Ok cats and kittens what curler would you like to play with most ( or have in your team ) and why ? . I'll go with for Kevin Martin ( Canada ) to pick his brains on tactics. For the females I'll go for Rhona Martin ( no relation  ) from Scotland just as she is a fantastic player.

I'm not that fussy, I would love to play against any one of our Elite Curling Teams.

Of course I'd be massacred, even with a more than competent team behind me, but what a gas. I'd hope to get an end or two, then maybe go for another one or two.

You are right of course as playing against a top flight team rather than with them is a completely different experience. I was in a scratch rink with a competent skip and three numpties (myself included)  that played against Andrea Schopps team in Germany last year and I can tell you it was an expereince. We were over the moon to 'take' the first end against the head and we thought we would be a challenge. However, Andrea got annoyed and that was it, we never took another end.  We walked away losing 8-1 after the full 8 ends and were really chuffed with ourselves for holding them down that much (they beat the previous team 19-1 and the subsequent team 22-0). Andrea refused to shake hands at any stage as she 'wanted the ends' - I can appreciate this but 22-0 is not nice.  Yes Eddie playing against a world class team is different to playing with them.