Russ - I read your first post in this thread and then I re-read it to make sure of what I was reading, both the lines themselves and between them.
And in the end you made it easy for me because there is a saying in common usage and it's, 'the bottom line'.
Basically it refers to the last line; in other words, the last line has the real meaning and in your case, your last line contextualizes that post to nothing more than a promo vehicle for the PA.
And please don't go all off in a tizzy suggesting I am biased against the PA coz if you read my posts on here over the years, I am apparently biased against the NPPL, PSP, Millennium and Lord knows who else; basically I will comment, good or bad, on all of them and I have upset all of them in the past as you well know.
Now we have that little point out of the way I can continue...
Russ, I got nothing against you or the PA but when you come on P8nt and post and I see something contentious or misleading, I am gonna answer it, no matter who you are !
The PA has a history of what looks like martyring themselves, it is a perennial accusation that you face and your initial post in this thread does little to change people's opinion.
Why do you keep going on about other people who have allegedly disagreed with you guys or as you imply, worked against you?
FFS get over it mate, move on, ignore them, do what you think you gotta do and don’t keep going on about them because it looks as though you are using them as an excuse for reasons why you haven't grown as you'd like.
If you need a working example, look at Billy and Adam, they have more cr@p talked about them than anybody I know, a lot of it untrue; do they go crying on boards like these moaning about what other people say?
Do they sh!t, they get on with things, make more money than God and are extremely powerful people in the industry; take a leaf out of their book Russ, stop moaning about people who you say are against you and get on with minding your business.
You also need to prioritize and try and grab some humility from somewhere; you, nor the PA are gonna lead the Paintball world into the paradise beyond no matter what you think. Your recent post whereby you implied that if UK players clicked on an option on this board they could then change the fate of world paintball was ridiculous mate, it was a plain lie and wholly misleading to the people you targeted.
If you wanna evolve then target the correct priority, and for you guys, it's not about creating socialist enterprises and hoping you are gonna create a bottom - up initiative, this is a pipe-dream mate and is only entertained by idealists and idiots or combinations thereof.
I’m all for giving the players and teams more say but we can’t lose sight of the real dynamics of our sport, it’s naive to go down this road where you give players false impressions.
Your first priority is to align yourself with the Millennium, like it or not, this is what you have to do; if you choose to go maverick then you will just continue the path you are now on, which is going exactly where Russ?
Where has the PA really gone in the last few years?
I have always said that change (necessary change) will come from a top-down initiative, nothing has changed mate, it can only happen this way no matter how many red books are thrown across the pages of this forum.
Money and real power talk Russ and you ain't got enough of either (no disrespect mate, just an observation).
As I have hinted before, for you to get anywhere near the position you so crave, you have to play the game of politics and you should be seeking opinion and agreement not from the players but from the industry and this has always been your (the PA's) problem, negotiating the art of people politics.
Russ, you been in this game long enough to know, 'it's not what you know but who', this sounds like a pretty facile remark but it hides a more profound state of affairs when you ponder its real significance in our sport.
From what I hear, you guys run a pretty good series, no better, no worse than Wendy’s or Sid’s.
I will say however, there is slightly more controversy surrounding teams and the way they believe they have been treated than other leagues but hey, none of us are perfect.
When you guys threatened to start suing teams was an indicator of how you may have lost sight of what it’s all about and your recent post where you erroneously empower the paintball populace like I mentioned before don’t do you guys any favours at all.
It all smacks of arrogance and detachment and that’s the last thing you need when trying to run a league and become a big player.
I think the base ideas you have are pretty good but as I have said to you and others before, it’s the way you go about them mate.
Look for friends and cultivate them rather than make a habit of continually going on about your perceived enemies.
