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Like many sports, croquet is basically a game of confidence (at least as far as the skill side goes - tactics are another matter). Step onto the court feeling good and you're halfway to victory already. The trouble is that confidence is very hard to engender. As an example, on a handful of occasions in my croquet career I've stepped up to a long

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[jiggery_pokery]

I am already Middlesex captain! I knew that! Will you necessarily be next year, though? Not to disparage your evidently fine captaincy, of course.

Oh, England's county system. *rolls eyes* How would hypothetical Major League Croquet with franchises based on the nine governmental regions of England work in practice? More seriously, how many of those nine regions would be able to raise a team? *investigates* Crikey, the lot (heck, the CA has ten English regions, not nine) plus Glamorgan could represent Wales and Scotland is perfectly well-represented already. Carry on.

I am delighted to see that Middlesbrough is adequately represented in the croquet department, if not quite a powerhouse; our last house was about five furlongs, I would say, from our local lawn. (But, less plausibly and so more impressively, where I used to live with Dad, in the post-Oxonian GIT days, is within sight of where the local Aussie Rules Football team play.) If you ever come up here then I should take you to see either hallowed turf. You could play a round against the club champion at either one, I'm sure.