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From: "Derek Smart" <Delbert@tesco.net>
To: "britdisc" <britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk>
Subject: Players rights
Date: Wed, 22 Jul 1998 00:32:32 +0100
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Regarding the Geo Teams debate...

Not all players have the same commitment or drive to compete at the highest
level.

I spent the last six years playing for geo teams, first with the Monks and
then with Oxford and the only reason I moved to UTI is I got sick of turning
up to training and turning up to tournaments and finding only half a squad.
It wasn't unknown to travel to Oxford and find only two or three players
there for training and incidentally it's those players now that have moved
on to fresh pastures.

It should not be for anyone else to decide which team a player plays for
when they are possibly, and not by any means in every case, relegating them
to play in a team where only a small handful really want to succeed.

Playing with UTI this season has re-energised my enthusiasm for the sport
because for the first time I feel I can rely on all the players around me
and I cannot ever imagine being forced back into the situation where no
matter how hard I try there will never really be any improvement in the team
as a whole because half of the team don't really care.

Football players fought hard to get the right to move between teams and here
we have people arguing over whether we should remove that right from our
sport.

This is our sport and we all play because we all enjoy it whether it be for
pure fun or with a  competitive edge. Forcing people to play for teams where
they are unhappy because of the commitment level (whether too fierce or too
lackadaisical) can only harm our sport. Unhappy players do not make for good
players and eventually will not be players at all because nobody carries on
doing something they no longer enjoy.

Del Smart
UTI