I've seen a couple
of postings about rulings on whether a team is geo or not, giving London teams
less of an area from which to recruit, etc.
Imposing fixed 'you
must live x miles from your team' rules onto teams in Britain
seems over-controlling and restrictive in a similar way to the current Tour
Roster situation.
75% of Clapham
players live in south London (SW* postcodes). 2 live in Cambridge, and 1
in Eastbourne. 100% of our players train with us at least
once a week, and up to 3 times. If you don't train with us, you don't make
the team - that's our self-imposed definition of our status of being geo.
We're not interested in any 80-mile radius around London or whatever it is right
now.
It's the same with
the top teams in North America. Jon Gewirtz lives in Seattle yet flies to
Vancouver for practices so he can make Furious George. 4 Condors players
live in San Francisco but make the long drive to Santa Barbara frequently enough
for them to make the team. I don't think there are geo restrictions on who
can play for which team depending on where they live in the
USA.
It's up to the clubs
to impose their own geo status by turning away players who live too far away to
train with them, surely that's the point here.
Alex
CU26
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