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Woods' and Polo's teams 50 and 75% French respectively.

Chan looks a bit English, too.

Great to watch and judge from afar, and so much potential for stats!

I'd love to see the odds of French captains' predisposition to pick another French person.

Can't believe Fin got picked so late.

Spring Break/Fake have four players in the top 24 (including captains).

Good job Dan. Getting shit done for Birmingham Bike Polo.

I have a massive 6-man and a (small) 2-man that are both pretty new. I also have a pretty dodgy 3-man that I would only recommend using if it's definitely going to be dry. I guess two 3-mans would be the ideal solution?

I haven't spoken to them, so I'm pontificating, but it's a Caravan Club site, which usually means they're catering for septegenarian Tories with 30ft mobile homes. The 'pitch' fits a caravan, so it makes sense to charge £30 or whatever for it...

I doubt they'll let you cram a bunch of tents into one pitch. They might grudgingly accept one big 'family' tent, into which you cram 6-8 people though.

Sounds like a P.A.R.T.Y campsite! I hope no other polo players are camping on the Friday, because our kind will almost certainly be barred by the time we arrive...

Anyway, PM'd.

Four teams would be good as three was tireing last time - 20min polo reps with 10min rests for 5 hours was a killer!

Assuming you play your fair share in goal, that's 6.66 minutes of play ever game. Let's be charitable and suggest we get four games per hour, which means you play three games per hour, which means 19.98 minutes of activity per hour*. Can't you ride 100 miles in four hours or something stupid!

*Almost certainly wrong, but you do the math...

Gonna start doubling my prices to incentivise all you crusties to get cars of your own, so then you can drive me and I can get drunk for once...

I don't think 5G and Rich will want to travel for 2-3 hours of team games followed by random polo. If we don't want to exclude people, we can always cancel it and just move back to regular Sunday polo.

In my mind, we need to play for at least four hours with three teams rotating, for it to be worth travelling, but more teams means longer time, and throw-ins means holding the court all day. Damned if you do, damned if you don't.

So who’s camping

1. LJ (2 and/or 3 man tent)
   
2. neil - also needs a lift
   
3. danwentskiing (gonna assume no accommodation - and I'd prefer an early night anyway)
   
   

Also who’s driving?

1. LJ (early Saturday morning 1 space)
   
2. danwentskiing (if I have to)
   

Shall we (by which I mean, LJ) book a pitch? Supposedly nearly full, and I think at least 6 people will want to camp.

5G are coming - it's already a bit harsh to expect such luminaries to mix with the likes of Troika and WRISTS, let alone Monty et al....

3 teams is plenty IME

Shhhhhhh secret Monday team practice!

Yeah, just monday for me... Sorry non-affiliated players - we need practice to represent Birmingham to the highest standard at the forthcoming UK Champs/Euro qualifiers. Normal service will resume promptly.

Sunday 19th Highgate 10am

1. malletesta
   
2. katie
   
3. hyper
   
4. neil
   
5. Viki (said 'see you Sunday' to me)
   
6. Lucas
   
7. claudbutler
   
8. danwentskiing
   

Recovering from a cold, but I'm 75% likely to be there.

I will probably end up driving. Depends if there's room in one of the other car-owning-professionals' cars.

I kind of like the idea of camping, but I tend to fart. A lot.

That is some 5* optimistic pricing right there. I'd want a private bathroom, fire-pit, table and chairs, free beer and food for that. But this being England, it'll be a soggy field with a porta-potty.

Anyway, I have a large tent which you could probably fit 6 people into. It wouldn't be spacious/luxurious/comfortable but it would bring the price down to £5 per head which is more realistic.

Still holding out for accommodation though.

Can't make this Wednesday or Sunday.

I'm gonna get there around 9.30 for extra practice.

Ladies army apply a crease rule:

This seemed to work pretty well at every tournament I saw it used last year, yet this year it seems to have been forgotten. Or has it been a concious decision not to use them?

Matt goalkeeping at 1:00 a highlight

Oh man.... Two damning videos in a week! Do WRISTS play worse when they're being observed?

Yeah, I'm loving Highgate Wednesdays. I probably won't be able to make it until 7.30pm from next week onwards, however.

Kat's T-Bone of Vicky was brilliant.

'Everyone's too nice'? You heard what I was saying to Neil, right?

Drizzle/rain mix...

I'm waiting to hear if Stabbath have got accommodation. If not, it'll be camping. That doesn't help much... I have a big tent though.

Kat can make it tonight - so with Viki, if my addition skills are up to scratch, that makes six.

Mental Arithmetic - A*
Typing - F
Attention to Detail - U

Yerp: post-polo BBQ at mine? Bring your own meat/halloumi?