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Monday Afternoon- Park Royal.
Monday Evening- Harringay. Tuesday- Day off. Wednesday Day off. Thursday- Clapton. Friday Afternoon- Park Royal Friday Evening-Harringay. Saturday Morning- Hackney. Saturday Evening- Clapton. All just a distant memory  |
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Better to have lived, tried and then failed than never really tried at all.
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If you loved the game it could never be a failure.
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Absolute idiots in charge of the sport, obviously little or no communication taking place, and the greyhound media have over sold this track, I presume that plans to build a track in London must be under way (you can bet on it), and we all know that Greyhound racing should return to the inner city (preferably Monmore Green with refurbishment and new surface?) The whole sport looks in decline. Heads should roll over this.
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Sparrow. U av the memories. Take some1 like dave Clarke. Whole life in front of him. Enthusiastic. Luvs the game. Wots he gona do. I flapped worked n all top kennels looked after all the top dogs. I got them memories. He aint gona av many to take with him. The young kennelhand who luv the game. There ain't many. Feel sorry for them.
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Most tracks suffering the indignity of running sprint races in large numbers just to satisfy the racing bookmaker owned media, and thus those with enthusiasm for the sport are in total dismay, The Derby should go to a track with a proven profitable understanding of their customers needs,(not many of them left if at all?) People are stopping their spending habits, 24 hour work life has and continues to upset large parts of the entertainments industry. Entrance prices need lowering, less racing not more must be the way forward (get rid of the pathetic sprint races)
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Indeed private but he's too young to have seen the good years and that makes it a lot harder. I was used to standing in crowds of thousands most meetings which many have never seen.
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Punters left watch 5 and 5-4-3 hounds racing on most afternoons, who the hell is gonna find interest? and who in hell can maintain that interest with saturation of racing?
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You were blessed sparrow for sure. He,said only piggybacking the final throws of the game.
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Private.......Yet people on this forum are continually slating that young girl on RPGTV rather than encouraging younger enthusiasts.
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U will notice I av never had a pop. I know the draper family well. Steeped in the history of the sport. Travel anywhere if they av the right dog. I only met her once a year or so ago at Irish derby maybe 2 years ago. Not afraid to voice an opinion even then. Nice girl. Some people av the confidence to go on TV n talk naturally. Others av to work at it. It may come in time. To lambast somebody so young trying to make there way in the world I feel is wrong.
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Until the racing public are encouraged to go racing on tracks they can afford with less meetings so they can follow the ever changing form and actually find an interest instead of confusion and information overload, then I fear the very worst!
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I think on-course bookmakers should be given the freedom to create new markets exclusive to only on-course bookmakers (trap challenge betting without the fav and other potential exclusive offers, and the exchanges stopped from offering the same? and trading in those individual track incentive markets, lets see the ring buzz once more, Betfair traders can continue, as normal, but bookmakers need freedom and knowledge of whatever they can come up with exclusive rights? (perhaps impossible? but ideas and effort worth it?)
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this is the death of greyhound racing in britain,,,
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Yer the dead of uncompetitive dog racing you're spot on
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its has been struggling lately ,, but this has put the last nail in the coffin
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very sad
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ffs
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basically saying what a load of sh1t
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don't worry jules says back a few winners and it will cheer us all up
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Marmite you mean .....
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Its gonna be good on rpgtv tonight
They are gonna have to mention it ..... And they are the d opey feckers that hyped the place up |
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yes wondersobright, you visit the afternoon meetings to witness bookmakers also depressed with the game having to stand there 6 days a week at Monmore, with hardly any trade at all, enslaved! Watching sprint races that not many are interested in at all. Total overkill.
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I cannot remember the last time I've watched RPGTV, they all do my head in now. A big problem I see with greyhound racing is that when things fail and then it tries to reinvent itself it just wheels out the same bloody people it did before when it was a disaster, it's a total closed shop.
I've come to terms for quite a while that greyhound racing is not going to pull itself out of this slide, it is on it's last legs barely. |
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metro john they are paid to stand there to return an SP, otherwise there wouldn't be any bookmakers there as there are no punters there
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yes PF...I wouldn't wanna be relying on working in greyhound racing to put food on my table
best advice you could give somebody is get out while you can or don't go into it in the 1st place such a fkin depressing thing to say but that is the reality unfortunately and as for punters, if you're like me & looking to take money out for the next 25-30 years then you need other things that you take money out other than greyhound racing, I figured that out a couple of years ago as prior to that I was all for specialising on 1 thing but not now |
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Obviously people fooled by false business model? People lying to each other? The wrong people in charge and in denial of the facts like rptv, elitists getting further and further away from reality!
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They want the land for housing?
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We'll tony bullen was only of two presenters who told the truth about the track
The design of it was a total disaster A three year old could have come up with a better track on a chuffing etchosketch |
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Capitalism broke methinks!
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metro 6.36pm and 6.37pm now you are back on planet earth
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Many more tracks likely to close, it reminds of Thatcher and pits closure lie.
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ravage tony is an exception I agree but most of them are on their to arse lick everything
nothing else not interested in rocking the boat for fear of having to leave the good ship the bisto express I would pay good money to see that lot doing a proper day's work for a proper day's pay |
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nothing more than land investment wondersobright, they expanded to much, short term lies how can anyone believe anything revealed to the public? how come more racing than ever at a time of decline? simple question innit
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people went on like towcester was the savior of greyhound racing because it had nice food and the staff were polite give me a great running surface a catering van and good dog people anytime
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Exactly the only good thing Towcester was good for was building sand castles
You could build some monster castles and the sea never got em |
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just heard it on rpgtv , they were charging 8 pounds for a burger,, now it doesnt matter if it is free entry,, that is terrible
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yeah agree doc 3 things good company, a good pint of ale/cider & a decent burger van
what more do you need its a dog track ffs really don't need the airs and graces and the glorified sh1te |
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just saying on there 8 pound for a burger
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