freerider wrote:

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Troubleshooter wrote:

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baxi2 wrote:

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"The LTA are a laughing stock full of big wigs who haven't got a clue how to run an organisation just there to line their own pockets as they haven't been success up until now. Roger Draper had big five year plans can somebody tell me did his five year plan come into fluision, it says it all when we have to employ an overseas guy from Canada on a salary of over £300k, nice job if you can get it, to try and sort out the mess the LTA is in a present. So its now up to him to transform the fortunes of britains most underachieving sport, a game that welcomes the world for a splendid fortnight every summer and sits back to let the rest of them show us how its done, most apart from this year, thank god for andy murray if he wasnt around british tennis wouldnt even get a mention. How much money have the LTA wasted, staff have come and gone and a lack of coinfidence pervades the LTA, so Draper was a shooting duck, the fall guy, try as he undoubtedly has done, the job of british tennis has proved too much, to me spending a lot of money on foreign coaches, Brad Gilbert, Peter Lundgren, for example to help the elite performance players hasn't worked out, LTA funding cut from £24.5m to £17.4m for the next four year cycle up to 2017, as they are not making best use of the cash that is provided and their resources and its only going to get worse before it gets better, tennis is an elitest sport and for British tennis to be successful this has to change. I read about A1 tennis academy and they are trying to change this by provided children that are not well off with a way to get involved in the game and maybe some future stars will be born by giving them free memberships. If British tennis wants to be success it has to look at the way it's funding it's elite performance program's and look at grass roots tennis getting a child to pick up a racket a the age of 4 etc every where I go I see empty tennis courts and sometime tennis clubs with nobody playing. So keep up the good work A1 tennis academy maybe you can produce a Wimbledon champion and show how the LTA how to be a success. "

 

haha the above rant is so obviously Gary Lewis 

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 I can assure u I am not Gary Lewis !!!

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 Are you an employee of Gary Lewis? Perhaps the young graduate from Leeds university who he hired this week? 

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no am not an employee and not a graduate am nearly 50 thank you very much and live in gods country.