2017 Champions Day Challenge TRF v Talkinghorses

That was good fun last year Nathan, put me down as a player

Let’s bring that cup home to TRF again..Jac

I’m happy to have a go Nathan if there is room. I managed to get my head
in front last year

TRF have their 16 players, TH up to 15

TRF team

Degaussed
yeats
mickeyjp
chestnut
Cormack15
Charles Olney
buckers
andrew 03
Middle Of March
Triptych
raymo61
botchy1
cantlow
bob rolf
BigG
Steve75

Need 1 captain and 1 scorer from TRF please

Re the ongoing “marker saga” and with some at the racing that day, I posted
this in the Horse Racing Forum……….

As it happens, I’ll also be away, but I’m not at the racing and if it came to
the bit I could try and stay in one place long enough to attempt scoring. It
wouldn’t be ideal, but I wouldn’t like to see Diamond Geezer and Nathan stuck
for lack of a scorer. I’m still hopeful that someone, as I mentioned before,
with a foot in both camps could ideally take this on. If that doesn’t appear to
be on the cards, the best I could offer is trying to keep things going, and as
Nathan suggested, someone from TH would have to copy and paste over any updates
on the scores that I post. Spread sheets are not my thing, so it would be half
an A4 pad, 2 pencils and a rubber (and a house measure of Glenmorangie) to keep
it going.

That’s the best I can offer DG if there isn’t anyone available. Hopefully someone
might yet step forward, that would certainly keep Mrs BigG happy as we’re supposed
to be visiting “interesting places”. Failing that, I’ll do my best to be available.

raymo61 wrote:

I can do the scores DG for TRF picks but do not have access to TH picks.

It looks like we are both in the same boat Raymo, in that we can’t post results in the TH
Forum as neither of us are registered there. It’s easy enough to see their picks, you don’t
need to be a member to look at their forum, and vice versa. I would have been able to work
out and post the standings of both teams, to see how the pairing were doing against each other,
but someone from there would have had to copy my posts and paste them in the TH Forum so they
were equally aware. But hold that thought Raymo, if you have a look on the TRF V TH thread in
the Horse Racing Forum here, you will see that after my posts to DG, he has commented that
“We may have someone who could help, I’ll keep you informed”.

I hope DG has got hold of someone who’s registered in both and can keep both forums updated,
or at least someone who has the time without other commitments that day. It would very much
suit me if he has, as I’m going to be away that day, but at a push I could keep the thing going
with updates if we were completely stuck, although I’d have to use my phone which wouldn’t be
ideal. The competition created a great buzz last year, it’s a terrific format thought up by
Diamond Geezer and Nathan, we won’t let it slide because of a minor hiccup this year.

You may have missed the post By DG this morning in the Horse Racing Forum
Raymo. Very kindly NewApproach from Talking Horses is going to register with
us and will do the scoring. I’m very grateful he (or she) has stepped into the
breach, as I’m sure everyone from our side is. It saves me from doing my pathetic
attempt at two thumb typing on my phone……..how the hell do they do they do
that at the speed they do ?? Bloody technology, I still remember holding
something akin to a half brick to my ear….and thought I was cool Anyway, all’s
well that ends well and it’s game on for Champions Day

I was wondering how things were getting on, I know Diamond Geezer had posted before
that the pairings would need to be decided by Wednesday. I had a look over on their
forum and I see that the pairings were put up on Monday. I’ll copy them here, and
unless there is any change I imagine this is the line up. I’m sure that DG or Nathan
will confirm shortly if these are the scores on the doors

Draw for Saturday

TRF v TALKING HORSES

chestnut (Capt) v jinnyj (Capt)
Cormack15 v Len Madeiros
Charles Olyney v fonz
Steve75 v simmo
mickeyjp v Aragorn
buckers v wilsonl
yeats v Euronymous
bob rolf v Perpetual
Triptych v Desperate Dan
botchy v DanB88
BigG v Tanlic
andrew03 v chroniclandlord
cantlow v NewApproach
raymo61 v Irish Stamp
Middle Of March v redcat1
Degaussed v edgt

Thanks for that Jac, and yes I obviously missed the update in the Horse Racing Forum.
I had assumed (never assume, it makes an ASS of U and ME, as was drummed into me in my
old training……for all the good it obviously did) that updates and the competition
itself would be posted in the Racing Competition Forum. I’m in agreement Jac that it
makes sense to keep it here from now on