Denis Jessop says:
Matt produced a newsletter that went for three issues. It was not a rival for the ACF Newsletter as it was intended to cover club matters that the ACF one did not. Matt and I exchanged e-mails on a quite amicable basis at the time when I encouraged him to keep his going for that reason. ... The ACF newsletter was already well established when Paul Broekhuyse resigned as editor. I simply took it up (reluctantly) from him, albeit with a gap spent trying to find a person acceptable to the Council.
This is all true. What I intended doing was to fill the gap where the ACF Newsletter had vanished. The ACF must have some kind of
regular quality communication with the punters. I could not provide the perfect product because I was not in the ACF loop of information. Nevertheless, I tried (and succeeded!) in putting everything else in. When the ACF Newsletter finally did arc-up again, my work was superfluous.
The offer to be the chief editor/distributer is still their. But, like any deal, the needs to be some give and take.
I give my time and effort, the ACF takes the heat generated by an independant monthly editorial. Since the ACF is so feeble, it may not wish to expose itself to fair critism of its performance, which would
either kill or cure it.