20-11-2023, 11:45 PM
I've been off this forum for a few years but I can see it's time I came back.
Scotland Played 9 lost 9.
The two youngest players were born the year England won the world cup in 1966.
Two others turned 65 this year and the fifth was born when Alekhine was still alive!
We have an an abundance of young talent how did this happen?
(I cannot even add the tried and trusted remark after such a calamity -
'...at least they will learn from their mistakes.'
That lot stopped learning from their mistakes in the last century. )
I know poverty will be pleaded as an excuse but we can work around that.
Forget going cap in hand asking some business to sponsor a whole team instead we
get each league: Dunbartonshire, Lanarkshire,, Edinburgh, Glasgow and North East Scotland
to sponsor one player each. Surely each league can raise amongst themselves enough to
send one of their own league's strongest (and preferably young!) players.
Played 9 Lost 9. We even lost to that chess powerhouse the Faroe Islands (3½ -½)
whose team probably consisted of two fishermen, a folk singer and a monk.
(why has 'Wilhelm Steinitz' appeared under my name?)
Scotland Played 9 lost 9.
The two youngest players were born the year England won the world cup in 1966.
Two others turned 65 this year and the fifth was born when Alekhine was still alive!
We have an an abundance of young talent how did this happen?
(I cannot even add the tried and trusted remark after such a calamity -
'...at least they will learn from their mistakes.'
That lot stopped learning from their mistakes in the last century. )
I know poverty will be pleaded as an excuse but we can work around that.
Forget going cap in hand asking some business to sponsor a whole team instead we
get each league: Dunbartonshire, Lanarkshire,, Edinburgh, Glasgow and North East Scotland
to sponsor one player each. Surely each league can raise amongst themselves enough to
send one of their own league's strongest (and preferably young!) players.
Played 9 Lost 9. We even lost to that chess powerhouse the Faroe Islands (3½ -½)
whose team probably consisted of two fishermen, a folk singer and a monk.
(why has 'Wilhelm Steinitz' appeared under my name?)