I have had a long time to reflect on what we been doing over here with regard to the Millennium Board and the more I think about what's happened the more ridiculous it all seems to be.
I wanna go thru some of their decisions and climb-downs just so's u guys know what's been happening and why, coz I'm sick to death of hearing their stoopid mandates only for them to be reversed when I, or common sense, stick their nose in.
Let's take the pro team mandatory judging rule, it was a frikkin farce and I told them so and it got changed, they couldn't work it out for themselves for some reason but when I laid it out, they had to reverse their decision, and here's why.
Jus before I do, there’s a little addendum to this fiasco that I won’t mention at the moment but if I hear one molecule of bollocks from any of them, or denial in any form of the things they have said to me, then I am gonna spout it out like a frikkin waterfall.
Two promoters told me that it was the responsibility of the board to provide good reffing, no problem so far, they then went on to decide that since they believed the pro teams to be the best refs, they would MAKE them judge before they were allowed in as pros, frikkin blackmail !!!!!
They then went on to tell me that because they had made it mandatory for the pros to ref, everybody would now benefit.
True, the frikkin promoters benefited as well as all the teams who attended that tournament because the pros were now judging.
But hold on a minute, the pro teams have to fork out hundreds of pounds out of their own pocket to fulfil the responsibility of the promoters and the promoters didn't wanna meet the expense of the said pro teams.
They preferred to MAKE the pro teams judge at their own expense blackmailing them into doing so by not allowing them to play as pros unless they did.
And all this instead of just paying them to do it, Yes paying the pros.
I mean, u wanna job done, u pay somebody, u meet their expenses at least for god sake, not make them do it out of their own pocket. How frikkin cheap and nasty can u get ?
It’s like us turning up a tourney and demanding not to pay, the promoters put on a tourney, we pay. The pros put on a judging show, the pros pay ???
No frikkin way !!!!
When I explained to two of the promoters that if all the teams benefited from the pros judging then just put an extra 10 Euros a player to cater for the expense of meeting the judges expenses, I mean, they lobbed on that 30 Euro charge for the registration card fiasco when they wanted to develop another income stream quick enough.
They had to reverse their mandate and did so !!!
And now we come to the X-Ball fiasco, I will leave aside for the moment the lunacy in their initial decision to deny a team based X-Ball and concentrate on what happened after they had decided to go Nation based.
Once they had decided to run Nations based, they naturally came in for so much criticism and ridicule, well it went on for so long that I got a phone call about three weeks ago and was asked if I could find a way to organise a team based X-Ball league over here and they wanted it to run alongside the Nations based.
I nearly fell off my frikkin chair, what a joke !!!
They weren't doing it because it was the right thing to do; they were doing it to appease the howling wolves.
And what a half assed, way too late attempt it was and at the same time putting it at my frikkin feet to try and come up with a team based solution, I told then no frikkin way, u made your bed, it's way too late to do anything.
So, the Millennium are now stuck, they have to try and rescue some face with regard to Nation’s based X-Ball, so the only way out is to try and legitimise this new tourney and then along come a saviour in the form of Strange.
Strange wanted to play X-Ball over here but there was a problem, the rules stated that the national line up must be derived from more than one team.
So, what do the Millennium board do ?
They forsake the rule and allow Strange to come in, the reason ?
Well, from the Millennium board's perspective, they could save a whole lot of face if Strange got involved because they are a big name team from the US and this would go a long way in rescuing some face and legitimising the tournament if they could somehow reverse the rules and let them in.
They didn't give two ****s about us over here; they just wanted to gain some much needed integrity for themselves via the Nations cup.
And now what do we have ?
We have Dynasty, knocking on the door, reminding the Board of their initial rule; in that the top seeded captain from last year should pick the team.
Oh my what do the board do now ?
What a dilemma for them, do they reverse the rule once again ?
And if they do, I am pretty sure Paul Alders of Strange will run riot with them because the whole point for Paul was that he could hone his own X-Ball squad in our X-Ball nations tourney, not give up some of his players to play in the US squad along with Dynasty, that is, if any of them get picked !!!!
But if the board leave it as it is and don’t reverse the initial reversal, then Dynasty are gonna be soooo pissed !!
Oh my, oh my, what do they do
As for the padded shirts, well, another great idea, that was until they realised that Dye was going to be pissed off.
Now the padding in my opinion is not a problem, it falls short of a line that has to be drawn somewhere on this issue.
But their reversal just exemplifies their ineptitude when it comes to making decisions and rules.
Jeeeeez
I wanna go thru some of their decisions and climb-downs just so's u guys know what's been happening and why, coz I'm sick to death of hearing their stoopid mandates only for them to be reversed when I, or common sense, stick their nose in.
Let's take the pro team mandatory judging rule, it was a frikkin farce and I told them so and it got changed, they couldn't work it out for themselves for some reason but when I laid it out, they had to reverse their decision, and here's why.
Jus before I do, there’s a little addendum to this fiasco that I won’t mention at the moment but if I hear one molecule of bollocks from any of them, or denial in any form of the things they have said to me, then I am gonna spout it out like a frikkin waterfall.
Two promoters told me that it was the responsibility of the board to provide good reffing, no problem so far, they then went on to decide that since they believed the pro teams to be the best refs, they would MAKE them judge before they were allowed in as pros, frikkin blackmail !!!!!
They then went on to tell me that because they had made it mandatory for the pros to ref, everybody would now benefit.
True, the frikkin promoters benefited as well as all the teams who attended that tournament because the pros were now judging.
But hold on a minute, the pro teams have to fork out hundreds of pounds out of their own pocket to fulfil the responsibility of the promoters and the promoters didn't wanna meet the expense of the said pro teams.
They preferred to MAKE the pro teams judge at their own expense blackmailing them into doing so by not allowing them to play as pros unless they did.
And all this instead of just paying them to do it, Yes paying the pros.
I mean, u wanna job done, u pay somebody, u meet their expenses at least for god sake, not make them do it out of their own pocket. How frikkin cheap and nasty can u get ?
It’s like us turning up a tourney and demanding not to pay, the promoters put on a tourney, we pay. The pros put on a judging show, the pros pay ???
No frikkin way !!!!
When I explained to two of the promoters that if all the teams benefited from the pros judging then just put an extra 10 Euros a player to cater for the expense of meeting the judges expenses, I mean, they lobbed on that 30 Euro charge for the registration card fiasco when they wanted to develop another income stream quick enough.
They had to reverse their mandate and did so !!!
And now we come to the X-Ball fiasco, I will leave aside for the moment the lunacy in their initial decision to deny a team based X-Ball and concentrate on what happened after they had decided to go Nation based.
Once they had decided to run Nations based, they naturally came in for so much criticism and ridicule, well it went on for so long that I got a phone call about three weeks ago and was asked if I could find a way to organise a team based X-Ball league over here and they wanted it to run alongside the Nations based.
I nearly fell off my frikkin chair, what a joke !!!
They weren't doing it because it was the right thing to do; they were doing it to appease the howling wolves.
And what a half assed, way too late attempt it was and at the same time putting it at my frikkin feet to try and come up with a team based solution, I told then no frikkin way, u made your bed, it's way too late to do anything.
So, the Millennium are now stuck, they have to try and rescue some face with regard to Nation’s based X-Ball, so the only way out is to try and legitimise this new tourney and then along come a saviour in the form of Strange.
Strange wanted to play X-Ball over here but there was a problem, the rules stated that the national line up must be derived from more than one team.
So, what do the Millennium board do ?
They forsake the rule and allow Strange to come in, the reason ?
Well, from the Millennium board's perspective, they could save a whole lot of face if Strange got involved because they are a big name team from the US and this would go a long way in rescuing some face and legitimising the tournament if they could somehow reverse the rules and let them in.
They didn't give two ****s about us over here; they just wanted to gain some much needed integrity for themselves via the Nations cup.
And now what do we have ?
We have Dynasty, knocking on the door, reminding the Board of their initial rule; in that the top seeded captain from last year should pick the team.
Oh my what do the board do now ?
What a dilemma for them, do they reverse the rule once again ?
And if they do, I am pretty sure Paul Alders of Strange will run riot with them because the whole point for Paul was that he could hone his own X-Ball squad in our X-Ball nations tourney, not give up some of his players to play in the US squad along with Dynasty, that is, if any of them get picked !!!!
But if the board leave it as it is and don’t reverse the initial reversal, then Dynasty are gonna be soooo pissed !!
Oh my, oh my, what do they do
As for the padded shirts, well, another great idea, that was until they realised that Dye was going to be pissed off.
Now the padding in my opinion is not a problem, it falls short of a line that has to be drawn somewhere on this issue.
But their reversal just exemplifies their ineptitude when it comes to making decisions and rules.
Jeeeeez
