Death throes of the ante-post and Cheltenham forums

Hey mate, we all moved to bet daq as this place has fine down the toilet. Please join us over there, fair nicer atmosphere and far more civil. You're excellent opinions would be very welcome. So make the switch :)

The future is Purple steeple

Glad to hear it - Betfair deserve what they get after the very unfair banning of AR.

We welcome your arrival

I cant be arsed on here any more mate. Some of the threads are a joke.
You go to look into a thread you posted on teh night before and theres been 30 new comments and most are nonsence.

Pity as you said was really good last season.

im emmigrating to bet duck soon.

I'll have to try to remember my **** login details  - been about 3 years since I went on there

Yes they banned AR and everyone went with him. Don't really want to open another exchange account, though. I find better value with bookies guaranteed prices. Is it true you have to bet regularly on the purple site to post on the forum. I hardly bet on here and if the banks gave better interest I'd pull my money and bugger off.
   Only really keep it for trading on National.

the final reason for most who went purple...was the site had just become a freeze zone...esp on a saturday...and many were having trouble posting....which for "saturday tips/banter threads...it was aa nightmare.
have to say after getting used to it..purple is the place to be...even though you have to put up the likes of AR & TT..

but hey cant all be perfect

When I first came on here it was much better than other forums, really basic and no frills. Did what it said on the tin. Now it's just like all the others with all this needless crap.

Hello Soul,hope you are well[;)]  a bet now and then will suffice imo.

Haven't had a bet there for about 11 months. Post okay.

trev hit the nail on the head there tbf.

We didn't follow AR over there, he's just something we have to put up with

the golden age of the ante-post forum is well and truly over...

mind you compared to all the stupidity on the main horse racing forum and the football one it's like a sea of tranquility. you get the odd tosser like kevbettingsuperstar who likes to have a snipe but basically most on here are ok

fft

^ you and your bro fixed your phone lines yet?

no problem not betting and posting on purple fwiw

Cheers guys think I'll give it a go then, might take me a week, I'm a bit slow.

Soul,it took me 5 mins,not joking either.

I'm a lazy sod though, and having trouble with my computer or internet connection, something up with it. Probably get it together soon, there's not much happening on here.

ok,laters Soul[;)]

Don't go there. It's not as friendly as they say, and much more of a clique than it was one here

I got suckered into feeling part of it then they kicked me in the gonads

We love chew

leonidas has broken me

Not possible

in?

I am finnish. A pathetic shadow of what I once was

We need to get BF to put it back as an option on the first forum page. Having to click twice to get to it puts people off. Strange but true ...

Man up fft[:p] Plat is a p  u  s  s  y

The forum is now so unwieldy that it de-motivates people from posting.

Sad times, probably all the horse forums will be merged into one given the lack of interest circa 2012.
You would have to say that, Between them, the BHA, horsemans group, The Off Course Bookmakers and The Racing Post et al , have not served the industry very well

I have just been reading MPR's thread on Denman and the Hennessy, which has helped restore faith there is still plenty of good debate on here and some very well informed contributors. Nevertheless, seems to have been a marked decline in the numbers posting on the ante-post forums. When I look at the screen as I am writing, the format of the new forum is distinctly off-putting. Visually cluttered, over-complicated with options that seem of very limited importance, garish adverts on the right of screen, and numerous other contrivances that obstruct the process of communicating directly on a topic and lessens the will to live, let alone the will to write.

There was a kind of immediacy about communicating on the old forum that in some way seems to have been lost with the switch to this new format. That is surely not the only reason the forum has become quieter (in most sports, as I understand it), but it must be a big factor I would have thought.

aka...just click on to the classic forum - very top left hand of page...like you I hate the new one...whichever one you post on its on both forums....

An hour ago Mouse Morris performed what appeared to be a dirty U-turn regarding China Rocks participation in the Hennessey. He had traded at 1000 after MM said he wouldn't be running. A year ago the forum would've gone into meltdown, with cries of punters being 'put away' and 'who laid the 1000'. As of now though............. not even a thread.

that's because MM snaffled all the big prices

Don't know why we don't put the tipping threads on the Purple from next Flat too Plat- one stop shop then IMO.

aka, I'd be pretty confident your views and analysis would be very well received on the purple forum

^ They certainly would.

Good idea carvills.

cannot be bothered setting up on the other site, am sure this will start to bubble up soon, the new forum isn't as user friendly so i am just going to post on the classic.

Steeple, have you joined the dark side too?!

cant get on the purple at work

Steeple, have you joined the dark side too?!

Yep.  The new forum layout here doesn't bother me, just the lack of general activity.

Most of those saying they have gone to betqaq are still posting on here?

I have been on here for about 5 years (including in a previous life) and its always been sh!t

Steady on.