Paul Holden wrote: "I hope you will have one trailer for each pitch othewise some players will need to waste valuable litter dropping time walking to the nearest trailer which I guess could be anything up to 2-300 metres away." Damn you Paul, you made me laugh and hot tea came out my nose. Now I've got a burnt nassal passage. I'm going to hunt you down at Nationals, hunt you right down. Paul makes a good point, as have a few people in the past few hundred posts. We're pretty terrible at dropping litter, myself included. I tend to have several small bottles on the go at once (water, lucozade, someone else's water which is nearer to me than my own bottle) and all too often have forgotten about it and left it on the sideline. Perhaps we the players should invest a little more time in nurturing the culture of spirit off the pitch. I'd love to see players encouraging each other not to leave litter, to tidy up after each game, and so on. Perhaps each team should be given a black bag at the start of each day and asked to put all team litter into it throughout the day. Although I don't think the onus should be on the TDs, who have a hard enough time trying to get unmotivated council employees to drop off water (several times they drove right past us and didn't drop off full bottles - I don't think the TDs can be blamed for that), but on we the players. Perhaps we could have a real push to make litter picking an established part of our sport's culture, yet another example of what makes us a better sport. But this has to be player-led, not from on high. Spirit: Why we have to have a culture where we say 'everyone should go good spirit at all times and so any example of good spirit should be standard, and therefore not praised' is beyond me. This always comes up when people in prominant positions show good spirit, and it gets me down. Rodders made the right call, and did only what the rules expect of him. But why we shouldn't celebrate that is beyond me. The fact that one or two people argue that what he did is nothing special is wrong, in my opinion. It's very special. It's just that our sport demands such high levels of respect and honesty at all times, whether in a relatively meaningless C Tour match (I should know) or in a competitive A tour semi-final (I'll never know). We have a culture which loves to bitch and moan, and whinge when we don't get our way (look at the same number of posts about water all saying the same thing - the point was made early in the discussion, does it need repeating?). We should celebrate the fact that a top class player was caught on camera showing great spirit, when everybody missed the fact that he'd dropped the disc the first time they saw the clip. Rodders could have got away with it, but it never crossed his mind to try and do so. So I'm sorry Bear, but you're out of your tree if you think the video shows that thought process, and Rodders is understandably pissed off. I would be too.Can we not try and be a little bit more positive about our sport? "Negative" Dan Kent Ultimate _________________________________________________________________
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