From britdisc-owner@csv.warwick.ac.uk Wed Jul 15 14:48:27 1998 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by pansy.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.8.7/8.8.8) id OAA09807 for britdisc-outgoing; Wed, 15 Jul 1998 14:35:29 +0100 (BST) Received: from post.mail.demon.net (post-11.mail.demon.net [194.217.242.40]) by pansy.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id OAA09794 for <britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk>; Wed, 15 Jul 1998 14:35:27 +0100 (BST) Received: from (otto.crispgroup.co.uk) [193.237.6.65] by post.mail.demon.net with smtp (Exim 1.82 #2) id 0ywRiQ-0006Dy-00; Wed, 15 Jul 1998 13:35:27 +0000 Received: from [129.1.1.241] by otto.crispgroup.co.uk (NTMail 3.03.0017/1.aia2) with ESMTP id na007163 for <britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk>; Wed, 15 Jul 1998 14:32:56 +0100 Received: from [129.1.11.55] by homer.crispgroup.co.uk (NTMail 3.03.0012/1.aia2) with ESMTP id na018551 for <britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk>; Wed, 15 Jul 1998 14:32:38 +0100 Received: by raviben810.crispgroup.co.uk with Microsoft Mail id <01BDAFFE.3C136560@raviben810.crispgroup.co.uk>; Wed, 15 Jul 1998 14:38:30 +0100 Message-ID: <01BDAFFE.3C136560@raviben810.crispgroup.co.uk> From: Ben Ravilious <Ben.Ravilious@crispgroup.co.uk> To: "britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk" <britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk> Subject: RE: Advance notice Date: Wed, 15 Jul 1998 14:38:23 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" X-Info: Crisp Computing Mail Server Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-MIME-Autoconverted: from quoted-printable to 8bit by pansy.csv.warwick.ac.uk id OAA09796 Sender: owner-britdisc@warwick.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Colin, ---------- From: WAGSTAFF COLIN Sent: 14 July 1998 16:28 To: britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk; , DDA.RFC-822:britdisc-owner(a)csv.warwick.ac.uk, P:BT-INTERNET Subject: RE:Advance notice All three teams UTI, 22 & Chevy have players with experience gained with other teams but ultimately they are their own teams which have been developed by the players on those teams. What we (British Ultimate) needs is more teams willing to play and practice hard. We are seeing this with Red and First Touch for example, but we need more teams at the top. Without this the growth and competition which we have at the moment at the top will be lost in a few years. I agree. As long as essentially tart-based teams like your own go on skimming the cream (or is it scum ;-) from other places this will not happen. I hope UTI is the last such team to form in this country. Whilst the levelling of the playing field has been welcome in terms of putting life into the championships your team's existance does nothing for the development of the sport. The expression "Same players - different team" springs to mind when you look at the top teams - but it IS now beginning to change. I say strengthen the "geo" team spec. initially. however, some day soon the ability to practice together will win through. Couple this with further recruitment drives at University Hmm. the good graduates invariably end up playing for tart teams it seems. and other levels we Other levels like your own doorstep - recruit your neighbour! will hopefully have a sustainable growth in our sport. So, go out and practice, train, have fun, play hard and who knows in two years you may be tour champions. Col. UTI. You can count on it. Ben Up the revolution! (don't flame us - we'll flame you!)