Fixing the Black holes......
Posted: Sun Oct 18, 2009 9:53 am
I think the penny is starting to drop......re ECF and its organisation.... Garry, et al.....
They have no FD currently....why...?
I`m tempted to say, the answer is easy..........but I`m sure that would be too simplistic...
It seems no coincidence that, at the same time that simmering debates rage in the background about PIFs, and about conevants, and various other lagacy monies sloshing around, ...that the ECF is teetering on the financial brink......
Is it simply the case that these power groups see these funds as a lever for (self interest), power and control over the ECF/BCF. That they can see how financially weak this body is, so, in an attempt to wrestle control and power from the ECF, people like Garry are just cynically using these funds as a lever to broker power and control from the ECF directorate. And therefore, anyone with any financial nouse will see straight through this charade and automatically regard the FD job within the ECF as a no-brainer.
This Mexican stand-off, whereby some parties are clearly hoping that the ECF will fall apart, so they can grab the reigns, is clearly most undesirable....the boil must be lanced.
If so, it seems to me that one of the most urgent tasks is to convene a meeting of all these power groups and sort out (perhaps quietly....), just exactly what they want, and how things can be taken forward with regard to to the ECF.....and hopefully a brighter future for British Chess. Those of you who have read my recent posts will note the warning I gave about groups that are `hoarding money` ....and the negative effect that having `dead money` locked away in bank accounts doing nothing, would have. It is choking our countries chess development.
We cannot have these frozen assets just sitting around gathering dust while Rome burns......
Essentially, all these funding bodies, and the people acting as Trustees, etc....need to come clean...set out a credible game plan for British Chess (and notice I say `British Chess`...because I see our chess in this country as an inclusive exercise).....where we pool together our resources and talents, in the wider interests of UK chess.
One of the key needs is to mobalise British Chess at all levels....release the pent up energies and put some `umph` back into proceedings.
They have no FD currently....why...?
I`m tempted to say, the answer is easy..........but I`m sure that would be too simplistic...
It seems no coincidence that, at the same time that simmering debates rage in the background about PIFs, and about conevants, and various other lagacy monies sloshing around, ...that the ECF is teetering on the financial brink......
Is it simply the case that these power groups see these funds as a lever for (self interest), power and control over the ECF/BCF. That they can see how financially weak this body is, so, in an attempt to wrestle control and power from the ECF, people like Garry are just cynically using these funds as a lever to broker power and control from the ECF directorate. And therefore, anyone with any financial nouse will see straight through this charade and automatically regard the FD job within the ECF as a no-brainer.
This Mexican stand-off, whereby some parties are clearly hoping that the ECF will fall apart, so they can grab the reigns, is clearly most undesirable....the boil must be lanced.
If so, it seems to me that one of the most urgent tasks is to convene a meeting of all these power groups and sort out (perhaps quietly....), just exactly what they want, and how things can be taken forward with regard to to the ECF.....and hopefully a brighter future for British Chess. Those of you who have read my recent posts will note the warning I gave about groups that are `hoarding money` ....and the negative effect that having `dead money` locked away in bank accounts doing nothing, would have. It is choking our countries chess development.
We cannot have these frozen assets just sitting around gathering dust while Rome burns......
Essentially, all these funding bodies, and the people acting as Trustees, etc....need to come clean...set out a credible game plan for British Chess (and notice I say `British Chess`...because I see our chess in this country as an inclusive exercise).....where we pool together our resources and talents, in the wider interests of UK chess.
One of the key needs is to mobalise British Chess at all levels....release the pent up energies and put some `umph` back into proceedings.
