Richardson and Spens 2013-14

[Keith Rose]

I actually thought it was the norm with team competition. The Lothian/Edinburgh club league has a similar rule.

It is the same with TAFCA.

It does seem to give the bigger clubs an advantage, and benefit them and no one else. It should be one competition or the other for players.

In a way you are correct that this only benefits bigger clubs if only because smaller clubs wouldn’t have enough players. Other than that I don’t see how it disadvantages smaller clubs

Consider:
For clubs with a large membership - if only one competition allowed a number of players would not get a game. We surely want to enable more players to become involved, not limit them;
For the events – more competition with the extra team(s). With recent declining numbers of teams in these two events I suggest that anything which reverses the decline is a positive thing;
For CS – an extra entry fee . That’s the down-side for the bigger clubs.

The concession to allow a player to appear on a lower boards in the Richardson team and still represent the Spens team is there to allow some flexibility if short of a player. If you think that is unreasonable then you/someone could propose to remove it and debar any player from playing for both teams. I don’t have strong feelings about this clause but I do think allowing a club to have teams in both competitions is a good thing.