The Devil's Advocate
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There has been so little discussed on this forum, but so much via emails, phone calls, and behind the scenes discussions around selection criteria for National Senior team selection, and the make up of the present teams for Manilla, specifically the Men's Seniors teams, and maybe one other.
I would like to have a meeting at the Canberra Seniors Cup for mainly the squad listed, however an open invitaton extends to all seniors competing in the tour this year.
The reason is there is not an acceptable or unilateral agreement on what selection to the Seniors National Teams should be or is, as it stands the bulk of us who spends $1000's a year to go around this country competing on the seniors tour to challenge for ranking points with the carrot of National selection is seeing the "Seniors" cheapened by the selection criteria where someone can also be selected if they simply compete in the Nationals only and not even have to be on the rankings...this is way out of balance.
I have spoken to Gillian some time ago and she asked me to come up with a model that could be looked at, I have spoken to many at different times with little unanimous agreement, so I would like an open forum, to look firstly at what form the criteria and what qualifies someone for National selection.
The second part of the meeting is to open up discussions on the team make ups for Manilla, as many have indicated but few are willing to say publicly, the make up seem unbalanced, specifically the Men's seniors teams.
We are all in agreeance that the ranking positions, the tournament finishes over the last 12 or so months, and cross section of tournaments across the country, not just in our own states, doesn't seem to have been taken too much into consideration.
So to get everyone on the same page, I would like us all to get together in the same room and get us all working together, because if we don't guys, the amount of pressure TBA has had to deal with since the teams were announced has been far greater than most in the past, the end result could very well be, they throw there hands in the air and say the seniors is all too hard.
We need to take responsibility and show TBA not only what we need and which direction we wish to go, but to also give them a unilateral solution, as it is all too common practice to pooh pooh something without offering viable alternatives or solid supportive arguments.
I have invited representative(s) from TBA, what we need to do is come up with a time, Saturday is the obvious day, we could us the upper meeting room of the bowl, it should take no more than an hour, if we all come with the idea taking responsibility of our destiny.
Please think about it and come up with ideas, models, systems whatever as somewhere amongst all this there is the right mix.
You could use this forum to get models thought about to minimise time at the meeting, however pllease use it positively not negatively....
Thanks
Paul Terry
I would like to have a meeting at the Canberra Seniors Cup for mainly the squad listed, however an open invitaton extends to all seniors competing in the tour this year.
The reason is there is not an acceptable or unilateral agreement on what selection to the Seniors National Teams should be or is, as it stands the bulk of us who spends $1000's a year to go around this country competing on the seniors tour to challenge for ranking points with the carrot of National selection is seeing the "Seniors" cheapened by the selection criteria where someone can also be selected if they simply compete in the Nationals only and not even have to be on the rankings...this is way out of balance.
I have spoken to Gillian some time ago and she asked me to come up with a model that could be looked at, I have spoken to many at different times with little unanimous agreement, so I would like an open forum, to look firstly at what form the criteria and what qualifies someone for National selection.
The second part of the meeting is to open up discussions on the team make ups for Manilla, as many have indicated but few are willing to say publicly, the make up seem unbalanced, specifically the Men's seniors teams.
We are all in agreeance that the ranking positions, the tournament finishes over the last 12 or so months, and cross section of tournaments across the country, not just in our own states, doesn't seem to have been taken too much into consideration.
So to get everyone on the same page, I would like us all to get together in the same room and get us all working together, because if we don't guys, the amount of pressure TBA has had to deal with since the teams were announced has been far greater than most in the past, the end result could very well be, they throw there hands in the air and say the seniors is all too hard.
We need to take responsibility and show TBA not only what we need and which direction we wish to go, but to also give them a unilateral solution, as it is all too common practice to pooh pooh something without offering viable alternatives or solid supportive arguments.
I have invited representative(s) from TBA, what we need to do is come up with a time, Saturday is the obvious day, we could us the upper meeting room of the bowl, it should take no more than an hour, if we all come with the idea taking responsibility of our destiny.
Please think about it and come up with ideas, models, systems whatever as somewhere amongst all this there is the right mix.
You could use this forum to get models thought about to minimise time at the meeting, however pllease use it positively not negatively....
Thanks
Paul Terry
