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Surely the paper version of the RP and it’s exorbitant cover price is just continuing due to the bookmakers version. They obviously don’t care what they charge now and any punters/mugs who are prepared to pay the price will be accomodated.
I continued taking it for too long and as someone said, at one time it was much better value than buying a racecard.
Whatever price it was when it started, 25p was mentioned on the Betfair forum and 50p here. With inflation the Betfair spokesman stated the 25p would now be 77p so even going off the 50p should now be £1.50/1.60. Very poor value for money now.So you know the William Webb Ellis drone? An untypical weathersppons pub in so far as many of the clientele have actually used soap in the last week. Mind you I’ve only been there three times and had to leave once because it was full of miserable old blokes moaning about the price of the racing post
‘Wetherspoons pub’
Much like a journalist from The Sun, you can be one or the other but never both.
“An untypical weathersppons pub in so far as many of the clientele have actually used soap in the last week.”
Funniest thing I’ve read on TRF in years – possibly EVER.
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It's the "Millwall FC" of Point broadcasts: "No One Likes Us - We Don't Care"“So you know the William Webb Ellis drone?”
Nope, just googled ‘wetherspoons twickenham’ knowing you lived around there
Yer typical clientele might be er…’mixed’ but I quite like the pubs as they’re often situated in splendid, otherwise redundant, municipal buildings
Better a ‘spoons than the bulldozer
“An untypical weathersppons pub in so far as many of the clientele have actually used soap in the last week.”
You do seem to have a bit of prejudice against Wetherspoons, Clive. I was in one of their establishments yesterday. Everyone looked clean to me.
As Rigsby once said on Rising Damp: “I have a bath every week. Even if I don’t need one.”
Reminds me of a story from mate in civil,service
One bloke in the office ponged really bad and they had to say something. Along the lines of “you pong and really should have a bath sometimes. Everyone’s moaning about it”
The he didn’t come back to work for weeks
They eventually got hold of him and his answer was
“How do you expect me to come into work when everyone says i pong”
Reminds me of a story from mate in civil,service. True because I knew the parties involved
One bloke in the office ponged really bad and they had to say something. Along the lines of “you pong and really should have a bath sometimes. Everyone’s moaning about it”
The he didn’t come back to work for weeks
They eventually got hold of him and his answer was
“How do you expect me to come into work when everyone says i pong”
RP doing a 50% off Black Friday deal at the moment. You must pay up front, but £14.50 a month for the next 12 months is decent value imo.
Looks like Racing TV have a deal coming for Friday too, going by the race title of the 12:35 at Thurles this coming Thursday…
2m2f Racing TV Black Friday Offer Tomorrow Only Handicap Chase (4yo+ 0-116)
The RP is priced as a digital paper ie. (Digital price : £349 for 12 months = £349/365 = £0.95 p/day, Paper price : £2.9p/day * 365 = £1,058.5 p/year) in effect Digital £349 v Paper £1058.50
Aren’t your figures are wrong there Rollo? I believe the Post is £3.90 daily Sun to Fri & £4.20 on Saturday. Which makes the total (52 x 4.20) + (313 x 3.90) = £1439.10 annually!
Not that it’s important. I’m not really sure that the Post are particularly concerned about their printed circulation amongst the general public, I reckon they just see it as an advertising and ‘presence’ tool. It gives them the kudos of being on every news stand. They may as well keep printing it and jacking the price up for the forseeable future as they know it’s the digital sales that count.
Mike
You’re correct Mike, the standard daily price is £3.9 as opposed to £2.9. I have a recollection of there being a premium on the £3.90 price during Cheltenham / Ascot / some of the other bigger meetings when picking up a copy previously also. The final figure is probably closer to a c.£1,100 + / c.3x + difference per annum in that case
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