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From: "Barry O'Kane" <barry.okane@visitscotland.com>
To: "Wayne Retter" <wayne@phidelta.demon.co.uk>, <britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk>
Subject: RE: Dear DoC nominee...
Date: Thu, 8 Nov 2001 18:36:32 -0000
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Wayne (and others), to try and answer your question,

There are three specific reasons I have decided to stand.
- regional representation
	It is very important that UK Ultimate is pro-active in promoting
teams/tournaments/growth/development outside the existing Ultimate
strongholds - areas such as Scotland and (Northern) Ireland.
- coaching
	Those who teach, captain and develop teams at all levels need to be given
help, resources, recognition and encouragement.  For example, I'd like to
see UK Ultimate pick up the coaching qualifications/courses that Si Moore
started work on several years ago.
- web use
	As Roger pointed out the high quality of this special issue of Ultimatum
needs to be reflected online.  Ultimate has a ridiculously large pool of
talented web people to draw from - the BUFWebsites team started making some
excellent plans.


Those are my personal soapbox topics.

However, (at the risk of repeating myself ;) I think the new assoc is a
chance to co-ordinate and encourage all the individual effort that people
put in everywhere - and the board are representatives of the whole
community - so I'm sure that everyone who is voted in will make themselves
available to help with any issues association members raise.

Barry


> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-britdisc@warwick.ac.uk
> [mailto:owner-britdisc@warwick.ac.uk]On Behalf Of Wayne Retter
> Sent: Tuesday, November 06, 2001 10:08 PM
> To: britdisc@csv.warwick.ac.uk
> Subject: re: Dear DoC nominee...
>
>
>
> I (and, I suspect, many others) am still looking forward to hearing
> about your plans for next year... even if you don't have anything
> specific in mind, I'd like to know *that*.
>
> Frankly, "wait and see" just doesn't cut it - especially when I've got
> the ballot form in front of me and I'm working out which 11 of the 15
> candidates would (IMHO) be best for the board.
>
> Regards
> Wayne Retter
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