From britdisc-owner@csv.warwick.ac.uk Tue Jun 23 12:17:54 1998 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by pansy.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.8.7/8.8.8) id MAA28912 for britdisc-outgoing; Tue, 23 Jun 1998 12:03:06 +0100 (BST) Received: from pp2.shef.ac.uk (pp2.shef.ac.uk [143.167.1.32]) by pansy.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id MAA28881 for <britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk>; Tue, 23 Jun 1998 12:02:58 +0100 (BST) Received: from digley.shef.ac.uk [143.167.79.248] by pp2.shef.ac.uk with esmtp (Exim 1.73 #1) id 0yoQqo-00041E-00; Tue, 23 Jun 1998 12:02:58 +0100 Received: from DIGLEY/SpoolDir by digley.shef.ac.uk (Mercury 1.40); 23 Jun 98 12:02:58 +0100 Received: from SpoolDir by DIGLEY (Mercury 1.40); 23 Jun 98 12:02:48 +0100 From: "J.G.Rushton" <EDP97JGR@sheffield.ac.uk> To: britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk Date: Tue, 23 Jun 1998 12:02:40 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: Re: Junior Outdoors X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Windows (v2.42a) Message-ID: <ADF1AA0E78@digley.shef.ac.uk> Sender: owner-britdisc@warwick.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Speaking as a student who's been playing for four years, I never understood why juniors, in particular school teams weren't allowed to play in Student tournaments. Assuming they can look after themselves and don't chunder everywhere their presence would only make student ultimate stronger, and if they deprive student teams from places in the finals well sorry but tough shit. I played for Uriel for three years and never saw hide nor hair of a final tournament didn't stop me going to or enjoying the tournaments I went to. We should be playing as many teams as possible as often as possible , encouraging new teams and encouraging the sport to grow not limiting student ultimate to a select band of 18-25ish year olds. so there Jack of Phat Eds