Monklands CAC Proposal to the
Scottish Federation of Coarse Angling AGM 2007
MS Word Document Version - HERE
Proposal: Scotland National Team Selection
Monklands CAC would like to propose that the team selection should be based on annual points system similar to that of the Ryder cup, (although the Ryder Cup differs in that it is every two years). The manager would also have two wild card selections where he can either chose anglers who he feels would benefit from the experience of fishing in one of the smaller events or would contribute to the major events.
This can easily be achieved with a league system where ranking points would be awarded at all Federation matches. This would give you six matches fished on a mix of venues.
Similarly to the league, in the Fed open events the total number of anglers participating will be split in to four sections and a section value of the amount of anglers plus two points should awarded to the section winner and one point less to second and so forth; e.g. in an eight man section the winner would get 10pts and second 9pts etc. If an angler wins a section where there are more or less anglers it is only fair that he should be awarded more or less ranking points.
At the end of the league the 10 anglers with the highest points and the managers 2 wild card selections would represent the pool of anglers open to the manager for selection of the national team providing the meet the current criteria set out just now for selection (Born in Scotland, Scottish parentage or have resided in Scotland for the last 5 years).
The wild card selections can only be chosen from anglers who participate in the national league and open competitions.
We appreciate a number of juniors would be fishing in these matches and they too could be selected for a National junior team under the same system and criteria.
We think the federation and all clubs in Scotland would benefit from this selection policy as more anglers would want to take part in these matches, because if they are successful they will have won the opportunity to represent their country at a World, European, Six Nations or Celtic Cup championships.
We believe this system would be a fairer and more democratic way of selecting the pool of anglers for the manager because he will have the anglers who have been the most consistent over the previous 12 months.
The system just now does not seem as fair as anglers who are consistently finishing in the top 10 of our national league competition are not currently being considered for selection to the national team.
Club Secretary: David McAuley