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Which Regional Team Can I Play For?
Curlarge:
At the risk of becoming boring, I"d just like to make this point.
The original comments about ex Luton players all playing for London & HC were bourn out of trying to keep the team spirit alive, that Waz has spent 3 years cultivating. Waz (and he won"t thank me for this) is absolutley gutted that we will be playing for different teams this season, but in the truest of APAT spirits has accepted the fact that he must now play for East England. The insensitive comments by the ex Solent captain, given that they were made within a few hours of the announcment, simply fuelled the fire and got the response they were no doubt designed to get.
The vast majority of ex Luton players are very disappointed about the decision but we all have accepted it. It should also be pointed out here, that most other "ex teams", Liverpool, WM, Solent etc... will still be playing with the same teammates in the new teams, but we will not, and thats where the dissappointment stems from.
On the Scottish theme.
I love the Scottish passion. It is like no other. It is what makes England v Scotland so special.
I am bulldoggian in my support for all things English where there is a team involved, particularly v Scotland. It"s because we care and they care. Long may that continue.
Fatcatstu:
--- Quote from: Paulie_D on February 16, 2012, 14:58:43 PM ---
--- Quote from: Fatcatstu on February 16, 2012, 14:52:31 PM ---
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.
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Well said...Have you been NOT drinking.
Oh...and it"s "kerfuffle".
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not yet... thought i would post now rather than my usual nonsense later when hammered :)
i had about 25 goes at spelling it, just stuck with that one. but many thanks for that, learn something new every day!!
Sef:
regardless of calling it a region or a country it"s still scotland..... for instance i"m pretty sure scouse wouldn"t want to play for manchester if it was that way round. (just as an example)
And lets not forget, it aint just Scotland, it"s Wales and Ireland players also.
GiMac:
--- Quote from: Curlarge on February 16, 2012, 15:00:22 PM ---
On the Scottish theme.
I love the Scottish passion. It is like no other. It is what makes England v Scotland so special.
I am bulldoggian in my support for all things English where there is a team involved, particularly v Scotland. It"s because we care and they care. Long may that continue.
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Let"s remember that this isn"t just a Scottish thing, but also a Welsh and Irish one. Although I have to agree with your sentiments. ;D
p.s. it is quite plainly idiotic to make waz, ex luton captain, leave all his team mates and go and play for a team he has no affiliation with and leave the team mates he has played with & as you say has spent 3yrs building team spirit with etc.
p.p.s. We had that team spirit within 15 minutes of our group being opened up on facebook. ;)
Des:
--- Quote from: Curlarge on February 16, 2012, 15:00:22 PM ---
At the risk of becoming boring, I"d just like to make this point.
The original comments about ex Luton players all playing for London & HC were bourn out of trying to keep the team spirit alive, that Waz has spent 3 years cultivating. Waz (and he won"t thank me for this) is absolutley gutted that we will be playing for different teams this season, but in the truest of APAT spirits has accepted the fact that he must now play for East England. The insensitive comments by the ex Solent captain, given that they were made within a few hours of the announcment, simply fuelled the fire and got the response they were no doubt designed to get.
The vast majority of ex Luton players are very disappointed about the decision but we all have accepted it. It should also be pointed out here, that most other "ex teams", Liverpool, WM, Solent etc... will still be playing with the same teammates in the new teams, but we will not, and thats where the dissappointment stems from.
On the Scottish theme.
I love the Scottish passion. It is like no other. It is what makes England v Scotland work special.
I am bulldoggian in my support for all things English where there is a team involved, particularly v Scotland. It"s because we care and they care. Long may that continue.
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There is a lot of sense in this post. Luton was perhaps the main reason that APAT were adopting a softer approach on Regional eligibility, but alas several people pulled us up on the approach, probably correctly in my opinion.
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