My opinion, for what it's worth is this, I wouldn't even bother asking whether we use team names, national names, city names or whatever...that is until we can actually identify some teams who can afford it.
As for nation’s based teams?
....I don't think so
X-Ball ain't worth getting into unless you play X-Ball as the sole mainstay of the team.
That is, all the training and resources should be primarily directed toward that team playing X-Ball, you can't mix and match formats.
You can play the odd Millennium or NPPL if you want but to do both just facks things up for both formats.
Now, the expense in terms of training is huge as the backers of the NXL are now finding out.
If you wanna be serious about this enterprise and not get left behind, the paint bill is horrendous, let alone the rest of the finances needed to support such an enterprise.
Anything less than this approach will sentence us to playing second fiddle to the Yanks for years to come and I ain't doing that for nobody.
Ok, all that said, who's left who can afford that type of resource allocation ?
Ton Tons maybe, maybe even Joy, the Russians are being courted by the NXL and will have to choose between NXL and NPPL, the EXL as far as they are concerned is not an even an option as far as I know.
Nexus, we can afford it but do I want to divert resources toward what could end up being a four team league coz I can't see too many other club teams being able to jump on the X-Ball bandwagon without a serious re-packaging of sponsor portfolios.
Hmmm, unless some serious monies are gonna be injected in, then this as I see it, is a non-starter for Europe.
Sure, we can run an X-ball league, but let's not go down the road of just going through the motions, we need to get it right or not bother at all as this year has already shown us.
As for nation’s based teams?
....I don't think soX-Ball ain't worth getting into unless you play X-Ball as the sole mainstay of the team.
That is, all the training and resources should be primarily directed toward that team playing X-Ball, you can't mix and match formats.
You can play the odd Millennium or NPPL if you want but to do both just facks things up for both formats.
Now, the expense in terms of training is huge as the backers of the NXL are now finding out.
If you wanna be serious about this enterprise and not get left behind, the paint bill is horrendous, let alone the rest of the finances needed to support such an enterprise.
Anything less than this approach will sentence us to playing second fiddle to the Yanks for years to come and I ain't doing that for nobody.
Ok, all that said, who's left who can afford that type of resource allocation ?
Ton Tons maybe, maybe even Joy, the Russians are being courted by the NXL and will have to choose between NXL and NPPL, the EXL as far as they are concerned is not an even an option as far as I know.
Nexus, we can afford it but do I want to divert resources toward what could end up being a four team league coz I can't see too many other club teams being able to jump on the X-Ball bandwagon without a serious re-packaging of sponsor portfolios.
Hmmm, unless some serious monies are gonna be injected in, then this as I see it, is a non-starter for Europe.
Sure, we can run an X-ball league, but let's not go down the road of just going through the motions, we need to get it right or not bother at all as this year has already shown us.
