Or the Hoey Oka!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hokey_Cokey

bump...
http://www.londonbikepololeague.blogspot.com/
get your teams in...

3 teams, FAIL!

I just registered our team. So 4 teams. BAD Polo are yet to register, so 5. With your team Dale, it would be 6. I can think of at least 3 other teams that want to play in a leauge. I'd say it's looking good!

Hey - is the ball poll (on the blog) an official rule deducing mechanism? 'cause I think it shouldn't be if it is.

If people do want to change the ball I think the best way would be to spend a Sunday with both types of balls and make a decision that way.

ha ATM good going guys...see you on the court.

NS

Wait a cotton-pickin' minute...

is this affiliated with londonbikepolo, or is this a breakaway group?

Are we about to see gangs of londonbikepololeague players roaming the streets of london, armed with chainwhips looking for fights with stray londonbikepolo players who've got lost on their way home from south polo?

Will the subsequent gang wars on the streets of London lead to a fracture in the forum, and subsequently to the downfall of society as we know it? Is this mad max in the making, without the mullets*?

(*except west london)

Where will this all end?

in tears!

Some of the bikes are ghetto-bodge-job enough to be in Madmax.
As are some of my horrific choices in attire (Maybe I should grab a pair of my goggles too).

you can get sano to sit on your shoulder as a mascot ;)

What the fuck are you talking about dogsballs?

Yes man! That's me!

obviously you've never watched all the mad max's ;)

How tall are you dogs?

6"

what a load of shit

can i join someones team?

Post up here.

I'll have one of each on Sunday.

Does anyone have any idea when this league will kick off?

Seb, assuming this is in your hands, are you just awaiting enough teams joining, and if so how many is enough?

I guess the real question is ... how long do i have to find a new team (now that the other bicyclestars have deserted me*)?

Can I register my team and change players after a couple of weeks? I'm sure there should be a transfer window; finding the right constellation isn't easy.


*you bastards!

Sorry otters.

NS!

Off the team.

A space just opened Iain.

Cunt.

OK firstly, well done to Seb for starting the ball rolling on this. Great idea.

But we need to get a move on. The longer it takes to set this up, the more people are going to start losing interest or dropping out.

Even if it's not perfect at the beginning, we can always change things or adjust them as we go along. There have been lot's of good ideas, we need to just pick one (or a few) and go with them and start playing.

I think we should get 1 representative from each team that is registered to come to a meeting, this week, where the rules for the 1st season are decided. This gives people input, but limits the input to the people that are actually playing, and limits it to a workable number of people. We make the 1st season quite short (3 months) then do the same process for the 2nd season, changing any rules that didn't work. After a couple of seasons played, then we can start putting together formal/permanent rules.

I reckon we meet this week, say Thursday night somewhere central and get this going. The teams can discuss amongst themselves who goes and what rules they want to vote for.

Sorry if you behind the scenes people are already on this, but I'm quite keen to see this started.

I agree with all of that.
I also really really do not want anything 'behind the scenes' The LBPL blog could easily be a way to keep people up to date. We should have a handful of people (the ones delegated to meet up thursday?) who can make and edit the posts. www.madbikepolo.org is a good example.

What all this crazy talk about rules and stuff we have had rules for the last year and everyone who plays knows there dose not need to be a meting about rules there is no need to chang them or add any more in just because we are playing a "league" let just get on and play and got over this whole bureaucracy rubbish.

but rob, we're in england, we have an uncontrollable desire for meaningless bureaucracy.

We are not meeting to discuss polo rules, but just to set in place how the league is going to run. How many games a month, how many points for a win, length of season etc. And I agree that we need to keep it simple and fairly informal without loads of beurocracy, but we do just need to sort out these basic details. Let's get to it.

So is there still a meeting happening?

i don't think so, at present i'm still waiting for more teams to sign up before we start to make any big decisions

I think people are waiting to see what's gonna happen before bothering...

There's 6 teams, right? That's plenty!

Surely if we sort out the concept of how to work it people will join up. Let's just organise a schedule and get some games going.

People will likely buy in to the idea more easily once it's already up and running and they feel left out?

snap