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If the cause was the operating system, browser or broadband connection then surely all sites would cause problems.
Not necessarily. The JavaScript language they’ve used to build the new site has performance issues depending on browser version etc.
For instance I’m on Firefox 3.0.5, Win XP and 8MB Broadband and have zero speed issues on the new site.
If you use Firefox how can you view RUK videos?
Using IE7 thew site is virtually useless with my 8Mb connection.
Switching to ATR shows how poor RP is, the video quality is far better for starters.
Ryan Moore on a "sports personality" programmme?
Could say the same for 3/4 of the nominees, boring sods.
How you going to have a personality sitting on a bike going around in circles for hours with an oblong helmet and glasses on, no one hears of your personality the 4 years you train behind the scenes.
Theres no Alex Higgins or Vinny Jones anymore im affraid.
You are being a bit harsh on Chris Hoy, You can’t blame him for not getting publicity in the past, but in his interviews and speeches since Beijing he has shown both personality and intelligence. Much better for him to get the top award than Lewis Hamilton, whose success depended a lot on the car he was able to drive.
As a spectacle some of the cycle races are a mess, totally unintelligible to the uninitiated. The solo and team sprints are not like this, lasting about as long as 2m chase, and to me as fascinating to watch. Hoy’s dominance is not unlike that of Denman in the Gold Cup, none of the others could live with his power and stamina.
Yes it takes longer loading, but i must say that it is far better than it was. The way in which you can eliminate horses and to show all the spotlights at the same time, really is helpful.
If you can get that far.
I gave up trying to load the site mid-afternoon and went elsewhere. It is more difficult to get to where you want because the home page is full of stuff that should be elsewhere ,- more links less content needed.
Now, the RUK videos are the only thing that keep me trying the site
"Alert and keen" is not how i remember Brough Scott presenting C4
racing 20yrs ago, more like "mumbling and stuttering" if there was a worse
presenter of racing i havent seen them! and that Vacant expression of his!
your having a laugh!But it was usually worth putting up with his faults for what he actually said. His writing in the Telegraph on any sport is worth a look.
There are some accomplished contributors (presentation-wise) on Channel 4 but they are only good at stating the blindingly obvious.
Doing anything that was simple on the last site is now like trying to break into the world bank for me. I’m just getting a thingy me jig going round in circles everytime I try to get the cards. A thicky like me deserves the sporting life I suppose.
You are not alone!
I have earned money as a database developer and share your frustration.
The problem is they are trying to get money from you, either from their own "premium" content or links to other commercial sites. Add to this the delay from loading unnecessary content such as having statistics on the first page. Getting results is far more complicated than it used to be.
There are similar problems on the "mobile" site, they do not cnsider what users want.
he mostly always hesitates 2 or 3 out on horses, bad judge of pace, when he got beat on the odds on shot yesterday, he leaves it till last and trys to press, thinkin hes got a double handful when hes not, he needs to kick on sooner.
He has probably been copying Ruby Walsh who had a run of such experiences, finishing second on Nicholls trained fancied horses who finished second in mid-November.
In most circumstances the obvious explanation is the best – beaten by a better horse.
If the quotes in the Post today are accurate then Nicholls is talking nonsense. He said riding Master Minded would put Thomas in a NO WIN situation.
I can think of no bigger "win" for Sam than if he rode the horse on Saturday and won. At a stroke his "critics" would be silenced.
Nicholls and Smith clearly believe McCoy riding will increase the chance of the horse winning and have chosen accordingly – as is their perogative, but lets not dress it up as doing Sam Thomas a favour.
Does it necessary follow that in, Walsh’s absence, Sam Thomas should automaticlly pick-up the best rides in the yard, just by dint of being No.2 stable jockey? I’m not so sure that it does.
Clearly, Sam was employed primarily to ride those horses that Ruby chooses to discard, or to attend the minor meeting for his guvnor, whilst Ruby rides at the day’s main meeting.
It doesn’t necessarily follow that the stable see him as a ‘supersub’ for Walsh for whenever he is out injured or with suspension, as he has essentially only been employed to ride the ‘second-tier’ horses in the yard anyway (notwithstanding the fact that most of those are pretty handy too).
Perhaps if a McCoy, or a Thornton had been available to take the ride in the Gold Cup, we may have seen one of them get the leg-up on Denman, rather than Sam Thomas.
You may be right about Denman, though having won the Henessy in such a positive fashion Thomas had established his credentials.
With a yard like Nicholls’ the number 2 jockey doesn’t just ride 2nd tier horses on a Saturday – there will be plenty of rides on horses who will be aiming at big prizes in March.
All top sportsmen face a battle that frequently is a mental one and whether Sam Thomas could have coped with that if he rode Master Minded we will never know. Similarly the effect on the jockey in future rides of being stood down is uncertain but Nicholls stands to be as big a loser as his jockey.
I think Nicholls has said too much – his comments about the advice given by him and Ruby Walsh not being followed is laughable when you watch the defeats of Kauto Star and others last spring.
I’ve found the new site a lot faster with Firefox. Does anyone know if its possible to view the video content in Firefox with some sort of an IE plugin?
I have subscribed to view RUK videos on the RP site, but if I use Firefox they do not load. I had assumed this was some type of digital rights management issue, which I get on football sites as well.
Ian – what gives you the right to expect something for free?
It is their service, it they want to charge it’s up to them, and up to you whether to pay for it.
You can label people ‘fat cats’ all you want, but if businesses don’t make money, they go out of business, and then you wouldn’t have a website.
Yes but they have advertising, a very successful method of financing a website. I would have thought links to a bookmakers site should be very lucrative.
How many visitors to the site buy the RP newspaper as well? I do and expect to continue to do so. That will be the limit to the money I will be spending.
Gingertipster wrote:
"If a trainer runs a horse three times at 6f when he is bred to be better at 1m is not stopping horses. The horse when it runs at 6f is still trying to win. Therefore it is NOT STOPPING HORSES. It is up to the punter to read the form and breeding to identify horses who will improve when stepped up or down in trip. "
Absolutely!
I am sure I am not alone in having a list of trainers whose horses I avoid when having a bet. You may not be in control of what owners, trainers and jockeys are doing in planning for a race and then how it is run but you have total control of which horse you place a bet on.
Won’t Heathcliff improve a stone for going from Easterby to Richard Lee?
People moaning about there being AW racing in this Scoop 6 but that is surely preferential to this woeful selling hurdle at Huntingdon!
Leave Easterby alone – in any event he hasn’t even trained Heathcliff!!
A fabulous result in many ways :
that flat race ability doesn’t always guarantee success over hurdles
that Paul Nicholls ( who I respect greatly) should never count his chickens
but mostly for the family of the recently deceased racing fan who asked for no flowers at the funeral but bets on a horse. Golan Way was selected with winnings to the charity that had supported him in his later years. When Channel 4 related the story before the race I thought no way.
Shows how much I know!No major shock at all. Dalaram’s third at Taunton in April gave him a major chance today if reproduced. I had him joint second on my ratings although sadly I didnt back him.
Interesting that the money was down in that April race, 14-1 into 9/2CF and just beaten 1.5 l into third, Surprising after being beaten 65 lengths in the race before that in March, where did the confidence come from?
Someone mentioned it runs well after a break, Well not always, given nearly 3 months off after Taunton it raced in a similar class, going, distance and up just 1 lb. It opened 14-1, no money on and beaten 82 lengths.
You have set a high standard Carvills, especially with your first tip! As usual I missed it, reading the article a few hours after the race had been run and having regrettably followed the favourite.
Loved the otpimism of the headline but more importantly you have suggested a few ways of gainfully employing the piece of cutting edge technology I am sat in front of at the moment.
I can only spot one difference in the manouevre on Saturday, compared to Haradasun’s race at Royal Ascot.
On Saturday the jockey of Red Rock Canyon took a look to make sure there was no interference by moving away rom the rail whereas Honoured Guest’s jockey just moved out.
Clearly both were manouvres in the interests of a stablemate, what else was the benefit of moving away from the rail?
Though Saturday’s result was not affected by the manouevre it still contravened rule 153.
Would the jockeys of Haradasun and Duke of Marmalade raced along the rail if they had not known an opening would present itself?
Enforce the rule or scrap it.
