Hello BDers,
I was one of the people Si refers to below and wish to explain the situation more fully from my point of view. I am a Clapham player who has not made it on to the Hawaii squad. I have therefore been playing on Clapham 2 all season. As you will be aware, Clapham has split its Hawaii squad between the two teams, with a few extra players like myself making up the numbers for CU2. For Tour IV, being so close to Hawaii, Clapham understandably is entering its full Hawaii squad, and therefore does not have enough players left to field a second team. This leaves a handful of players like myself with no team to play on. Rather than just pick up with a team I checked out the rules. Strictly speaking my team (CU2) is not entering the tournament. However, since Clapham is a geo squad, we are rostered as one, and so I'm being punished by not being allowed to play for another team. (For the record I was hoping to play with my old team Strange Blue this weekend). Everyone I have explained this situation to has had the same initial reaction - "that sucks." Although I admit there was potential to foresee this situation arising, what could be done about it? The only option would be for all those non-Hawaii players who wanted to play for Clapham to not play with them all season. This would have left Clapham without enough players for 2 teams and so not (in Clapham's opinion) get the best out of the tour in terms of training for Hawaii. Since, as I understand it, the Tour is designed to be elitist and give the British the best chance of featuring on the world stage, this would go against the Tour's purpose. I wish I could play this weekend, and finally have a year where I've made every tournament I've wanted to play at. Not being able to play due to injury I can live with. Not being allowed to play due to some rules sucks. I want to say see you all in Leeds but unless someone reconsiders that's not going to happen - maybe my long lost identical twin brother from overseas will turn up instead? Steve CU2 -----Original Message----- From: Si Weeks [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: 16 July 2002 12:44 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Rosters for Tour IV Hello everyone, Over the last week I have had three seperate approaches requesting permission to change roster from one team to another for Tour IV this weekend. I have therefore discussed these issues with the competitions committee. The three teams in question are Clapham, Chevy Co-ed and Druids. We concluded that whilst we have every sympathy for the individuals involved in all three cases, we felt that all three teams could have foreseen these circumstances. Therefore in the opinion of the competitions committee the circumstances are not exceptional and we therefore will not permit any change of rosters prior to Tour IV. Thanks, Si Weeks On behalf of the Competitions Committee __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Everything you'll ever need on one web page from News and Sport to Email and Music Charts http://uk.my.yahoo.com __________________________________________________ BritDisc mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://pootle.near.me.uk/mailman/listinfo/britdisc
