Hi Bud,
It wasn't a permanent change, just something which was trialled on the night due to high numbers and people arriving late, myself included, due to the M6 problems.
I'm sure we'll be back to business as usual so to speak this week.
Just to answer your point about the AGM not limiting numbers, I think everyone at the AGM felt this is a friendly club which is a platform for beginners to get what is likely to be, their first taste of racing. We agreed on that basis to turn people away wasn't in the sprit of the club.
Again the other points are consistent with things I've thought for many years but don't anymore. Once Nathan started racing I realised Ribble isn't trying to be a Southport or a Bury. Its successfully being something else where newbies can come and learn without the pressure environment of a serious meeting. Now we all love to race and would love Ribble to be a Worksop or Chadderton, of course we would but then how does the new blood get into the hobby?
If you've got to the standard that you need a higher level of competition, all those more racing focused venues are brilliant and open to you. That isn't to say please go to those and not Ribble, it isn't, but if you come to Ribble and expect Southport you've missed the point.
Anyway you should have brought all this up at the AGM
