I've slept on replying to this thread so I don't end up looking like a prize dickhead but it's going to happen anyway, so I may as well get it off my chest.
While I didn't play in the forum sevens last year, I was around in the off season games and when it, ultimately, all went to sh!t over there. I was around at the ishbiz site and I'm here. The sum total of what I have seen, is ego's. The battle for omnipotence astounds me and while some attempt at subtlety has been made, it's still plain for most to see.
It has appeared, right from the outset, that ego's are in desperate need of stroking. A new site, a new place to vie for power over the sevens. The sevens is about people. People who take the time to write articles every week, 10 days, fortnight - whatever. People who have a common interest. People who love Rugby League. People who have followed the game from site to site because they want to play, like the concept and, ultimately, just want to play the game.
Leaders are needed in any game - and Willow appears to be a natural leader because he's not displaying egomaniac tendencies, listens to what the people want and also asks for peoples opinions. This game has survived several upheavels and needs to reconstructed with a fair amount of 'kid gloves' approach. Willow has been doing this. He is one of a few that has worked behind the scenes without feeling the need to blow his own trumpet on occaisions and for that reason, I have no problems with him 'running' (for want of a better word) the game at present.
It's not necessarily the people who put their hands up for 'management' status that are necessarily the right people for the job. A case in point - and I'm sorry to use this person as an example - is Parramatt. He abuses the crap out of people and shows his immaturity in one thread and then volunteers for management in another. I'm sorry but this makes me nervous. I agree with Mr Bulldogs in that a comittee should be formed but let the little people speak on the 'whole' management comittee. instead of saying Willow, ozzie and Mr B should have three spots and another 2 or 3 decided on, make 5 positions, call for nominations, then set up a voting system through PM - so only sevens team members are voting - to someone who isn't part of the game. Maybe the Jolly green giant? Then, each team nominates a rep as well.
Us little people aren't stupid. We have sat and watched everything unfold. We know who we would want representing us. And for the record, I would vote for Willow, ozzie and Big Mick. My reasons being that they have conducted themselves publicly in the sevens with a certain amount of decorum and have proved willing to negotiate and mediate. (Well at least to the outside world anyway - I have to say I have no idea what went on in the management forums)
Anyway, thats my take on this whole thing.
Castration, tarring and feathering to begin immeadiately hereafter. :lol:
