Wolf_Blass
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After several online discussions regarding this I was wondering about peoples opinions on here.
Basically nobody wants to see such a one-sided event as the Mosconi seems to be getting recently, so we had an idea about evening things up by reducing the geographical area (and hence population) that the opposing team to the USA can be selected from.
It's clear that it is now too much for the USA to take on the whole of Europe as, since a few years ago when we decided to actually start playing the game, we have actually got far too many good players. And also it is very unfair that Europe has roughly twice the population of the USA.
There was a suggestion that we could simply make the event USA vs UK but this was met with stiff opposition from the promoters and from the TV channels as they want to try and get the event to last until the final day if possible and the strength of the UK would inhibit this.
So narrowing it down even further would seem necessary. Our proposal, should you wish to accept it, is that the 2014 Mosconi Cup be played as USA Vs Yorkshire. (Yorkshire is an administrative "county" of England, (England being a "country" that is part of the United Kingdom.))
As you can imagine our team would be significantly weakened by reducing the catchment area for players to an area the size of a small US city. But we feel you would still have a chance of beating us if we didn't "get all the rolls" and had to "jack the cue up" every now and then.
We'd have to scrape around for players of course, but a provisional line up could include the likes of Darren Appleton, I'm sure you've heard of him. After that we are really struggling but we may be able to enlist the services of Chris Melling - that guy who was Europe's MVP last year but was dropped this year to give the USA a fighting chance. Mick Hill may also fancy it, you guys really should hope that Mick doesn't start taking 9-ball seriously as he is potentially better than the above two. To make up the numbers we'd have to look to the likes of maybe Arfan Dad and someone like Mark Lunn who can play a bit of 9-ball (which is a bit more than USA did.) The final place would be given to a snooker player just for a laugh, or maybe a darts player just to give Rodney Morris the chance of winning a game.
Anyway, let us know if you are up for it - we are ok for anytime around the beginning of December 2014 as long as we can get someone to look after our ferrets.
Basically nobody wants to see such a one-sided event as the Mosconi seems to be getting recently, so we had an idea about evening things up by reducing the geographical area (and hence population) that the opposing team to the USA can be selected from.
It's clear that it is now too much for the USA to take on the whole of Europe as, since a few years ago when we decided to actually start playing the game, we have actually got far too many good players. And also it is very unfair that Europe has roughly twice the population of the USA.
There was a suggestion that we could simply make the event USA vs UK but this was met with stiff opposition from the promoters and from the TV channels as they want to try and get the event to last until the final day if possible and the strength of the UK would inhibit this.
So narrowing it down even further would seem necessary. Our proposal, should you wish to accept it, is that the 2014 Mosconi Cup be played as USA Vs Yorkshire. (Yorkshire is an administrative "county" of England, (England being a "country" that is part of the United Kingdom.))
As you can imagine our team would be significantly weakened by reducing the catchment area for players to an area the size of a small US city. But we feel you would still have a chance of beating us if we didn't "get all the rolls" and had to "jack the cue up" every now and then.
We'd have to scrape around for players of course, but a provisional line up could include the likes of Darren Appleton, I'm sure you've heard of him. After that we are really struggling but we may be able to enlist the services of Chris Melling - that guy who was Europe's MVP last year but was dropped this year to give the USA a fighting chance. Mick Hill may also fancy it, you guys really should hope that Mick doesn't start taking 9-ball seriously as he is potentially better than the above two. To make up the numbers we'd have to look to the likes of maybe Arfan Dad and someone like Mark Lunn who can play a bit of 9-ball (which is a bit more than USA did.) The final place would be given to a snooker player just for a laugh, or maybe a darts player just to give Rodney Morris the chance of winning a game.
Anyway, let us know if you are up for it - we are ok for anytime around the beginning of December 2014 as long as we can get someone to look after our ferrets.
