COST OF RACING POST NOW..

5/6 years*

he ain't Irish

IF YOU CANT AFFORD £3 A DAY FOR THE MOST COMPREHENSIVE RACING PAPER IN THE WORLD,,,

FOR ALL SPORTS  ,, YOU SHOULDN'T BE GAMBLING ... FACT !!!

PAY THE MONEY AND MOVE ON FFS

IF you can make 10% ROI you need to bet £10,000 pa to recover the cost of the paper. What’s more you have spend your cash propping up a paper that has the interests of bookmakers, not punters, as its raison d’etre. No thanks.

TOMMY ,,, POINT TAKEN !!!

BUT £3 IN A DAYS PUNTING,,, WITH THE BEST INFO IN THE FREE WORLD .,,

SURELY IS INSIGNIFICANT ????

If you cant afford it ,,, you should not be gambling .. FACT !!!!!!!!!

Have finally succumbed after buying it religiously since the first issue.....would get a mate to buy it when i went on holiday and even phoned the Post itself for a copy when i couldn't find an edition with the pre season football in....have never went more than one day without a copy until not buying one yesterday and today...

Will buy it the odd time i go racing but that's it for me...... can't justify paying over a grand a year for a paper that is all for bookmakers and not punters

daily mail 65p racing post £2.90..someone not controlling their overheads

I seem to be the only one who ever defends this organ!!   Firstly I too think £2.90 for the daily rag is ridiculous and its pro-bookmaker, anti-punter positioning is very annoying.  BUT I happily pay £30 a month for on-line membership that gives me all the form stuff I need, all the pedigree/breeding stuff I need, plus unlimited race-replays and now a down-loadable and printable version of the newspaper itself.   Each to his own I guess.

Will the Dundalk form be there sparrow?

I never bother with Dundalk jmdc. I was just making the point on Friday.

I seem to be the only one who ever defends this organ!!   Firstly I too think £2.90 for the daily rag is ridiculous and its pro-bookmaker, anti-punter positioning is very annoying.  BUT I happily pay £30 a month for on-line membership that gives me all the form stuff I need, all the pedigree/breeding stuff I need, plus unlimited race-replays and now a down-loadable and printable version of the newspaper itself.   Each to his own I guess.

Well said. IMHO the paper is a waste of space(Glorified bookies advertisement) but the online form database is now as good as it gets and worth the money imho

Members only today, Tip like a pro, Paul Kealy lifts the lid on how he picks big price winners, fooking comic

Deptford - The "pro" is not short for professional, it is short for the pro that means - "put (oneself or one's talents) to an unworthy use for personal or financial gain".

Just back in from telling the local newsagent I'm going digital for the Racing Post from tomorrow.

Newsagent not surprised in the slightest, especially when I showed her the cost of the digital alternative on her office laptop.

We used to joke that you could set your watch by the Racing Post going up a few pence on the pre-Cheltenham Monday each year but she was genuinely gobsmacked when she saw the 50p weekday hike this time.

Like me, she's in her 40's and fully understands how much of a generational thing it is when it comes to demand for newspapers because she's struggling like never before to attract teenagers for house-deliveries because they can't be bothered to get up early each morning to deliver a type of product they regard as long past its sell-by concept in the first place !!

So I've taken out the £299 annual option online and, effectively, that gives me the chance to skim through each day's issue before deciding on the very few days I'd still like a paper copy either when I going racing or want to have as a souvenir to go with the many highlights I've archived over the years.

But given this latest huge price rise, I've got to decide "nothing worth archiving" on only 104 issues over the next 12 months and I'll be into profit compared to paying £2.90 a day.

That target of 104 should be a doddle with weekdays in Nov/Dec/Jan/Feb easily covering over half that figure.

"The money" yes, of course, that was important.

But kids these days can earn that same sort of money doing things they either believe in, like serving their friends amongst others in Saturday shop jobs, or understand will get them a chance to see how the real world works like working behind the scenes in a supermarket, a fast-food outlet or a warehouse.

Being forced to get out of bed earlier than their pals just to go out in all weathers to bung the dead-tree press through a few letterboxes is way down the 2018-teenager's list of wage-earning options.

Both the nearest home-delivering newsagents to my mother's house gave up even trying to attract teenage deliverers several years ago, much preferring to sign up adults wanting to top-up the money they were already earning later in the day doing house-to-house junk mail leaflets.

Watch X Hamster on it ^, that seems like you are there!!

why wuld I watch a hamster

you may find the odd hamster on there, there's all sorts!!

Any monkeys?