Steve wrote:
Mini Car Club NSW has contacted Mini Spares Centre Group expressing diappointment that no offer was extended to it, silly committee some of its committee members and membership participate and are part of Ausmini.
People on Ausmini approached John and he said fine MCC could have, as MCC members participate on Ausmini they are all welcome.
Does anybody know if Mini Car Club NSW expressed the same level of diappointment to Graeme Russell. He is also going to come and speak at one of our meetings - stay tuned for dates/details.
How obsurd seems committee or some of it are threatened by a chat group which is heavily used by their membership. Soooooo Strange.........................silly misguided people.
steve
Steve, I haven't quite figured out why you always need to use a public forum to vent your obvious dislike of the club and the committee. As usual, you need to get your facts straight before mouthing off.
No dissapointment was expressed from what I can gather. Actually, quite the opposite. Rae (our long standing president for those that don't know her) actually said that John Smidt taking over was probably the best thing that could have happened, and that the club would probably support the business a lot more now as he is such a nice guy.
Rae contacted the business not to try and hijack the event that was already organised, but to try and see if it could possibly be repeated at a later date for the Mini Club and it's members, as this one unfortunately clashes with one of our previously organised events. As far as I know, this is still a possibility. We had no intention at all of trying to postpone or change the day that is already organised - we're not that arrogant!! It just sounded like a great day, and we hope it can be repeated later on down the track.
From what I can gather, John was not there when Rae rang, and the person who answered the phone (Sorry I don't know who) didn't even know about the Ausmini Bbq, let alone about organising another one!! I can't obviously tell you what has happened from there, but as far as the club being threatened bu Ausmini, GET REAL. Ausmini is great, and as you yourself said, a lot of Mini Club members are on here including committee members. Why the hell would we be threatened by a forum dedicated to all things mini??
On the Graeme Russell Workshop day, I did express some disappointment - but only that I couldn't make it as I was away. As he is also such a nice bloke, he has said he will hold another day later in the year, on a date which Both Mini Club members and Ausmini people can make it to.
I hate to say this, because I pride myself on being a tolerant person, and I would also like to see as many members in our club as possible, but I'm sick of hearing you attack people who work and give up their time to organise club activities and events for all to enjoy. Steve, you had your turn on committee and did nothing but make waves, then not run because you couldn't handle it anymore. If the Mini Club isn't up to your standards, and you couldn't better it when you had the chance, stop whingeing about it and piss off back to the Austin Club.
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PS. Sorry to everyone else for you having to read this, but as Steve felt it necessary to attack us in public, I felt it only fair that we can defend ourselves in the same manner.
Now back to our regular programming.........
