November 19, 2012Dear SirLike many other people, I worked at and thoroughly enjoyed last week’s Rugby Classic, and hats off to John Kane and his crew for putting together yet another superb event. There were only two blemishes on an otherwise excellent week. The first was Wednesday’s monsoon, but I appreciate that, good as the Classic committee are, they can’t control the weather! I do, however, have to question the pumping crew’s decision to pump the surplus water from below the swimming pool onto the field: why could it not have been pumped into the pool itself, which, let’s face it, is designed to retain a vast amount of water? The second was on Saturday evening after the matches themselves had finished, and most people were across by the beer tent having a good time: two groups of youths decided to indulge in a little gang warfare inside the main gate. Now, while about 95 percent of the people in the grounds at the time were white, these two groups were black. That’s not a racist comment, although I appreciate that some people may class it as such: as anyone else there at the time can tell you, it’s a simple statement of fact.Fortunately our much-maligned police were quickly on the scene and defused the situation, but my question to those mindless young morons has to be, why pay $10 a head to fight inside the stadium, especially anywhere near 100 or more beer-drinking rugby players? I simply cannot understand the mentality behind that decision. And what did it get you? The negative thoughts of virtually everyone else who saw you. The Rugby Classic is one of the few annual events left that generates tourist income for our cash-strapped little Island, and you morons have just done your bit towards souring some people’s otherwise happy memories of an excellent event, and possibly discouraging them from coming back. Well done: I hope you’re proud of yourselves.DAVIE KERRSmith’s