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Would your regular beat include Sheffield FC, the world’s oldest football club, Scamperdale? I attended the pre-season friendly they had at the Dronfield ground with Grimsby Town (having friends who are fans of either or in some cases both) back on July 20th, I think it was; and it was the cheeriest, most dedicated and heartfelt footballing experience I’ve witnessed for many a long year. A return visit is already programmed.
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It would indeed. I used to work in Dronfield not half a mile from the Coach & Horses Ground (or whatever it’s sponsors name is these days) in fact Sheffield moved there during the time I worked around there. Was originally the ground of the Coach & Horses pub team.
Before that they played at Don Valley stadium which must have been fun. A couple of hundred diehards pottering around England’s biggest athletics stadium!
Given their nomadic existence, they’re justifiably proud to have their own home though they might be on the move again soon. They’ve got ambitions & that ground isn’t suitable to much expansion. Like Old Trafford, it’s not helped by a railway line passing behind it.
The world’s oldest club, never been popular, always played around the basement leagues, bigger more glamorous clubs in each direction. Were they to be a racecourse, some here would shut them down.
Im with scamperdale! Would never watch anything on these channels, but each to their own!
I’m not saying I don’t watch either of the channels, just that not many do.
My opinion is that yes, there is some good stuff on BBC4 (and BBC3 occasionally) but I don’t think there’s enough good stuff to warrant four channels.
The best stuff from BBC4 ends up on BBC2 eventually so we might as well save ourselves a few quid & cut out the middle man.
Who cares about the low grade racing at Newcastle & Bath?
Well, people who live in or near Newcastle & Bath for starters.
Compare what some of you say about racing to football. What you’re complaining about is too much Northern Counties League & not enough League One. Well I’ve been round the Northern Counties League & the love of the game from the attendees & the participants is unquestionable.
Damn right it should be treasured.
Stone the crows.
I’m starting to remember why I had Cormack delete my original account.
If you believe the sport is ‘terrible terrible’ then why continue to patronise it?
If that’s true then it’s seems pointless opening it in the first place.
Just like Great Leighs. There is not the demand to warrant new courses atm as I see it. Plus, with prize money dropping faster than NHS budgets, who wants to go see donkeys race for £1300?
True, but my understanding was that Great Leighs had exceptional prize money for the grade but what killed them was less cuts to the levy & more to do with the course providing facilities in the form of a stand in the centre of the course where for most of the race you couldn’t actually see a string bean.
It’s no wonder they didn’t get the footfall.
From what I’ve heard, Ffos Las is the opposite. Decent crowds, good facilities etc.
I used to do the Scoop6 & would study all angles for every race. Form, conditions, you name it. And the best I have ever done was eighty odd quid in the Place pool.
Then one day I cut out the racecards from the RP, stuck a pin in each & got four winners & a second.
I don’t do the Scoop 6 anymore!
The apologists will gradually kill the interest among the general public
Yeah & the doom sayers won’t I suppose.
Where’s that course in Ireland that has the Yellow Sam race?
Tuffers – God bless you mate , but it may have had something to do with an 18 pound drop in the weights within the last year.
I am happy to be corrected though, so why do you think that it is something to do with rectifying a physical issue.
And why am I so cynical about why these miraculous improvements always seem to affect handicappers rather than other types of horse ?Don’t handicappers make up about 75% of the racehorse population?
Just a few questions – just curious; be great if you could help!!
1. How often do you go racing ?
2.Do you go racing less than you did five years ago or more or the same? If your habits have changed why?
3. Do you tend to go to local courses or more likely to go to big meetings like Cheltenham, Ascot etc? Are you a member anywhere?
4. Have you introduced people to the sport – friends and family clients etc – or is it your domain and you’d prefer to go alone or with existing fans?
5. What has been your experience taking new people, children etc -have they enjoyed or not? Have they enjoyed different things to you at the races?
6. What changes would you like to see introduced from the experience of a racegoer? Would they get you to go more – eg if they had ‘free food’ vouchers or free admission?
7. Is travel and accomodation expense a factor in stopping you going racing more often?
8. Would you like to go Racing more often?
9. Do you think a day at the races is a suitable family day out ie with children?
10. Do you like an alcoholic drink at the races?
11. Are food and drink prices at the races too high; or good value?
12. Has anyone here taken advantage of the free tickets at the "lovetheraces" site?
13. What do you enjoy about going racing? Eg atmosphere, spectacle, better punting experience, day out, social etc
14. What are your favourite courses? Why?
Haydock (outstanding facilities & parade ring area, good value tickets, good view of racing) Least favourite Chester (too cramped) & Wolverhampton (embarrassingly poor public transport links)Get rid of BBC4 & BBC3.
If they’ve not got any money to bid for sport then they’ve not got enough money for fringe channels that no-one watches either.
If they’d bin the repeats, the BBC could have two truly great channels instead of four mediocre ones.
One of these days there’s going to be a horse called Occam’s Razor & some of you are going to be rich.
Apparantly likely to be out the season having been injured since winning the Fesival bumper. Probably had been favourite for the Festival novice hurdles – great advert for the game.
Haven’t you just answered your own question there?
‘Apparently likely’ would suggest to me that he picked up an injury & it was hoped that he’d recover. Better that than to declare the horse injured & then turn up to win it (Binocular) I would’ve thought.
Still, I can’t imagine the anti-post market was up to much a full seven months in advance.
So everyone has been screaming for less fixtures for years, and now there is going to be. Great course it may be but in the great tradition of redundancy, it’s ‘last in – first out’
It’s a shame if the place does close, it certainly wouldn’t be top of my list for the axe.Maybe racing would be better served if all the people making calls to the BHA going ‘we want less racing, we want less racing’ had actually been more honest & said ‘we want less racing at Lingfield, Wolverhampton, Southwell & Kempton.’
It’s much easier to cry ‘less’ than it is to offer an alternative.
This new idea of ‘the best racing every Saturday’ seems very much in the mould of 20-20 cricket. There will be an over-saturation of the product that will yield a short term spike, but will inevitabley lead to a long term hazard to the sport.
Well there are several ways of looking at that. England were the first country to have a 20/20 tournament & we are now the best test playing nation in the world. India has the most valuable 20/20 tournament in the world & have just been royally tonked by England. It’s a mixed bag.
Test Match attendances seem to be up (although I haven’t got the figures) You don’t normally get the sort of crowds that have been at this test series outside of Ashes year. Although Test cricket is a good example of how midweek events can work. This series has captured the imagination & Monday at the Oval was a sell out.
Meanwhile, it’s Twenty20 finals day at Edgbaston tomorrow. Sold out for the ninth year in a row. There’s a lesson in Twenty20 for racing’s traditionalists too: When it first started it had it’s own theme music, post match concerts, pitch side hot tubs, bouncy castles etc. Most of which have now been dropped. The tournament is well established & can stand up for itself.
Is this a Racing For Change idea? Doesn’t sound like them to do something on a trial basis, they normally just dive in with both feet don’t they?
I’m not opposed to ditching the term ‘nursery’ I like to call a spade a spade & if it’s a 2yo handicap, then why not call it that?
Actually, I am opposed to it come to think of it. We should be phasing out handicaps everywhere, not adding more of them to the list!Anyone care to shed some light on where the term originated?
Pinza…
STOP TYPING THE ******* NAME ANIMAL AID!!!!
Don’t you get it?
By bringing them up EVERY TIME anyone discusses making jumps racing fairer or safer is true appeasement.
It is YOU who is appeasing them & not us. Racing will talk itself into an early grave when they give credence & attention to an organisation that has neither. If you’re totally & comprehensively resistant to change, you are as big a problem as any other special interest group.
