SHIs

[Lard]

Best wishes to Team Scotland

Class Winner predictions:

W20 Jess H
M20 Doug T (bias)
W21 Jenny J
M21 Mike S


Hee hee hee!

[Lard]

No wait...


Maybe

Tessa
John
Becky
Ewan


Mmmmm???

[harry]

oo Predict:
W20 Hollie O to see off Hill & Edwards
W21England 1-2-3 JJ, Pip squeak, Laura D
M20 Most interesting class: Rocke v Tullie/Coombs v Buffet/Jones (hope they're runnin) v Irish talent Ruairi
M21 Scotland 1-2-3 Scotty Fraser, McCarthy, Chepels

Team news, Team Scotland:
W20 Orr Longhurst
W21 Berrow Dunn Forrest Inman Strain
M20 Coombs Tullie Tullie
M21 Chepelin Fraser McCarthy Squire Strain Tullie

[Wendles]

Who took the brilliant photo on the news item and can I have a copy please?

[Gross]

Interesting to note that BOF make zero mention of the SHI's on it's webpages & neither does the SOA - not even mentioning the team! Most surprising given the SHI is one of the key performance indicators used by the SOA (or at least it was - maybe SHI isn't important any more - same as GB relay performances don't count anymore).

[Wendles]

I'm struggling to find information and start list/times. Point me in the right direction anyone?

[Wendles]

England in the lead overnight, won all courses except M20.

[SIman]

Some provisional results
M20 Duncan Combes, John Rocke, Doulas Tullie
W20 Tess Hill, Anne Edwards, Jess Halliday
M21 Scott Fraser, Neil Northope, Oli Johnston
W21Laura Daniel, Karen Heppenstall, Pippa Whitehouse

[Oldman]

Interesting to note that BOF make zero mention of the SHI's on it's webpages

A little unfair, Gross. See e.g.
http://www.britishorienteering.org.uk/e ... ionals.php and
http://www.britishorienteering.org.uk/d ... HI2007.pdf

[Gross]

Not unfair at all....

The page you link to is a general policy page. The SHI is here & now... a news item... It is (or isn't) an important 'domestic' competition that could (but doesn't really) play an important role in the delivery of BOF's 3P policy:)

And some PDF at the bottom end of a website doesn't equate to covering the 'news'!!!

[redkite]

Have just posted the results from today on the SWOC site

http://www.swoc.org.uk/

[harry]

Big up to all the Welsh team especially Kath & Rob, quality stuff getting in amongst it, hard work pays off.
Welsh W20s pretty solid too, good effort.
Rrrespect to Laura & Scott (I had a hunch you two would win today - nice one!)
Tessa & Coombsy - business as usual.
Hope it's a great relay tommorrow, sorry I couldn't be there.

[Oldman]

Not unfair at all....

I accept your point, but I seem to recall some time ago you quite rightly heavily criticised BOF when they failed to offer news of major events on their web site. I think they have stepped up their game since then admirably, giving news reports on Mondays or when it was eg WOC, day-by-day.

Or are you just lonely and feeling uninformed out there?

[Gross]

Got to agree that BOF have improved their coverage but it's still not so great....

1. no advance mention of SHI's (thanks redkite for results link).
2. late mention of World Cup results (didn't appear until Tuesday) - despite BOF having at least 2 fulltime equivilant people working on the senior programme & a marketing person
3. Little or no mention of the JEC... despite BOF having full time people involved in the programme

If BOF want to push the 3 P's principle then they need to push all they can. If the new website is to promote the sport to Joe Blogg punter then it needs to show the competitive side & not just all the boring old stuff about equality, child protection etc etc... that'll never attract anyone to the sport, competition might:).

(and singing the prasies of BOF for day to day coverage of WOC is a non-starter... with modern technology that should be an automatic expectation.... I remember being interviewed on day 2 of the JK 2000 by phone giving news of JS first WC win.... I was in Australia the JK got the info at about 10:00am UK time & the old 'Britsport' news website was updated within hours of the WC result being known..... it's not difficult to do:)

[Wendles]

A brief report from the event says that England were first overall with Scotland second but no result for others as yet. "Lots of fun today, physical but well planned and lots of route choice".