Polo: Teams Proposal

lets be honest, cambridge was a proper ouch, i was texting players who took part and i was cringing..

I think concentrating on a scene is best atm, as you said, Skyride bought you Bhx bike polo back from the brink, and to be fair i think we are asking too much of ourselves for recent players.

No substitute for experience..

Yeah, I heard it was bad, but as Matt says, it's better to represent and gain experience than not show up (I talking teams here, obviously I couldn't go). It takes a few tournaments before your nerves calm down to the extent that you can play to your potential. Pretty much all the 'new' influx are totally up to speed now, and there isn't a massive difference between players any more. That's been reflected in the high standard of play recently. We'll do better at our next (big) tournament!

This proposal is totally about building the scene - as I said before 90% of games will still be throw-ins, and people who don't make teams won't play any less often than those who do. If that situation develops I'll be the first to call for changes.

Me and Fin have both said we're more interested in growing Birmingham than bettering our tournament results - if we wanted that, we'd just stay as Black Stabbath. If this system goes ahead, there'll be three okay-ish teams, rather than one okay team and one pretty shit one (at best).