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I like the idea but don't like the fact that if you can't make it regularly you can't play.

+1

I think it's a great idea and was discussing with various. My personal opinion is that the league games should be drawn and the 2 teams have to get together within 2 weeks / 3 week period, Location and time of their choice, we can post it up so others can watch but, it should be for the 6 to decide where when to best suit those 6 peoples lives. Keep pick up sundays, south weds, NE thurs etc and drop the odd league game in there too. Basically to go and play any team intensivly for 30 mins and share the points and goals or best of 5 would be brilliant. R.O.N and B.A.D played for 30 mins last saturday non stop and it was great, that can't be too hard to organise between 6 people can it? And at the end of the year we'll have some points and stats and beers!

^ That sound like a good system.

^^ Well thought out brendan, that was the plan so far as well, we just need to have a group decision about how many weeks between games

2/3 weeks between games, if a game doesn't get played, both teams get neg points. That way you don't need to fuck about organising it, teams can sort it between themselves as brendan suggested.

i'm with mike on keeping it casual, i think like a lotta people here, i have a problem with being told what to do and when.

Get out! Now!

my theory was you will be told 2 teams to be played and then that will give a month the teams a month to get organised and played

fair?

Yeah this method was my first thought but then I wondered if it might be easier to have a set day of the week which is designated "league polo day" to make it easier for people to plan their lives around.
Teams could still have 2-3-4 weeks to arrange the games but on a set day so we all know where and when to be there for it. I don't just want to play league games, I want to be able to watch the competition in action too!!

I don't understand the system. Too many words to read and I'm too tired from work. But why not, in New York they have team nights on thursday. No throw-in games, just teams. But no league. And some teams change name every week.
Also I'm traveling a lot usually so might not be able to do that many games at fixed dates.

No Fixed date, you just have n amount of time to liaise with the opposing team to work out when you can play.

i think we should throw you all in a cage with sharpened mallets and let God sort things out. i'd be prepared to do the administering for this.

however, this might be because i just watched the Swayze bouncer epic, "Roadhouse" followed by "I Predict a Riot", a documentary about the Poll Tax Riots on Bravo, the most masculine channel on all of the television.

I'm well excited about this. I think it's a great idea to get together and sort out all the details, just need to know when and where.

Oh, and as for number of games, 1 game of polo takes about 10 - 15 mins, so I don't think playing 4 games a month is too much or will take away from casual or pick up games. I also think a league would encourage new players to play more and get better. My 2p worth.

Exactly my point about letting the 6 sort it out, if they can so that it's on an existing polo night so much the better. But there was a period a few months ago that work literally fell on every single wednesday for about 4 weeks, so south polo was totally out.
Also if it's left up to the 6 we might be able to squeeze lunch time polo in which would be fun, except if you have to play bill then it'll just be business.

Hmmm… Kind of like a 'loose' democracy…

Sounds much more in keeping with the general ethos of this site.

Yeah, I think what Skoota is proposing is that the rest of us delegate 6 to sort out the details, which is fine by me.

i think the league should be a league, it shoudl have a season, and game days. a season that starts and ends makes it easyer for new people and teams to join, and having game days allows for players and spectators to watch other games.

if we dont do it this way its not any diffrent to all the random drop in polo games

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why start a league if we don't want it to act like one.

Isn't that a bit like saying "why ride a bike on the road if you don't want gears"?

no.

great but i think if you post matches as definate time slots and the 6 players who are involved can't do it, then spectators or not, it'll never work. I'm just saying that the league games should have some lee way in favour of those that have to play, rather than those who tell them when.

Originally Posted by skoota
Also if it's left up to the 6 we might be able to squeeze lunch time polo in which would be fun, except if you have to play bill then it'll just be dale pleasuring him and receiving a polo in the ass as one of the acknowledged rollapaluza perks.

now fixed.

@ chris crahs:

oh, okay.

+1.

Even if you are southie scum.

Now it's fixed. Sort your insults out!

well, an obvious method to make a scheduled league work would be to have teams of more than the number required for play, like in any other scheduled league sport. Then for any given date, out of a selection pool of (for example) 5-6 people you would likely get 3 available to play.

and if it runs a season, you could know that you need to generally keep Saturday mornings (for example) clear from June to August.

or we could simply have monthly turniments, and the rest of the time would be free for teams to practice, and scrimmage. if and when they can arrange it

now you're talking sense. and point it up at the end of the season. have an overall. the monthly contributes towards a table.

this is the idea that people had on the day i liked best, as it has the best of both worlds, and the more you work at it (organizing practices, and scrimmages) the more you get out (more non-turny playing time, more improvement of skills, better placement in turnys)

i would add you +rep right now but i can't because i already neg repped you for neg repping me for no reason.

werd.

I'd pos rep you now pj, for having neg repped chris for having neg repped you for no reason, but I've already pos repped you for saxondale.

also people could come and watch the turnys, and come and go during them. this would also work better for people who dont work 9 to 5.

I like the idea of having subs as well, so if some one cant make it, the team can still play, or if all 4 or 5 can make it then the team can sub during games (like when some one damages a bike/ mallet). though i doubt we have the people to do this.

i neged you for moving away, and living me in this empty husk of a life :(

sorry, this ain't going to work/

Dogs, You are a pillock.

dogs = grumpy

I vote for 2 weeks for teams to sort out when to play but also a specific season (even if it's loose-ish) as that will allow for new teams.
And that the 2 teams have to post on the league blog when and where their game is asap, so people can come bring them beer and shout abuse watching them.
Perhaps also on the night of the game, whatever spare person there is there is nominated by the teams to sort out any disagreements by the teams. No need for refs or anything, but just in case there is a disagreement, then there's one person there who the teams agree to let sort it out if they can't do it themselves.... but I'm against refs. At least for now.

you see - dale escapes the neg rep wrath of the slighted, precious, my little polo club. favouritism.

No he didn't. I just don't normally advertise when I rep people.

I just neg repped you.

Who needs a reason?

i'm all for tournments once in a while and playing casually during the week. juat don't see how you can organise a constant league so it works out fairly and allows new teams to play etc. also don't believe it's what it's all about (and you do the hokey pokey...)

are there rules like no drinking? or no smoking? drug testing?

Yeah, and I am the chief enforcer.

er... is hokey pokey the antipodean pervert's interpretation of the hokey cokey?

knocked me off front page... jerk.

lol you not got the t-bagging one?

He keeps that for his "special time"

+1.

yes

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Originally Posted by pj (pj)
er... is hokey pokey the antipodean pervert's interpretation of the hokey cokey?


Actually hokey cokey is the anglican crackheads interpretation of the hokey pokey!