Kiss of life?

[Graham Breeze]

... that it's an increasingly minority sport with a disproportionately and increasingly aged, blokey participants?

I don't have recent data on the average age of FRA members but, off the top of my head, the % female members is as high as it has ever been (20%?), the % of females on the Executive Committee is similarly at a peak (when I joined in 2002 it was zero) and of the 16 FRA Chairs, two of the last three have been women.