Rally cancelled

Jim Gale · Post by **Jim Gale** » Sat Mar 07, 2009 9:24 am

Just had notification from Dave Wise that the Rally at Sywell is cancelled. Any official confirmation?
Will be a real downer for us all and not an encouraging move for the membership drive.

Will Greenwood · Post by **Will Greenwood** » Sat Mar 07, 2009 7:13 pm

Best people to ask would be the Rally Comittee, anyone out there care to comment ? After Dave Wises post on the jodel forum it has gone quiet, so no offical word, shame if it has gone belly up... and if so how many have brought tickets in advance, just hope it is rumour mongering.

Paul Lawrence · Post by **Paul Lawrence** » Sat Mar 07, 2009 7:23 pm

I can confirm the Rally has been cancelled by the EC, dont know all the details but part of the rason is the economic downturn at present. We have spent a lot of time organising the infastructure for the new Rally so it is a great pity that this decision has been made. Would be nice if a non LAA event could be arranged for the same weekend as I was looking forward to flying our Jodel to the event from Leicester. No doubt there will be more information from our EC soon?

Sparkie One

Bob F · Post by **Bob F** » Sat Mar 07, 2009 7:33 pm

Same rumour on the UKGA Twitter site. Hope it's not true but if it is, we as members, will look a bit foolish if we are the last to know. Let's not start jumping up & down until we know something definite.

ivanmanley · Post by **ivanmanley** » Sat Mar 07, 2009 7:44 pm

As John Dean has directed us here ... perhaps as someone likely to be "in the know", he can confirm it? .... Bloody shame if it's true!!!

Ivan
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VAPIR NO2 VAPORIZER

Rod1 · Post by **Rod1** » Sat Mar 07, 2009 8:15 pm

There was an LAA meeting about the Rally on Friday evening. The results of that meeting were supposed to remain confidential until Sywell had been contacted but this appears to have failed. There will be no official conformation until Sywell has been involved.

My personal opinion, this is a PR disaster.

Rod1
(Ordinary LAA member)

Post by **John Dean** » Sat Mar 07, 2009 8:16 pm

ivanmanley wrote:As John Dean has directed us here ...

I did not intend to direct anyone

All I was trying to do was to prevent multiple threads on the same subject!

JonKil · Post by **JonKil** » Sat Mar 07, 2009 9:17 pm

A well lads, weekend before it is the rally in Blois in central France... looks like a visit there is on the cards.

As Rod 1 has said, this is a bloody PR disaster and to boot it is a huge disappointment for a hell of a lot of LAA members.

Would it have been to much to ask for a post on these forums and on the front page of the website after the EC meeting, making a statement to the members to the reason why it was cancelled instead of attempting to keep this situation "under wraps" so to speak, this was never going to happen and now that it has leaked it looks in all regards that the members of the LAA were the last to know and becoming aware of the cancellation via announcements on other forums and websites only breeds further resentment and frustration among them.

Badly handled once again boys, very badly handled.

BJ · Post by BJ » Sun Mar 08, 2009 10:49 am

Shame. I can understand the thinking and the logic is without fault.

A reduced version without all the bells and whistles would have been a good move however.

If anyone wants to go to a rally that is without all the bells and whistles (just a big marquee, beer, food and karaoke (and a few traders - but not a lot) then look up Spamfield on the Isle of Wight.

Best
BJ

Mike Mold · Post by **Mike Mold** » Sun Mar 08, 2009 1:04 pm

Peter
http://www.wightparty.org/ says all are welcome.