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Peter Carter is absolutely right. (post 12456)
The Hounslow has just lost its main timekeeper-he's retired, and we are struggling to get replacements to time our club events programme.
We will get though this season, just about, but I'm not sure about the future. Many traditional clubs are now in the position that the members who were doing nearly all the work (not just timekeeping) are getting to the point where they are just too old to carry on, but nothing like enough younger (by this I mean middle aged) people are coming forward to replace them.
It's not just us - it seems to be a general problem.
clubman
Probably. The technology to do electronic timing is hardly new. It was available 10 years ago, and we don't have electronic timing now. And I can hardly see the supply of superannuated former testers capable of holding a stopwatch drying up to the point where there's no old codgers to act as timekeepers available. In my club we've got any number of more senior members who can do the time-keeping. Trying to find one who won't die from the strain of doing pushing-off duties is the hard bit.