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Come on peeps - auction ends Friday evening

The pass is free and will only gain you access to the SIDC stand and not entrance to the circuit. Tickets can be purchased on the gate for £20 per adult. Having the pass means you won't need to park in the public car park

Public parking? We have some spare passes if you'd like to park with the club

Are you going with another club Gaz?

That should be fixed now Neil Kim

I have added names where I can but because all the reg plates are covered up I don't know everyone's, sorry I hope that helps

Don't forget that the SIDC Charity Auction ends in just over a weeks time. Items range from an STi Team Shirt, Genuine Subaru Fleece, RCM Fleece, Samco Sport Hose Kit, McRae Gathering Aerial Photos, Newage Impreza Floor Mats and much much more. All items can be seen on the forum here: http://forums.sidc.co.uk/forum/117-sidc-charity-auction/

Lmfao

I think Rachel is still waiting on the menus before deposits can be taken

Not at all Mick, the more the merrier 1. Little Vodka Goblin (booked) 2. Sir Goofy + 1 (booked) 3. Scoobyjoff + 1 4. Don (booked) 5. Frenchy (booked) 6. Chris W + 1 (Booked) 7. ScoobieFloz (Booked) 8. stum450n 9. scoobro + 1 (Booked) 10. benmic92 + 1

Yes, I thought I'd see if I could get it to work Gordon

Because we've all booked our rooms before the prices increase

1. Little Vodka Goblin (booked) 2. Sir Goofy + 1 3. Scoobyjoff 4. Don (booked) 5. Frenchy (booked) 6. 7. 8. 9.

A massive thanks to all those that took the time to vote for their fellow members favourite cars for the Best On Stand competition. I'm pleased to announce that the result was as follows; 1st Place: Chris and Rosy Buckler - WR1 2nd Place: Jeff Clarke - White Bugeye Runner Up: Nick Smith - White Wrapped Blob STi Thanks also go out to Autoglym for sponsoring the competition

Lmfao how funny

Is now Welcome btw

Sure will Tony

Can you do a screen shot when they appear again Terry please

bumpty bump bump

We will be placing a clothing order ahead of Rally Day. Should you wish to purchase some club branded clothing that I will bring to the show in just over 3 weeks time then please take a look at the club shop and place your orders here: http://www.sidc.co.uk/sidc-shop?page=shop.browse&category_id=2 The cut off for this will be Thursday at noon in order for the clothing to be ready. Ta

Titan, our server hosts have been experiencing issues their end recently, I use Chrome for Windows and aren't receiving the errors you are though Kaylz. Have you tried using another browser?

Yes, it's that time again, the next issue of the club's magazine True Grip is due for release on August 1st. We're looking for 3 or 4 members cars to be featured in "Readers Rides". If you're interested in having yours featured then please email your username, vehicle details, spec/mods, along with half a dozen high resolution images to TrueGrip@sidc.co.uk to have yours included.

Equally Terry I'd like to think that this is the end of the discussion behind closed doors too. I think we're all old enough to move forward for the sake of the club and its members. People have said their bit, now give us a chance to learn from them without being reminded constantly of our mistakes.

I think this has gone far enough now. I'd like to make a few points and hope that it then puts the matter to bed because this constant nit picking is clearly starting to leave bad feeling with those involved. Firstly, the Committee are elected to make decisions for the club and its members that are in its/their best interest. Extensive discussions and meetings took place before the decision to rename and rebrand was decided, this also includes the design of the rebranded imagery too. Whilst we posted the pdf's of the promotional material, show branding etc in the members only section for view, this was not a consultation. We were illustrating to you how the rebrand would look and were updating on our progression of this. All artwork took months to create and agree on, we could not possibly put everything out to consultation as we'd still be no further in progressing this. We, the Committee admit that the design of the stickers was not to everyone's taste, attempting to keep it inline with the rest of the branding was our reasoning for this. However, this design is neither poor, shit, bland etc, they are merely different to what you have been used to over the last 10 + years. It is not the dislike of them that we take offence to, it is how it has been delivered by the members who have spoken out about them. Some responses haven't exactly been that tactful in all honesty. Anthony and Peter, you may consider Stu's pms and the content of them offensive and whilst he has nothing to hide, he was merely defending the rebrand and its design. You both (Stu & Peter) have a large part to play in what was said in those pms and reading the whole conversation myself I can see the point that was trying to be made, it was actually the way it was delivered that has lead to this distaste between you all. The statement of Stu being "arrogant" towards comments regarding the rebrand initiated these issues which then became out of control. I'd hope that you'd both be able to draw a line under this and move on instead of now sharing this information with others that is clearly going to extend the bad feeling already surrounding this matter. Anthony, Peter was not "heavily" criticised for removing that post, I merely asked why it was deleted and left it that. Please get those facts straight. The further comments between Stu and Peter were as above. You are all allowed the freedom of speech, as are we. We are not here to be ripped apart, we pay for an annual membership to this club just like you, we are just in a position that aids the running of the club for its members. In relation to Alford and the PLI Anthony. If you read the minutes of the AGM that were in the May issue of True Grip, it clearly states that the Committee had decided that the extended PLI cover was no longer relevant for us (allowed non members on show club stands). We believed that allowing only paid members on stand should be offered and was considered to be a "members perk". The message that was posted and aimed at Chris by Stu was deleted by Stu himself. He felt the need to delete this and pm Chris to explain his reasons for both posting the comment, and deleting it too. This should now be the end of it. Why is there a need to repost a deleted reply? I personally feel that this is going to aggravate the situation. I will again reiterate the extensive hours that the Committee have put into this rebrand. Now I appreciate most of you don't see what we gain out of rebranding and renaming the club so this is our main reason, as stated back in January. The name "Impreza" is being removed from the Subaru model range, along with the release of the XV and BRZ, we felt that it was the right time to encourage enthusiasts of other Subaru models into the club. It has been said before, the rebrand is a staged process, mainly because WE are doing it ourselves in our own time outside of our Monday to Friday paid jobs. It was decided that the first stage would be to concentrate on the show equipment as this is seen to the outside world at a large amount of shows, meets and events across the country each year, this even after six months of discussions remains incomplete in some areas. We are investing in equipment for its members, which gives us the opportunity to have consistent designs across the club. Merchandise and Promotional Material was then next on our list and whilst the stickers haven't gone down as well as anticipated, we have taken all comments on board and will endeavour to deal with this as quickly as possible. We can't always get these things right in the first instance and we will never please everybody, however we are here to accept constructive criticism, constructive being the key word. This only the beginning....... The feeling of being "shot down and pissed on" is not going to help anyone and constant reminders in every section that we ****ed up is not going to resolve matters any quicker. Comments were made today about the "bland" header of the forum/website, yes you may not like them but this does not mean that this is what we are going to end up with. The next stage, once the show equipment, promotional material and merchandise is complete, is the website and forums. This will be the biggest challenge yet in merging our types of databases together, it is not going to be as straight forward as most think. We have already ruled out the most favoured software because it wont meet our needs. Many of you have mentioned the lack of communication between the Committee and the membership which I'd like to touch on. We, the Committee can not relay everything we do to the members, purely because we'd be constantly bombarding you with updates. Surely you'd rather see things progressing rather than just talking about it? Everyone on the Committee puts a lot of hours into the running of the club and sometimes, times like this, it's a very thankless task. We have turned the club around, which at the end of 2010 was pretty much broke, into a club that has tighter control over its finances and the spending of them. Behind the scenes we are busy securing new advertisers with some exciting offers, again this all takes time. Time has also been taken in deciding the types of clothing to offer members. These are just a couple of things that have taken many hours to deal with, but I can assure you this is only a taste of what we are attempting to set up for the club and the members. A few things to consider maybe: The club can not survive without members; The Committee do this work for its members; Bad feeling between members drives other members away; We are all here for the same reason - the love of Subaru's . Rally Day is going to be our biggest event in 2012 and I'd hate to think that members were going to turn up with bad feeling towards other members, that's not what we're about. With that in mind, I'd like to think, and hope that all this bickering, stirring, hostility, and bad feeling can be put aside in order to move forward, continue to progress and grow the club that we are all here to support with an united front. Peace out from a rather worn out Chairwoman

I'm sorry you all feel that way, clearly I as Chairwoman have let you all down in the design of the rebrand. Always nice to know that we're told where we're going wrong yet rarely receive praise for the things we do right.