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As has been well documented Nic Coward resigned as CEO of the BHA yesterday.
Over his tenure in charge of the BHA, has the 1 million pounds plus paid to him been a positive or negative when viewed in terms of cost/benefit to horseracing as a whole.
We have a wide range of racing people contributing to TRF. As a punter, owner, media staff, clerk of the course, racegoer, betting industry employee, stable staff etc…what, if any legacy will Mr Coward leave to you after his 4 years at the helm?
What has he done?
He is the Racing For Change fella?? if so he has been as good as using a condom after the lad has bolted. The bigger number cloths was nothing short of genuis
Nothing positive.
He has not done anything positive for punters. I wouldn’t expect him too, either, because punters aren‘t recognised by the BHA.
Before anyone says integrity has improved. Yeah, that’s why a jockey gets a 10 day ban for not trying.
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As a punter and a lifelong fan
Less punter Friendly fields
Going stick reports that don’t make sense
Extreme saturation of the sport
Less Terrestial TV coverage
Leaving the sport with vastly increased costs and a decreasing revenue.
Failing to realise that Racings "Off Course partners" have diversified and are less reliant on the product and wanting the CORE customer and fan to "Lose more" as its "Good for the Levy".Pardon my language but he’s done bugger all and reduced the sport to a joke, for example the next levy agreement.
Well, he made way for Paul Struthers to take part in the Sky funding debate and give the first part of his I have a dream speech.
Other than that I can’t think of anything, unless you count putting on a sideshow at the Leger meeting when he exchanged cooking recipes with Harry Findlay.
Nic Coward has done a marvellous job at the BHA and anyone who disagrees is a ‘
mischievous and ill-informed individual
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Lydia Hislop wrote a very good article on the subject last August. In it she included a quote from the trainer, James Given…
"We need to know what we’re doing and how we’re doing it. Nic Coward says we want £130m from the next levy. You might as well bark at the moon. I may be being critical of a man who has a game in hand, but he’s had three years now and hasn’t achieved anything bar moving his team into one building. That’s the job of an office manager, not the chief executive."
A reply to that article in the comments section has proved prophetic…
"Coward has a free option. So far the cost to Racing of employing this chump is already north of £1million (salary, pension etc.). What are his achievements to date? Nothing. What are the consequences of such ineptitude? A cushy job somewhere else, Adam Crozier-style. In six months time Coward will be bumbling along incompetently in a new role, laughing at us, the idiots of Racing who’ve paid for his latest house/holiday/luxury car."
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