02-05-2012, 09:44 AM
While my gut feeling is that one might prefer a home grown captain I think in many other activities it is well established practice to appoint the best applicant for the job - ref. football & cricket. Assuming the CS rules (if there any) permit such an appointment then it follows they must be funded in the same way as had anyone else.
Having a strong player able to support the players on the chess side of things as well as doing the admin seems a big bonus: seems to me that there is unlikely to have been many Scottish alternatives of similar strength - otherwise they would have been in the team?
Having a strong player able to support the players on the chess side of things as well as doing the admin seems a big bonus: seems to me that there is unlikely to have been many Scottish alternatives of similar strength - otherwise they would have been in the team?