14-01-2014, 03:05 PM
OK guys, thanks for the replies. I don't intend to get into one of the ridiculous spats regularly pursued on this noticeboard, so this is my final comment on this thread.
David, Your reply at least puts a little context into where we are on this, so thank you for that. Andrew claims that you have a strategic plan. I'm afraid that I haven't seen it to be able to either agree or disagree with it. Can you post it please? On the specifics of the Girls, I suppose I still don't get why we couldn't have had SJC running the event for CS, especially given that you were, as you say, just new in the door. I'm sure you had your reasons but are we all supposed to have to guess as to what they were?
Andrew, I've re-read my initial posting. I don't get how you thought my first post related to anything other than the general coordination of this year's Girls Championships and the overall lack of strategic development for junior chess in scotland. I don't think I mentioned venue or the number of events specifically although the initial thread (set up by Peter Smith) was about the location.....If you think I over exaggerated in the final part of my post then why not just say that rather than state that it's "nonsense"? CS officials and their bodyguards will need to be a little less defensive and more responsive to criticism to allow the chess community in scotland to move forward. None of what anyone is doing is easy and I think most folk will be aware of that, however if there is a query or a claim that something has been completed in a shabby fashion I think it would pay you guys to take more heed. Thanks
David, Your reply at least puts a little context into where we are on this, so thank you for that. Andrew claims that you have a strategic plan. I'm afraid that I haven't seen it to be able to either agree or disagree with it. Can you post it please? On the specifics of the Girls, I suppose I still don't get why we couldn't have had SJC running the event for CS, especially given that you were, as you say, just new in the door. I'm sure you had your reasons but are we all supposed to have to guess as to what they were?
Andrew, I've re-read my initial posting. I don't get how you thought my first post related to anything other than the general coordination of this year's Girls Championships and the overall lack of strategic development for junior chess in scotland. I don't think I mentioned venue or the number of events specifically although the initial thread (set up by Peter Smith) was about the location.....If you think I over exaggerated in the final part of my post then why not just say that rather than state that it's "nonsense"? CS officials and their bodyguards will need to be a little less defensive and more responsive to criticism to allow the chess community in scotland to move forward. None of what anyone is doing is easy and I think most folk will be aware of that, however if there is a query or a claim that something has been completed in a shabby fashion I think it would pay you guys to take more heed. Thanks