Sorry Jamie, i repect your view but i dont agree there.
Time after time you see people saying " this dosent work, or thats rubbish or the WRCA is pants " but you never seem to see those people offering a viable alternative, let alone a decent suggestion. Or even saying " hell, ill put my money where my mouth is and offer to become a committee member and change things from a position of power ".... people like the idea of change, or moan about how crap it appears to be in their eyes, but when it comes down to it they never want to do the work associated with changing it and running it.
Most people have never been part of a committee, and frankly have no idea of how much time it takes up, and the extra stress that can be involved. Yes, i have been on committee's... numerous tennis club & coaching committees... it can be bloody hard and un-rewarding work sometimes
How do you suggest the WRCA changes ? Takes a wild guess occasionally or a stab in the dark ? The
whole point of AGM's is for people to turn up and have their say & offer suggestions, try to change things or offer to become committe members.
To change something you need :
a) a viable, thought-out alternatives to presently non-working ideas
b) good, thought-out new suggestions
c) the balls to become part of the solution
Yes, there were only 6 of us at the last WRCA AGM - and yes, i was the only non-WRCA committee or non-club committe member there. And yes, there were a few suggestions, ALL of which were discussed at length and voted on.
If you start taking suggestions via written word on forums, you cannot get all the pros & cons like that, nor discuss them properly. It just dosent happen. You need all suggestions or ideas beforehand, then discuss at length in a meeting.
If you want to change how the WRCA operates or offer alternative suggestions, then attend AGM's. Sorry, but thats really the only way. In my opinion anyway....
Rant over. For the moment