05-04-2022, 06:36 PM
It's not so much the devising that I think is too much Walter, although that would prove tricky too if we were to catch every edge case.
It's the keeping records etc. - a thankless task. Also the more complexity the more mistakes.
The way you are proposing with "How long people stayed here, and how long that should give them" for example would be quite an easy one to mess up. Someone gets their leaving date wrong by a few months, suddenly their eligibility is down by six months (3 less accrued, 3 more spent) and they have already played an event they shouldn't entirely accidentally.
I'd rather we just had a simple approach - reasonable people may disagree, but in any case that wasn't quite what Willie was proposing.
I also just feel that after enough time here people just are Scottish - if they move away they might also become something else, but that doesn't stop them being Scottish too.
Whether two years is "enough time" is kind of hard to say, but at least it's simple to administer (relative to anything else), clear to understand, and difficult to game.
It's the keeping records etc. - a thankless task. Also the more complexity the more mistakes.
The way you are proposing with "How long people stayed here, and how long that should give them" for example would be quite an easy one to mess up. Someone gets their leaving date wrong by a few months, suddenly their eligibility is down by six months (3 less accrued, 3 more spent) and they have already played an event they shouldn't entirely accidentally.
I'd rather we just had a simple approach - reasonable people may disagree, but in any case that wasn't quite what Willie was proposing.
I also just feel that after enough time here people just are Scottish - if they move away they might also become something else, but that doesn't stop them being Scottish too.
Whether two years is "enough time" is kind of hard to say, but at least it's simple to administer (relative to anything else), clear to understand, and difficult to game.