
Anyone know what has happened to Bradford A’s Woodhouse team? They defaulted their last match 8-0 and the Bradford A team who played yesterday looked awfully like the normal Bradford B team.....
(+ a couple of A team players.).
I have been slightly anxiously wondering whether you are going to start posting match reports on here ...
John Hipshon, Phill Beckett, Noel Stewart and myself, along with many others I could name, have done a lot of work this season to try to get `functioning junior systems` up and running within Yorkshire. Your main contribution, as ever, is posting on forums about what other people ought to be doing.MartinCarpenter wrote: ↑Sun Apr 08, 2018 8:17 pmI have reasons not to talk about that match too much
I do think your second teams dreams of promotion maybe indicate a problem we've got developing about the gap between the Woodhouse and IMB. Nothing to be done there I think mind, beyond finding some functioning junior systems......
I'll leave Martin to clarify the comments he made about junior chess but just as a general point I'd like to say we don't know about everything others are doing. Possibly he drives players to away matches (I actually know he doesn't but that is just an example), possibly he does volunteer work in other areas apart from chess, possibly he is busy with a young family and just posts on forums for a break from kids etc etc.Andrew Zigmond wrote: ↑Mon Apr 09, 2018 7:57 pm
John Hipshon, Phill Beckett, Noel Stewart and myself, along with many others I could name, have done a lot of work this season to try to get `functioning junior systems` up and running within Yorkshire. Your main contribution, as ever, is posting on forums about what other people ought to be doing.
There's so much that's wrong here that it's hard to know where to start.MartinCarpenter wrote: ↑Wed Apr 11, 2018 1:28 amNah, I mostly post on forums to waste timeSometimes to point out problems, because that's actually a useful thing to do.
My point was actually quite simple - if a team like Hull B are seriously threatening promotion to the Woodhouse (and they are) then we've got a real problem with the gap between the two divisions. We do of course, and we all know why as well and there isn't a simple solution.
Oh, can we please leave the York D captain out of it? He's by far the sanest, most effective, person at York - we wouldn't have a club without him. We've definitely had juniors in York's D team before now and hopefully will again.
Those 2 juniors you mentioned might well eventually be good players at some stage, but in the meantime they've each only played a handful of YCA rated games this season and have live grades of 51 and 69. Absolutely nothing to suggest they're nearly strong enough to usefully benefit from Saturday chess yet.