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Subject: RE: Discussion on World Ultimate
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>There have to be other ways of doing this... What I suggested was analogous
>to the Australian Cricket scene, the Football scene in lots of countries,
>and the UK Hockey scene.
The difference is Ultimate players aren't full-time sportsmen and women.
Players have barely enough spare time to get a moderately serious club
team playing to its full potential. GB squads would be SO much stronger
if they could spend all year training and competing together. But
players' already limited time has to be split between their club team and
their GB commitment. I have a feeling that the club team gets the lion's
share of that time - particularly with the Tour.
I think this shows once GB gets to Worlds - each year we send a team of
first-rate players, but somehow the team never quite manages to live up
to its own expectations ("Oh, we SO should have won that game.")
This is all IMHO only. And I'm not advocating anything here by the way -
just "observing" as best I can.
What do recent GB-people think?
Paul
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