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my plan is just to tail gav and dan. i only hope *they *know the route. and that they don't drop me too fast.

if you guys can't find a third player, i'd post on the london thread - someone is bound to join in.

yeah of course, they can either form a team and play in the league throughout the day, or just have a few throw-ins through the day.

Can we have a different name to black stabbath? Let me think one up...

you can for this one day, but we've already registered (and paid) for both geneva and the london open as black stabbath. i personally think black stabbath is perfect.

i reckon around 10/11am. depends when our esteemed guests arrive.

I already got out of bed at 6 and tried to do 40 miles in 2 hours, then come on this ride. Muss be mad.

20mph is well hard, solo. i tried to get that fast last year, and managed 19 for an hour and a half on my fixed. you can screw around with routes and gradients to help you out, but that's kind of cheating.

it's cool to have some kind of aim, but i couldn't come up with a good enough one to keep training at the expense of polo, which i enjoy so much more than just riding. when i'm older and richer i'll enrol for the etape and then train my ass off for a year to see what i am capable of.

until then it's all just wheelie-goals and half-volley shots. for me.

Then make money and get one!

amended.

highgate park, next to the paragon hotel -

http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?f=q&source=s_q&hl=en&geocode=&q=paragon+hotel,+birmingham&sll=52.469907,-1.882825&sspn=0.005725,0.02105&ie=UTF8&hq=paragon+hotel,&hnear=Birmingham,+West+Midlands,+United+Kingdom&ll=52.480689,-1.884842&spn=0.045791,0.1684&z=13

only a 5 min ride from moseley, so please do invite your mates down. we could always do with more players in brum. if they want to check it out before hand we play wednesday nights about 6.30pm start.

we were planning it to be a one-day event, 10-11am start would be nice, but there's probably going to be more visitors than locals, so if you want to say noon, that's fine with us.

i expect we'll be all wrapped up around 6pm, but it really depends on turnout/format/local yoots/number of throw-ins. personally, i'd be happy for a 12 hour polo marathon.

also, if anyone wants/needs to stay over on sunday night, we'll certainly be able to put up a few people - just let us know.

you're in training? for what?

if their wikipedia description is anything to go by, i'd gamble on their music not showing up on ben's boombox anytime soon.

i was off work with polo-aggravated back injury, so no show from me - surely would've kicked some ass though...

also, it would be really helpful if people who don't want to form a team can come and ref or just goal-ref. also, i doubt the league games will run all day, so there will be plenty of throw-ins too.

Birmingham Teams:

1. Black Stabbath (Euro Lineup) - Dan, Ben, Dan LJ
   

After the national champs and cambridge tourney, we've invited Cambridge and Manchester polo players to Brum for a day of polo.

So far we have around 6 people from Cambridge and 3 from Manchester who look interested.

Myself, Ben and Dan will be playing as a team all day to practice from the Euros. If there's enough people who show up I suggest a mini-league format IE: organise teams (probably 4-6 all together) at the start of the day, and each team plays each other one or two times, 3 points for a win, 1 for a draw, 0 for a loss.

so, register your interest on this thread, organise teams, whatever. all brum players are welcome as it would be really nice to show off our burgeoning scene.

black stabbath registered.

come on b-team!!! (i know dan and ben are interested - one more!!!)

birmingham black stabbath just registered - i'm hassling the other brum players to sort a second team too.

photos from our games in brum to give you an idea of what our court is like - seems a fair bit bigger than the one you used at the recent tournament, but maybe that is an illusion caused by stronger opposition:

http://www.lfgss.com/thread14449-18.html#post1468083

JULY 4th!!!

photos of the court we play on in brum - hopefully get some more of you interested... JULY 4TH!!!

http://www.lfgss.com/thread14449-18.html#post1468083

nice photos pete - just give the bike-golf/-snooker a go and you'll be hooked. all you need is one more bike...

just a reminder to you lazy-ass b-team suckas - registration closes june 30th so you need to sort a team and monies by then.

fin/andy - bring money tonight if you can, and i'll register black stabbath.

coldplay? stereophonics? toploader? good shit like that!

hoping two more newbies for tonight: pete aka void, and another mtb mate....

This sucks, back in Austin these things were always in bars of an evening, probably a better chance of a good atmosphere but also way more chance of a decent sized crowd.
I'm working all that day, but will definitely steal some minutes to swing by.

race ya!