Originally posted by RON
i dont understand why all of u give shockwave such a hard time
ok they have lots some form but they are still the team in teh uk everyone wants to beat, this time last year they were on form and won in denmark, ive watched a lot of there games and what ever u may say they have some of the best players in the country. x ball a side, last year they were the only UK team out there at pro level who were making the semis regually (even winning an event)
i feel that there is far to many ppl who flame the pro players in the uk. im sorry but we get f£ck all really compared to the ppl we are playing against, we have to hold down jobs and some of us have to beg for holidays so we can just about cover teh milienuim sieres(had to mention that for alan).
this is not a dig at teh x-ball team just ppl who dont know f-all giving shockwave a hard time. although i did not make the last 14 i felt selection was pretty good ;D its not easy to pick ppl from one day of paintball so my hat is off to all the ppl who stood watching games games all day ;D
cheers for a good day at teh trials, well done to the kellys brothers u lads did well
Ron, one well known phrase might well describe some of the Shockwave reactions as well as the disappointment felt by some of the players yesterday, 'You can't please all of the people all of the time' .
In fact that couldn't be a better description of how some of my own team (Backlash) felt after the trials had finished.
I had decided that it would be difficult for me to pick any of them for the team because I did not want to leave myself open to attacks of favouritism.
In the end, Andy Williams stamped his technical ability on the day and made it impossible for him not to be selected.
Beaker, Nicky Truter and Mark Toye all had come to the same conclusions with regard to Andy's play and it was their input that had him unanimously selected.
I obviously agreed with what was said but I did not want to be the first to say it.
After all is said and done, we chose the guys who performed on the day, that was the only way we could go in terms of selection.
It was a brilliant day !!!
Robbo
) but don't the X-ball rules say that you can't have more than two players from any single team?