Go-one,
I think this is a good system (or on the roads to) and should help division seeding in the event of a shortage of Pro / Am A teams. However the points re Monkey Love, I'm a little unsure what this is all about. Is this an allegation of sandbagging because of Puff and Lurch? Because that would be unfair. We played div 3 in our first ever 7 man touney (which we don't mind at all but was quite tough for a first time team). Also the rest of the team are all very junior novices. No offence to Puff and Lurch, but they've bever been pro's just good Am B (old Nov) players, and have never admitted to anything else. Other teams in our div and below were fielding much higher ranked players or pro's so to refer to us as sandbagging is out of order. UKM2, Wolf Nov, Skulls, Team Equilibrium (ex knights) etc all have much more experienced players in their teams so why are we getting a "sandbagged" label??? Almost all the teams (a couple of exceptions) in the Nov / Div 3 groupings have got a core one or two players the team was formed around, so to single us out is (I feel) a bit unfair.
We were put in Div 3 cos of Puff and Lurch, which we accept, but we really were the most jnr team in that div. This ain't a whinge or criticism, I just think to call us sandbagged is unfair on the contribution of the junior team members. What the future of Monkey Love is, we'll have to wait and see, but being an Am A team is not on the Agenda because we're about fun and nothing more. Well semi-rant over, I may have misconstrued the point but thought that needed to be said.