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The coaches and managers who travel overseas with the team pay all their travel, accommodation and expenses out of their own pockets.

You can watch it on youtube under bowltv.

The Korean women are in another league. They are so well drilled and repeat the same shot time after time. The Chinese Taipei ladies are also unreal to watch. Their helicopter bowling action is unique but very effective. The type of pattern doesn't seem to affect them in any way.

I would like to add another view on why I believe that the TBA has brought this ruling in. The ladies are currently only bowlling in 4 ranked events plus the Australian Masters. Having so few tournaments is not a great preparation for the bowlers who are selected to bowl for Australia overseas...

What started out as an interesting thread has turned into a TBA kicking exercise. Why don't you guys go to the next AGM and voice your concerns. I am sure the TBA can advise of the date and location.

I think you have misunderstood me Matt. The female bowlers can only bowl 4 events that goes towards the female rankings. Any open events that they bowl goes towards the open rankings. This means that a female could win the open ranking.

The 8 pins is only for the ranked events that doesn't have a womens division. The women only have 4 ranked events plus masters. Some females haven't bowled in a ranked event since the maters whereas the men have had three events. Like most new ideas it needs time to see if its going to be...

Another positive thread that gets hijacked. The 8 pins was bought in for the good of bowling as a whole. Unfortunity the numbers for females at tournaments are dropping. Having the females bowl in these events is helping with exposing these bowlers to the pressure of bowling against the best...

The reason TBA is doing this is because there is only 4 tournaments for the ladies next year. This helps the ladies when they are bowling overseas.

The only way for TBA to have more funds is to increase the cost of membership.

The Hong Kong government have invested something like six million dollars into a bank account. They then give the money from the interest to sports. I don't know how much bowling gets but being an elite sport it would be looked after.

The reason is costs. It was going to cost each bowler an extra $2600 to send there bowling balls over.

At the end of the day the question should be was the pattern fair to all players. I notice that if the scoring in a tournament is low comments are made that the pattern was too hard. If the scoring is high then the pattern is to easy. So what score is the benchmark for the pattern to be...

Well done to all the bowlers who have been selected for these teams. A special well done to Bec who had to make a very hard decision and decline the invite to go to Cyprus. All of these bowlers have to fund these trips themselves and it makes it difficult to take take time off work. I am...

Well done to the winners. As a spectator on the weekend I found the bowling quite boring to watch as it was a strike feast. It appeared that all the bowler had to do was bowl it down the outside and the ball would hit around pocket and the pins would fall over. It reminded me of a 20/20...

The depth of the junior bowlers in not as strong as it was a few years ago. The numbers are down as well and this is affecting the girls more than the boys. An interesting execise would be to look at the averages that are being bowled at President Shield in the last three years compared to...

Very proud member of the flock of sheep group.

The room rates are quite reasonable for the quality of the room. We travel around quite a bit and the average nights accommodation is around the $150 mark and the quality of the room is not as good as the Novatel. The added convience of being able to just walk 100 metres and have a quick...

This is an interesting topic. As mentioned by other posters bowlers usually only pay a desposit if they want to get into a certain squad. This tends to be the B squad so the centre can say if you want to bowl this squad you need to pay a desposit to secure your spot. The centre has the...

Well done to all the bowlers who finished on top of the rankings.

I think you will find that the state reps no longer get an entry into the masters.

It's great what the guys have achieved with the up coming tournament in Mildura. The challenge will be getting the same sort of prize money year after year. It won't get ranking next year because the events for next year are out but you never know after that.

It's not all about the prize money but also the challenge of aging against one another. These bowlers have respect for each other and at the end of the season it's the ranking points that separates them like any other sporting season does.

You have written on more than one occasion that the reason that bowlers finish on top of the rankings is because they have bowled more events. I can understand why people like Bec and Sam are unhappy with your comments because they appear to degrade their efforts. There has been many posts...

It's about time you started behaving like a adult and stop throwing your tantrums. You constantly write stuff and then say that you didn't write that. It's also about time that you treated the bowlers and this sport with some sort of respect. I refuse to see reality do I. Well at least...