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With sales having been in decline for many years, an excellent website, no British racing for a few months at least, and the increasing lack of permission or inability of people to even stroll to their local newsagent what do members think is the future of this paper?
If this virus causes more and more betting shops to shut that can’t be good for the racing post
I have not bought it for years. Would it matter if the printed version ceased and it went online only? And for a daily paper, albeit a specialist publication, it is very expensive.
Looking a few years down the line, I think they had accepted that they would have to turn fully digital but this will have certainly speeded up the demise of the paper version. I cannot see the RP, the R & F Outlook, and the Weekender all surviving together for a matter of weeks.Am guessing the Outlook will be first for the chop.
This will affect Timeform too, as Flutter Entertainment will be taking the hit through dormant LBO’s and drastically lower turnover through their online betting. It’s likely Timeform will be low down in their priority of concerns so it would be no shock if the organisation was sacrificed as part of cost cutting measures.
Yes. I only buy it Cheltenham week but didn’t even do that this year. An adequate pull out in the Sun at 55p or the RP at £3.50.
The racing post and the pull out in the daily tabloids is incomparable. To suggest otherwise is silly. Personally I feel for the information and work that goes into it it’s actually very good value.
I wouldn’t buy it every day but if you’re serious about a bet, relying on the sun/mirror/star for your information is going to seriously hinder you.
I must admit that I do like the Racing Post print edition, and buy it every Saturday
and for all the big meetings midweek or weekend. I do also occasionally download the
online publication, now and again when I’m organising my bets/competitions in the early
hours, it’s fine and although it contains exactly the same as the printed edition I do
like to sit down with the paper and read through, rather than having to zoom in and move
the page around which I find is a bit of a pain, probably an age thing. I hope they don’t
go down the online only route, although I think if we continue as we are for a few months
I think it highly likely that they will go online only. Perhaps they might return when
things get back to normal, although once something has gone it usually stays gone.I still buy the Post every day, despite the crazy price for it now [£3.50 per day and £3.90 for a Saturday]
Also get the Outlook & Weekender, but in current climate the immediate future of the R & F must be in serious doubt
I only buy it when I’m going to the races. I suppose that’s the case with many and the ban was the final nail.
And closing down as of today.
https://www.racingpost.com/news/latest/a-letter-to-readers-from-the-editor-of-the-racing-post/430054
Online will remain.
I feel for the staff, i deeply, deeply do, but i despise there method of journalism and there continuous biased reporting on two sided arguments and only reporting there one sided view on it
There as bad for racing as the sun is for general news.
They shouldnt be paying anyone off currently with the government help.
More on this here:
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2020/mar/25/cork-racecourse-coronavirus-testing-centre
Like Greg Wood I wonder if Thursday’s print edition will be the last. In fact those purchasing it could become owners of the last racing daily newspaper ever published. A bit sad when you consider there were 3 or 4 in late Victorian times.
Being a pensioner i stopped buying the post a couple of years ago. way to expensive,oh for the days of the Sporting Life and the Sporting Chronicle.
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