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I wonder if before they agree to partake in these interviews whether they agree certain boundaries that shall not be crossed. Or is that a stupid question?
I would have liked to seen him be pushed further.
Thought it was a disappointing interview with not enough issues covered, for instance on the front page of the days Racing Post and inside was an excellent article on Eoghan O’Neill moving lock, stock and barrel to France due to the poor prize money, not mentioned despite Roy being an owner. Instead we had the tedious "decimal odds" rolled out again, tv stewards (gee whizz) and the pointless Curley Barney issue that Roy couldn’t possibly answer off the top of his head.
ATR asked for several days for questions for Roy but few were used if any and issues such as poor prize money, 48 hour decs, tv coverage,overwatering etc not covered.
Would have liked to hear some of the questions emailed in to have been put to Roy in a rapid fire style, surely there must have been some interesting ones rather than the leisurely style the programme took, imo of course
http://www.guardian.co.uk/sport/2010/ju … by-betting
There’s little point in creating a new thread when most of this is related, so I might as well make my post here.
Ralph Topping, William Hill’s top clown, takes further digs at racing, yet the sport has to hope as part of the current levy system that these bookmakers are going to contribute what Roy says is their fair share to racing. And when I say hope, there was a lot of hot air from Roy about closing loopholes, but the truth is people like Topping wouldn’t be that sad to see racing fail altogether, so closing loopholes could see them just aim to promote other betting products 10x more. As Roy himself acknowledged, FOBT’s and sports betting play a big part in bookmakers profits now, and bookmakers will continue to hope that profits in those areas only go up in relation to Racing’s percentage.
If the people running racing have any sense (OK, daft supposition I know), they will be bending the ear of the new government about the machines.
One approach, to the Treasury, would be to point out the vast profits being made and the opportunity ofr higher taxation.
The other would be to highlight the social evils caused by the machines and the fact that the previous government seem not to have grasped what they involve.
It’s the only sort of language the likes of Topping would ever understand. You mess up my business, I’ll mess up yours pal!
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Can you see such a u-turn occuring Alan?
Let’s not forget that it was The Rabble who lobbied for these machines to be allowed in the first place
If past form is anything to go by, their response to such a disastrous blunder will be ‘More Steam’. They’re doubtless at Westminster as we speak demanding the books be allowed eight machines per shop.
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