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27/09/2009 - Tony McKenna - Replies to Bert Wilkinson |
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The factual response to that Bert would be that every player who represented Spain in May in South Africa, for this year's Atlantic Championships, at significant personal financial expense, and put the privilege of playing for country over their national bowling interests, was unable to play in this year's Nationals because the Valencian qualifying tournament clashed with South Africa. I really am not sure where the responsibility for that decision lies. Mick Johnson, who was also in South Africa, but could have attended (in the Pairs), since he qualified from Almeria took the view that since the other squad members couldn't play neither would he or Matt Tew. Maybe you weren't to know that Bert so I won't put it any more flippantly than that. Personally, I would have crawled to the Costa del Sol to have had an opportunity to repeat my experiences of last year. Clearly politic pandering is at play in seeking to achieve the impossible solution of accomodating everyone in a bowling scene that spans over a 1,000 kms. In doing so Bowling will be the loser. Gordon Brown and his cronies may still believe that competition is harmful to the less able; I believe the better the competition the more you strive to succeed and therefore improve. I don't want the Spanish Nationals regionalising, I want them centralising, in Torrevieja, every year, because any other venue or any other format will just weaken the event and therefore the strength of Spanish bowling at all levels. |
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