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Dated 1st May 2008
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Hey everyone,

With luck our British Club Champs will take place this year despite the usual level of apathy. It's staged over a weekend which ends with a public holiday on the Monday so lots of people like to go away. In other countries, teams would bust a gut to make a more sociable occasion of it i'm sure, but not here.

People outside Britain need to understand over these bank holiday weekends, there is a great desire to go to DIY superstores and buy loads of stuff they don't need, have no time to use, or a lack of ability to complete the intended project. It's just what happens, and since we don't have so many public holidays over here, people don't like to get tied down to doing something they feel they can do any other time.

If it does take place, I'm still not quite sure what my own paddling will be up to at that stage, given (at the time of writing) I've only been in a boat three times since the Cup of the North mid February.

Clyde


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Latest on 'Britain's Best Team' Award

A great deal of thanks go to James Hosken for effectively being helpful for bouncing ideas off of and who also set up the voting process.

Nominations for new teams (to vote for) can now be made by emailing James Hosken and will placed onto the BCU Canoe Polo Committee site on the Britain's Best Team Award poll.

From there, once you are logged in, visitors can vote for their preferred team.

So, the Latest...

The Award for Britain’s Best Team is well under way with over 90 votes having already been made. Kingston A are still the most organised outfit to get themselves in pole position which at this stage is going to be tough to topple out of the runnings, while 2nd and 3rd place for the final three way vote are still being maintained by previous leaders Viking A and Cambridge Uni.

If you think you know a more worthy team for the award or just think the teams heading the poll currently shouldn’t be there, then the only thing you can do about it is get another team nominated and voted higher than them, or at least to reach the all important top three places.

First Round Nominating/Voting will end on Thursday 22nd of May at midnight. This will give me enough time to sort out the voting slips for the Club Champs weekend with the three way final selection being the people’s choice.

All three teams will start off with no votes and it is anticipated that those three teams might find creative ways to recruit votes from players not directly involved in that team in order to increase their chances of winning the award. Personally, I am particularly looking forward to just how creative this recruitment might be. This aspect of the Teams social skills off the water is after all a clear part of the criteria !

I have been asked about the Red and Yellow Cards negating Voting points. It was always my intension that this take place at the final stage of voting (not the first round of Nomination/Voting), based on those Send Off Forms received by the Chief Referee.

Please forgive me, but I hadn’t mentioned before, but this Award will be returned annually to the BCU Canoe Polo Committee to re-present to each subsequent winning team. Perhaps, sometime down the line, there may be a keep-sake for each winning team, but as things currently stand that is not the case.

Anyway, for more information you can follow this link for a Word document containing more information.

Just remember, the top three teams on the poll by midnight on the 22nd May will be the only ones in a chance to win this title. If your team is not there, then you had a chance to do something about it !

There seems to be a fair amount of discussion about a certain game at the 2005 World Games between Italy and Germany. After much badgering the clip in question is now available for viewing by following this link.
Q~Dos Blades is now under new ownership. The exiting range will be available shortly - as soon as the relocation / setting up has been completed. Please forward all enquiries directly to Mads Marholt :-

Kayak & Trek ApS

Or Email

The New Website will be www.q-dos.dk

Two DVD's of games from the 2006 World Champs are now available. More Details on content is available from Clyde's Polo Kit.

IMPORTANT

Andy Dancer is the Chief Referee for the BCU Canoe Polo Committee. He should only be contacted on principle issues not directly covered by the information already provided on the Polo Committee Website. Please do not ask him things you can easily find out yourself just by reading. He is a very busy chap !

Beverley Dancer is the Refereeing Administrator. Beverley is a busy lass ensuring the database of referees is as up to date as possible (given the information she has). Please only contact Beverly if you want to know when you re-assessment is due of if you are a league organiser and want to check on the status of team's nominated refs.

Clyde's Polo Kit Supplies web site is constantly being updated. The products listed are constantly having more information added as well as more Technical Information too.
Don't forget to check out the latest News and Deals.

Please remember that this page has a wide International readership.

If you have any news or a special invitation to polo players outside your country, then let me know about it and I will include it here.

PRACTICAL ASSESSMENTS

Anyone who would like to be assessed by me can ask me whenever they see me. I will shortly post a list of events where some assessors will be.

Candidates requiring assessment should always have an assessment form with them to have the best chance of asking someone at an event to assess them. The BCU Assessment form is available for free download from the Main Menu below.

The BCU Polo Committee Web Page has been extensively updated. If you have any comments about it or would like something else added, then send your comments to the web editor.

Don't forget, if you have any news items or reports you think should be shared with others then let me know.


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(even if you don't agree with what is written here).

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Most of the comments on these pages are personal opinions of Clyde (aka Paul Hammond). Since he is no longer the Chief Referee here in Britain, there are no added confusions and anything written here on the matter of rules would be from the capacity of just another Referee giving his personal opinion. If you don't like it, then complain to head office - Hammond towers, 1st floor, South East London - where all the yobs come from, bordering North Kent (Garden of England apparently - have you seen it ?), UK, The affiliated part of Europe which is more or less as far as most Brits (not including Clyde - 'cause he likes to travel) would ever want to go.


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For Duncan