Players wanted for '19-'20 season for div 3North team

[Douglas Vleeshhouwer]

hi there,

I'm forming a team to enter Division 3 North in the 2019-2020 competition. We currently have 8 players (from the East Riding of Yorkshire area) and would like to invite other, enthusiastic, players to join us.

Regards
Douglas

[Mick Norris]

Is this Euwe's North Sea Tigers?

[Eric Gardiner]

Yes it is.

[Mick Norris]

Great name
Good luck

[John Reyes]

are you looking for any grade as I have had two under 120 players looking to play at the 4ncl

[Roger Lancaster]

Great name
Good luck

One issue with these clever invented names is they tend to kill off opposing teams' chances of getting any local publicity for their feats. A local paper may be amenable to reporting the results of a match against (say) Manchester or Cambridge University which are identifiable locations but it is less likely to report a match against (say) Lasker's Legends where it would probably need to add a sentence to explain who Lasker was.

[Douglas Vleeshhouwer]

are you looking for any grade as I have had two under 120 players looking to play at the 4ncl

Hi John,

Apologies for the slow response.
We have quite a few lower graded players already so we are now just looking for one or two >2000 FIDE rated (>ECF180 graded) players.

Regards
Douglas

[Mick Norris]

are you looking for any grade as I have had two under 120 players looking to play at the 4ncl

I'd say that's a bit low for Div 3N, but pass their details to Mark Whitehead and he'll no doubt be able to add them to the Manticores squad

[Eric Gardiner]

Great name
Good luck

One issue with these clever invented names is they tend to kill off opposing teams' chances of getting any local publicity for their feats. A local paper may be amenable to reporting the results of a match against (say) Manchester or Cambridge University which are identifiable locations but it is less likely to report a match against (say) Lasker's Legends where it would probably need to add a sentence to explain who Lasker was.

Personally I find team names comprising solely a location or institution rather dull (I'm more likely to read a report on a sport I don't already follow if one or both teams have an intriguing name.) It also seems unnecessary in the 4NCL competition as a team does not have to comprise players from the same location.

These days, there are other ways to publicise match results in addition to local newspapers. A suggestion was made to publicise team news on Twitter for example.

[Roger Lancaster]

I wouldn't disagree as to the effectiveness of different media, Eric, and I gave up on my local paper once I found a better way to wrap my fish and chips, but others may find their local rag useful. For those people, I suspect the issue I raised may still apply.

[Alex Holowczak]

I wouldn't disagree as to the effectiveness of different media, Eric, and I gave up on my local paper once I found a better way to wrap my fish and chips, but others may find their local rag useful. For those people, I suspect the issue I raised may still apply.

Local newspapers are a great source of comedy. Normally there'll be someone standing in a road wearing a hi-vis jacket pointing angrily at a pothole, or a whole street full of people standing with crossed-arms next to their bins that haven't been collected for two weeks.

[David Robertson]

there'll be someone standing in a road wearing a hi-vis jacket pointing angrily at a pothole

He'll be an Arbiter

[Roger Lancaster]

I wouldn't disagree as to the effectiveness of different media, Eric, and I gave up on my local paper once I found a better way to wrap my fish and chips, but others may find their local rag useful. For those people, I suspect the issue I raised may still apply.

Local newspapers are a great source of comedy. Normally there'll be someone standing in a road wearing a hi-vis jacket pointing angrily at a pothole, or a whole street full of people standing with crossed-arms next to their bins that haven't been collected for two weeks.

Alex, I can tell that you don't have enough cats stuck up trees in Warwickshire. But, seriously, some people value the local rag.

[John Reyes]

are you looking for any grade as I have had two under 120 players looking to play at the 4ncl

I'd say that's a bit low for Div 3N, but pass their details to Mark Whitehead and he'll no doubt be able to add them to the Manticores squad

Done that and thanks