[theo_luddite]

It seemed to me someone wanted yes men(/women?) and not folk with a long history at the club who questioned some of the things they proposed that had fallen flat on it's face before. We tried the 'broken-crocks-with-good-numbers-when-they're-fit' idea before with the same result as this time. Anyone that argued about it was moved on or left rather than get dog's abuse for it. If you don't want to learn from history you'll never learn anything - to roughly paraphrase what someone else, somewhere else, might have said.