Running a club as large and as diverse as MSCC is no easy feat; effecting the changes necessary to ensure it's survival (and hopefully growth) is perhaps even more of a challenge, especially if one is relying heavily on willing volunteers to do the 'donkey work'. As Stewart mentioned earlier I do wonder what people expect for a £40 per year subscription.
The fact that it has been recognised that change is required at all is a huge step in the right direction - and I think that the ongoing development of a functioning website is an example of change happening already; I for one am looking forward to seeing all the hard work come on stream as I think (or am rather hoping) that it will make a huge difference to how members and centres inter-act. As ever, change will please some and annoy others.....a bit like BREXIT!
In more contemplative moments I also wonder what the outcome would be if Morgan owners on here took the same hard line with MMC as they do with MSCC.....ater all they are both less than perfect organisations with communication issues (IMHO of course!).
So I would say that if you believe in MSCC then do your best to get involved or at least get your voice heard; if you don't believe in it then you vote with your feet.
Finally, I leave you with something far more worthy of reading than my own drivel:
THE MAN IN THE ARENA
It is not the critic who counts; not the man who points out how the strong man stumbles, or where the doer of deeds could have done them better. The credit belongs to the man who is actually in the arena, whose face is marred by dust and sweat and blood; who strives valiantly; who errs, who comes short again and again, because there is no effort without error and shortcoming; but who does actually strive to do the deeds; who knows great enthusiasms, the great devotions; who spends himself in a worthy cause; who at the best knows in the end the triumph of high achievement, and who at the worst, if he fails, at least fails while daring greatly, so that his place shall never be with those cold and timid souls who neither know victory nor defeat.
Excerpt from Theodore Roosevelt’s speech "Citizenship In A Republic" delivered at the Sorbonne, in Paris, France on 23 April, 1910
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