This is meant to be an antiestablishment sport? Is it? So does that mean we shouldn't be teaching school kids the sport (as someone in our team does) because this will make it less anti-establishment?
And why does that mean that if you play frisbee you shouldn't appreciate other sports for the same reasons? I have found that spending a lot of time helping to grow our team over the past few years has increased my appreciation of other teams sports, the hard work and training they put in and the ethos as playing as a team. But apparently this just makes me an idiot. Surely this is the kind of cliquey attitude that holds ultimate back and repels players of main-stream sports from playing the game, and ultimately holds back the growth of the sport. By watching / playing other sports we can learn lots about our own sport, and the FA cup final represents the two best teams in the country (at any sport presumably, based on the ratio of players playing in the final compared to total players that play the game). Having said all that, I'm not too fussed whether we end up watching the game or playing our final game, but I'm just making the point that we shouldn't automatically have to hate the most popular sport in the country because we have chosen to play an "anti-establishment" one. Anyway as Dan said the Friday night forest div 1 play-off is where all the action is... Tom -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David Grayson Sent: 17 May 2007 09:01 To: [email protected] Subject: [BD] Schedules While we're on the subject of schedules. Does anyone want to speak up in favour of the MT2 schedule? Why on earth do we have a 75 min break in the schedule for "Lunch"? Is something being laid on? Is it because it was written by someone's mother and they are worried we wont eat properly? Here's my guess. It was written under the pressure of the "it must be fair" brigade. These idiots are obsessed with the concept of fairness to all teams at tournaments. They want every team to play the exact number of games, have equal chance to win the tournament, have every team play on the same fields as each other, pay the same amount per point played, eat lunch at the same time, have same rostor rules etc. etc. This brigade are idiots and they are slowly ruining our sport. Having schedules where everyone plays at the same time means that there are large swathes of the tournament where there is NOTHING happening. There are no games to go and watch, you can't heckle anyone, you cant get better by watching ultimate. It also means that if the sport were ever to get publicity and people would come to watch they would find nothing happening for long periods, get bored and disappear. And ffs I thought we had dumped this ridiculous idea of having a break for a fricking football match. How many people honestly care about the FA cup final? I can think of only one, and he probably wont have wifi so its no use to him. "OOh but its Man U v Chelsea, ooh its at the neeeew Wembley, oooh but..." STOP. You have been taken in by the phoney hype designed to make you part with your money for something utterly irrelevant. As a sport we should be doing a service to idiots like you and showing you some tough love. Cold turkey chaps, its the best thing for you. If football is so important then go watch it and your teammates will win your match for you, lets face it you're probably the type of player who disappears with a winjury every few minutes anyway. Your mates will understand. Ok, lets imagine that a large percentage of the tournament do care about this pointless event. What is going to happen? They're going to have to go and warm up during the game and miss a the end anyway! Lets go wild and imagine for a second that its an exciting game. If so then people will miss the exciting part, the extra time and the inevitable penalties. Ridiculous. I'm making an offer now to High Altitude, lets say sod the football, play early and all go and have a beer while the chumps play off in the twilight getting cramp and grumbling about how it really wasn't a penalty, corner, streaker etc... I have no idea how many on my team will agree to it but at least we'll find out how many idiots I play with. Or an offer to everyone in the tournament - Lets rebel. Come on folks, this is supposed to be an antiestablishment sport. NOTHING is more establishment than the FA freaking cup final. Lets have round 3 from 12.30 -1.45 and round 4 from 2.15 - 3.30. Then you'll only miss the first half, and we can all have a beer and watch the thrill/sideshow of penalities together like the one happy proletariat we are. Whats the problem with that? In the olden days, schedules were written to make the most of pitch time, provide entertainment for teams and spectators and to provide logical and practical scheduling for teams. I think we should have staggered game slots, semi finals played at different times (cos they are the best games of the tournament) and a general agreement that if you get screwed by the seedings/schedule then you are allowed a good whine on Britdisc. I agree that is at least your right. Dave. PS. I made a promise not to be grumpy this weekend but I fear I may have already lost that particular battle. __________________________________________________ BritDisc mailing list [email protected] http://www.fysh.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/britdisc Staying informed - http://www.ukultimate.com/staying-informed The contents of this message and any attachments to it are confidential and may be legally privileged. If you have received this message in error you should delete it from your system immediately and advise the sender. dunnhumby may monitor and record all emails. 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