I am an organiser and can understand the negative feedback. I thought we had a good player group on stage and it was never the plan to speak less to them. That has been one of the most popular parts of the shows. It just turned out like that. For example the announcer called the next induction after Paul Sweeney's too early and John McGlynn talked longer than expected and both of these ate into player chat time. It's an area we will concentrate on for next year.
The VIPs were great on the day but I would rather they had had a chat with Bill Leckie rather than letting us have their after dinner routine.
We have had a great response to the shows. Far exceeding anything we could have hoped for. No show at the theatre sells out like ours. It is however difficult to continue to increase the standard year on year and exceed everyone's expectations. We have no theatre experience between us but we have all shared and enjoyed some memorable moments in our six years.
Has it run it's course? I can see why someone might say that. I accept that to retain any value in being inducted the show cannot continue indefinitely. For me it's worth another year and the criticism does make me keen to make the next one better than the rest.