pro9dg said:
I am sure that Mr Makabenta could make an eloquent case for the continuing delay in payments. The players are accustomed to being shafted and reference to some kind of payment plan would lubricate this process. They are adults and a bit of honesty would go a long way. This thread opened with ....an eerie silence and nearly 19,000 hits and 500+ responses later I can only hear the sound of one hand clapping.
This business is certainly tarnishing the credibility of the WPA
Totally agree.
pro9dg said:
....But all this should have been done weeks ago.
Totally agree....but while you happily reproduced the questions I posted you missed out the bit where I put forward one possible reason WHY it hasn't been done. Those questions are meaningless outside the context of the possible reasons why.
por9dg said:
....That is totally unfair and maligns decent people.....
It's neither unfair nor inaccurate. However there is definitely no intention on my part to malign anyone, innocent or otherwise. Here is an example of what I'm talking about....
bandido said:
....Of course Andersen had to probably say what he sid because the WPA earns a percentage of theprize money as sanction fees and he knows, at least for the present, where his bread is buttered...
The above is logical, almost certainly true and rightly points out a position taken by Andersen in his capacity as WPA Chairman....no problem.
However, this for example.....
sputnik said:
.....What was so important with WTBC that Andersen had to go out of his mandate to protect Makabenta's event. What was in it for him? I am sorry but no amount of vouching for Andersen's character convinces me that Andersen comes out clean from his own infraction of the WPA constitution....
......to an objective observer clearly crosses the line into accusations of personal acceptance of inducements outwith his WPA role and whilst the passion is understood there's surely no need to go down that road unless there's very good evidence of it.
I haven't time to search for the very thinly veiled inference to AZB management's attitude being possibly swayed by inducement but I can assure you it's there. In fact I was surprised Mike didn't react to it.
Hope you understand better what was meant now.
pro9dg said:
....Come on let's have some official reaction -from anyone at the WPA
Agree with you again......and if there are reasons connected with not wanting to potentially hamper payments by speaking out at this time at least they could come out and say "look, there's a problem, we understand that, we accept our role in it and we're working on it and will revert by X date"