From britdisc-owner@csv.warwick.ac.uk Thu Oct 8 21:47:26 1998 Received: (from daemon@localhost) by pansy.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.8.7/8.8.8) id VAA28654 for britdisc-outgoing; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 21:41:42 +0100 (BST) Received: from trolley (trolly.tesco.net [194.73.73.166] (may be forged)) by pansy.csv.warwick.ac.uk (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id VAA28648 for <britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk>; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 21:41:40 +0100 (BST) Received: from default [62.172.28.33] by trolley with smtp (Exim 1.70 #1) id 0zRMrV-0006oG-00; Thu, 8 Oct 1998 21:40:37 +0100 Message-ID: <00ad01bdf2fb$5062b080$6216ac3e@default> From: "Delbert" <Delbert@tesco.net> To: "Paul Schuricht" <P.H.Schuricht@soton.ac.uk>, "BritDisc" <britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk> Subject: Re: My view (for what its worth) Date: Thu, 8 Oct 1998 21:35:36 +0100 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Mailer: Microsoft Outlook Express 4.72.3110.5 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V4.72.3110.3 Sender: owner-britdisc@warwick.ac.uk Precedence: bulk Absolutely Paul. We knew what the stakes were and it made it all the more important for us to win it. Yes we played well all season but when it came to the crunch we didn't have the stuff and now we'll go throught the entire winter nursing wounds and plotting our revenge... Del (UTI) -----Original Message----- From: Paul Schuricht <P.H.Schuricht@soton.ac.uk> To: BritDisc <britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk> Date: 08 October 1998 19:03 Subject: Re: My view (for what its worth) >Matthew Lowe wrote: >> >> 2) Some thing not yet mention in the current debate but "what is more important, the tour >> or nationals?" Should UTI perform better over the season only to get piped at the post by >> Catch. catch are a fine team but surely UTI earned the title of national champions for >> there quality performances through the season. Thats enough from me for the moment, I'm >> sure people have things to say and any way I want some diner :-) >> >Which is more important, out of Nationals and the Tour, is open to >debate, and >you may find that some people disagree on the answer (perhaps Catch and >UTI?). > >However, I don't think you can say that UTI earned the title of national >champs by winning >the Tour. Nationals is there to decide the national champions, which is >why it is called nationals. > >I was going to write more, but I think you'll find that all the teams at >nationals knew that >it was the national championship they were playing for, and that the >tour results didn't matter (apart from deciding who got to be there). > >Besides I think it's a nice change to have more than one team at the >top, makes a change >from the domination of recent years by shotgone. > >Sonic >