I'm not a prolific contributor but, as I mentioned in an e-mail to Chris Jones - at Spenborough it's always been a case of "If I don't get my own way, I'll spit my dummy out and take all my toys with me," which is the main reason we are short of so many good athletes now when, in 1992 when I joined, we were among the top ranked 3 clubs in Yorkshire (with Leeds City and Sheffield) in pretty much all departments.
Unfortunately egos seem to dictate that many folk who carry stop watches and encourage track athletes (and credit to the time they give up if not always to the manner they perform this task) can't bear to think that they don't know it all and that there might just be some aspects they could step back and think about and maybe tweak their approach. ie: listen and learn.
I recommended to Gareth that maybe we just ditch the rest of the website and go back to making it a Vets only thing (with room for ANY other opinions of course)...no-one else seems to update it or add anything!
The website as it remains is just a skeleton and certainly not one which would entice any outsider into coming along and joining the club.
Where's the credit we ought to be giving to Josh Cayenne or Steve McNamara (among the few class athletes we have left)... at the club presentation last year, there would have been no mention at all of them had it not been for me 'adding them into the script'?
Just my rant of the day...
See you at Esholt tonight
Keith
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Thanks Keith, much appreciated.
I dont know much about club politics, as i am away playing rugby for half the year, and can never seem to track down the night of presentation.
What it seems to me is that there appears to be an age gap at the club between the young, ie 16 and below and then veteran athletes. At club level this lack of athletes who are in their prime years is a big loss, and ,i think, critical to the clubs progression. Maybe we should look at reasons as to why this is, whether athletes simply stop athletics once they reach 'that' age, or move elsewhere, needs to be looked at.
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