I have been troubled by this thread for a long time and have decided to comment, although I know I will get slated by some. What the heck?

I was at Pickering in 2009 when "all hell let loose". For weeks afterwards numerous posts appeared on this forum with members, quite rightly in my opinion, pointing fingers and blaming individuals for the debacle.

Yet now we approach the South Cerney event, where their Club should be looking forward to celebrating its 40th Rally, and some on here seem to be praying for it to be a failure.

South Cerney is an excellent event, thanks in no small part to the hard work and dedication of one T.T. member. He has now passed his particular baton on.

I shall be at South Cerney in a couple of weeks time, and I will judge it as I find it. If they make a good fist of it I shall continue to support them, because the event and our hobby is more important than any one individual. And if it turns out to be a dogs dinner then I shall spend the first weekend of August next year somewhere else.

But at least I'll give them a chance.

Stef.