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@punkture
in this situation its not quite as straightforward as simply having 1 location - if its sunny then platt fields (IMO the worst court of the lot - too small - but others disagree) will be full with footballers and if its raining (or been raining that day) then whitworth is too slippy and therefore unplayable.
Chorlton seems to be the Sunday default and is the best court of the lot but if its a sunny day then we will have to wait around for ages until the inevitable footie players fuck off and if whitworth is free why not play there
these seem to be the basic issues and no one is making u the baddie in this situation at all nes. as has been said plenty of times u were great with organising the tourney and everything that has gone before most of us were involved and u were the reason alot of us have got involved in polo in the first place
it does seem that the posters were done without properly thinking about details tho and maybe if others were to be done it would be andy's number on there seeing as hes there pretty much every time and the info would be :
location:
Thursdays - Platt Fields if its been raining
Sundays - Chorlton
Everyone seems to be really stepping things up and taking polo seriously and that can be only a good thing if we want to compete with the londoners etc. Having the choice between 2 courts about 5 mins bike ride apart surely is not gonna badly hinder accesibility and whenever there is a new person that shows everyone is always vvv welcoming from what ive seen and not at all cliquey
However ive not been a regular for a bit so these are just my thoughts on it and REALLY hope that u dont mean what u said about bein discouraged from coming at all nes cause there really are no issues with u at all and i think i speak for everyone here