From britdisc-owner@csv.warwick.ac.uk Tue Jan 11 20:50:24 2000 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by pansy.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) id UAA00902 for britdisc-outgoing; Tue, 11 Jan 2000 20:49:29 GMT Received: from daffodil.csv.warwick.ac.uk (daffodil [137.205.192.30]) by pansy.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.9.3+Sun/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA00840 for <britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk>; Tue, 11 Jan 2000 20:49:25 GMT Received: from mail.totalise.co.uk ([212.1.157.12]) by daffodil.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id UAA26833 for <britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk>; Tue, 11 Jan 2000 20:49:24 GMT Received: from 212.159.139.57 [212.159.133.202] (jgoolden@totalise.co.uk); Tue, 11 Jan 2000 20:53:54 +0000 X-WM-Posted-At: mail.totalise.co.uk; Tue, 11 Jan 00 20:53:54 +0000 Message-ID: <387B969B.5D81@totalise.co.uk> Date: Tue, 11 Jan 2000 20:46:46 +0000 From: jack goolden <jgoolden@totalise.co.uk> Reply-To: jgoolden@totalise.co.uk Organization: none X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.01-C-VM711-000 (Macintosh; I; PPC) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: brit disc <britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk> Subject: goaltimate Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-britdisc@warwick.ac.uk Precedence: bulk is anybody else getting duplicate britdisc messages from "broadside" is this evidence that the millenium bug is more than a flu epidmic? on a more serious note, what do we all enjoy about ultimate, and would being on TV and sponsorship really be a good thing? personally I enjoy being outside and getting the exercise, and I wouldn't get that much out of wearing matching socks/shorts/trainers - althogh I do feel a certain pride wearing a my team Tshirt. being paid to do it, although that's a long way off, would surely kill the atmosphere at tournaments As for refs, I think that all who played at worlds would agree that there was a vast improvement with the time keeping officials (30secs for a call or the disc goes back, 60secs between the point being scored and the pull etc. or something along those lines) but then again I'm a self-centred bastard who can't spell and doesn't give a monkeys about the 'greater good of the sport' jack CAF ps. that's not to say that growth and publicity are a bad thing