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This guy’s about five years behind the times. Welsh Emperor capable of winning a Group 2? Mordin disciples knew that after his maiden win in 2001.
The pages don’t turn as easily as the Post on first reading – very tiresome! :biggrin:
I bought it on the first day and keeping my copy in pristine condition.Bet no-one else thought of doing that!;)
I think that some competition for the RP is a good thing but have grave doubts that the market is there to sustain it in this internet age. The Sporting Life of course ceased years ago.<br>I think that the revamp is a significant improvement, in particular the form comment for each horse set out as per the RP and leading with a racing story, ditching the "other sport" section. This was a disaster- more authorative comment could be seen in the sports supplements of the nationals. I used to throw my supplement straight away. <br>Sportsman also has some interesting columnists and tipsters.<br>However I fear the changes are too late and the title will not recover.Two large supermarkets near me used to stock it but have now ceased. Good idea by Jilly to save the first edition as I don’t believe it will last.
The people at The Sportsman have at last realised that there isn’t a viable market for a paper which focuses on sports, ie non-racing, betting.
Apart from a fairly small coterie of shrewdies, most sports betting is carried out by mugs, who are not interested in "form".
Ian Davies has flagged this  Guardian piece on the Sportsman’s debts over in his PP forum:
I stick with my expressed view that it’s a turkey- good money after bad and there is no market for it
They fecked up the start i’m afraid
This is only my opinion, others may disagree, but there are far better horse racing analyst’s working at the Sportsman than at it’s competitor(though they do have the odd one or two) and although these people will probably find other employment, we will be less imformed if they are no longer publicly available to us
<br>Just a shame the greater racing public and someone with dosh can’t see this
(Edited by empty wallet at 7:11 pm on Sep. 28, 2006)
Without some proper financing, I doubt it will make Christmas. Apart from which, no national paper can survive with a press run of 20k. The Essex Chronicle sells more copies than that forfeksake.
It wont survive long :(
Deal with this sort of thing abit in my job and unless theres offers on the table quickly you dont often see them come in at a later stage
A pity….
If, as seems increasingly likely, the paper is going to fold they ought to consider a web-only version or even a straight .pdf copy of the existing paper format. No idea what percentage of total production costs hard-copy printing is but substantial I’d guess.
I rarely buy it (or the RP for that matter) but from what I’ve seen they seem to have bucked their ideas up somewhat and now have some decent contributors/articles, the quality of which is at least the equal of anything in the Post.
Wouldn’t lose much sleep if it did disappear completely but it would be a shame nevertheless as, going on it’s recent improvement, it’s feasible it could evolve into something half-decent given time.
Subs around a fiver per month would tempt me…with the proviso they ditch G Lester.
I have been getting it for the last few Saturdays in addition to the RP.It has improved significantly.Personally I think as many of us as possible should buy it -if it disappears we will be left with a RP monoploy for decades.Remember how stale the Post was before the Sportsman appeared on the horizon.
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