Originally Posted by
Football-Unites
I love this every year - it genuinely makes me laugh :D:D
It's great that the WW is still going strong even if it's with the same old 'it's our tournament and we can do what we want' attitude.
I just wish it was once again a competitive 'pre-season' tournament and not the current uncompetitive set-up. Teams being asked to play one year and then not the next year, changes to the format, league group format, now everyone plays everyone, was 6 teams, is now only 5, all the various changes, whatever happened Saturday that ref missed first game, but reffed second game instead of the first game which is what you'd think would happen, ST always playing the 2nd game to enable as many of their players to make it after work etc etc
I also think the WW tournament would benefit from having Sixmilebridge and,or Newmarket in it every year. They may not both want to play as they will meet at various times in the season, but ST would benefit from playing better opposition and it would make winning 4 in a row an achievement (5 this year) as opposed to it being nothing more than just a formality.
Now please (pretty please) don't take this as an attack on anyone or anybody that helps run the WW every year, or that this being anti ST, because it's not - I am simply saying it would be nice to have a set of rules in place that were the same every year and that allowed for no grey areas.
I also don't think anyone looks down on the competition - if they do, it's a pity, they are forgetting it's a Memorial tournament.