Olympic Funding article

Very lucky

Most clubs I know, not official RYA data or the result of a Poll of every club in the UK, committee are set and hanging on for grim death, because only they know what's best for the club and its future even when the club is failing .

It would appear you are the know all, typical committee member, when questioned reply aggresively, you are giving an opinion of committee members based on experience, exactly the same has me, I am not however pretending it is official and not to be questioned.

Slight typo on last post, should have said "typical know all committee member" apologies to all the decent committee members.

Originally posted by JimC In most clubs the old farts would dearly love to hand the whole lot over, but can't find anyone to hand over to.

Jim, I might be misrepresenting you but I take the gist of this to be the poor old selfless farts have been hung out to dry by the feckless, screen obsessed, young? 

How would you explain my example of the canoe club above, surely it should be impossible if it's something fundamental to the outlook of different generations? 

Volunteer burnout is obviously a genuine issue, but I can't think of anywhere in the sport where there has been a long term, concerted effort to attract, train and retain adult beginners in significant amounts. As such it seems inevitable that the sport is unsustainable and that the situation is largely self inflicted.

If clubs, classes and our governing body made recruitment and retention their primary focus the sport might be in a better place, but we're all too easily distracted by the shiny, ultimately unimportant stuff of who won what or the latest 'me-too' class (or PY list...) 








Edited by DiscoBall - 16 Aug 18 at 1:03am