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Which Regional Team Can I Play For?
Des:
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--- Quote from: Des on February 16, 2012, 14:34:14 PM ---I don"t actually think it was badly explained as it was clearly stated they were regional teams. And we should be keen to retain those identities, as it would have been as easy to call Scotland "Region D" and Yorkshire "Region E", etc while retaining the geographical split. I"m sure there wouldn"t have been any issues had we named in that way.
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Sorry I disagree, I havent played for the last 3 years in the regional leagues, cos I didn"t give a toss about representing Newcastle, Sunderland or Stockton,and I would have had even less feelings for playing for region A, B or C, but the chance to play for Scotland actually ATTRACTED me to play & consider commiting to giving up 15 evenings of my time.
Now i know some say it"s just a $10 game and a bit of fun, and it is, but it"s also giving up 15 evenings to play in the league, it"s not just money.
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Perhaps you wouldn"t have played Gordon, but I do not believe these issues would have arisen had we named the Regions in a different way. That said, I think the passion is great and am not suggesting we change the way the Regions are named; although we will be treating the Regions as groupings of people, not countries versus counties. If you look at the population breakdown, Scotland is around the sixth largest Region in this league.
TightEnd:
--- Quote from: nosey-p on February 16, 2012, 14:37:18 PM ---
--- Quote from: TightEnd on February 16, 2012, 14:28:12 PM ---
--- Quote from: nosey-p on February 16, 2012, 14:25:53 PM ---
If you can call them by another name instead of Scotland, Ireland and Wales as to try to take away the National pride bit, then would that solve the problem? I.e. could Ireland be classed as "overseas" which would include Europe
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North of Hadrian"s Wall
West of Offa"s Dyke
Other side of the Isle of Man
That help?
Scotland in this instance is a REGION in a REGIONAL league. It"s possibly badly expalined at outset, but people need to think that way
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Just trying to help, I know not to bother in future
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Reminder to self, must add smilies in future
Looking forward to next week an awful lot, I must say. (In brackets for the hard of comprehension: Not)
Fatcatstu:
Surely this rule was thought up to balance the teams, as this was a constant point brought up in discussions, re - team sizes and fairness?
This is just broadening the borders of the teams you can play for and changing the names of said regions. This is NOT a scottish national team. There will be people not scottish playing for it. I fail to see the cafuffell.
GiMac:
--- Quote from: AJDUK on February 16, 2012, 14:47:56 PM ---
--- Quote from: Des on February 16, 2012, 14:34:14 PM ---
I don"t actually think it was badly explained as it was clearly stated they were regional teams. And we should be keen to retain those identities, as it would have been as easy to call Scotland "Region D" and Yorkshire "Region E", etc while retaining the geographical split. I"m sure there wouldn"t have been any issues had we named in that way.
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Trouble is Des, pretty early on in the original thread you said this:
--- Quote from: Des on February 15, 2012, 21:39:24 PM ---
--- Quote from: mylesfdo on February 15, 2012, 21:38:20 PM ---
ok gotcha........can u choose which team u are in??.....Im from Brighton but live in Slough so how does that work?
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Choose one, once you"ve committed you are then tied to that Region for the season.
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I didn"t see any great depth of feeling against this view, and people were already thinking about which region they might choose. Then it changed. Why? Where did the avalanche of feeling come from to make you change it?
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A wee search of MintTrav"s latest posts might help you out, since he seems to be the main complainer. ::)
daveyb147:
Play for where u live,,the only rule,,simples,,,and for the record,i hate everyone where i live and anywhere near !!! lol
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