With age comes wisdom whether good or bad...in some cases more bad than good.To be a success, there should always be some measure of continuity.
That continuity should be represented across the board beginning at the top of any organisation, in this case netball( senior team) and filtering through to the youth( U16).
Continuity worked with the senior national team in their quest to qualify for the 2011 World Netball Championships and the defeating of Trinidad and Tobago at the 2010 Commonwealth Games. It has also seen the 2012 Julie Phillips coached U16 team become regional champions.
On becoming President ( yeah I'm running....I can't be any worst, can I?) of the BNA, my coaching and management teams will comprise people who are driven and worthy of the cause and who will share my vision of NOT fixing what isn't broken ( continuity). There will be NO more leader of the pack who has the tongue of a pirates' wife or anyone with the temperament of Medusa herself.
The coaching and management teams will comprise the following with some minor changes to allow for a more settled unit.
There will be :
Barbados A - Commonwealth and World Championships team - 2009 - 2011 COACHING AND MANAGEMENT team
Barbados B - 2012 Barbados Workers' Union team - (same as above)
U21 - Lydia Bishop - Coach
U19 - TBA
U16 - Julie Phillips ( if she accepts...no applying),Makeba Clarke - Asst Coach
There you have it...read and ponder...it's what happens whenever THAT happens!
Continuity returns...
This blog has been created with the intention of raising questions about the state of netball in Barbados. Any names mentioned will be of people who are involved in the sport and all situations will be real.
Monday, August 13, 2012
Saturday, August 11, 2012
Should they bury it too?
Somewhere within the confines of the netball stadium at the immediate entrance onto the courts,is a 'box', a DANGEROUS BOX as it is often called. It is here that decisions are made by members and associates of the two power hungry netball clubs in Barbados.
It is here that the good,bad and know-it-alls criticise and lambaste anything or anyone who doesn't have any affiliation to them or their clubs much to the amazement of some members of the board of the BNA. What is surprising is that outsiders are often asked to remove themselves from this area before or during the playing of games and this is encouraged by the second in command.....
That being said, does any club have the right to manipulate public property the way these people do or does it happen because one of the clubs is saddled with workers from the 'owner'?
Are the members of this club allowed to sit where they do because it was promised to them in 2010 when they used their tentacles to gather votes for the head honcho of the Association at the AGM? Remember it was hinted that many promises were made that year in the leadup to the elections and this along with others have been brought to the fore.
Similarly the creators of netball wanted back their sport and it was given to them. Did they know what to do with what was 'theirs' when it was returned? Not in the least!
Who takes the blame for everything questionable? Is the general membership guilty of believing lies told to them by an overzealous individual with no clue to governance or the lies told to them by members of these two clubs ?
Is the general membership gonna allow such archaic and autocratic leadership determine and dictate what happens to them again in 2013 - 2014? Is the membership willing to be vilified and made to feel like mere spectators on games evenings by members of the board ?
They 'took back' their sport....they massacred 'their' sport....they might've given 'their' sport the death knell....
Should they bury it too?
It is here that the good,bad and know-it-alls criticise and lambaste anything or anyone who doesn't have any affiliation to them or their clubs much to the amazement of some members of the board of the BNA. What is surprising is that outsiders are often asked to remove themselves from this area before or during the playing of games and this is encouraged by the second in command.....
That being said, does any club have the right to manipulate public property the way these people do or does it happen because one of the clubs is saddled with workers from the 'owner'?
Are the members of this club allowed to sit where they do because it was promised to them in 2010 when they used their tentacles to gather votes for the head honcho of the Association at the AGM? Remember it was hinted that many promises were made that year in the leadup to the elections and this along with others have been brought to the fore.
Similarly the creators of netball wanted back their sport and it was given to them. Did they know what to do with what was 'theirs' when it was returned? Not in the least!
Who takes the blame for everything questionable? Is the general membership guilty of believing lies told to them by an overzealous individual with no clue to governance or the lies told to them by members of these two clubs ?
Is the general membership gonna allow such archaic and autocratic leadership determine and dictate what happens to them again in 2013 - 2014? Is the membership willing to be vilified and made to feel like mere spectators on games evenings by members of the board ?
They 'took back' their sport....they massacred 'their' sport....they might've given 'their' sport the death knell....
Should they bury it too?