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When I was working , your wife had the baby and you were back in work the next day …..another new labour balmy idea imo
When I was working I had a female colleague who gave birth on a Saturday and she was back in work the following Monday.
I’d say you weren’t employed as Prostitutes from that Paul!
Dinner Ladies?When I was working , your wife had the baby and you were back in work the next day …..another new labour balmy idea imo
When I was working I had a female colleague who gave birth on a Saturday and she was back in work the following Monday.
I’d say you weren’t employed as Prostitutes from that Paul!
Dinner Ladies?this is one of those rare occasions where I am actually speechless
Paul Bittar on C4’s Morning Line this morning.
He’s certainly an accomplished frontman.
Said all the right things, seems to have been well received by some tough critics and has made a good start.
At the moment it’s a bit like the unraced two year old who’s made favourite for the Guineas. He has to do it on the track.
Reasonable start though and probably infinitely preferable to previous incumbent.
Clear what a certain Sports Personality of the Year thought – tweeted earlier –
I nearly smashed the tv when I was watching the morning line
Although he may well have been more pee’d off at the fact his Telegraph column was headlined ‘I can’t bear the thought of another fall’
Might get some ribbing from the other tough lads in the weighing room over that one.
I thought he came across very well. His enthusiam for the sport shone through. I also got the impression that he was a man who was well aware of the task in front of him and he gave every indictation that he is also willing to learn – and just as importantly, willing to listen.
I think he’ll do ok.
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He said mostly the right things, the difficult part is to deliver.
I saw him this afternoon and he is a pleasant enough individual, whether he will have the clout to sort things out is another matter.
There was one very interesting Tweet after his Morning Line performance where somebody said "Racing now has its own Tony Blair"
Time will tell if that is a fair comment or not.
I hope that is proved to be wrong.
I’m old enough to remember Peter Savill appearing on The Morning Line when he first got the job. Seem to recall him basically declaring war on the bookies. Many observers were impressed. Here was a man that was going to get it done.
What followed was the disastrous expansion of the racing programme (particulalry at the bottom end, particularly on the all-weather), the competitive racing initiative, the virtual abolition of four place handicaps and fighting the exchanges, all at the behest of the bookies. He even got an Australian in as CEO to help him out by the name of Greg Nicholls, who later joined the exchange Savill had declared war on.
In fact about the only bump in the road, as far as the books were concerned, was when Savill tried to help their each-way turnover out by paying appearance money to the Alan Berrys of this world to encourage field sizes up to three places. He certainly brought the bookies lots of each-way business with this scheme, with races that were 50/1 bar three or four appearing with monotonous regularity.I’d like to think it was deliberate sabotage, but the most likely expalantion is embarassing naievity.
I’ll reserve judgement on Paul Bittar, but if the form of those in the BHA/BHB hot seat up until now is anything to go on you wouldn’t be laying outlandish odds about him working at an offshore book or FOBT supplier in a few years time or investing his pension on their shares.
McCoy & Others pour scorn over inept BHA, Aintree & PJA
I agree entirely, to ask jockeys to "go slow" in the early stages of the Grand National and to move the start without good reason is ludicrous.
McCoy said "I cannot say anything positive about the initiative. The jockeys who get it right end up winning the race and the one’s who get it wrong don’t".
What a shame these muppetts are in charge of the sport.
I understand what they the BHA are trying to say but the implementation has been a joke.
How odd of them to spring this on the jockeys a few days before the race.
When Stier (BHA) and Baker (Aintree) were both interviewed after last years race both stated there was no problem with the start. What has happened in the interim?
All this constant tinkering every year with just the one race is ridiculous.
Let’s not beat about the bush, the rspca and the lily-livered liberals’ want the Grand National race gone, their proposals oh yes a death by a thousand cuts, the race then no more.
Are all so lost in the lust for profit that we forget the gain of sporting excellence? Where horse and horsemen together test themselves!
Let’s not be under any allusion that the end of this great race is only the beginning of their insipid plans.
Draw a line now because even the changes they have made can cause injury, a loose horse can now have the option of running out and past the fence, the lily-livered liberals cannot think that the horse by itself can come to any harm or cause havoc .
They are using the unspoken nature by which they themselves supress in their delusional, modernistic vision, the twisted thinking of the world view they want to impale on society.
How odd of them to spring this on the jockeys a few days before the race.
Hardly sprung on them as it was announced the start was moving last year.
I think people need to get a reality check. Times are changing and people need to realise the race is in peril. Doing nothing will make things worse. The spotlight is really going to be on this years race and racing has to show it cares.
How odd of them to spring this on the jockeys a few days before the race.
Hardly sprung on them as it was announced the start was moving last year.
I’m on about the "go slow" request. A farcical one from the supposed leaders of our sport.
You and them may be fans of panic, knee jerk reactions without clear reasoning but most in racing are not.
Obviously the "go slow" is another one in an attempt to deflect the blame in the event the change of start proves unsuccessful in the years to come, they will say "we told them to go slow but they wouldn’t listen".
Why didn’t they request the "go slow" when they announced changes to the start, last year, as you say?
We are told every year that the changes that have been made, need to judged over a length of time only for them to be followed by several more the year after. What sort of leadership is that?
At some point in the future (15? 20 years?) Jump racing will be banned.
Every time a horse dies in the Grand National takes us a step closer to the end of Jump racing.
I can’t say I would miss it.
But I do agree with the OP that the BHA, Aintree & PJA are inept. They are basically trying to please the RSPCA and deflecting blame from themselves to the jockeys (as pointed out by yeats).
Have Steir & Baker ever sat on the back of a horse? It’s bloody hard to keep one on a tight rein when there are 40 of them running towards the first.
It won’t happen but if the BHA want Jump racing to stay, then they need to tell the RSPCA where to stick their ideas.
Every year jockeys are given a talk before going out to race in the Grand National; told to take it easy early on. Is this just a matter of getting the talk in early?
Not that it’ll do any good. Fact is most Grand Nationals are won by jockeys keeping their mounts fairly handy. Therefore, it usually pays to take a bit of a chance at the first fence in order to get a good position.
Value Is EverythingMessage to jockeys issued by Aintree and the Professional Jockeys Association
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