Focus on UK Metal Detecting: Where is the Focus?

There is a bit of a discussion going on over on a detecting forum near you which started with Chris Tsirogiannis' remarks, then went on to a criticism of the NCMD. The following post (by carling2 : Pick on the detectorists Reply #14 on: September 06, 2013, 06:17:39 PM, unedited) just about sums up what the problem with many UK metal detectorists is:

Angry going on about how the pas system dosent work as it should {yet many support and contribute to it} talk of trying to organise a different governing body for tectin,,why ,, detectin hasn't changed since the hobby started and its always has criticism from many quarters so any current or future voice of detecting will only go over the same old talk,,,yes we have nighthawks and will continue to do so,,yes we have a large percent of tectorists that do not work with the pas and will continue to do so ..yes we tread the same old ground literally etc etc it will still not stop the criticism of the hobby and isn't it really just about tectorists trying to find a universal reason to take things out of the ground to do with whatever they please?

Quite.