Hi, Those dates were exactly what I was thinking of. The only thing that has changed them in the past is whether the venues are available on the Saturdays or the Sundays.
I am also very much in favour of trying to get teams to play in their local regions, but I had my whinge about that last year. I would also think that a Charity Mug would go down very well, as all the teams in the Midlands were quite keen to qualify for the CS last year, and would like to get some early season practice. (Having said that, Bears were also disappointed that their promised CS spot was taken away from them, but I had a whinge about that last year too!) Cheers, Midlands (AKA Andy Godber) PS I am looking into new venues for the Midlands as an alternative to last year. Just in case. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Roger Thomson Sent: 22 July 2005 17:04 To: Indoors DOC; Britdisc@near.me.uk Subject: RE: [BD] WL Dates Thanks very much for your hard work Benji, would be brilliant if we could avoid schedule clashes. The joys of an indoor DoC at last :-) The London Winter League was initially set up in 2001 as a springboard for UK teams playing in Hawaii 2002, with a bit of co-ordination we can make the now UK-wide Winter Leagues just as good a springboard for Perth 2006 (although the November date means we are more of a chance to bed in new players than a pre-season). It seems to make sense if as many Winter Leagues as possible use the same weekends to free the most dates for schmindoors. Luckily, like Midlands, our initial preference is for the 2nd weekend in every month - to give an extra week after Nationals before we kick off, and so that we don't have to play on Jan 01! Only down-side is that Dec 11 is only 14 days to Christmas and there may be a few absentees - I think our opinion is that we have to live with that. For us that would mean: 1. Sunday Nov 13 2. Sunday Dec 11 3. Sunday Jan 8 4. Sunday Feb 12 5. Saturday Mar 11 Charity shield & Party (provisional depending on Rimini etc, can't see any dates on the Paga site) Does that tie in with what Midlands are thinking? To encourage the bigger teams to support their local Winter Leagues we are going to consider closing the Charity Shield to the winners (and maybe 2nd etc) of Regional Winter Leagues plus a couple of invited overseas teams if we can get them. Perhaps we also need to look at the next tier as well (the Charity Mug?), several teams not in the Shield came down to London last year and it went well. Comments to [EMAIL PROTECTED] please, or to BD if you think they are important enough. Cheers Bear Consultant Coach to the Thundering Herd. Clapham forever! Bad Company from birth. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Indoors DOC Sent: 22 July 2005 15:30 To: Britdisc@near.me.uk Subject: [BD] WL Dates BD, I've had a couple of expressions of interest about tournaments and dates, but I can't really give people useful advice until I know when winter leagues are happening. Midlands say they'd prefer the second weekend of each month; and I've heard an underground rumour that London WL are thinking second weekend too. Please could WL organisers get in touch with their preferred plans within the next 7 days; otherwise I'll have to assume that everyone's using the second weekend of the month. It'll make life a whole lot easier for me and for the student coordinators. Don't mean to hassle folk, but indoor halls have got to be booked early, and we all want the best ones. If anyone waits until december to announce a winter league that clashes with other planned events, they'll be the only ones to blame for a messed-up calendar. Benji __________________________________________________ BritDisc mailing list BritDisc@near.me.uk http://zion.ranulf.net/mailman/listinfo/britdisc Staying informed - http://www.ukultimate.com/informed.asp -- No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.9.2/55 - Release Date: 21/07/2005 -- No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG Anti-Virus. Version: 7.0.323 / Virus Database: 267.9.2/55 - Release Date: 21/07/2005 __________________________________________________ BritDisc mailing list BritDisc@near.me.uk http://zion.ranulf.net/mailman/listinfo/britdisc Staying informed - http://www.ukultimate.com/informed.asp __________________________________________________ BritDisc mailing list BritDisc@near.me.uk http://zion.ranulf.net/mailman/listinfo/britdisc Staying informed - http://www.ukultimate.com/informed.asp
