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Poker Forum => World Championship of Amateur Poker (WCOAP) => Live Archive => Live Poker => WCOAP 2008 - 2012 => Topic started by: Chipaccrual on July 15, 2011, 20:46:14 PM
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APAT are very pleased to confirm that Rob Swindells (http://www.apat.com/forum/index.php?action=pm;sa=send;u=62) will captain the team from England. Possibly the hardest job of the lot ? The team from England always seem to have a heightened level of expectation for these events, with the largest pool of players to choose from, the selection process is never an easy one. Disappointing results in 2010, but England will look to improve on their bronze medal finish in 2009.
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This thread will be updated by Rob regarding team selection.
CONFIRMED TEAM
Rob Swindells (Capt)
Rupinder Bedi
James Barber
Stuart Ward
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Firstly, I would like to say how honoured and proud I am to be selected as England captain for this. I am really excited about this and am determined that England put on a top show in front of our fans on home soil.
Secondly, I need a team. So if you are english and want to play then simply PM me. I know that there are going to be some tough decisions with this but I"m sure you all trust me to get them right ;)
Let me be the first to post
Come on England!!!!!
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Come on England!!!!
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Come on Team England, best of luck with the captaincy Rob.
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Congrats Rob! Well deserved mate. Come on England!!!
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Congrats on the appointment and the very best of luck Rob.
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Congrats Rob! Well deserved mate. Come on England!!!
+1
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All the best Rob
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What a great choice!! GL Rob, GL England!
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come on england :) well done rob fella!!
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Good luck Rob and team England :)
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Well done Rob thoroughly deserved. Churchill, Moore, Swindells, got a nice ring to it......
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TOP CHOICE TOP MAN
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Come on Eng-Ger-Land & Congrats to you Rob.
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Congrats Rob and best of luck !
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Great choice as captain, good luck Rob
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Who?
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Congratulations on the Captaincy Rob.
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Congrats Rob on your appointment.
Playing captain?
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Come On England. All the best at DTD
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Congrats Rob I"m sure you will do a outstanding job !!
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Well, have been spending a fair bit of today reading PMs and all I can say is that the enormity of this task is hitting home. I can honestly say that every single person who has PM"d me so far would deserve a place on the team.
Obviously, I can"t pick everyone (as you know) and people will be disappointed (as you know) and I really appreciate the supportive comments that everyone has made so far.
I will keep on taking PMs for this, but will set a deadline of midnight on Sunday 24th July for people to register their interest. I intend for the team to be finalised and made public as soon as possible after that, and certainly before the Scottish Champs the following weekend.
I will reply to all PMs initially with an impersonal "received and under consideration" just to let players know that I have received it, but once I finalise the team, I will reply personally to everyone.
Come on England!!!
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Congrats Rob. Good luck!
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Excellent choice and the right man for making the very hard decisions to come.
Very best wishes and Good Luck for DTD Rob :)
Paul Mac
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Well done Rob , great result for you as captain ,
shame you will be playin for 2nd LOl
only joking,
good luck
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N1 Rob, well deserving captain. Easy win!
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Congrats on your appointment Rob, and good luck with the selection process
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Many congrats on your appointment Rob...at least you can"t do as bad as last year"s choice :(
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Many congrats on your appointment Rob...at least you can"t do as bad as last year"s choice :(
whilst comments like that certainly help to ease the pressure, we all know you had a superb team last year that then proceeded to run like sick dogs.
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Congrats and gl in Nottingham!
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gl rob TID
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Good luck
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Nice one Rob and good luck to whoever plays for the England team
Though having had previous experience of Rob as a team captain I think you"re going to need all the luck you can get ;)
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Great pick for captain and good luck to you and your team Rob
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Good luck Rob - Cummon England!
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Many congrats on your appointment Rob...at least you can"t do as bad as last year"s choice :(
whilst comments like that certainly help to ease the pressure, we all know you had a superb team last year that then proceeded to run like sick dogs with no legs.
FYP
And Come on England!
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Congrats Rob! Looking forward to the ENG vs. GER headsup in Nottingham!
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Congrats Rob! Looking forward to the ENG vs. GER headsup in Nottingham!
so are we. Lets hope it doesn"t go to penalties
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Just back from 2 weeks in the US of A, with a self imposed lap top ban! So just catching up with APAT stuff, and just to add my congrats to Rob on his Captaincy, I am sure you will do us proud.
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Congrats Sir.
BTW, I"ll have a game if you"re short.
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Great Captain choice, congrats. Pick your players well as a lot of pressure will be upon you for this event.
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England Team Announcement
Firstly, I would like to say that this decision has been so much harder than I possibly imagined. When I made my interest in captaining the England team, I was not prepared for was the deluge of applications that I would receive from players that I have tremendous respect for, both as players and as people (from those I know personally).
With no insincerity whatsoever, I would happily have put the names in a hat and the first 4 out would have made a team that would have done England proud. I can't even lie and say that there was a Screaming Lord Sutch type application that would give me LOLs before ending up in the bin.
Secondly, I would like to submit the team that will be representing England
Stu Ward
Rupinder Bedi
James Barber
The final player will be myself, Rob Swindells, who will be the playing captain.
Whilst I am aware of the talent that I left out and subsequent disappointments, I am delighted with the quality and balance of this side and am sure they will do England proud.
I know I said that I would reply to everyone personally, but reading my (now deleted) replies, any platitudes or words of consolidation in a rejection email just seem patronising. All I can do is thank you for your interest and if anyone has issues or wishes to offer any advice, then please PM me and I'll get back to you by phone, if necessary.
For now, let's get behind the team and....
Come on England!!
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That"s a great team Rob - good job!
Chuffed to bits to see George in there at last.
Good luck guys - hope you run better than the team did last year!!!
England FTW!
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Great team Rob, and all the best in trying to recover the cup
Cmon England
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Nice team, and a tough job for Rob that
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Excellent selection Rob.. Good luck to all team England I"m sure you will do us all proud!
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Cracking team, good luck!
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Excellent selection Rob.. Good luck to all team England I"m sure you will do us all proud!
+1 to that T.I.D. lads
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Thanks, Rob, for picking George - I woke up in a cold sweat the other night after dreaming that I drew him in the heads-up event. YAY.
Good luck to you and the England team. GIW ;D
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Good Luck to all 4 of you.
COME ON ENGLAND !!!!!
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A mighty impressive lineup, better than those looser"s from last year ;)
You must run good surely, all the best and
COME On England!!!!!
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What a great line up...TID boys
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Great Line up, looking forward to rail this after
getting knocked out of the heads up winning the heads up.
Come on England!
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Finally! At the 16th attempt I made the cut.
Thanks to the skipper for selecting me. I"m really looking forward to representing my country and APAT at my local. I hope to bring back the silverware to it"s rightful place and whilst there"s some very good teams out there I believe our line up in the strongest.
Also looking forward to crossing swords with Kev and hopefully consigning Scotland to the wooden spoon.
COME ON ENGLAND!
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Great team, shame you"re all English.
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Wow!
Firstly cheers to Rob for giving me my shot, its a massive honour and when my brother texted me our lineup my first word was "wow!"
Bring it on, i really, really cant wait!!
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Great selections Rob, well done one and all. Now let"s get this sucker won!
Come on England!!!
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Finally! At the 16th attempt I made the cut.
Thanks to the skipper for selecting me. I"m really looking forward to representing my country and APAT at my local. I hope to bring back the silverware to it"s rightful place and whilst there"s some very good teams out there I believe our line up in the strongest.
Also looking forward to crossing swords with Kev and hopefully consigning Scotland to the wooden spoon.
COME ON ENGLAND!
It"s destined to come down to a heads up between us for the title. Well done on making the team George, I"ll prolly see you sometime before then ;)
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Great team Rob, I"m sure you guys will do England proud!
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I really appreciate the support and congratulations.
I am very proud to be able to represent England!
We have a well balanced and strong team and we are playing for the win!
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Very good team indeed. Just don"t cross our way all you"ll be safe ;)
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Was on holiday so missed the annoucement.
Great team, and all the very best for to all 4 of you.
Come on England
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Well, with the UKIPT Edinburgh, the Wedding Present at Clitheroe Grand and our first family holiday in Lake Garda, I am pretty much out of the picture until the WCOAP.
so I thought I"d leave you this mixture of cheese and sheer rookie moviemaker skillz to whet the appetite
As a team we are really looking forward to this
See you all in Nottingham!!!
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdJqX4I8aY4[/youtube]
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Well, with the UKIPT Edinburgh, the Wedding Present at Clitheroe Grand and our first family holiday in Lake Garda, I am pretty much out of the picture until the WCOAP.
so I thought I"d leave you this mixture of cheese and sheer rookie moviemaker skillz to whet the appetite
As a team we are really looking forward to this
See you all in Nottingham!!!
[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DdJqX4I8aY4[/youtube]
Rob Speilberg FTW!! Nice intimidation sir CMON ENGLAND!!
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top effort that is skipper!!!
the excitement is really building now, ITS COMING HOME!!!
we wont let you down!
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Good luck guys
Swing low, sweet chariot,
Comin" for to carry me home;
Swing low, sweet chariot,
Comin" for to carry me home
looked over Jordan,
And WHAT did I see,
Comin" for to carry me home,
A band of angels comin" after me,
Comin" for to carry me home.
Swing low, sweet chariot,
Comin" for to carry me home;
Swing low, sweet chariot,
Comin" for to carry me home.
If you get there before I do,
Comin" for to carry me home,
Tell all my friends I"m comin" too,
Comin" for to carry me home.
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GL Rob and Team England!!!!
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Good luck to team England today. TID guys.
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See you sit like warriors in the blinds,straining upon the start.
The game"s afoot: Follow your spirit;
and upon this charge Cry "God for Swinebag! England and Saint George!
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Good Luck England!!
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Good Luck England!!
Take it down!!!
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Good luck today guys. May the poker gods be with you.
Take it down!
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WP Rob. England captain is by far the toughest job of that tournament. Whatever you do you are guaranteed to upset most of the people all of the time, so well done on a creditable result.