Comments on: Choices put Canadian Women’s Curling at a Crossroads

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By: Jeff

Jeff — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 05:52:08 +0000

I’m seeing a change of the guard this year… I’m seeing more aggressive shots this year, and with the likes of Homan, Carmody and McCarville up and coming (and already here) with that more aggressive strategy and making those risky shots. Unfortunately that is only a very small number right now (compared to the Men’s game).

By: Gerry

Gerry — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 20:57:46 +0000

I have followed the women’s saga in Scotland, and it’s a tough situation. As for deciding whether it’s a success based on this women’s squad, it’s hard to say. The Men have won two World Championships with their “selected” squad, and are one of the favourites for Gold in Vancouver. You’re right about Andrea, since they’ve moved Melanie Robillard to throwing third stones, they’ve been very strong this year.

When in Scotland, I did see the resentment to the system as well, and it’s too bad this is the case. As long as there’s a way to get funded by having success and showing results, then I believe the system can work. Work hard, show some results and you will be rewarded in the long run. And athletes not having success, should fall out of the program.

By: david kelly

david kelly — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 14:28:08 +0000

Great fun working with you, Gerry, at the Europeans. Yes, we pick our squad like it is a football team. The thinking is we do not have the strength in depth to dare allow an “open” competition to chose the team. There are real problems with this - even in Canada you must have heard about our little trouble over the fifth woman in the squad. The astonishing fiasco at the women’s world’s in Vernon - which I would categorise as “who’s team is it anyway?” is still reverberating around our game.

I have to report a growing resentment in the expert game here about two-tier curling. We have effectively a dozen profesional curlers and “the rest”. The olympic squad have access to the whole of Sport Scotland’s resources. An army of nuritionists, psychologists, physiotherapists, coaches, you name it - they don’t pay for it.

Meantime the best of the rest can only win a couple of thousand dollars at most in a season, and therefore have none of this support. Its starting to show in the results. Some of them are starting to wonder, in public, if it is worth the effort of competing against professionals.

So, whose game is it? For example we just played the Scottish Championships down to the last four, but then stopped until after the olympics. Appartantly it might have upset our Olympian’s preparations if they lost.

I’ve never experienced this “us and them” attitude in more than 40 years in the game. I do not think it is a positive approach. Tread carefully over there!

And on the much simple issue of who will win the woman’s at the Olympics, you fail to mention my pick! If that thrown together, not very good team of Andrea Schopp can get her to the semis, she can win it on will power all by herself. She calls a great game, which you expect after 27 years representing Germany, and their is one empty place in her display cabinet.

By: ObsessiveCurler

ObsessiveCurler — Tue, 09 Feb 2010 03:44:43 +0000

Are you suggesting a the CCA and COC form super teams? That’s plural.
And make them play against eachother in a 4 team round robin to see who represents our country in 2014?

Because I would