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Anyone help with navigating this site.
It appears they have turned it into a complete shambles.
I used to link from oddschercker cards directly to the site for form and video. Most of time it worked very well.
as someone has started a new thread I’ll copy over the post I put on the Racing Post thread………..
The Sporting Life site has a new layouy as well !
Minus – big side panel which takes up a third of the screen showing ‘Next Race Off’ ……..currently somewhere in South Africa. Can’t see anyway to close this panel so that’s a third of the screen gone. (Bit like this forum really !)
Huge minus – the filters on the horse’ form page and trainer page appear to have disappeared – these were the filters that enabled you to sort the horse’s previous runs by various factors , eg run after 60 day plus breaks, different going etc
Plus – the latest odds now load …….. previously I had to turn off my adblocker to get them to load
Plus – each horse now has a ‘Spotlight’ type comment
that’s my initial impressions
No A-Z for the entries, no fast card option to look at a meeting on one page, just a total mess. What is up with these websites ? Racing Post and now Sporting Life have been ruined , no doubt by some geek who has never been near a betting shop or a racetrack in his life
Absolutely ruined, the database no longer tells you vey much about each horses previous runs, in particular distance beaten which was critical to my sprint ratings.
I've stumbled on the side of twelve misty mountains
I've walked and I crawled on six crooked highwaysAbsolutely nowhere near ready enough for going live, whoever is responsible for rolling this out should be embarrassed.
An absolute shambles is the only way to descibe it. Such a shame as it was a very good website before.
I wonder who gave them the feedback to make them change it.Nicked from the Betfair forum a link to the old style site.
Off with their heads!!!! No seriously, they’ve made a right mess of it. You cant click on the horse to get any old form up. Didn’ realize they were rolling it out so quickly and now i’ve lost my never ending list of tracker horses. Disaster all round
I used to be a William Hill shop manager back in the early 90’s and it was the Sporting Life broadsheets that used to be the source of information for punters in betting shops. This got changed to the Racing Post to much dismay of the punter, as I remember most of them preferred the Sporting Life. I am not 100% but I believe the RP bought out the SP and therefore had the licence to change what the punter read. Thankfully in the age of the internet the SP continued along with RP, but the RP always want you to subscribe to one thing or another, yet the SP didn’t. I find it coincidental that not only the RP has “upgraded” their website, but so has the SP within a day of each other (same ownership at a guess). Is it not just coincidence both the entities have upgraded, and is it not coincidence, that since Skybet adorn most of the SP these days and all other bookies adorn the RP, same way the TV coverage has been taken over, that both these websites now are run by bookmakers. It’s to the detriment of the punter, racing enthusiast, football fan as well as all other sports, that the bookies now dictate how you see everything about horseracing and sport in general. They were both seperately very good newspapers and very good websites, but the new format has just been sucked into the greed of the bookies and I find it offensive how they have gone down this road.
Echo what’s been already said an absolute disgrace…..
If it’s not broken, don’t fix it!JamieDB9007 :
Skybet actually own the Sporting Life trademark and website, having paid the RP GBP 6 million for them this time last year – see end posts here:
There are some facilities I cannot find anymore — cards on one page, going, non-runners and most importantly what has happened to H2H which was invaluable — and when will they publish actual weight carried e.g. 10-7(3 lb claimer): 10-4 etc.
I used to be a William Hill shop manager back in the early 90’s and it was the Sporting Life broadsheets that used to be the source of information for punters in betting shops. This got changed to the Racing Post to much dismay of the punter, as I remember most of them preferred the Sporting Life. I am not 100% but I believe the RP bought out the SP and therefore had the licence to change what the punter read. Thankfully in the age of the internet the SP continued along with RP, but the RP always want you to subscribe to one thing or another, yet the SP didn’t. I find it coincidental that not only the RP has “upgraded” their website, but so has the SP within a day of each other (same ownership at a guess). Is it not just coincidence both the entities have upgraded, and is it not coincidence, that since Skybet adorn most of the SP these days and all other bookies adorn the RP, same way the TV coverage has been taken over, that both these websites now are run by bookmakers. It’s to the detriment of the punter, racing enthusiast, football fan as well as all other sports, that the bookies now dictate how you see everything about horseracing and sport in general. They were both seperately very good newspapers and very good websites, but the new format has just been sucked into the greed of the bookies and I find it offensive how they have gone down this road.
Good post
I have a theory with cheltenham just around the corner, and the bookies having been hammered there last year, they want to make it as tough for the punter as possible. Thus making it as hard as it can be for the average punter to view video replays, to access form, is all part of the plan.
Bookmakers have no interest in accommodating the well-informed, well-researched punter. All they want is joe bloggs who bets horses on his mobile because he likes the name of them, or those poor souls who shovel their weekly benefits down the FOTB machine
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