Re: [BD] Ultimate in the UK

2002-08-22 Thread Sean Holden
Alex, Your practices were not still open last winter to non Clapham players! I've been practising in London at Tooting and such like since the days of Shotgun and come this winter I was turned away on the grounds that you guys didn't want to disrupt the flow of the team with non Clapham players a

Re: [BD] Ultimate in the UK

2002-08-21 Thread Wayne Retter
>Next year we (LLL) plan on having two teams (as I've stated in previous >emails) so we can still encourage younger/less experienced players >and help them in training while having a team competing at the very >top. If the growth continues to occur then we'll hopefully reach a

[BD] Ultimate in the UK

2002-08-21 Thread Alex Bowers
Title: Message >>>One London 'super-club' with both its teams in the top 8 seems to go against this spirit. By splitting the club in two, and forming second teams for both halfs with slightly lower ambitions, could you not still play at a high level while passing on your experience to more p

Re: [BD] Ultimate in the UK

2002-08-21 Thread Jaimie Cross
Alex, I wasn't suggesting that you and your team mates try and take over other teams. But has CU benefited these other teams in the way Si (in particular) was suggesting it should? One London 'super-club' with both its teams in the top 8 seems to go against this spirit. By splitting the club in tw

[BD] Ultimate in the UK

2002-08-21 Thread Alex Bowers
Title: Message Interesting points Jaimie.   >>>I agree with your strong support of geo Ultimate, but question whether living in the biggest city in Europe gives you the right to complain about a lack of competition. While your policy of training together has reaped many benefits for

Re: [BD] Ultimate in the UK

2002-08-21 Thread Ben Ravilious
Jaimie, Sounds like you're about to volunteer yourself for something...! My 'blueprint' for UKU is to gather together as many volunteers as possible so that people's ideas can actually be actioned. Meanwhile we're all living it up (at your expense) on our UKU salary! ;-) Seriously though, to

[BD] Ultimate in the UK

2002-08-21 Thread Jaimie Cross
I've been on holiday, so this is several oars all at once. Its mainly comments, suggestions and questions (quite a lot at the start!) on the debate, with a bit of humor (very lame and mostly irrelevant) to keep me from falling asleep while typing. So   Everyone seems keen for Ultimate in the UK