From: Bruce Mitchell Subject: Policy/Manifesto questions One of the issues that is often raised in Australian croquet is the loss of funding from the...
For those of you who subscribe to this list only and not the Nottingham Board – I have today posted the following: Hi, I know you are out there; there are...
Liz and Bruce Fleming
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Dec 2, 2007 2:21 am
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Welcome to croquet Ian. I am very pleased you are enjoying a sport that has given me and my family a great deal of pleasure – and on occasion a little pain....
Liz and Bruce Fleming
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Dec 2, 2007 2:37 am
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I subscribe to both the Nottingham and the Australian lists but do not get much out of either of them, for quite different reasons. The Nottingham list is too...
David Archer
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Dec 2, 2007 10:31 pm
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Hi David, This is excellent feed-back and just what everyone needs to hear. The Nottingham List is very busy but when you recognize that the whole croquet...
Liz and Bruce Fleming
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Dec 3, 2007 12:03 am
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From: Liz and Bruce Fleming Subject: [AUS-Croquet] Calling Australians I too believe the Aus List is too quiet I am trying to raise the public awareness of...
Hi Ian This issue has been discussed before in a few forums - that's why I started an off line discussion. On your comments - unfortunately I see little...
Greg Whymark
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Dec 3, 2007 2:01 am
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Hope I am replying in a suitable manner (ie. blank page). Ian, you raised the question about what effort was made to get croquet into the Commonwealth Games. ...
Trevor Bassett
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Dec 3, 2007 2:29 am
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Thanks Greg and Trev! We had 15 "working girls" (no - most worked for the Defence Dept) aged 25 to 40 enjoying our club facilities yesterday. They had a great...
The Croquet NSW web site has included the subscribe email address of the Australian List for many years on its links page http://www.croquet-nsw.com/links.html...
David Archer
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Dec 3, 2007 3:18 am
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Ian et al ... booking. ... We have found that our club in Canberra is becoming more and more popular with groups wanting to come along for team bonding, social...
Just to add some data to what David said. Some researchers have stated that we get only 3% of information from the words used. While many of us might dispute...
Greg Whymark
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Dec 3, 2007 3:35 am
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Hello All The discussion about the Commonwealth games is timely. As it happens there is a short article in the next Croquet Australia Magazine due out end...
Max Murray
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Dec 3, 2007 5:01 am
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Hello All The discussion about the Commonwealth games is timely. As it happens there is a short article in the next Croquet Australia Magazine due out end...
Max Murray
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Dec 3, 2007 5:03 am
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I think that Trevor is right in suggesting that Golf Croquet is a better candidate than Association for television. I'm sure that many of us have had the...
Bruce Mitchell
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Dec 3, 2007 7:13 am
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... something similar on their web sites. I am only too happy to send a few e-mails off across the States. I shall also make prospective new subscribers as...
Liz and Bruce Fleming
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Dec 3, 2007 8:08 am
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As a visitor to your forum (I live in England for those that don't know me) I would welcome more contributions describing the clubs in Australia - their size,...
Keith Aiton
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Dec 3, 2007 8:48 am
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Hi Greg, ... For those who are interested, here are some urls for sites that identify the source of this myth and debunk it fairly comprehensively. Language...
Bruce Mitchell
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Dec 3, 2007 12:27 pm
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Bruce I had a look at your the sites - they do debunk anything, other than it is a complex process. As I said, I don't necessarily believe the stats quoted,...
Greg Whymark
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Dec 3, 2007 11:37 pm
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Hi all Yes I too think it good if we can have a meaningful chat on some key issues, so let me put my bit in. Like Ian, I took up croquet when I retired from...
Doron I too have noted the different culture of the different variants. Even if they do try AC very few GC players stay - the culture is too different. They...
Greg Whymark
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Dec 4, 2007 11:51 pm
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Perhaps interestingly, at my club (Nottingham, England) this year we ran our annual beginners course as exclusively GC. Some of the people who came along...
Keith Aiton
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Dec 5, 2007 8:31 am
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The impact of other codes of mallet sport, by other I mean to say those other than Association play, is probably the single most contentious issue to have...
Liz and Bruce Fleming
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Dec 6, 2007 1:19 am
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It may be of interest to you all to know that I have received four e-mails from individuals who want to read our postings to this List but do not wish to...
Liz and Bruce Fleming
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Dec 6, 2007 4:47 am
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From: Liz Fleming Subject: [AUS-Croquet] Listeners It may be of interest to you all to know that I have received four e-mails from individuals who want to...
I think you've missed my point Liz. Sure there are long term strategies we need to think about . But I think we have an immediate and relatively short term...
The Olympic situation is even more difficult than the Commonwealth Games. Below is the url for a question on the WCF website dealing with the issue of Olympic...
Bruce Mitchell
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Dec 6, 2007 10:40 am
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Doron I agree with your sentiments - but also have some mixed emotion here. We used to have 32 playing AC every sat afternoon - now we have none all weekend. ...
Greg Whymark
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Dec 6, 2007 10:52 pm
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A follow up to my previous email. To clarify - We do need to promote all mallet sports. It serves no purpose to treat GC and Gateball as competitors.However,...
Greg Whymark
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Dec 6, 2007 10:59 pm
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Doran, Please be assured I have not missed your point and I take your point very seriously. You have made it very clear that you do not think playing another...
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