I just wonder what the non-load control trained dispatchers at the outstations who might have wanted to become load controllers will think when they're told that they won't/can't be trained because there's no point any more as all the L/C is done elsewhere? L/C used to be the next logical stepping stone upwards from dispatch: as this option is being removed, where do dispatchers go from here? Also, how to the L/C staff (at your station, or any staton) feel about it? I'm fairly sure that there's controllers in various stations around the country who are not happy. I know of some that have moved on already, the start of things to come I fear. Skilled staff won't remain in a place where they can't used their skills! So consider a worst case scenario: all the L/C staff leave the outstations, then there's a power cut in MAN. WHo does the L/C then? Or am I being too pessimistic?