Appearance fees for our best players

[Andy Howie]

Andy claims there are some players but has produced no evidence. I am actually sure that there will be some players who are better players for the experience but that really is not the point. Have a look sown the lists of past participants and you will find quite a number for whom it was one of their last events and/or who have not significantly improved in strength since.

Would be wrong to name names but looking at the previous noticeboard there are plenty of examples

Of 20 players who travelled to Liverpool in July every single player has increased his/her grade since then. Not just that, the average increase has been 87 points in 4 months. And that before anyone benifits from the 200 up rule

Lets look at the events played since Euroyouth by the returning U12 players

I see the Lothians allegro only
xv -21 performance
y Grade plus +386 performance
z Grade +595 performance

And that is before I go through and do the calculations of grading rise for people selected over the last 5 years