amalgamations!!

[Paulie_D]

In fairness half of the Scottish tram are not actually populating there...

And the other half are looking for an opportunity to leave.

[Sef]

In fairness half of the Scottish tram are not actually populating there...

In the interest of fairness I think you will find that 95%+ of the scottish team are populating there

[SirPercival]

In fairness half of the Scottish team are not actually populating there...

really? I think it"s more like 2%

[SirPercival]

I think we have to give this time

Of course some established teams and groupings have a head start, but the opportunity for all the captains given the catchement areas is the same, just it will take time for the newer regions to get the numbers where they want them

Would have to disagree on this scotland catchment area / established teams  is a lot larger than anyone elses .
Must be strange for scotland to be favourites at something

NW has 1million more people than Scotland.

And we are pretty good at Elephant polo too

[Des]

I"m rarely in favour of anything I can"t easily spell after a night on the town.

So no halmin, algin, aliming...merging teams.

tygnihaw x

[Chipaccrual]

This thread does make me chuckle.

We could just play North v South and have done with it.  I can understand the sentiment of wanting a level playing fiield for the teams, but I think now that it has gone to regions, the areas are big enough that it is going to come down to which teams spread the word and recuit players. (Which is never a bad thing)

I also had to laugh at Tighty"s stats.  All those that commented about me "throwing toys out of the pram" about which team you could play for will see that I"ve chosen a much smaller populated area than either the South West or South East that I could have shown allegiance to.

I must be mad, or maybe it wasn"t all about the winning.  

[Ironside]

come on scotland

[youtube=425,350]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dNLyZ17imyM[/youtube]

[SirPercival]

Scotland may have the biggest team so far but lets face it guys and gals - we have Ironside ffs

[Swinebag]

well the general consensus is that there is no problem. This makes me happy. It was just a query based on the numbers.

Lets get it on

NWFTW!!

[MintTrav]

I can"t see the relevance of population statistics to this, other than stating that the regions are broadly comparable in population size. The most relevant factor is the number of active APAT players (or potential players likely to brought in by current players) clustered in an area. Any area of 100,000? (prob a lot less) could support a team if the player concentration is right. Comparing the winning potential of such large areas on the basis that one has a population of Xm and another has 2Xm is completely spurious.

[MintTrav]

We could just play North v South and have done with it.

Then Stuart would probably want to play for the South.

[Tiger-flash]

Size isnt everything... but it helps lol, i aint scared of the size of the teams, its all about the quality. I remember Solent doing very well last year with a very small team and actually winning a match last season with only 8 players AND having the player of the season 5. Bring it on u biggies!!!!!  

[Sef]

Scotland had the biggest team so far because the captain and team work on recruitment instead of complaining on here. ..... nuff said  

[TightEnd]

I can"t see the relevance of population statistics to this, other than stating that the regions are broadly comparable in population size. The most relevant factor is the number of active APAT players (or potential players likely to brought in by current players) clustered in an area. Any area of 100,000? (prob a lot less) could support a team if the player concentration is right. Comparing the winning potential of such large areas on the basis that one has a population of Xm and another has 2Xm is completely spurious.

Not at all. As valid as anything else

eg...

London is a huge region. It happens to be grossly under-represented in terms of Active APAT players. for that captain, and teammates, therein lies the opportunityto get competitive by serious recruitment

Scotland is smaller in terms of catchment area than some other teams. However it has an established group of motivated players who bask in very cleverly seeded notions of national pride that are invoked such that everyone signs up, including those who once watched Braveheart or an Old Firm Derby on TV and dream at night of the smell of deep fried mars bars and decided they hailed from Glasgow. Admirable stuff

I would hope that head start would not persist, as others catch up on numbers

[Sef]

I can"t see the relevance of population statistics to this, other than stating that the regions are broadly comparable in population size. The most relevant factor is the number of active APAT players (or potential players likely to brought in by current players) clustered in an area. Any area of 100,000? (prob a lot less) could support a team if the player concentration is right. Comparing the winning potential of such large areas on the basis that one has a population of Xm and another has 2Xm is completely spurious.

Not at all. As valid as anything else

eg...

London is a huge region. It happens to be grossly under-represented in terms of Active APAT players. for that captain, and teammates, therein lies the opportunityto get competitive by serious recruitment

Scotland is smaller in terms of catchment area than some other teams. However it has an established group of motivated players who bask in very cleverly seeded notions of national pride that are invoked such that everyone signs up, including those who once watched Braveheart or an Old Firm Derby on TV and dream at night of the smell of deep fried mars bars and decided they hailed from Glasgow. Admirable stuff

I would hope that head start would not persist, as others catch up on numbers

Ahhh deep fried mars bars....... *sef drifts off to the days of his youth*