At a loose end this afternoon I went back over the thread and looked at the number of positive and negative responses to the various suggestions,
these had more positive than negative (in order of "positivity"), counting a suggestion as a positive.
Newark
Shrewsbury
Stourbridge
Northampton
Lincoln
Stafford
Loughborough
Norwich
Stamford
These were neutral
Hereford
Lichfield
Telford New Town : Wellington / Oakengates / other
These attracted more negative than positive (in declining order of popularity)
Grantham
Kettering
Kidderminster
Newcastle under Lyme
Peterborough
Bridgnorth
Cambridge
Leamington, Warwick & Kenilworth
Ludlow
Unless there's a better idea we could go to a proper poll including the 9 positives and the 3 neutrals, the "top" five negatives all got the same aggregate score (-1).
In future we could forget the labels and say something like "within 2-3 hours rail travel of London" or Birmingham or Manchester or you get the idea, in rotation.
Thanks for making the effort to check all this stuff.
This is surely disqualified by the fact that we did a crawl on this route recently?
I don't think this was a serious suggestion. I think it was along the lines of "ok, we've done it as a Midlands crawl, it was so good can we also do it as a Northern crawl, or maybe as a Southern crawl?"
Come On You Hatters!
At last a realistic suggestion! I was only trying to apply rules that I thought applied from previous polls. I agree with SH that the good towns around Telford Central have already been done. Personally I would replace it with something else.
EDIT: And I'll add my thanks to OB for doing this!
EDIT again. I didn't propose NUL but tried to use it as an example of how the polls need to use the simple existing rules.
For Future Polls I would suggest that Eastern towns like Chelmsford, Colchester Ipswich and Cambridge are in the South while Lincoln, Peterborough and Norwich are Midlands. Surely nobody will ever suggest Great Yarmouth or Kings Lynn?
Last edited by Aqualung; 05-07-2019 at 22:22.
'Beer is for all day, not just for breakfast'.
But these are defined as the East of England: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_of_England
I made a suggestion that this area be treated as an extension of the East Midlands - Hereford is in the West Midlands but is further south than Cambridge.
Just over two hours left before the 2019 Autumn PuG Crawl poll closes - Newark and Shrewsbury currently in a tie...