You can all have my northern sausage
as I love the RTOC
But Alex - you've hit the nail on the head. You can't, nor would you want to force people to to to events. If the wrong events are not attracting the members then it must be that the event is not necessarily wrong, but it doesn't matter what the event is - the current RTOC members would not attend to anything at all. Big Steve and the committee have done an amazing service to the club and should be commended for it, but if members don't or can't do events, then it's time to make an intelligent look at it and say, well ok we will offer this event or that event but there will be (in some cases) limited numbers. As for whining, I've been on here long enough to see my fair share of ungrateful children come and go and tbh, you're always going to get that, so don't waste your time worrying about it, you can never keep everyone happy.
Big hugs to all