good post Ronnie , im in an invitation club , and i can understand why it is one im sure that new clubs forming cant be Invitations clubs anymore , the problem we have where we are situated is that if opened up fanciers 2 miles further would join and as our birds tend to fly over more times than not we would be giving these guys like 4 miles every race and besides theres 2 clubs in town , as long as members are in our boundary we accept , my mate kirky was just outside the boundary and on many occasions i would of liked him in my club the more the merrier i say , well we bothed moved and were accepted back in to the invitation club , i cant rember a time when they refused anyone entry whilst i was there as long as they were in the club boundary