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Just curious Craig but how often do Desford actually practice? I remember having a conversation with someone from within the Desford organisation who said that it costs them approximately 5000 pounds to do a contest, I suspect this was partly because of the distance that players have to travel. The players are in our area are good enough, I think that Desford proved this at the height of their success. Why is it now the case that you seem to need to get players in from here there and everywhere, what is wrong with the people around here. I think that the general opinion of just about everyone that I spoke to at the area was that yes Desford played well and deserved to win but that it wasn't really the spirit of banding. Ask yourself the question would Desford have competed if it didn't have a big sponsorship, I know my band would have. On another more or less related note, it is really worrying the number of bands that are going under at the moment in the banding world at the moment, we need to concentrate on the young people coming into the banding scene. Basically we need more bands to start junior/youth bands up. It's no good just leaving it to the local authorities to do it. This is the future of banding we need to do something about it and soon. Cheers Phil ---------- From: CRAIG BENNETT Sent: 15 March 1998 21:39 To: INTERNET:brass-band@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: RE: Midlands Area Phil Sturdy made comment about Desford having money to buy in players. I'd just like to say that I wish they would show me some of it. I was working in Southampton during the week before the Area and travelled to Coalville (Leic) to band practice which took 3 and a half/4 hours. I received my petrol money only - and got back to the hotel at 1am. Craig Bennett -- unsubscribe or receive the list in digest form, mail a message of 'help' to listserver@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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