British Team

[James9118]

We will of course run a selection competition should the number require it - as well as train hard together.

Cheers, Paul

Playing devil's advocate here - when you say 'we', what remit do you have to select a British team? (I say this knowing full way that selection won't be necessary given the low number of interested casters).

[Lasse Karlsson]

Another way of looking at this, wouldn't it be nice to take on Norway and win on their home turf......

On that note, back to the river

Cheers

Ben

You've had three chances... It will be quite a while before WC is held in Norway again...

Cheers
Lasse

[Paul Arden]

Ha ha. I can see why GB never manages to put together a decent team in anything! I'm looking to take our numbers from three to six. We have a lot of catching up to do and this will be a start.

Cheers, Paul

[Hamish]

.. It will be quite a while before WC is held in Norway again...

Where are they being held next then Lasse?

Ha ha. I can see why GB never manages to put together a decent team in anything!

What? Like international competition tiddly winks? Come off it Paul, that's a wee bit heavy on the amateur dramatics front isn't it?

I'm looking to take our numbers from three to six. We have a lot of catching up to do and this will be a start.

And that's great, more power to your elbow There is a limited number of folk likely to make up that team of 6 (or more, looking at team entries this year) so it makes sense to include rather than exclude the possibility of their competing.

You've been there, competed and have developed a taste for the flavour where (most of) the rest of the potential British team have not. Admittedly most of the folk who are likely to make up the team do frequent (or are familiar with) Sexyloops, but that does not mean a British team should necessarily be 'Team Sexyloops'.
I am confident there are up and coming (and existing) world class casters out there in Britain who do not 'walk this board' who are worthy of inclusion, if you want the team to be competitive and representative then they need to be attracted to the concept. It also needs to be a team who will work with each other as a group and not a number of individuals who have simply got together because they couldn't get into the tiddly winks team.

I don't consider myself a World class caster as I know my faults.... I'm a lazy barstool who is reasonably handy/lucky with a rod without much (or any) practice, but that could change with something to aim for. There may be others.
However, with a young family to support (no pun intended!) I know that currently I could not commit to traipsing down to the middle or south of England more than maybe once a year, perhaps other potential team members have the same issues?
So perhaps how and where folk get together needs to be investigated further. Perhaps this needs to be discussed off the board by all the interested parties who could make the team.... or not. I'm not adverse to discussing these things.

Are wild card entries allowed at the Worlds? Must go look at the rules.......

[Paul Arden]

Absolutely Hamish. You could have competed at all three of the previous world championships. Why didn't you? It doesn't matter why not. But one thing that Lee and I realised last time was that we need a larger team. There are benefits to this. Now for some reason this pisses people off who've never been in the team or made the effort to travel to the World Championships. Quite frankly some people just like being pissed off! I'm not interested in that, only putting together a strong committed team that can travel to the worlds wherever they are and take medals. (They have to take medals because I need to find sponsorship). And yes my main motivation behind this is because I would like to start winning gold medals. And if other team members do too then fantastic. That's even better! It's not politics, it's not Sexyloops (!), it's about being more competitive on the platform.

Cheers, Paul

[Hamish]

As an individual I've never felt I've been good enough, as part of a team that would work together I could be.

That's an honest answer Paul.

[Paul Arden]

Sorry I was editing my post there Hamish The reason for the strength training is that once the wind luck is taken out of the equation then it's very apparent that it matters.

Cheers Paul

[stesiik]

Hi Bart!

Hi Stefan,

Can you tell us what the Norwegians are up to?

I see that they are very active, arranging training sessions, getting access to training venues and so on. I see more "after WC-activity" than I´ve seen before.

I sure hope that it is still possible to be competitive for the man going at it alone.
It will be hard to get some coaching and stuff here in Holland.

If you need/want that you should become the coach and arrange the stuff!

Best regards
Stefan

[Lasse Karlsson]

Hi Hamish

Rumour has it England

After the first one, no one took up the gauntlet to arrange the next one, at the second one, the norwegians said they didn't want to do it again, it is much better if it moves out to another country, gives it more Credit. This year it was supposed to be in England, and that fell through, and it was a last minute decision that it was again in Norway, so next time I hope the brits gets it together and arrange it, otherwise I don't know where and if at all there will be one....

Cheers
Lasse

[Paul Arden]

I sincerely do hope we can host it. We have a few options and we have a meeting in two weeks (as part of the team weekend). Lots to discuss.