WC Forms / Gib Open - 2nd March 2009

I receive an interesting email from our Catalan friends who want to attend the Gibraltar Open 2009 but some interesting questions need answering by me before they are allowed into the event, I explain below.

As it turns out all their "get out of jail free cards" have been revoked by their partners and the only way these men will be allowed to come to Gibraltar is if the shops will be open, how close are the shops from the venue, how close is the venue from the frontier and they will they be able to travel up the Rock? Questions which I reply to the player of course. Quite frankly it was a well written but yet amusing email, it did make me laugh. As we say in Spanish "Cojido por lo referendos C*"£$£$" jejeje.

Darren sends me a letter concerning the disciplinary and asks if it OK to forward to the players in question. I have a read and let him know its all good and correct as far as I can see.

We do receive information on the World Cup so I forward the email to the committee in case we decide to send players over. Its very much doubtful as the committee is suggesting its very expensive. Coupled that members have been very badly accustomed not to dig into their own pockets this just makes it worse as the monies have to come from the GDA kitty and it can be too much for the GDA.

I'd personally go to the World Cup regardless of how much money it costs and its not as much as you'd think.

Flights can be obtained for £700 per person and accommodation is 425 dollars (£300). This means that player expenses (and America is cheap!) would be around 500 dollars (£350.00).

Considering that we get about 40% from Government and the GDA covers the other 60% we would ask members to offset some of the difference. Sending each player would cost in total £1200 but that's not how much the GDA would have to pay as we get 40% from Government.

The GDA would incur £720 per person BUT if each participating member who wants to attend the World Cup would pay £220 THEN it would cost the GDA £500 per head. Now there have been more expensive trips you know!!!!

Anyways it is up to the committee but I am not in favour of NOT attending the WC as its feasible and no matter what anyone says you can't compare a WC with the Med Cup (without disrespecting) its just they are too different in size.

On the positive side of things we should have an excellent team attending the Med Cup and with the increased competitions held this year, if they do not bring back Gold I don't know when they will!

Today I start one of the articles of the recent ranking played as tomorrow we have yet another ranking and I don't want to have to do them rushed. I add the result on the website too.