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Subject: Re: Something (else) to stoke the fire...
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Del, Sam and BDers

> Then again, being good mates can allow you to play the game without 
> yelling abuse at each other (no guarantee of course!) and that is 
> something which I value playing with STAN. It more than makes up for 
> the loss of competitive edge that we forego by not having team 
> practices. 

Both Sam and Del have focussed on the Alumni/ye olde mates set up of 
many a non-geo team in Britain and content the Hombres/Regulators 
merger as anticompetitive!  I think they have become focussed on one 
particular scenario in a particularly blinkered way and been unfair on 
their view of the geo-team set-up.

It may be true that for Stan the non-geo approach is the most 
appropriate because few of them have any local team to practice with 
and besides they all have the ex-Warwick tie.  But to then argue 
against mergers to make teams stronger is somewhat hipocritical when they 
themselves have poached players from practicing geo teams in order to 
strengthen for World Clubs in the past (and possibly in the future?).

My MAJOR complaint is that these Alumni teams offer promises of 
International/National glory and strip those players from DEVELOPING 
geo teams that could strengthen them and accelerate their development.  
Non-geo teams are strangling British Ultimate.

> Del.
> 
> PS Sean, have you and Ingo and Conor started that Brighton team yet? 

Del and Sam, how's that Kenilworth team coming along?  

What about Cambridge, Brimingham, Wolverhampton and Exeter to add but a 
few to the list!

1 bitter and twisted

Scott
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