Pseudonymous wrote: -
I think Gammon's use of the word 'guru' seems apt.
.... but it wasn't he who said that to me; I wrote: -
One former member said to me in interview, "We don't need gurus any more." and in the other interview Vic Gammon said to me, "Sadly the Critics Group took themselves down a blind alley."
Sorry if this sounds like nit-picking but it is important to attribute quotations to the correct source. Mis-quoting has been a source of much unneeded conflict on Mudcat.