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I haven't spoke to Mark Bannister yet so I don't know his opinion on this or indeed the other players in the team, but I think it is really unfair and it's not right to move the Dukes up to div 1. just because we have signed 2 players of div 1 standard, who asked if they could join because they just wanted to come out and have fun on Tuesday that the team get moved up. Remember all the players from this season are still the same and they will all be playing every match, so you are going to put up a team that is currently 3rd in div 3 because we have signed 2 players that just wanted to join the team to have a good night out.

I also find teams complaining about who is signed also out of order, do they know the rest of the team, have they played us this season. 2 added players doesn't make us a div 1 team. What were our results in the cup, we scrapped through in 4th place, we then lost heavily both are cup games against div 1 and div 2 teams and just beat are own div opponents, would 2 more wins have made any difference.

However you wish to justify what is happening and even if Mark and the team agree and want to play div I, I still think it is wrong and incredibly unfair.

One last point, as someone who post her often and knows more about pool than most, I would ask Shaggy what he thinks as we played them in the cup at home, does he think the adding of Mev and Graf(who will likely only play 1 game each) make us a div 1 team.