There is definitely a circle that needs squaring here. To grow - no, simply to stay where we are - we need to provide more coaching at all levels, and we need to ensure that the coaching is of sufficient quality. Given the current expectations from society in general, the growing complexity of the sporting environment, and, yes, the economic situation, this is an almost impossible challenge. So we need visionaries who can find ways to make coaching archery into a viable part of one's "job portfolio". This should not necessarily be full time, but, given all the demands, it cannot continue to be purely ad hoc and voluntary as at present. But visionaries need grounding and balancing; if the
Vision
is for an army of full-time professional coaches, for instance, then there has to be a practical programme for introducing them into the job market. I do not envy those who have this task.