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Whenever someone makes general statements about what "no one","we", or "everyone" thinks or wants, I replace those words with "I". It makes the post a lot more accurate. "We" get what you think; no need to imply everyone else agrees.

It's hard to be objective seeing the board, but it looks reasonable to me: partner's bidding suggests he is more or less balanced and that with a known clubs fit and a void in their suit you can risk competing in your 6 card major.

Look when somebody who doesn't live here keeps telling me all good players where I play play a system they flat out don't and I'd be surprised if 1% of them actually play and flabbergasted if 10% of them do, what am I supposed to say ? YOU DON'T PLAY BRIDGE HERE AND HAVE NO CLUE WHAT PEOPLE PLAY, so don't pretend you do. I was summarising my achievements to indicate that I do know what I'm doing at the bridge table and have played against pretty much all the good Acol pairs in the country. Locally we had one pair 25 years ago that played this until one of them moved out of the area. His partner rapidly abandoned it. Some would argue that if a 2/1 is F2N it is no longer Acol, as Acol tends these days to involve fairly light openers and 2/1s on 9 or 10, and this style just doesn't work with that.

We are all obsolete