Tornado

Kids being prepared to take over

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The junior club helping Darlington to steam into the future

 

Steve Davies hosts a Q & A in Darlington on January 4th.

 

Anyone up for asking him how it felt to lose on the black in the final frame of the World Championship having been 7-0 up earlier in the match?

Tom

 

Well that could be very entertaining if a few of the disaffected showed up …..

 

Almost worth the journey.

 

Want me to go, its only 25 miles, and half an hour away???

 

Well you know all the right questions to ask

 

Haha, i have forgot about being York on that day, otherwise i would have listened, and commented.

 

If I was any good at forensic questioning and thinking on my feet in public, I'd give my senior's railcard its first outing. I'm sincerely hoping that someone will go and ask the awkward questions that many (certainly on here) would like to see answered.

 

I'm expecting placards, chanting and ceremonial burning of bank standings orders at the very least.

"What do we want?
Tornado on the mainline!
When do we want it?
As soon as is practically possible, bearing in mind operational priorities and subject to the usual caveats."

 

I’ve done my best at several conventions in the past since DE ‘left’ the board, but this just resulted in Boris style blustering replies from SD with nothing insightful being gleaned. There was zero support from the sheeple in the room, and I felt the effort I had made to overcome my innate shyness was wasted. For this reason I no longer attend.

 

That's the reason to attend even more, having the guts to ask a cutting question, should never be ignored, and pressing until you get the answer you want.

Tell you who would be good at that , our friend from the pet pond........

 

I won’t bore everyone with replays of my accounts of previous Q&As - it’s all there up-thread. Suffice to say I strongly questioned the decision to u-turn and repair the old boiler rather than await the new ones, and look how well that turned out.

 

I'd also want questions asked about the P2. As far as I'm concerned, the V4 is a dead duck.

 

The real question should be:-

In light of the sustained inability of the Trust to deliver Tornado to the mainline, all efforts on the P2, come to a halt, do you Mr Davis, consider your position, and that of the current board to be tenable???

 

Nail -> Head.

I'd wager no-one would ask it though.

 

Hear hear! Maybe I will return to the convention for one last time …… sadly though it’s too far away to prompt the emergency surgery that’s so urgently required

 

And if they still don't respond in the way you'd like, what then?

 

They may learn the hard way that not everybody is willing to be an unquestioning cash machine.