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Matthew, You may have upset (some)folk with your good ride/bad ride threads and aftertiming posts. I took a bit critisism too…even abuse from one member… when I first came on this forum.
You just need to post your bets before the race and show everyone you can cut it at the game and it’ll dry up in no time. It worked for me.If you monitored my threads in recent weeks you’d see there’s not been one bad ride/great ride thread but Pinza is a patronising person and armchair jockey is a moody idiot that took his frustrations out on BHL the other day and he had dine with me’.
No worries though, point taken mate.
Pinza wrote….Matthew’s Big Day Out at the Knavesmire..
Was that the sequel to the Famous Five on Holiday at Aunt Bessie’s? Or am I confusing the Secret Seven series, Pinza?
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If you monitored my threads in recent weeks you’d see there’s not been one bad ride/great ride thread but Pinza is a patronising person and
armchair jockey is a moody idiot
that took his frustrations out on BHL the other day and he had dine with me’.
No worries though, point taken mate.
Perhaps it’s time you dialled it down a little, Matthew.
If you monitored my threads in recent weeks you’d see there’s not been one bad ride/great ride thread but Pinza is a patronising person and
armchair jockey is a moody idiot
that took his frustrations out on BHL the other day and he had dine with me’.
No worries though, point taken mate.
Perhaps it’s time you dialled it down a little, Matthew.
not really AJ, you’re not an idiot far from it, I apologise for that remark bit you constantly accuse people of either seeking attention or after timing, which isn’t me’.
You did it the other week with a bet I had on the Golfer Ross Fisher, If you want proof I’ll get it for you.
Apologies again.
Matthew wrote elsewhere…We want young, fun people on here rather than boring people.
Question: What age limit do you suggest, Matthew?
Question: Should the oldies just fade into the background?
Question: Are we allowed to have fun at your expense, please?
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Pinza is a patronising person
Excellent alliteration. You’ll be a perfectly poised practising poet in no time at all if you keep this up.
Seriously, for a moment, can you really expect to be treated with courtesy when you diss threads, and continue to berate another individual’s posts as "dull and boring", adding snide remarks to the effect that "everyone else who’s got any life about them thinks so too"?
And before you come in with another round of "no worries, mate" and "apologies", or whining about people being rude to you, please do us a favour and think for two seconds before you start
aftertiming
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brilliant ride
-ing it again.
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No, just a polite rap across the virtual knuckles with a verbal stick.
Yes matthew ‘sets himself up’ for some critisism but for heaven’s sake…This is like playground behaviour.
The one thing I dislike about this forum, or any other is when folk seem to ‘gang up’ on another member because two is easier than one isn’t it?
I would bet against the two people on here who seem to get off on baiting Matthew, that if they were in the same room would be patting each other on the back, calling each other ‘old boy’ and ‘good chap’.
This thread started as someone talking about a day out at a racecourse and being enthusiastic about it for goodness sake.
Why don’t you all pm each other and vent your frustrations? Just a thought.
Crizzy
Apparently Racing for Change are watching the exchanges on this thread between the given parties intensely.
Good luck to them mate.
Come on everyone give the lad a break. There’s room for all kinds of discussion on the forum, within reason, surely. Every thread doesn’t need to be about a deadly serious racing matter does it?
Matthew’s light-hearted enthusiasm is very welcome.
I must admit that usually I don’t notice the jockeys, so I am rather nonplussed by constant threads about such-and-such a jockey riding a bad race.
I have a similar attitude to cars, in that I just regard them as a metal box, and I forget that someone is driving them, and I don’t notice them through the windscreen as I don’t look there, and I’m concentrating on the front bumper, checking that it won’t go into me as I cross the road.
Cormack wrote….Come on everyone give the lad a break.
Corm, "the lad" is 36 years of age! If he is old enough to be allowed on here he is also old enough to be chastised when he writes a disrespectful post i.e. "who’s bothered? who cares?"
It seems like ages ago since I and others were criticised for disagreeing with Matthew and having bitten the bullet my subsequent relations with him have been courteous and generally cordial. I hope that continues.
However, yesterday, having read his quoted post above I suggested an apology to Pinza was in order. Had Matthew used his loaf he had time to issue a quick retraction and apology but he purposefully chose not to do so and instead dragged up his past dealings with Pinza and others.
Wisely, he chose not to take me on again, possibly because he realises that my role in this was initially an attempt to apply the reigns and prevent him from running into a wall of negativity.
Personally, I blame Matthew, the jockey, for not seeing the danger ahead. In fact it was one of the worst rides I’ve seen all year and I think he needs to be sent back to riding school to hone his skills.
I understand your role is difficult, Corm, but one senses a certain patronage towards Matthew for his abundance of so-called "light-hearted" posts whereas equally prolific writers always seem to be ‘in the wrong’ simply because we show a united front in the way we deal with ‘transgressors’ of board etiquette.
We, too, deserve to smell the roses from time to time, do you not think?
Ken.
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