When I was first elected to the National Executive of the ACTA, I found it hard to believe that the idea of a National Ground had been a topic of many, many years but nothing had ever been done in real terms to see this as a priority, or even worthy of planning. On my election in 1992 as National President, I resolved that. I would do all I could to see the National Ground become a reality and began putting plans in place to achieve this.