The trouble Eddy is that they (the DED) haven't thought too hard about who they're annoying.  You're a marshall and there were many others on the old forum.  The event will not function without marshalls.  I'm a photgrapher/journalist.  For the TT/Classic TT/MGP this year I produced about 9 pages of coverage across two daily papers sold throughout the county - readership probably around 180,000.  If you had to buy that space to advertise the racing it would run into thousands.  I'm not paid to do this so it was all entirely at my expense - probably the wrong side of £2500 and a month spent on the Island.  But none of that matters.  According to the DED our opinions are irrelevant.

It's very fortunate that Malcolm has been able to accomodate us here and hopefully we can express ourselves without a DED representative barking at us if we're not 'on message'.

Just need to avoid saying anything that would land us or our new host in hot water!