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@JonoMarshall
I have no idea how you can defend "professional fouls" (deliberately playing outside of the ruleset), I'd love to hear the defense for this attitude within the example of someone swinging a mallet into your eye socket and making you go blind in one eye... boom, you now have an advantage on court over the opposition?
Or maybe it's just about arrogance and selective breaking of the rules"? For example, I can "choose" to cause a big crash at times, but wouldn't in general so it's ok? Yeah, nice standpoint, bit of a shame your victim can't choose whether to come out of that crash with cuts and bruises, or with no front teeth, or a broken bone, etc?
Or maybe it's about anti-establishment and feeling you're playing to someone else's ruleset/decisions? That's actually fair enough, but given that there's currently an "open" approach to the rules, amending them, discussing them, etc. It seems a little unreasonable to avoid getting involved and then kick up a fuss after the opportunity was given and after you may have signed up to a tournament where the ruleset was published well in advance, etc.
My 2p, over and out, it's truly awesome that Brighton's scene is back in action again.