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Re: protest

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Subject: Re: protest
From: "Ron Grice" <ronhg@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 15 Apr 1998 15:05:14 +1000
Priority: low
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Since when has one (1!!!) player on any instument brought into a succesful
band won them the contest. The precedent of playing an overseas player  was
set here to my knowledge in Aus in the 1997 contest when a player from G.B.
played in 2 bands in two different sections one conducted by a senior assc.
official  Nothing was said or done (but they were not high profile bands
!!).  Not only was the band concerned in this years (hands up in the air
crying foul) a former winner,but has probably trebled the number of wins
over any other. My thoughts go to the player concerned,a nicer, more humble
person would be more difficult to find. With the official body being unable
(or unwilling) in 1995/97 to enforce  the definition of one of the sections
(we have t/oc/hymn/march) I find this latest debacle ridiculess. 

The full facts must be disclosed so the banding community here can decide
whether to keep spending the money to attend these seemingly endless
situations,a statement must be forthcoming from the organizers.

Confucious says "a band of champions will never defeat a champion band "

Ron Grice.
M.D.
Waratah Mayfield B.B.

These comments are mine and are not necessarily held by the band.

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> From: Ian P Daly <ipdaly@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: BrassBand <brass-band@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Subject: protest
> Date: 11 April 1998 07:46
> 
> News from the Australian National Championships is that a protest is/has
been lodged
> because a former National Champion band has brought out a tenor horn
player from
> England under the guise she is going for a job with a local construction
company.
> She arrived 4 days prior to the C'ships. This same band eveidently have
taken out
> a court injunction against the organising committee so they can't stop
her playing.
> The band claim this is all above board, if so, why the legals.
> My bet is she'll be back in England before the cock crows. This is
certainly not
> in the spirit of community banding. Rules are one thing, this is horse
s**t.
> The win at all cost mentality is divisive.
> ---
> Ian
> 
> Success is never final, and failure is never fatal;
> it's courage that counts. 
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