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@danwentskiing
I'm boring myself with the relentless 'fuck the goalies' thing.
The main reason as I see it is that double/triple goalies encourages polo that is frustrating to play and ugly to watch. If we want to maintain enthusiasm of current players we need a ruleset which promotes safe, enjoyable, skilfull polo. If we want to grow polo, we need to make it look attractive to outsiders.
Yes, it's subjective, but I suspect even the most ardent of double-d'ers know it's fucking ugly and encourages even uglier goalie fucking which results in a series of goalmouth cluster fucks and random, opportunistic breaks and one-on-ones with goalies.