Nations Cup @ MS Campaign Cup Basildon

[Missy-Q]

Flattery will get you everywhere Missy ..

I figure you can start an enormous brawl on the one side of the field (you're 38 again, remember..) while I run down the tape and shoot everyone with my 12yr old skills..

However, in the absence of the Tardis - GOOD LUCK to the UK lads. Hope you guys bring it home.

 

[ses_paintball]

Team GB has to include Junior Brown and Beadle surely?

Most definitely Beadle.

I get the feeling if he was picked others wouldn't wanna play...

 

[Jason_Wheeler]

It'll be good to show-face for team GB and look forward to playing with the guys.

Jason Wheeler #19
London Nexus
Team GB

 

[SAMUEL.D.RYAN]

Go GB! Stellar crew!

 

[Bambulus]

Best of luck!

I absolutely love the idea of putting out the best of the UK in one team, would love to watch!

 

[Metralha33]

It beats me how you can consider this to be a real Nations Cup or anything closer. This is a really good way to make a bit more money with the fields the Millennium has already in place. If this was to be for really don't you all think that at least some people from diferent countries should be heard? Don't you think that a really Nations cup should have been prepared well in advance?

Is this really doing anything from our sport other them making more money in dificult times?

In the end people will play, players will tell their family they played in the National Team, pictures will be taken, in forums plays will be discussed, but deep down you all know this means nothing other than you were in the right place, at the right time and you knew the right persons...

I think we must wait a bit more before someone really starts doing something for the sport in a way that sport institutions should work. Until them this is the sad image or our sport.

 

[Bigbaddaveyc]

It beats me how you can consider this to be a real Nations Cup or anything closer. This is a really good way to make a bit more money with the fields the Millennium has already in place. If this was to be for really don't you all think that at least some people from diferent countries should be heard? Don't you think that a really Nations cup should have been prepared well in advance?

Is this really doing anything from our sport other them making more money in dificult times?

In the end people will play, players will tell their family they played in the National Team, pictures will be taken, in forums plays will be discussed, but deep down you all know this means nothing other than you were in the right place, at the right time and you knew the right persons...

I think we must wait a bit more before someone really starts doing something for the sport in a way that sport institutions should work. Until them this is the sad image or our sport.

Blooming heck that's a bit negative. Yes, we could have had more notice, yes people will always bicker about who's in or out of the team and who gets to make the choices ( particularly us Brits who like to moan about anything and everything).
Fact of the matter is, there's a field to be used, teams are showing interest and if the Brits can do well potentially get more media interest in the sport. Hats off to the lads who have had to put their hands in their pockets again to sort this ( it would be a sad sight to hold it in this country and we didn't have a team to represent us).
Let's just stop the moaning and get behind OUR TEAM and see if we can win this. We can always look to make improvements if it becomes a regular event and create a proper squad system if required.
C'MON TEAM GB!!!

 

[onasilverbike]

...it would be a sad sight to hold it in this country and we didn't have a team to represent us...

This!

 

[Spike]

Well as for the announcement about this nations cup, the first I knew was in Germany when I made the announcement about this to be held at London and then the Juniors Cup to be held in Paris at the last event.

I too heard that the French had held some sort of trial but from discussions with Laurent I learn that they haven't just picked their best players but rather selected people who deserve their chance to represent their country. Quite how they did that without playing ability coming into it I do not know!

The UK side of things was a little slow because no real information was being sent out and it was only when Twizz and I had a chat one weekend, and subsequent telephone calls to lots of different millennium/EPBF people that we learned that nothing was actually being done. So the both of us took the task on.

The organisation chaos never stopped there though. In fact when finding out the basics of the event we learned that there was a need to pay 1000 euro affiliation fee for the FED to be a member of the EPBF and then 250 entry fee to the nations cup. All of this was complete news to most of the FED members. So up until last week it was all off with the players on standby. But this Friday we had a breakthrough and it's on.

Of course with events like this there are a lot of elements that most might not consider - paint for instance, marker sponsors and and conflict of interests between sponsors and certain players. These are just a few of the things that we had to sort out.

While I have been doing the liaison with the EPBF Twizz has been speaking to players at CPPS and Bricket Wood over the last few weekends. However both of us have discussed the players that are available and are happy with those that have come forward.

Ideally we would have had a lot more time and held some sort of trial / used a bigger selection pool like in football. If the event continues year on year then perhaps we will be able to plan ahead better. It would also been nice to get the squad out training on more than one occasion.

As Pete mentioned there is no real credence with this event but with the right organisation from the EPBF then it could get that way. I have my own theory of how that will go but I am prepared to be proved wrong.

 

[Spike]

Incidentally - Twizz did you tell the guys that the first one that gets a 1-4-1 has to wear a ladies thong and run across the CPL field for all to see?