoolDir by fs1.eng.man.ac.uk (Mercury 1.44); 3 Mar 99 13:27:59 BST Received: from SpoolDir by UK-AC-MAN-ENG-FS1 (Mercury 1.43); 3 Mar 99 13:27:45 BST From: "P.P.Guest" <MBGA5PPG@fs1.eng.man.ac.uk> Organization: University of Manchester To: britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 13:27:43 BST Subject: Re: Minutes of Student Meeting X-mailer: Pegasus Mail v3.31 Message-ID: <A326E85189@fs1.eng.man.ac.uk> Sender: owner-britdisc@warwick.ac.uk Precedence: bulk > Sorry to bother the whole of britdisc again. > > About the question of players from other universities playing for > there teams. > > The problem that I have had is that the universities themselves will > not let the "other" univeristy play. Hi all, this is my first britdisc post so I'll try make it relevant. I've been playing for Fingers 6 for 3 years now despite being at Manchester University not the Met because there was and still is no University Team. I looked into setting up a Uni team with Ian Cuddihy at the end of my first year but was told that to get ANY support from the AU we would need two years full accounts & AGM minutes etc. This includes no chance of regular (cheap) training slots, no travel subsidies or any of the other perks for established teams which priced it out of our beer depleted pockets. Given that we could play on for Fingers it seemed more sensible to us that we just stick to that. As the Met AU don't really know about (and might not like) Uni players playing for a Met team there hasn't been any chance to do much recruitment at the Uni freshers fairs. I guess that when I graduate this year, the chances are that that will be the end of Manc Uni (as opposed to Met) ultimate participation which seems a shame. I guess the point I want to make is that the student politics involved in joint teams and the setting up of a separate team tend to get in the way of a new sport's expansion. Cheers, Paul (fingers 6) ------------------------------- Paul Guest University of Manchester P.P.Guest@stud.man.ac.uk MBGA5PPG@fs1.eng.man.ac.uk