League subs.

so i could register a team next season and pick from the subs every week for each fixture? with me being the only permanent player? or a conglomerate of players could register a team and have a rotation system?

Why would you want to do this? The whole point of the league is to keep teams together through winter, and get some competitive team practice for the tourneys in the spring / summer.

I wanted to be in a team, because I wanted play good polo with good players regularly, and develop some sort of off and on court rapport with the other team members.

I got that with Sitting Ducks, and I get that with 3 Beards. I can imagine that if I was just 1 of 6 players in a squad, I would get pretty frustrated on the polo side of things, even if the craic was good off the court.

On the other hand, I totally understand why ZU have done what they did, it made total sense - keep a team in the league when it was likely that getting 3/3 players on court was going to be problem. I can imagine that a team might find themselves in the same situation again, in which case, I would be in favour of allowing them to do name 4 or 5 players.

I really can't imagine a situation where a team would want to manipulate league rules to gain an advantage; what would be the point? We have deliberately made the league more about playing than winning (all due respect to BAD), because there really aren't any rewards beyond the approbation and admiration of the rest of the league players on offer. So why would any team want to go against the spirit of the league (competitive but friendly games through winter) just to win?