Is the racing post on its way out?

Suspect its online version will increasingly be developed and it is more and more, just like any other news outlet really. Also, nobody I know under 30 buys a newspaper.

While I'm here - has anybody ever calculated what Pricewise's figures are against SP, even Betfair SP. Just curious.

€2.80 over here in Eire in a country that's on it's knees. I noticed a lot of RP's left over last week i thought maybe they over ordered for last week. Nope talking to the owner this a.m he said 5 regulars had stopped buying it he said one of them said it would be cheaper for him getting a taxi to Spoils and having a couple of cups of coffee and biscuits and read their RP.

Second that Anaglogs. I was amazed last week at how many RPs were still in the newsagents even late in the morning. I only get it Saturdays anyway and wouldn't be too troubled if I missed it either.

As I have posted on the Bruce Millington thread -

One of the/their major problems is that they are pricing the paper as if EVERY reader/customer is getting LONDON WAGES - like they are.

When, of course, that is far from being the scenario.

For Bruce to then proclaim ..... "£2-20 - I pay that for HALF a Lager" -

- serves only to rubs salt into the wound ... and display in spades what a cocooned world he lives in.

A statement of Gerald Ratner proportions.
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Ratner compounded this by going on to remark that some of their earrings were "cheaper than an M&S prawn sandwich" ..... (Note the similarity)
After the speech, the value of the Ratners' group plummeted by around £500 million, which very nearly resulted in the firm's collapse.
Ratner resigned in November 1992 and the group changed its name to Signet Group in September 1993.

Today, Ratner's speech is still famous in the corporate world as an example of the value of[b] branding and image over quality.]/b]
Such gaffes are now sometimes called "Doing a Ratner"[

I have cancelled it, sick of the price increases.

they must make a few quid from the betting shop edition. would imagine every shop must get at least one. i remember bookmakers looking at touch screen race cards for shops, doing away with paper cards. it looked to be the way forward with regards to cost, suppose they realised it was worth more to have a racing paper on their side, spouting all sorts of propaganda in their favour.

What he should of said is the following
The racing post is £56.00 month.

^^ Or £670.00 per year.

price is irrelevant. if you are a wagon, then £2 shouldn't matter. its the standard of 'journalism' that gives me the pip. lee d1ckhead as a feature writer? Lawdelpus.

'renewals' are always 'cracking', and 'connections' 'bullish'. horse are backed from 'sixes' to 'threes'(but not 7/2s). and why is a nags cost now described in 'GBP'? what was ambiguous about £? did millie imagine we would confuse it with an egyptian pound? and i prefer to read GBP as great british public. the GBP of course, have given a resounding raspberry to millie and his helots. good for them. just wish i didnt have to buy the wretched thing.

Apr 1997 90p or £1 punt.
April 2001 £1.25p UK - IRE £1.20 uk.
July 2005 £1.30p UK - IRE €2.10
Mar  2012 €2.80
It'll be €3 By Cheltenham 2013

wouldnt buy it if u paid me 56 quid a month!

jokers!

how many bookies get the RP stolen?

£31.90 a week now

Funny you should mention it OP as it occurred to me just last week that it was going the same way as the old Chronicle.  Stale.  Un-progressive.  Needing a shake up.
Still alright for free though, even though the clicking that needs done to overview/review what you want could be seriously reduced, particularly on the greyhound section.

You nearly got me again there rico

he got poncho

grappler talking bollox. glad hes hovis

Why would you buy the thing ffs

f4rty doesnt realise its a sports paper..

#WAc

i walked 3 miles today to acquire one. i aint jokng

I'll buy one at Airport tommorow to pass time on plane if they have one...otherwise never buy the paper version WALOFS

if its alofs, and it is, then why buy it? can you not think of anything better to read?

I gave up Rico when the Life passed away…….I was in mourning….

Dreadful loss…..

Of anywhere good swaddle?

Quick flight to Scotland

Nowhere flash at all, golf with the lads Algarve.

Tbh glad to get away on the basis I've been on the punt sticking my all in 84 straight days.

Should be good fun swaddle love the Portuguese,safe flight

Tar mate enjoy the racing week

only thing wrong wiv portugal is the orrible brits that ruin the gaff. fortunately most of em stick to the algarve

like any/many luxury item theyve reached the point where the majority of their customers will buy it at any price so no point in freezing or dropping price to entice buyers that arnt there

Brits…..Union Jack brigade lager and whatever else…….Scot’s and Irish are popular…..

I'll likely be on the drink from 4 tomorrow morning.

swad will be touring the portuguese glory hole bars looking for a few gash bashers to smoke.

I’ll be passing over you on Tuesday afternoon, Swad on my way home!

Mar 19, 2012 -- 11:49AM, jumper wrote:

Suspect its online version will increasingly be developed and it is more and more, just like any other news outlet really. Also, nobody I know under 30 buys a newspaper.While I'm here - has anybody ever calculated what Pricewise's figures are against SP, even Betfair SP. Just curious.

That comment above is now 11 years old. Should now read anyone under 40, and before this decade is over, 50............and counting.

Indispensable if you're actually at a racecourse, useless if you're not.

It’s a tricky dilemma,

We d be lost without it,someone has to collate all the info,it’s like the wisden of cricket.plus given the tracks broadband strangulation,you need a paper copy if going racing,if only for the colour s of jockeys.some will buy it for the dogs etc.
Most people employed or connected to the industry buy a copy,so there’s enough sales from that,to justify it.

They could increase advertising costs and make the bookies fund it at a loss,but even if it’s 2 quid,how many more would buy it,

Has it covers everything,it’s too big,but scared of not appealing to everyone,stud farms buy it for the breeding section etc,

Would it be viable to sell a condensed version,or is the printing costs not worth it,

Why don’t they offer a one day on line charge,24 hours,9pm till 9pm,

Why don’t they sub contract parts to other daily newspapers,like Betfair did with timeform.it’s crazy that national newspapers have a racing desk,when they could just print the posts info.jobs for the boys no don’t,no one wants to give up their seat on the gravy train.

The reason all this dosent happen is,everyone just ploughs on,keeping their head down,collecting their wages,plus the many vested interests making sure racing product is available.

They ve got to market the product,otherwise it’s an ever decreasing circle.

So it will stumble along,trying new ideas,podcasts,video etc,I’m sure they must review all this,so it is what it is,
I wouldn’t bet without members club,may as well play roulette instead.

The great mystery is the weekender results section,I d be amazed if more than 10 people in Britain collect this,what a total waste of paper and print,

Imagine studying form for a race,digging out relevant race from your old copies,would take forever.

There’s no dilemma it’s Pee…..

They made a big mistake by binning the life and keeping this rag…..

formoftheace - They made a big mistake by binning the life and keeping this rag…..
Who is "they"?

strontium - "Indispensable if you're actually at a racecourse, useless if you're not"

At the racecourse, I use A4 colour prints of the on line racecard pages. Nerd!. I regard the online website as indispensible for me, largely for the ease of access to form history and pedigree info.

Skenbo any good?

I'm lazy

I’m with blackbarn on this.

People have forgotten how bad The Sporting Life became in its final decade. Often in winter consisting of only 12 pages!

Mar 20, 2023 -- 9:21AM, saxon farm wrote:

I’m with blackbarn on this.People have forgotten how bad The Sporting Life became in its final decade. Often in winter consisting of only 12 pages!

Even had the wrong date on it one day!

@comingupthehill

"Would it be viable to sell a condensed version,or is the printing costs not worth it,"

What would you take out to make it cheaper?  Removing the ads would have the opposite effect.  I guess a version without the racecards, form etc would save whatever rights payments they make for those, but then I don't imagine anyone would buy it.  You could cut the amount of editorial/journalism but people are already complaining that there is little of that in the full RP.

Don't know why anyone is paying over £4.50 a day for the paper version ubless you like to handwrite notes when you can get the online version for less than a £1.00.  I

Some people do indeed like to write on their Racing Post. Also, the online version is bad on a phone, which is perhaps why they launched the Racing Post app.

correct. i highlight ones i like/dislike to give me tiny brain a nudge in-running

otherwise id be even more useless

stopped getting it around a year ago

too expensive and i can get the info i need on line now.

dont even buy it for cheltenham anymore

A taxi to Spoils read it in there with a cuppa is cheaper than buting a copy just illustrates how bad the situation is they are in fact the voice of the punter aren't or they maybe not.

you aint wrong. i will charter a jet just to find somewhere i can steal it

The life and the chronicle……condolences

Flogging a dead horse.