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Subject: RE: Re[2]: Tour 99 - how to run it?
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 1998 17:35:12 +0100
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Would they have beaten 8th?
No doubt at all.

We played those boys and they were HOT.
Max
Fever

-----Original Message-----
From:	David Trovell [SMTP:david.trovell@bmpoptimum.co.uk]
Sent:	07 October 1998 14:50
To:	'Guy.Kennett@meuk.mee.com'; britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk
Subject:	RE: Re[2]: Tour 99 - how to run it?

Congratulations for being the only unbeaten team at Nationals. But would you
have beaten the 8th place team?

> -----Original Message-----
> From:	Guy.Kennett@meuk.mee.com [SMTP:Guy.Kennett@meuk.mee.com]
> Sent:	07 October 1998 13:23
> To:	britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk
> Subject:	Re[2]: Tour 99 - how to run it?
> 
>      
>      What is this a 'how to piss off the Blue Arse Flies' competition?
>      
> > 1) Given the number of teams and marked differences in levels of
> ability, 
> > demotion and promotion could lead to good teams (Touch or Headrush for 
> > example) being cast into the abyss below them for half a season, or 
> > weaker teams (Violently or BAF) being elevated like kings then used as 
> > whipping boys for the rest of the season.
>      
>      Arguments surely to follow but our stats at Nationals the 
>      other day were...
>      
>      Won 5 Lost 0 
>      Scored 85  Conceded 34 (Any better?)
>      Highest available place 9th
>      Place attained 9th (and the plate)
>      
>      Not bad for a 'weaker' team.
>      
>      We realise that entry to the nationals is based on the Ultim8 
>      end of year seedings (which frankly squeezed the 7-8-9-10-11
> positions 
>      with the 'inverted' crossovers). Surely, once entry to the last 16
> has 
>      been won, like the World Cup, the competition should be 'OPEN', best 
>      on the day wins and all that, rather than 'kings' and 'whipping
> boyz'.
>      
>      See you up there next year, we'll do the whipping.
>      
>      
>      Guy
>      aka TinTin BAF
>      
>