As you can see by my sig etc Im a RSOC man but I speak frankly and National day is in decline unless you happen to live that part of the country, this year saw extreme low levels in passing spectators & traders and vast majority of folk inside the show were simply owners of cars from stands milling about, but saying that I also attended this years FITP which is normally a nice chilled show catering for all fords and the public car park was empty, so in 2012 I will be giving it a miss for the first time in 5 years as will our group, Ford Fair this year was massive of that there was no question and judging by the hours of queues trying to get in from the M1 it spoke volumes for Dans efforts at future publishing and the teams work, My only gripe from this years FF was the shitty location of the RS groups but Dan has assured me it will be a much more mixed & rotational layout for 2012 which Im looking forward too, and also hope silverstone sort out area B17 as its fit for a rallye stage and certainly not any type of show car.

Fuel is now playing a massive part in planning to attend a show or not and is causing a knock on effect throughout the yearly calendar, Mags do there best to keep us in touch with the scene and wherever financialy possible we should support them. but from a club point of view the local and more regional scene is where its at now and numbers are rising big time, Our own monthly Middlesex RSOC meets saw attendee numbers into the 100s during the warmer months as fuel is not a factor for these and when we attended our local Uxbridge Autoshow this year we had 77 cars on our stand and not just RS models either as we welcome all fords which has made attendee numbers go through the roof of how it was 15 years ago, The mags need to re-adjust their focus slightly and tap into this area more which will give fresh input to the readers

speech over