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@aufbruch
Thank you Karlsruhe, you put on a great tournament. Thank you Steffan for giving us somewhere to stay and an endless supply of drawn on maps. Thank you London - I have such huge respect for all of you, both as people and polo players. Doing my best to coach was an absolute pleasure.
As others have said, the format still needs tweaking but there's definitely something good in it.
5th was a great result. If we'd been lower I would have been disappointed, higher and I'd be elated.
"To those who say that all that matters is winning, I warn them that someone always wins. Therefore, in a 30-team championship, there are 29 teams that must ask themselves: what did I leave at the club, what did I bring to my players, what possibility of growth did I give them?"
César Luis Menotti
The best result possible result for London will be if our community now realises it's ok to talk polo strategy with each other and to communally try to raise the standard in our city. We have a tendency to not want other teams to get better because we know we have to play them in the league or that places for tournaments are limited and our natural instinct is to let our competitiveness privatise information. At the moment we have a lot of players of all levels in London but very few teams able to compete at the top level. I believe London could easily generate 10 teams able to compete at the top level within the next year if we worked it right. We could be gleaming the cube but right now we're standing around prodding it with our foot to see if it moves.