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10 Nov 09
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All Wimbledon trainers called in on Thursday no idea why. BAGS coming back place closing down or just a merry get together?
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nah management have got a beauty deal with a local paint shop thats closing down
trainers and kennel staff called in to help paint the stadium B-) |
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End of Tuesday nights ??
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perhaps they could ask norah what she was playing at in the 9-58 race tonight!!
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bring back the jacket potato stall......must have had 4 a night when i used to go.....chilli and cheese...curry...beans....
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itsaknockout!! 10 Nov 22:01
perhaps they could ask norah what she was playing at in the 9-58 race tonight!! whats that he 'good thing' 3/1f getting turned over by her 'rag' 4/1 outsider in an amazing 28.76?? Call the police |
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Not only trainers. It seems all the full time staff have been called to the same meeting.
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This doesn't sound good.
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If the place was shutting I reckon the wonderful GRA would have just shut the doors, so the fact that they are gathering staff together hopefully means there is something to discuss.
The rumours are that it is closing, it is stopping Tuesdays, or that a potential BAGS contract is available. I reckon the second option is most likely, although with the Oaks coming up in a couple of weeks, it means they couldn't introduce it until after Christmas. sj |
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I would have 2 as favourite aswell, followed by 3.
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no more tuesday nites and 2 trainers to go, was what i was told yday.
oh the irony if norah was to be removed and become one of 'you lot'..... |
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Post says it the news is "positive". Surely wouldn't call a meeting to announce two trainners going.
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Its getting worse and worse. And I dont like this Sky Tv deal being in-the-air. Powers that be need to do something pretty quickly.
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catford - cos the racing post have got their fingers on the pulse aint they???? i'd be surprised if those clowns have got the date right in the top corner of the page.
i hope its good news, because my last 2 dogs are racing there and, if it does go to 2 meetings a week, then my sizable kennel bill, will go to extortionate. |
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2 trainers 2 go :-( please not simmo
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Tuesdays scrapped.
Grandstand closed, everyone in the Mick the Miller. No trainers sacked. |
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Never the same gaff since the jacket potato woman was booted out
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I hate being right all the time :(
sj |
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wow the premier stadium, how many times will it race a week now 2 or 3?
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How can the track without bags racing operate on only 2 nights without sacking trainers. Owners are being asked to pay between £6-£8 a day for their dogs that will be lucky if they get 2 runs a month. Its a joke, think its time to move my dogs,especially as romford and crayford pay much better. Just wonder if many others will follow as it the owners that always get shafted. All the other tracks that have lost tuesdays have bags to fall back on. The track is keeping pocession of the grandstand and car park until such time as market prices go up, then we'll see a 24 hr tesco, as least it will probably guarantee dog racing at wimbledon through the mick the miller stand.
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tuesdays cancelled
redundancies of staff in new year moving to the other side of stadium worrying times. oh yes glad the md came back from his luxury pad to give the staff the news. sounds like catford all over again. |
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Thought the Mick the Miller Stand wasn't up to scratch on Health and Safety grounds??
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They're going to be spending money over the mick the miller, with a restaurant in place. Its not worrying for wimbledon as it secures greyhound racing, more over its worrying for greyhound racing in general.
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thats the cheap side only be £3 to get in
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will they move the winning line
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Yes fishman
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Well done The Post, clueless mugs, the end is nigh
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I wonder what difference it will make to the Derby, now that the third bend is the first bend and the infamous first bend is the third bend.
If the Derby stays there of course. |
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where else could it go fenway?only 1 track in country that seems to be doing well is monmore and thats because of all the party packers
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moving the dog derby is now a certainty
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that mick the miller stand is a **house
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ban coming lol
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seanjames is half right downstairs not bad upstairs a s..thole
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How can they asccomadate a derby crowd in the mick the miller ?
WALOFS, building a 200 seat restaurant in there as well , theres only one **g door out of the place .their moving the winning line ,what about the rennels/paddock wheres that going on the roof ? Ive never heard such a complete load of old** in my life .. Was anyone from the post there? to ask questions,like , who is making these decisions ,and basically WTF is going on ? is what needs to be asked .. |
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The Derby cannot possibly be run from traps on the far side ,this
is pure jacknnory I.M.O,why wasnt the track given a bags contract ? what are the GRA GB FOOOKING GB or any other of the dozey foookers that have destroyed this sport going to do about this . |
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fooooking hockey pitch to be built in the middle will be the next news.
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what they are moving the traps to the other side please can someone explain this i dont understand how will this work
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Major Wimbledon overhaul announced
By Paul Brown THE GRA yesterday announced sweeping changes at Wimbledon in an attempt to safeguard the long-term future of the track. From January 1 next year, the track will be dropping its Tuesday racenights, and is to mothball the main grandstand, switching operations to the Mick The Miller stand, which is to revamped and renamed 'The Grandstand' Full details in Friday's Racing Post Should be interesting to see whats said 2moro How many owners will now walk away from the track, dogs will be lucky to get 2 runs a month and the run/prize money is woeful there aswell, cant see anything good to come out of this :( |
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This is the end of dog racing in London,the GRA or Risk capital have made their intensions clear they have run the track down since they bought Wembley PLC. Wimbledon has gone downhill no investment and CUTS CUTS CUTS. HANG YOUR HEADS IN SHAME THE MANEGMENT OF WIMBLEDON.You dont deserve the regulars that go to your track as customers. You treat your owners like TRASH and its now paying you back. God help greyhound racing as I think a miracle is now needed.
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Time for owners to vote with their feet and move their dogs. Romford, Crayford or Hove anyone.
Seen this coming for a long time but begs two questions. 1. Given that Wimbledon stage the majority of the Sky meetings on a Tuesday, Does this mean that Sky have pulled the plug or will Tuesdays be on for Sky meetings 2. It is a well known fact that the number of Sky meetings with guarantted sponsors had dwindled markedly. Does this mean the death nell for Sky racing As for the Mick The Miller stand, that obviously cannot cope with a Derby crowd |