One of the common threads throughout this topic is how terrible CMAS are because they never communicated with its members and did things without concensus from the general hockey community and here we go again...

Graham, there is no such thing as past the point of changing. We are a small amateur sport that's only been in existence for a relatively short period of time. What can be so urgent that the participants of a sport can not be inolved in its development and evolution?

I am happy to be told I am wrong but only if this sort of decision has been put out there for discussion, filtered down to the participants through the structures and back up again with the views and wishes of the members being represented.

Graham, you were involved in the unions for many years, they would never have done something as major as a name change without full support of the member base surely?

Again, all of this is not a criticism of any work you and others have done so far or your intentions but in this and many organisations the same mistakes seem to keep being made as if we never learn from our past mistakes.