Steve, I hope you will have one trailer for each pitch othewise some players will need to waste valuable litter dropping time walking to the nearest trailer which I guess could be anything up to 2-300 metres away.
Regards, Paul Holden mailto: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Steve G wrote: > There hasn't been a pitch water comment in a few hours. Boring. > > To put some minds at ease our plan is to have those giant water > trailers at the Copa. Something like 1000 litres each. We'll report > if this works out so others can give it a try as well. We're > arranging ours with the local council. > > As for water at mansfield, something which was confusing and possible > has led to some of the complaints was the unexpected shape of the new > containers that Hannah purchased to make up for the lack of those > shapeless big water bladders traditionally used by the UKUA. It > wasn't until the end of Saturday that my team realised that the sexy > new blue cap topped 5L containers that seemed really popular with the > players this season were actually the provided tournament water > containers. After this revelation we found that actually we had > consistent pitch water throughout. Up to this point however we just > sat and complained like everyone else. The downside being of course > that once the water issue was solved we realised we really didn't have > anything else to talk about. > > So...if you think you had no water but do remember an oddly large > amount of blue topped containers sitting pitch side, you probably did > have water and didn't know it. Or...and I did see this, teams didn't > realise these were the tournament containers and just thought, 'hey > great a big container I can go fill up for me and my mates' and took > them away with them. > > I suspect the water might not have been as bad as it seemed and that > Hannah did put effort into trying to provide water but communication > of the new container style was lacking. The real complaint is of > course the lack of tannoy system on the grounds to communicate issues > to the players and of course the 'over doing it' with the whole > sunshine thing. Ok we get it Hannah! It's usually rains in Mansfield > so thanks for the sun but please, next time not so much. As you can > see it just causes problems. > > At Copa and I assure you that the water/sun ratio will be monitored > and should it shift out of balance we will take follow measures > outlined in the Nottingham City Council Blame Initiative Scheme. > > Cheers > Steve > "what's the comin over the hill, is it the Copa" > www.thecopa.co.uk > > __________________________________________________ > BritDisc mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.fysh.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/britdisc > Staying informed - http://www.ukultimate.com/staying-informed > __________________________________________________ BritDisc mailing list [email protected] http://www.fysh.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/britdisc Staying informed - http://www.ukultimate.com/staying-informed
