Jim,
I've noting to hide...I've nothing to be ashamed of.
So heres your pm andmy reply as this is an open forum.
Hi Jim,
I appreciate your pm and totally understand where you are coming from.
I also appreciate the work that you and the forum members have done for charity.
It was only a suggestion...open to debate which is why its better it was discussed now rather than in june. If I had to run every post I make past admin I would never post.
I am 100% aware of the police check thing as that is why I backed out of Ferryhills junior section as my son was too old to fish the following year so it was not worth me taking the checks. Clubs who have a junior section must have the people qualified to run them. It was open to debate as I said.
My comments would be that the RNLI have reserve funds of over 170 million...NE junior anglers have funds of ?
Your hand over night...? expenses paid?...a free be ?...worried about loosing those? A secret meeting? Not told the forum members?
Please ignore that last sentence...its what I get all the time in an attempt to get a better deal for ne anglers...I ignore it
Clubs need members.
Please re read your first paragraph of this pm...its a forum ..I opened it to comment. That after all is what its all about. You say only post after we have talked about it...who is the "we" I should have talked to ? Thats why I posted it in chat ...to talk about. You say "we" have talked about the future...once again ...who is that we?
Are you suggesting that any proposals that change the way the forum works have to be run past the mods first?
In that case you should see my texts because they also include comments on the forum.
Forum=debate=freedom of speech.
Are you worried that one forum member could take it in a direction that you dont like? Is there a hidden motive within NESA I am not privy to.
I have posts to make on monday that probably break the law...some of the most devastating bad news I have ever heard regarding NE anglers....but if I have to run them past admin first it just probably aint worth bothering.
You have my number...ring me to discuss this if you feel it is really important. I only have one agenda and thats ensuring my son gets an opportunity to catch the fish I have. I also openly financially support a sport I hate (tennis) which set me thinking about the future and should the forum members want to support the juniors there is more than enough time to put a very public support for juniors in place.
The forum currently stickies a post that is 100% for teaching juniors...has done for a long while...and you pick fault with my post!!!!!
Phone calls recieved tell me that people at a high level are reading this forum because for the first time the NE is speaking out via this and the WSF forum.
Kick me off the forum if you want...but do not try to censor what I say legally on an open forum.
I assume that visiting a museum on tuesday is more important than than visiting Newbiggin?
Cheers
Dave
willywetegg said:
First of all Dave it might have been a good idea if you had run this past me first. The only charity that we have been involved with on NESA is the RNLI, I am going up on Tuesday to hand over some more money to them at the official opening of the Grace Darling museum to which I have been invited. At the moment we have no plans to become involved with any other charities unless it has been well talked about and all thought out first.
We have had lots of conversations over the last few years about helping children and getting them involved with fishing. It was brought to our attention (and rightly so) that we could have nothing to do with it unless everyone involved had had the obligatory and very neccessary Police checks as it would be a perfect opportunity to have someone start to "groom" a child.
As far as having auctions goes I have no plans at the moment to hold another one as it takes a hell of a lot of time to sort out and run and as you know my health is not at its best at this moment in time and I would find it very difficult if not impossible to do.
I have put this in a PM as it would not look particularly good for the forum having to write this all down in open view.
Jim.