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From: "BARRY O'KANE" <boka@srv0.civ.ed.ac.uk>
Organization: Civil Engineering, Edinburgh Uni
To: britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk
Date: Fri, 25 Oct 1996 15:25:37 +0000
Subject: Re: Something (else) to stoke the fire...
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Scott wrote:
>
> However, our team is constantly feeling the pressure of aspiring
> no-geo teams who would like to poach our better players with promises
> of beating shotgun/playing at worlds/being seen by the GB selectors
> which does nothing to help (I even remember in a flaming I once
> had from Roger that he suggested I play for a serious team, erhem).
> The promise I always return with is that in 3 years time we will have
> the skills, player base and organisation to fight it out with anyone,
> and this will only be because like shotgun we practice and recruit locally.
>
> I like the idea of limiting players to regions, tightening up on
> rostering and *tarting* or at least doing something about the
> consistency of team members. Am I on my own?
>
> Scott
Indeed you are not... having all the members of your team being able
to practice together is, IMHO, a much better way to promote a
country wide improvement in Ultimate - rather than improvement of a small
number of teams made up of great individual players from all over the place.
Having said that, rules such as this need to be properly implemented
and then enforced - mistakes can result in hiccups such as happened
at the student outdoors last year.
BARRY