Hey vandenburg

That's rubbish mate. I can tell you that Marcus will bomb bloke is deffo gonna reach top 20 in world. I mean I saw him beat some players last year and almost beat federer so he must be the next big thing. And isn't that Dan Evans a great player. Can see him getting top 10 this year.

With Noel Edmund as well we are almost certain to retain Davis cup as well surely?

Vandenburg wrote:

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theemptyvessel wrote:

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I don't think the question was one of free speech but more a case of why keep visiting a message board related to British Tennis when you seem to dislike every British player on the tour. Kind of like a vegetarian visiting a message board dedicated to Kentucky Fried Chicken, well within your rights but seemingly pointless and self defeating.

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This is a mad comparison.  Eating veg food or not is a choice.  I do not like the current government,  but yet I go on political blogs to share my views?? is that not ok? The point is we are stuck with the current government, like we are stuck with this current group of British players.  And, like the government, it is is the national interest, as the LTA is tax payer funded to analyse them and look for faults. 

I give praise where it is due, but sometimes (most of the time) the overhype on this site, is like there is 100 Andrew Castles. 

Many people in the clouds on this site, mistake trolling for reality.  Last year we had a thread, where I was very critical of generation fail (Willis, Rice, Cox etc), and was critical about the fact we were still even reporting on them. This thread drew in praise from many corners of this site.  The fact is the British tennis has been the laughing stock of the tennis world for the last 30 years (the reasons for British tennis failure are multifaceted). And yes, you should say I should take my anger out on the system not individuals, but I believe it is a combination of both.  If Rice and Cox were in war torn eastern europe living in poverty and tennis was all they had, they would have made the top 100.  

-- Edited by Vandenburg on Tuesday 27th of June 2017 03:48:35 PM

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Vandenburg, taking you seriously, which you may not intend, if you are concerned about the percentage of your taxes that goes on the LTA and the use they make of it, may I suggest that you contact your MP? My guess is that since 2016 government funding of the LTA was about £3.5 million, meaning that any individual's contribution is likely to be on the order of between 5p and £1, I doubt it will be the highest priority. But you do indeed have, as a taxpayer, the right to have your say.

In terms of this board, there are many lively debates and many people with strong opinions. But there's generally a sense that we wish people well - not in a sycophantic or uncritical way, but as people who respect what the athletes are doing and want to support those who play for GB. That's an entirely reasonable thing for a GB Tennis board to do!

Beyond that, though, one really crucial thing. Have opinions as much as you want. But doing things like calling a group of people "Generation Fail" is neither accurate - I would be extremely pleased, were I a tennis player, to have achieved as much as Dan Cox, for example - nor appropriate. You, like most of us, have chosen a pseudonym for your posts: we post from anonymity. The tennis players about whom we post are not simply fellow inhabitants of an online world. They're real people with real ambitions and hopes and hard work. They're out there as themselves. And they're very visible. Of course, we can and do critique. But we really can't use mocking generalities or make snide remarks without coming across as the kind of people we really don't want to be. I am sure, for all your posturing, you don't really want to be that kind of person.