Just a thought.....
Is there any interest in a women's division of winter league? Iceni and
Bliss took part last year, but I think we may get more out of a women's
division in the run up to Perth (some will no doubt say otherwise!). Either
way it would be great for the development of our division.
Between students, summer league women, Iceni, Bliss, Thundering Herd, No Lo,
etc etc there must be easily 150 women players in London. There is also the
possibility of foreign teams making the trip as they did last year.
If there is enough interest let's continue this discussion on UKUW. There is
obviously the potential clash with women's all star events if the intention
is to run these next year, lets get talking.....
Maria
From: "Roger Thomson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "'Indoors DOC'" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, <Britdisc@near.me.uk>
Subject: RE: [BD] WL Dates
Date: Fri, 22 Jul 2005 17:03:49 +0100
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.
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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
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