Re: Enlighten me

"Rod Gramlich" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> "Paul Little" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > "Barry O'Sullivan" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> > > IMHO, best choice is peeling the centre guard.  Boring perhaps, but
> > > safe.
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> > > Just for the exercise, would anyone's opinion change if the scenario
> > > was the same but red was down by one?
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> > No.
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> THANK YOU !!!!
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> Thank you to all, thus far. My contention (as skip) was to peel the guard.
> My 'boys' requested that I play a tap_back on the yellow in the rings. I
> told them they were dreaming or smoking ... and that any self respecting
> curler would peel the guard (a REAL curler would rip the guard with
> out_turn, make the double on run back, and perhaps even leave the red
> shooter as a corner on top of red in the rings :) None_the_less (maybe I'm
> drinking and /or smoking as well with that wish), the guard has to go.
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> Are there ANY contenders to that theory out there ?? If so, I wanna hear
> your rationale for playing something other than ripping the guard.


I see that opinion is split over at In The Hack. A lot of people seem to
like the tap play... or are they all just your teammates, Rod?

;)

Paul