There is more chance of me throwing a brick at Vladimir Putin and living for another five years than there is of the NPPL taking up a ramp system.
Anyone would think Ulrich isn't on your crimbo list Pete..
Ya know Matski, a lot of people piss me off in Paintball, and for the most part I will eventually soften a little and sort the problem out unless what they have done is sooooo bad that it is unforgivable like a few people who were on and connected with my old team Nexus, but that's another story.
There are people like Steve Baldwin of the Millennium, there were times when I could (and probably would have if he had been in the same room) have snapped his back, but....I have known Steve for something like 19 years now and eventually we sort it out and this happens because he has redeeming values and we have a basic respect for each other.
I have fallen out with Steve a lot of times but in all those times, even when I wanted to detach his ballsack from his scrawny little frame, he was always a great guy to go and have a drink with because I did actually like him.
Paintball can sometimes make enemies of a lot of people.
Actually, Steve is a cool guy but sometimes he won't move from a bad position purely because he doesn't wanna when circumstances demand he should.
He is as pig headed as me but generally speaking he was always wrong, that was the difference
Anyways my point here is this, the vast majority of people do have these redeeming virtues whereby you can get past the wrongs they have done and you can get back to being friends, which is what I prefer Steve to be.
But Ulrich is one of nature's exceptions I am afraid and the real problem he has is one of not seeing any problem with his own behaviour set.
He is blissfully unaware of how obnoxious he is, we all have faults for god's sake, I got a million and I know every single one but Ulrich seems unable to grasp his own true perspective.
And I'm afraid people like him cannot be changed, he is born like that and no amount of social conditioning is gonna change that intransigence.
He just can't seem to grasp the notion of 'customer care' and seems unable to treat people with due respect when things get rough, I ain't saying he is rude to them, far from it, he is assiduously straight laced.
He is unbelievably good at his job in some senses but falls at the most important of hurdles, that of caring for his customer base, that's team and player....basically you guys.
A year or so back, I had representatives from about 5 German teams contact me with a view to orchestrating his removal from the Millennium.
I never actually met up with these guys but I suppose it's a measure of his character when his own countrymen contact a Brit to get his ass outa paintball.
And 'no', he ain't on my Xmas card list, he's on another list, a list that has five names on it at the moment ....... don't ya just love the wait guys
