Appearance fees for our best players

[robin moore]

Oh no, not another 5 year plan! Ok, I have my serious hat on now and I want to share a personal concern I have for the Euro and World Youth events. Alan Tate and I felt 10 juniors, like we had at the Euro in Bulgaria this year was about right. Andrew and Ali did most of their own prep and helped on the coaching front too which was great. Even with this help Alan and I were working hard from pre-breakfast till near midnight every day. We tried our very best to make sure every junior got the maximum support possible. I am not blowing any trumpets here but everyone there felt we had put in a professional, well organised effort throughout. Now we come to the problem. I want more juniors to go especially at younger age groups right down to U8 if we feel we have anyone strong enough. If we have a bigger group of juniors we are going to need extra coaching support and that will probably cost money. Strong juniors like Andrew and Ali need time to prepare for themselves. Any creative ideas from anyone are welcome both through here and by emailing Paul or myself. We don't want quality to suffer through quantity.

Robin.