The Bookies Rep speaks Corporate speak …

[ricky lake]

Another fine man , initial interview with racing post goes straight into corporate speak …which means he knows damn all about Horses , but lots about the betting industry

When will we ever get someone , who speaks plain english , knows his subject , and actually knows a little about the life of horses

The old fashioned , quaint Jockey club , were never much good at corporate stuff , but each one knew a load about horses , simply because most of them were brought up with them

Are we better off with these business types ….3/ 4 yrs from now this guy will be moving on to another business opportunity , the burning question is …will racing be better off for his period of office

I very much doubt it …..

imo

[robert99]

Not knowing anything about the job and practicing the art of the bluff is sadly endemic to UK business. Those at the bottom get searching interviews and aptitude tests to go with long hours and low pay. The PR department picks up the pieces for top management incompetence. The quality of the UK media has sunk to the level of parroting the PR handouts. Very few can put forwards any searching questions on anything. The racing media is wholly worthless.

Network Rail has caused mayhem at Kings Cross, Paddington and London Bridge in the last few weeks. So bad that the police has had to be brought in.

"MPs mocked the admission that equipment brought in to reduce breakdowns itself broke down while passengers were confronted with blank information boards in a communication shambles.

Network Rail chief executive Mark Carne was hauled in front of Parliament after thousands of people were left stranded or in overcrowded stations when engineering works over-ran, with East Coast mainline services into King’s Cross and cancellations of services into Paddington."

"The Network Rail report said last week: ‘The equipment failures were unexpected, due to the provision of new hardware that had been bought specifically to reduce the risk of breakdown.

‘However this new hardware had not been tested in the railway environment before deployment, and was not reliable when put to use.’ (How naive and non-technically savvy can a technical company actually be?)

Mark Carne is the sole director on Network Rails Board that has any rail experience. And Mr Carne is quitting.

[ricky lake]

Good post Robert , agree with you about the fawning racing media

soft questions , soft answers , fawning all round

Result , sport crumbling into ruin , Bookies man at the helm …racing fixture chaos , low grade roulette , plus a fantastic drive to generate negative publicity on a daily basis , by the ongoing fiasco with the whip (foam ornament )…all intended to keep the non racing public onside , whilst alienating the few remaining customers who continue to support it

How the show keeps going is definitely more luck than judgement ,,,imo

good innit

[cormack15]

Plenty fawners in the media but also plenty who do speak out and are prepared to challenge so it’s unfair to tar them all with the same brush IMO.

‘The racing media are wholly worthless’ – very harsh assessment.

‘Quite a fair percentage of the racing media are worthless’ – more like it.

[ricky lake]

Corm , fair point …

On another matter close to your heart , your fav topic the whip , and the Bha , including the daft theory of disqualification , were all murdered on the sunday forum this morning

Must admit I enjoyed the program immensely , the Bookies rep has a mountain to climb by the sounds of it

Hope you watched it .. if not try and see a repeat online,,you might actually see sense

[cormack15]

I didn’t catch it Ricky – damn. Who did they haul out of their beds for it?

[ricky lake]

Jim the Croc and Alan Lees ,,,,chapman ….was a good watch , the chepstow race plus another from Lingfield ,,shows the crass stupidity of where we are on the whip rules …

Lees gave a good insight into what is facing the bookies Rep ,,,given the factions within racing , I would say he is on a hiding to nothing ,,,,still a fudge of some sort will be found to save face all round

I dont often give ATR a big up , however this was a bloody good show

[cormack15]

Alan Lee is normally quite logical and considered, but not necessarily always right. I’ll give it a watch if I can find it.
Chappers and Jim McG speak their minds alright but often have flawed logic IMO.

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