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For those who may be interested Paul Bittar is interviewed on BBC 5 Live racing tonight at 8pm. Also on are Clive Smith, Sam Waley Cohen,Tom Symonds and Keiran Burke.
Short but sweet, he was prematurely cut-off just after the words ‘commercial’ and ‘media rights’!!!!!
Mick Fitzgerald – ‘He’s worked in places where racing isn’t as popular as the UK. That can only be a good thing’.
Eh?
Paul Bittar strong words on PJA’s activity/non-activity.
Mick Fitzgerald leaps to jockeys defence.
Paul Bittar (diplomatically) fights back with words to this effect…
‘Kevin, or whoever is running the PJA at the time, faces a difficult task getting concensus from his members’
Too right – you can’t consult individually with jockeys. The BHA dealt with their Association, who did a poor job. That’s hardly the BHA’s fault.
Nothing explosive and his aim to keep the dirty laundry behind closed doors might mean we don’t see as much of the stained underwear on display as we’ve been used to.
Ah – I’ve found out what GBI is, but I’m not too embarrassed as even that font of knowledge Cornelius had to ask for clarification on that (which wasn’t given).
Yep, you’d have to agree International marketing of UK racing coverage was an opportunity.
I’d instigate a charging policy that involved media rights being sold to betting operators based overseas at commercially sensible fees.
Do those firms who have moved abroad to avoid levy get racecard data at the same price as UK based operators?
I thought he came across well but not sure if he was just saying what people wanted to hear. One interesting thing though when they talked about the whip was that he said the rules were fine it was the penalties which were the problem.
Whatever,I hope he does well and I wish him luck. He’ll need it.
I get the feeling he wants to be all things to all men. Impossible in that post which needs a benign dictator.
He also thinks the Levy replacement should be ‘underpinned’ by legislation. No chance of that happening unless media rights are included.
I get the feeling he wants to be all things to all men. Impossible in that post which needs a benign dictator.
I get the same feeling. Dare I say it, too much influence from one ATR presenter on his trip to Australia.
I’ve queried elsewhere how he can be a "dictator" in a position the BHA establishment (sort of) questioned their selves? Yes, that was mostly an indictment of the previous incumbent, but how he gets those at High Holborn into order first, I don’t know.
I say we sit back and give him a chance to show his metal
He cannot be any worse than those we have already , he could be damn good …he might not be
So far he seems to have a fair grasp of what is happening currently
Its a good start IMO
Ricky
I heard the interview and I felt he came across extremely well, although of course, the proof of the pudding will be in the eating. Good luck to him, let’s hope he can make a difference.
Homophone corner: Ricky, "show his
metal
"?!
Then she shewes the metall she is made of."
"To try the spirit of men, of what mettle they are made of."
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"Metal" (or "mettle") as Ricky says, has an older meaning of "spirit". So a "well-mettled" horse (still a phrase in use) means a horse exhibiting good spirit, or courage. "Metal" (the physical substance) has the same roots.
e.g. Shakespeare’s
Henry V
(The King at the siege of Harfleur):
"And you, good yeoman,
Whose limbs were made in England, show us here
The mettle of your pasture; let us swear
That you are worth your breeding; which I doubt not;"
venusian
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