RPRA new GM!

[pjc]

I see in todays BHW that the new RPRA General Manager has been appointed and i'm sure we wish him well!

 

What are members thoughts on him not being a pigeon man?

 

Phil

[Guest bigda]

I see in todays BHW that the new RPRA General Manager has been appointed and i'm sure we wish him well!

 

What are members thoughts on him not being a pigeon man?

 

Phil

 

don"t mind as long as he has something between the ears and is not a yes man :) :'( :'( :D

[ChrisMaidment08]

you can have as maney thoughts as you like i like him so there  he is a loverly chap follows me chip of the old block    when we were in army together he always said the boys would look after him when he retires    and fair doo,s they have

[Guest bigda]

you can have as maney thoughts as you like i like him so there  he is a loverly chap follows me chip of the old block    when we were in army together he always said the boys would look after him when he retires    and fair doo,s they have

 

oh is this jobs for the boyos   :)

[ChrisMaidment08]

dont know really but why do they not want someone from our world he retaires nx t year?????

[Tony C]

Would have been nice to know that the person to head of our organisation had a passion for the game and it not just being a job.

[pjc]

is anybody privy to who applied?

Wonder if any pigeon fanciers actualy applied for the job?

It maybe fanciers are not appointed incase there becomes a conflict of interest regarding there background within the sport.

 

Phil

[ChrisMaidment08]

yesthat is possible but then control like anothre assoiation springs to mind i f i was manager there would be no free cars no free hotels min exsences and  her in doors would not be writeing in book every week its getting like womans own

[Guest bigda]

I  maybe he will be good  at  taken orders then ;) ;D

 

 

 

 

 

how manny rings you want and stuff like that ;D

[frank-123]

Would have been nice to know that the person to head of our organisation had a passion for the game and it not just being a job.

 

what maybe someone who has fresh idea's and is not bogged down in the internal pigeon politics wish it was the shu

maybe has good links in goverment or press that would be very helpful

i would say give the guy a chance

[Guest chrisss]

I  maybe he will be good  at  taken orders then ;) ;D

 

 

 

 

 

how manny rings you want and stuff like that ;D

 

if he is an ex rupert [officer] he will get lost going to the office from the carpark!!!!, on the pigeon side [the most important] lets hope he is good at pr and even better at dealing with the plague ridden,halfwitted,dumpwitted,brain dead,clapped out,tools at defra,and even better with the rspb[who i hope all wake up tomorrow with a 14th century plague pit at the bottom of their gardens]

[OLDYELLOW]

we need someone thats forward thinking i guess if he has no grasp at the sport then how could he possible move our sport forward ?

[frank-123]

thinks its more a business thing to make sure the rpra is well run cost efficient  and fight the corner against the rspb and defra

pigeon racing comes second in my scottish outside opinion

[pjc]

As I said in the first post, i'm sure we wish him well and time will tell how forward thinking he is.

I do hope he is as approachable as Peter as I have always found him to be very approachable at all times unlike his previous!

 

Phil

[Novice]

is anybody privy to who applied?

Wonder if any pigeon fanciers actualy applied for the job?

It maybe fanciers are not appointed incase there becomes a conflict of interest regarding there background within the sport.

 

Phil

 

 

I know of one fancier who applied.

He had a background of Supervisory Management and was a meaningful candidate.

He never recieved the courtesy of an interview.

 

[ChrisMaidment08]

As I said in the first post, i'm sure we wish him well and time will tell how forward thinking he is.

I do hope he is as approachable as Peter as I have always found him to be very approachable at all times unlike his previous!

 

Phil

 

yes i will echo this having had freqent contact with peter

[OLDYELLOW]

doesnt supprise me novice , its the old boys network , never mind who's best suited for the job it just comes down to 'hes one of the boys' 2 years before retirement so if he screws up he gets well paid and next poor sod that puts his head on the block gets the bullet.

[Guest]

it is like a m8 of mine said on the other forum [would a pigeon fancier be aloud to run the RAF ] .ATB les.

[Guest bigda]

still think the the pigeon game was started by pigeon men,

and its not a bad paying job, and it should have been," really" a pigeon man, who should   have been  appointed  who has held high posts in the Rpra or feds, to say to  a outsider,  he will only follow orders from within  and should defra  say to him whats what i would like to think he could stand up to them without  reporting  back to the office all the time for guidance, if you don't think like a doo man,   defra will run rickshawed  over the top of you

peter has had four or five years   and his progress was slow

some one like billco now thats a army name, he would have been a good recruit to fight the cause ;)

[OLDYELLOW]

surely as members of a union we should have a manager elected by the membership , or are we realy already in a blinded dictatorship

[ChrisMaidment08]

oh so true

[pjc]

What would be wrong in shortlisting candidates with brief experience and publishing them in the BHW for the membership to read and then put it to an openvote?

 

Maybe thats to democratic?

 

Phil

[Tony C]

What would be wrong in shortlisting candidates with brief experience and publishing them in the BHW for the membership to read and then put it to an openvote?

 

Maybe thats to democratic?

 

Phil

 

Democracy: the control of an organisation by its members, who have a right to participate in decision-making processes

 

Just in case someone from the RPRA should be looking in

 

[Guest spin cycle]

What would be wrong in shortlisting candidates with brief experience and publishing them in the BHW for the membership to read and then put it to an openvote?

 

Maybe thats to democratic?

 

Phil

i think thats the problem with the rpra...lack of 'transparency' in the way things are done/decisions taken. it makes them look like everything is 'an old pals act' when in fact it may not. being a cynic i wonder whether in 2 years time we'll be able to afford a fulltime gm and so they've appointed a competent administrator who'll retire and then we'll be told that the rpra is going to' overhaul' itself to seek a lower cost base. however he has a powerful backer in bilco and i guess we'll have to give him a chance....but he's up against it , i feel, as another non pigeon man may not go down to well

[Guest bigda]

i think the rpra members  might have to give the interviewers whoever they are a reality check, as they seem to be too big for there shoes now! and maybe there jobs should be looked at anyway who do they answer to  :X :X :X