Tony C Posted January 17, 2009 Report Posted January 17, 2009 Club meetings, how many do you attend or not as the case may be. Myself, I think I've missed one in the last 3 years.
Guest shadow Posted January 17, 2009 Report Posted January 17, 2009 never missed one all the time I had pigeons
Guest Posted January 17, 2009 Report Posted January 17, 2009 ;Dnot missed one yet ,been flying since 2004,havent sent to all races but still attend clubhouse to help out when i dont send andy.
retired Posted January 17, 2009 Report Posted January 17, 2009 Very rarely missed one up till 2 years ago, now dont bother at all with them.
hotrod Posted January 17, 2009 Report Posted January 17, 2009 missed a few but not bad in 32 years because of work /family comitments/holidays/ once or twice missed a meeting when just plainly forgot
stan p Posted January 17, 2009 Report Posted January 17, 2009 there is a group of lofts fly on what we call the top every thing is deacieded up there befor meeting so we know what is hapening befor you go they have voting power
Guest REDFOXKRAUTHS Posted January 17, 2009 Report Posted January 17, 2009 i owuld go but theres two things i live 15 miles from the club, so the club tells me not to worry about it and mum would have to take me down and hang round so not fair on her!!
sherbs Posted January 17, 2009 Report Posted January 17, 2009 Until recently i would attend every club meeting but it seems that all the members in my club have reached a troublesome age all at the same time. I am sure that some of them don't take their medication before they come to the meeting just so they are in an argumentative mood for the evening. Most of them have reached an age where if it's not how they did things years ago then it is automatically wrong, and there are not enough younger fanciers around to drive new ideas through. Phone calls and kitchen meetings take place before the real thing so issues are clouded and judgements formed before they arrive. I have come to the conclusion that i am better to stay away from meetings and just race my birds doing as much of the work on basketing nights and clock nights as i can. I feel that i really don't want to get dragged into arguments with increasingly old men with health problems that i have known since i was a child, better for me to just enjoy my racing with these guys whilst they're still around because i don't think it will be that long before there are only a couple of us left to race against. It is a shame that people who i get on with on a one to one basis seem to change once they enter a meeting room, it seems that being in one place at one time with fellow pigeon fanciers brings out the worst of the sport. Therefore instead of sitting in meetings wishing i was somewhere else i will stay away and save myself the misery.
tarzan Posted January 17, 2009 Report Posted January 17, 2009 Until recently i would attend every club meeting but it seems that all the members in my club have reached a troublesome age all at the same time. I am sure that some of them don't take their medication before they come to the meeting just so they are in an argumentative mood for the evening. Most of them have reached an age where if it's not how they did things years ago then it is automatically wrong, and there are not enough younger fanciers around to drive new ideas through. Phone calls and kitchen meetings take place before the real thing so issues are clouded and judgements formed before they arrive. I have come to the conclusion that i am better to stay away from meetings and just race my birds doing as much of the work on basketing nights and clock nights as i can. I feel that i really don't want to get dragged into arguments with increasingly old men with health problems that i have known since i was a child, better for me to just enjoy my racing with these guys whilst they're still around because i don't think it will be that long before there are only a couple of us left to race against. It is a shame that people who i get on with on a one to one basis seem to change once they enter a meeting room, it seems that being in one place at one time with fellow pigeon fanciers brings out the worst of the sport. Therefore instead of sitting in meetings wishing i was somewhere else i will stay away and save myself the misery. pmsl are you a member of my club brilliant. after years of banging my head trying too take the club forward ,ive now come too the conclusion of keeping away from these people .if your not in the clique in the over 65s club you havant got a chance of taking the club forward .we are due our agm soon and i have been informed that the agm is already decided in one of these kitchen meetings .im tired of hearing its only a hobby too me and i just want to fly my pigeons ,im sure its propersistions like accept new members radical changes like open the radius put the birdage costs up ,lets have pooling nominations raffles for the club etc that keeps these sad people going through the winter running too close there curtains everytime a telephone rings or a walk too the nearst kitchen meeting and they call themselfs fanciers sportsmen , no more meetings for me ,
Guest strapper Posted January 17, 2009 Report Posted January 17, 2009 i have been sec for over 4yrs now and i have never missed one meeting in 8-9 years....but there are the regular few that always has a excuse not to attend. yet the same few usually want to have a big say in matters that were discussed in their absence.
OLDYELLOW Posted January 17, 2009 Report Posted January 17, 2009 we have a great club everyone gets on no aminmosity and each one i would regard as friends barring non , we all get our say and the club is run briliantly , as for club meetings i go to all meetings you cant complain about anything or change anything unless you put your self forward and share your views , cant wait for racing to start again , i heard no members sent to Bourge last season as they had to be ferried in so i offered my services to ferry all club birds to be marked
Guest Paulo Posted January 17, 2009 Report Posted January 17, 2009 I try and attend most of them but if I'm working or doing something else important tough crap. I work 6 days a week at the minute and long hours due to doing a degree and half the time the meetings are about total rubbish anyway. In the winter weekends are the only times I have to look after my pigeons and as most sats I'm doing college work all day that leaves sunday as the only day I can get anything done and they always seem to want a meeting on the sunday! The birds come first! We have far too many meetings as a club its bad enough that half the club are parasites on the dole anyway as we have that much fundraising crap like raffles etc to raise money to sub members that don't work or are retired. I'm a pigeon flier not a drinker who sits and drinks in the club and talks a good race yet I spend half my life sitting in that club selling tote tickets and crap just because 80% of the club are too lazy to get a job and earn a living. I'm on crap money at work at the minute yet have had to pack in drinking and holidays so I can afford to fly yet these scum have a better standard of living than me they should put the clubs subs up to cover any costs and get rid of tiotes, raffles and crap and if they can't afford it they will have to pack in bingo, drinking every night of the week and foreign holidays. Thats me off my soap box lol it just does my head in at time. I'm sick of hearing the pits shut down as an excuse as well. All my familly were miners just like theres and they had to get new jobs in the building industry etc. Some of these blokes haven't worked since the 1980's and you talk to some blokes who are older and they tell you they didn't work down the pits either!
maverick Posted January 17, 2009 Report Posted January 17, 2009 What realy gets on my nerves are the ones who all year round never do anything to help out or do anything for the club, i have been sec of a club ran young bird sales to help with club funds and members dont even donate a young bird but at the meeting they are the first to shout there mouths off about anything and everything.
Guest Paulo Posted January 17, 2009 Report Posted January 17, 2009 What realy gets on my nerves are the ones who all year round never do anything to help out or do anything for the club, i have been sec of a club ran young bird sales to help with club funds and members dont even donate a young bird but at the meeting they are the first to shout there mouths off about anything and everything. Same here I always make sure I do my bit with the club duties like basketing always one of the first there and last to leave even though I work yet some of these dole lot never even turn up on time. Always volenteer to put the show pens up for the club show as well. One night i was practually loading the transporter on my own. Had two old blokes there who could only lift one basket between there so I was loading full race panniers on myself just as well I'm strong!
tarzan Posted January 17, 2009 Report Posted January 17, 2009 what kills me is you fight to get things passed in the club ,and the telephone brigade starts then special meetings are called ,and they wheel in club members who do not attend club meetings ,do not send too races ,do not do anything for the club.yet they reverse discisions that where demorcraticly voted on by flying members ,all on this so called expert fanciers say so,then all these kitchen members are happy ,dont ask them too help out though in the club ,they all got some disability that stops them basketing setting clocks waiting to load the transporter ,dont want to raise any monies for club or federation ,yet they would kill you too get to the bar for a pint and the arthritis pain only dissappears when clocking pigeons.ask too raise the birdage costs and you would think you where trying too confiscate there pensions or giros .
Guest rodders Posted January 17, 2009 Report Posted January 17, 2009 think its the same in most clubs more and more fliers just want to send and thats it tomoro is our agm which will be the least attended meeting of the year because there are positions to fill
Guest Paulo Posted January 17, 2009 Report Posted January 17, 2009 think its the same in most clubs more and more fliers just want to send and thats it tomoro is our agm which will be the least attended meeting of the year because there are positions to fill Yes the threat of being sec always sends shivers down the spine of some members lol
just ask me Posted January 17, 2009 Report Posted January 17, 2009 im not in club cant be drive 35 mile trip to mark the birds no club in my area will mark my birds cant understand why we cant all fly under same rules none of this mess at the agm of making up more also there should be only 1 club to an area not have 5 6 members in 3 4 clubs in the one area i know what it is its sad really they all want to be a big fish in a small pond
bewted Posted January 17, 2009 Report Posted January 17, 2009 hi everyone,i am one of those dole/giro people that your on about !!! i cant work,but,want to,everytime an employer asks about health i have to tell them and they dont want to know,,,,,,i think its a bit unfair your classing me the same as the rest of the dole/giro idiots as you talk about on here !! not getting into any arguements with any of you,but,just trying to put the record straight on wsome of us who want to work,but,cant,not all of us getting a giro are idle as we want to be !!! please,no arguements over this at all,only just my side of the story to you all !!! hope i have put this right for you all to read without getting uppity at all about it !!!
Gail J Posted January 17, 2009 Report Posted January 17, 2009 I attend every meeting but hate taking minutes :(
Guest Paulo Posted January 17, 2009 Report Posted January 17, 2009 hi everyone,i am one of those dole/giro people that your on about !!! i cant work,but,want to,everytime an employer asks about health i have to tell them and they dont want to know,,,,,,i think its a bit unfair your classing me the same as the rest of the dole/giro idiots as you talk about on here !! not getting into any arguements with any of you,but,just trying to put the record straight on wsome of us who want to work,but,cant,not all of us getting a giro are idle as we want to be !!! please,no arguements over this at all,only just my side of the story to you all !!! hope i have put this right for you all to read without getting uppity at all about it !!! Ill healths ok these happens happen to people and they can't get work everybody accpets that and thats why this country has a welfare system in place but noone in our club suffers from those problems. Theres a lad same age as me 27 whose never worked. But cause he's got kids he pulls in dole, free house etc. The problem is with the welfare systen is due to abusers of it we will end up loosing the lot one day! I can't afford a place of my own and I've worked since leaving school when I only got poxy 40 pound a week!
bewted Posted January 17, 2009 Report Posted January 17, 2009 sorry i read it wrong,i thought you were implying we were all the same,please accept my apologies paulo !!! not a good day for me mate sorry !!!
Guest Paulo Posted January 17, 2009 Report Posted January 17, 2009 sorry i read it wrong,i thought you were implying we were all the same,please accept my apologies paulo !!! not a good day for me mate sorry !!! No worries mate
fred x Posted January 17, 2009 Report Posted January 17, 2009 I don't miss any as i am The club President, Press Officer. I attend Frederation Meetings With our Delgates, Thats a 50 mile round trip.
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