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

[Andrew Bailey]

On Thu, Apr 02, 2009 at 03:31:11PM +0800, tommo at ucc.asn.au wrote:
> 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.
>

If only to take a break from reading about formal inspection process. I can probably make some time on saturday if possible. 
 
> > 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'm easy on that.

> > - 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.
> 
New courts too, remember. That said I played at Perry lakes for nearly ten years and the umpiring did go downhill towards the end.

> > - 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.
> 
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