First of all I am speaking as a member roboteer only and not in my capacity of out going FRA president.

I will be pleased to have ended my 3 terms as FRA president. It will give me the freedom to speak freely as against being self gagged as a servant of the FRA governing body.

The new executive will also have this problem despite protestations of a new dawn when campaigning for your votes

I want to list one achievement, and that is we are still here and robot fighting.

One of the critisms of my tenure is communication with all members, hands up, guilty.( I put it down to my lack of the skills required, useing computors and the internet.)
This is another reason why I am going, the FRA needs someone in high office with the right skill set to correct this defficiency.

As the new presidents role is to change with the chairmans role becoming the real leader of the FRA and this makes this Chairmans election a very important one.

I believe the skill set required is,
1, To be personable.
2, To be able to converse in writing
3, To recognise potential safety problems and deal with them efficiently.
4,To be better than the average human at computor skills and the internet.
5, Try and be a good diplomat.
6, Recognising that they are a servant of the governing body.
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To answer possible queries regarding the FRA post above

Mr Hoppitt was expelled from the FRA as per your voting wish some time ago

1, Mr Hoppitt for some reason known only to himself was found to be lying to the FRA governing body regarding the size of the FRA website he stated because he was hosting it free on our behalf and it was to big to be moved cost effectively.
( Thanks were expressed, the FRA was not ungrateful to Mr Hoppitt for setting up the site just could not understand why he seemed to be wanting a hold /power over the roboteers on this matter)
Furthermore Mr Hoppitt was a moderator of this forum and had been caught changing a post without the FRA executives knowledge but when it happened a second time and at the same time as investigations were being conducted on the website size the governing body deemed that Mr Hoppitt was abusing his position and removed him from post for lying to them and as a sanction removed posting rights on this forum, effectivly expelling him from the association.

When the forum was moved to this site it turned out to be half the size that Mr hoppitt was leading all to believe, and it cost us nothing more than we were already paying for the front part of this site.


2, Mr Hoppitt is trying to organise an event this year

I am informed that there is evidence to support the above statment until its seen, I cannot inform you whether its a true allegation or a false one.

3,In the past we have dealt with Mr Hoppitt as an event organiser

From a safety point of view one of the worst EOs if not the worst at not recognizing hazzards.

If I was to comment on Mr Hoppitts skill set it would be as follows
1, To be personable. (Not in his nature)
2, To be able to converse in writing (excellant)
3, To recognise potential safety problems and deal with them efficiently.( Would not recognise or understand a potental problem)
4,To be better than the average human at computor skills and the internet.(he can do this)
5, Try and be a good diplomat.(no chance)
6, Recognising that they are a servant of the governing body.(Would not rcognise this concept)

In essence I do not regard this gentleman as a fit and proper person to hold any office in the roboteers organisation.

point 1 being the main reason together with his little posts over another event organisers thread on the pretext of helping out, only to cause absolute mahem for the innocent organiser.

For once I am a voter in these elections and as a voter I am surprised at Mike Hamiltons-Macy endorsement of Mr Hoppitts campaign.
It smells like a start of a little club to me, I wonder who else in the club is going to appear next out of the woodwork.

I also understand that a couple of our members are also endorsing Mr Hoppitts campaign and would welcome them to post this forum, their view of this fine upstanding character that is Ed Hoppitt.

The name dropping of the RFL commissioner in his manifesto could lead folk thinking that Mr Hoppitt has an endorsement from David Calkins.
David Calkins would not interfear or endorse anybody or any thing in UK elections.

To the moderators- You are probably going to get a bit hot under with this post but I am willing to stand by any allegations I have made.

To my fellow members- I would recommend that you keep an eye on a potential little clique taking over your association on the pretence of bringing us all together, because I can assure you robot life under a minority view would not be great.

To the FRA governing body- It has been a pleasure to work with you all. The spread of views has always been there but when it matters in my opinion the correct decisions have been made for the good of our sport.
I have just two months to complete in office and would appreciate a reasonably quiet time similar to that we have had this last eighteen months which has been due to the lack of Mr Hoppitt trying to control your agenda with crap