Appearance fees for our best players

[David G Congalton]

For younger juniors the British Championships are a great tournament. There are age-group championship, which are mostly 1 round a day, and these would be a very good level, since we can compete at that level, and even winning it from time to time! I'm sure it wouldn't be too hard to send sizeable squads to these. In addition we can have strong coaches helping to prepare and analyse, while playing in a tournament themselves.

For older juniors the British is also fantastic, with the Major Open and Championship, but also Robin's idea of sending a squad to the Czech Open for example would be good. The same concept can be used with the coaches helping the juniors.

Would you envisage a World/European set-up for tournaments such as the British, with a head of delegation and specific coaching staff, with selection for a squad and the squad and coaches staying in the same accomodation or would this be arranged on an ad-hoc basis?