More questions than answers.........AGAIN !!!!!!!!!!

A very wise woman once said that locally,the sport of netball offers nothing but injuries and a bad reputation.

Another one has even dared to say that netballers are fickle-minded, hate being being seen as challengers to authority and would allow anything to happen just so they can play the game.

With that being said,maybe the time is right for ALL netballers to openly question the goings on within the Barbados Netball Association and demand some answers.

Doesn't anybody want to know why the Treasurer has suddenly resigned less than a year into her taking up the position and just a few months after she was very vocal at the Special Meeting summoned by the clubs? Hmmmmm!

Doesn't anybody want to know why one of the senior board members think that the former power trio ( President,Secretary and Treasurer) in the last Administration should be at the helm of the Association? Hmmmm!

Doesn't anybody want to know why there is a persistent rumour within netball that another board member is contemplating resigning before December 13th? Hmmmm !

Doesn't anybody want to know why at the Special Meeting mentioned above when a former national player openly criticised and scandalised the senior national team, NONE of the board members asked her to apologise AFTER the then coach had informed them that they should? Hmmmm !

Why is it that the ENTIRE delegation from Barbados who were in Singapore for the 2011 World Netball Championships,show such a disinterest in the national team that they would not support them?

In an interview with the former coach Alwyn Babb which was carried in the Midweek Nation ( November 24) , he stated,"The day we had a crucial match against Fiji- at that time they were the No.7 in the world- we had only two Barbadian supporters,Octavia Gibson and Daisy Browne. All the other official members of the Barbadian contingent did not attend that match and we lost that game by one goal.At that point we had now moved to No.9."

Why were these people there in the first place if they didn't have the team at heart and the country by extension?

The lack of support was even more glaring when the said senior team returned to Barbados and no one from the Barbados Netball Association met the team on their arrival. Ironically the same delegation including the President had also returned to Barbados on the same flight. Hmmmm!!

What's equally sad is that the Barbados Netball Association has not even sent a simple THANK YOU note to Miss Lydia Bishop for all her years of representing Barbados.

How moronic can that be!!! Hmmmm !

It's about time we had some answers.

WHA GINE ON ??

What happens when board members start talking? We start LISTENING!!!

One very 'powerful' member of the present board of the Barbados Netball Association has recently declared discontent and a lack of confidence in the person who is leading the other sheep to stray.

What was more surprising was the 'endorsing' of the power TRIO of the last administration ( President, Secretary and Treasurer) and their overall work ethic and attitudes in getting things done. "If dem did here we wud get tings done".

Stopping short of saying the new head honcho is a failure, it was further said that "people only want positions but dem aint know wha to do when dem get it".

All this came one day after the resignation of the Treasurer who ironically was LESS than a year into her installation in that position.

And the cookies have started to crumble !!

Failed !!!!!!

"Does anyone know why it is that to date no correspondence has been sent to any of the member clubs of the Barbados Netball Association informing them of the upcoming General meeting as well as seeking candidates for the position of other Directors for the Board?"

To further solidify the inadequacy of this Board, the International Federation of Netball Associations ( IFNA) has recently amended some playing rules which are scheduled to be implemented in January 2012.

As yet, these amendments haven't been circulated to the member clubs which may bring further chaos and confusion to those clubs that have struggled and are still struggling with the ones being used now.

What is surprising though, is that there is an endless supply of emails from an affiliate of the Barbados Netball Association almost daily.... this being the Barbados Association of Netball Umpires ( BANU).

The BANU has found it necessary to inform it's members of anything and everything important to umpiring which shows good leadership and a sound Committee.

This therefore begs the question: Does this mean that the executive of the BANU can take over the reigns of local netball from the Board of the BNA because they ( BNA) have again failed to live up to the mandate?

OOPS!!!!! What mandate ?????