London Fixed-gear and Single-speed SJS Cycles

So here we go
website: www.londonbikepololeague.blogspot.com
email: londonbikepololeague @ gmail . com

If you want to join email your team name and members, as much info about the team as you want on the website, photos etc.

This is happening so join now.

bet it doesn't happen.

-rep

pj - that's just not funny

Made me laugh. And I want it to happen.

mark -rep

cunt. I said I wanted it (as in the league - not the failing of the league) to happen.

Chris, -rep for dissing my homeboy. Cunt.

Stay on target, stay on target...

BRM, Positive Rep for that.

how about we play for fun as we always have!

cross post:

If you want to help, come to a meeting, enter the league, be involved etc.

email londonbikepololeague @ gmail . com
subject: i want to be a part of it

In the email include:
- your name
- mobile number
- forum name

this means a lot of information will be in one place, and it will be easier to contact you lot in the future

thank you

good point, i don't want the league to take away from Sundays at brick lane, but i know a lot people also wanted a bit more competition

well, good luck chaps. it was a joke - suddenly you're all "ooh it's not funny, pj cussed our noble intentions to form a league, he's a cunt, we can't have that."

hope you feel better now, all cleansed, less precious.

i don't think it's necessarily the competition.

for me, i just want to play cause it's fun, but if i know that if i'm not committed to something solid then other things (uni, wife, work) will get in the way. this is just a good way to ensure that i make time to play...

(deleted section) the best of luck with this. (really).

genuine question here though seb - will people get so into their squads that they don't mix it up - what about beginners breaking in.. is it just going to be one of the nights a week or will everyone practice as a team on the other nights?

for once im with dale ( never thought id here my self say that!!!)

i'm up for getting involved with the league like a lot of others are...keep it up seb.

yeah i think the league is a great idea too... i'm all for playing in a teams on a regular basis and with consistent team mates!

i recommend you do.

yeah, I'd like to be in some form of league. We don't have to play team games all the time, but playing as part of a team is great fun. The league isn't going to replace every game ever played, sundays will be fun games only, and there will still be plenty of opportunity to have throw in games at NE polo etc.

chill.

Who you calling inconsistent?!?

;)

This sounds like fun, I'd be involved if I were staying in London. And if I had a team.

I can't fucking wait. I've developed a nervous twitch and I'm dribbling all over my t-shirt in anticipation.

me myself and i...JOL, jonny it was sweet while it lasted.
I'm leaving MOH!

fwiw: a full league with points and all and fixtures, might be difficult to administer. a ladder might be better. you can challenge two above. people have set amount of time to respond to a challenge or they forfeit. a series of ladders, 12 teams in each. set periods, at the end of which top one gets promoted, bottom gets relegated. might work better considering the demands on peoples' time.

not funny.

what!?!?

Ray's on the market. Any takers?

i think what has been said about the pick up games is valid, and if we are doing 4 games a month per team thats like one a week, lots of teams trying to get a team game in every week, means lack of pick up games.

one game a month

Not if we leave you first!

Oh, you left us first.

Redundant post.

PJ, What does this read on your humour-ometer?

im taken.

I'm with Max, i think 4 games per team per month seems quite a lot.

It could be tricky for people to be available for that many fixtures.

if this is a league, then shouldn't the number of games be based (at least loosely) on the number of teams playing?

yeah probably. Lets just work it all out at the initial meeting

not funny.

Really? it makes me dribble.

Dave, you are a pillock.

Yeah, get off my Lady Boy.

Fuck off, he's mine.

Ends. In. Tears.

;)

For you, yes.

Tears of winningness!

For that Em you can have this... :)

If this makes it less fun, then I won't do it, but I enjoyed the team thing - and we have so many regular players that we can have a league - so why not? You never know, it might be more fun!

Lots of polo crews don't have even a quarter of the players that we have - this simply a way of exploiting that.

No-one is going to stop the Sunday pick-up thing.

Personally, as someone has always had a fear of organized team activities (=> politics) and for a similar reason has been hooming and harring about coming down and giving polo a go with y'all (that and the fact that I have a genetic shitness for ball games… hence why I enjoy cycling and shit like that), I'm wary of this league thang.

I really love how into it you all are, and that's almost as endearing as the sport itself. I just had a feeling this would happen. And in my personal experience in a number of sports and activities and groups and things, excess organization on a regular basis can often be injurious to momentum, and intimidating to beginners.

What I find most attractive, personally, about the whole polo beast (and thus that which battles my aforementioned shitness, causing the hooming and the harring) is its organic quality. Someone says "hey, let's play a game/invite some folk for a tournament/etc." and then people work to make it happen. It goes so well that people want to organize another one. And then another. If one doesn't work out, if people are too busy for a while, then the whole process doesn't suffer and continues. Set up leagues and fixed teams and all that crap, and it's suddenly a bit too structured. And as we all know structures fall.

'Course, if I was any good, I'd have been playing for ages, be in a cracking team, and thus totally up for a game. Which is exactly why should all ignore me. Meh.

I don't agree with having so much admin. but do want a league. Fortnightly games is good, not too close, not so spread apart either. Not every team has to have a game every time though. There could be special challenges or grudgematches for negative points (loser loses points winner does not gain points) at the pickup nights and sunday.

The possibilities are endless! And it doesn't have to be so fucking regimented. Go play football if you want that.