NEW CEO AT RPRA

Chris Sutton is new CEO

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Yes, but cannot get any information regarding his background etc, just wish him well and hope he stands up to the old fogies.


Regards.

would he be a photographer

George & Morgan wrote:

would he be a photographer

yes george has got something to do with photography , looks like hes also a pigeon fancier, or he was .......

just seen the rpra announcement re the ceo.

Royal Pigeon Racing Association
17 h ·
The RPRA has today appointed a new CEO, Mr Chris Sutton. We wish Chris well in his new post. Thank you to all those who applied for this position.
Les Blacklock
RPRA President

if it's the same guy,

Clich Here
Chris Sutton

Some info, best of luck to him, hope it works out for both himself and the members

just had a look at the link colin, looks like weve got the right man for the job this time, someone who actually knows how things work and is a pigeon fancier, not just a man in a suit .

Apears well informed and experienced with our sport, lets wish him well and trust he does not get dispirited by the lack of enthusiasm show so far by the Clique for the sport to move forward.

Regards.

Apears well informed and experienced with our sport, lets wish him well and trust he does not get dispirited by the lack of enthusiasm show so far by the Clique for the sport to move forward.

Regards.

read where he was a club member so would think he raced

George & Morgan wrote:

read where he  was a club member so would think he raced

I wish him all the best of the best there etc George what a task he has thou like climbing Mount Everest maybe without a mask on type of thing I suggest .

the last CEO was a pigeon fancier i'm sure in partnership with his son in Wales

yes he was george....i would love to know the ins and outs of hiring and firing at the rpra

oldstrain wrote:

yes he was george....i would love to know the ins and outs of hiring and firing at the rpra

yes i would too darren, who hires , and decides who the new ceo is ...?

who gives him the job, whoever it is must be higher up than the ceo surely ?

the thing is david we pay there wages so why cant we decide who gets the jobs ,be very easy to do with every club getting 1 vote through there own voting majority ...we could have 4 candidates and each candidate could air there application online through an interview with whoever does the interviews there ,a live interview online and then we decide who gets the job through majority of club votes ,no doubt someone favourable will be in the hot seat as per usual

Nothing complicated about having INDIVIDUAL voting on all matters.

In the early70s I explained the fact that every proposition that affected the sport could be decided by the majority if the desire was there to do so.

I explained that a club with 8 members could dullyfy the vote of one with 80 members and the deciding vote be by a club with 5 members.

In fact if you counted individual votes the wishes of the possinble 80% majority would be ignored.

There will be one person having most say in my opinion as has been the case for years, until he and his mates are kicked out nothing will change.

Easiest thing in the world for club secretaries to send in individual voting from
their clubs to the Regions and them to the Council.

Our sport ha been strangled by self indulgent individuals whose only concern has been being in charge and enjoying trips abroad etc;.


The HALL REPORT should have been a wake up call to the membership but then I'M ALRIGHT JACK.

Regards.

from what i understand not all delegates voted as they should have at the general meeting

it may be that all this goes back to the Hall report which was not passed

My suggestions were published several times 35 years before the Hall Report, the report just confirmed what I had said and suggested many times.

The majority of fanciers care about nothing other than being able to race, apathy does not begin to explain it.

Every other sport has progressed, ours still in the Dark Ages.

Unforetunately, with all the other problems arrising it leaves very little chance of it being what it once was.

Commercialism and self indulgency by those that should have moved with the times and moved on to let others take charge periodically also as I suggested has made the sport stagnate beyond redemption.

Over the years I have received hundreds of letters from far and wide with situations that would make you cry and nothing they can do about it because no one cares.

Regards.

MISTY wrote:

Nothing complicated about having INDIVIDUAL voting on all matters.

In the early70s I explained the fact that  every proposition that affected the sport could be decided by the majority if the desire was there to do so.

I explained that a club with 8 members could dullyfy the vote of one with 80 members and the deciding vote be by a club with 5 members.

In fact if you counted  individual votes the wishes of the possinble 80% majority would be ignored.

There will be one person having most say in my opinion as has been the case for years, until he and his mates are kicked out nothing will change.

Easiest thing in the world for club secretaries to send in individual voting from
their clubs to the Regions and them to the Council.

Our sport ha been strangled by self indulgent individuals whose only concern has been being in charge and enjoying trips abroad etc;.


The HALL REPORT should have been a wake up call to the membership but then I'M ALRIGHT JACK.

Regards.

Complete farce type scenario etc Misty I suggest as mentioned.  Club of 3/4 shouldn't have the same voting power as a club of 20 & a club of 20 shouldn't have the same voting power as a club of 80 type of thing, when decisions are made. Delegate system best in the end from my experience where all equal depending on flyers represented on a proportionate type basis etc.

with my limited experience knackered, i feel that happens a lot when decisions are made regarding a lot of things within the club / fed .

a small number of members making decisions for the many ........usually in matters which favour them selves .

Morgan and i are individual members in the rpra but we don't have a vote also kids of school have to pay£7

David wrote:

with my limited experience knackered, i feel that happens a lot when decisions are made regarding a lot of things within the club / fed .

a small number of members making decisions for the many ........usually in matters which favour them selves .

Simple to rort the system I found David if one has that general desire etc. Seen phantom clubs in my time here turn up on voting night as such. but the strange thing is come race day, nowhere to be seen for some strange type reason.