I don't think Echo is being stupid, merely naive but he does touch upon the notion of sideline coaching being ultimately a negative feature of our game but that's for another thread.
In the meantime, we have to live with it.
If the ills of Brit paintball could be cured by just training together, I'd be surprised, if not amazed.
The Yanks don't all train together and yet they alll have the right ethos, the reason they help each other out (and I have seen pro games thrown to help another yank team) is because they have a completely different culture when it comes to sports.
For some reason, their national pride and loyalty spills over and across team lines negating any competitive jealousies between their teams.
This is obviously not an absolute no more than all our teams hating each other but it is a generality.
We are British by birth and by culture and we are up against a modern history of petty competitive jealousies, just look at the fans of our soccer teams if you need further proof,
UK Paintball has been a melting pot for this type culture and I would love to see UK ball pull together but it's almost like asking our national press not to build people up one week just so they can knock them down the next ...it's our culture guys.
I am ashamed to say that when I was playing pro for NWC in the early years and the Preds were in the same tourney, I would have always preferred the Yanks to beat the Preds .. shameful I know but that's how it was.
C'est la ve