[UCCBball] Fwd: Claremont basketball Nom Form (fwd)

[tommo at ucc.asn.au]

Quoting "Chas Stan-Bishop" <chas at ucc.gu.uwa.edu.au>:

>> In the meantime, if the UWA gym is available, do people want to have a
>> training session on Saturday? Might be nice to fit another one in
>> before our first game.
>
> I'd like to, assuming I don't get dragged off somewhere wedding related.
> ;P
> I currently have nothing planned for Saturday, so any time is good.

Okay, that makes two of us. Could other people please reply and say if  
they're up for training? I'm not going to book the hall if it's just  
going to be me and (maybe, depending on wedding stuff) Chas.

> As for everything else:
> - To expand on what I said in my last email, I think Alwyn should tell
> Lawrence "Sure, no problem at all, love to help". Having an extra player
> is sub-optimal, sure, but it's kinda the price we pay for being a
> Claremont sponsored team. And if we're causing headaches for the new guy,
> we should be helping out as much as possible anyway.

Hmmm, if one of the new guys decides he'd like to play regularly  
perhaps he could become our new link to the church? :P

> - I'd like to _try_ and stay in the baptist comp if possible. Although
> it's been slowly declining a bit, it's a _hell_ of a lot friendlier than
> Perry Lakes was, which was the original point. Unless we can find
> somewhere else we know is a friendly comp.

Perry Lakes isn't as nice as Lakeside, but I think some of those  
memories are tainted by the fact that we were losing every game by 50+  
points to teams waaaaaay too good to be playing in the div we were in.  
If we went back there now, I think we'd find it a lot more  
accomodating. I've played a huge amount of basketball at Perry Lakes,  
and I've rarely had any really major complaints. So I don't think we  
should rule it out as an option, if we end up having to find a new comp.

Of course, it only has mens on weeknights, which might be a problem for some.

> - Thank to Chris for looking in to what was going on. Hopefully things
> will be okay now that everyone seems to know what's actually happening.
> And yeah, looking as the size of D grade, it is quite possible it isn't
> the right grade for us. Should we be speaking to someone (i.e. Seb, by the
> sound of it?) to figure out if that is the case, and what we should do
> about it if so?

I honestly don't think D Grade would be all that terrible an idea.  
We've been in a pretty serious slump recently, our lineup has  
undergone some significant changes and we're trying to incorporate a  
new offensive structure into our game.

I don't really mind, though. C2 is fine as well :)

Tom.