Irish Sports
the decline of a once great occasion ...
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Fair points GANT and you have inadvertently hit on the reason Never Give Up no longer attends.
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gant i'm only talking ten years back ...place buzzing , even allowing for the resession there was always plenty of bookies willing to take your cash ...i heard a story last night that would sicken you about how it came to be that only 2 bookies were standing ....a story for another day....its people like yourself i'd worry about ..people who live the game , no you see your lively hood been slowly eroded ...there are takers in this life and there are givers ..sadly more takers than givers ..what they dont realise is they are killing the game...
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We have cut back bigtime but thank christ it was only an expensive hobby......The way it's gone you would get more at an under 16 hurling match in Meath than Longford or Mullingar dogs........A match last night had the guts of 300/400 people at it.
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a friend who reared mine has also given up...he fed the best of everything ...yet we have the igb acting as if theres nothing wrong ..heads in the sand ....a really sad tale...
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The frontline IGB employees are still grafting and fear track closures........The industry is always beaten with the stick that it's government funded.....It's one of these situations that has to get worse before it's cured.
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But if guys can't make it pay they'll stop doing surely?
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one of the bigggest problems over the years has been the bookies betting to crazy overrounds.it has taken time but punters simply walked away.goose and golden egg spring to mind.take a look at the returned prices in igb.ie and its self explanatory.one i seen was 4/5 evs 5/4 and 2/1 the other 3.nice!!
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Myself and my dad owned and trained our own dogs out of our back garden in the 70's and 80's with some success. At that time there was an inside and outside in both Shelbourne and HX. As a kid we watched Derby Finals from the hill in SP. Watched Yellow Printer and Own Pride win Derby's from there.There would be about 10 bookies outside and 30 inside in those times . Good memories.
The game has obviously declined in recent years and because I don't go any longer i'm not in a position to say why. For some reason in my own mind I always associate the rise of Paul Hennessey as a conveyer belt trainer with the demise of the small man. May not be fair but thats my idea. I think the fact that Horse Racetracks charge approx the same entry now as the dogs where before there was a big difference has affected dog crowds. |
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Have been there for each round this year.
Packed to the rafters for first round but that was made up of loads of English and others that were over for the weekend and the Derby final. Last night was terrible and there was no traffic to the 2 bookies either. It was like a Monday night from 5 years ago. I spent half the night chatting to Aidan about the exploits of Tina Marina, Premier County and Climate Control. |
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Paul Hennessey was probably the one who first started the numbers game......A nice fella and has done well considering his wife showed him how to put a collar on a dog.
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what percentages were they betting to last night wonky?
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think there are only 46 greyhound bookmaker permits in ireland being used at the moment.amazing to think enniscorthy has almost 20% of doggie bookies in the country.no bookie in galway last night i believe.
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Never Give Up to answer your stupid question,try just following the thread,you are a perfect match for Rocketfingers ye both have low attention spans and find long threads difficult,retread the thread slowly and you are bound to get it.
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dont have to read it again wildbore/dark rosaleen my stalker....u said i no longer attend which is more lies from u................stop ruining threads with ur obsession of me weirdo
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never give up.....ya still attend.....but ya are hiding when ya do......must be hard to go to the dogs and .
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hav to avoid the bookies.......
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why does everybody say here that you do then.....dont know who u are.....but from what i read the bookies are chasing ya round Ulster....
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im only saying what they are saying never give up.......as i said i dont know who u are.......
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who are they??name them please
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He said it himself in one of his nocturnal rants,asked for help,thought Dark Rosaleen was the tote girl at the dogs,thought she was the girl in the restaurant ,thought she was chasing on some bookies behalf,he is obsessed with the now seemingly defunct Dark Rosaleen and tis that is the real shame.
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xm-UzSz5UmY
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I have done you some service,you used to post just smileys that graduated to regurgitation of other posts with twomor three word replies,now you are becoming a valued contributor with long three line posts.
To complete your rehabilitation I will post a quiz with a question about pony races,that should enable you to break your duck and make the twelve hours you spent previously trying seem somehow worthwhile. |
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What was Man About Towns other name?
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Brilliant you got the answer right in that you knew what I was on about,great to see you break your duck,well done.
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this thread stated out a s a comment on the puppy derby.the usual suspects have it taken over bikering at each other.how many times have we seen the same sh1t over and over again?betfair should really do something about it..same people same comments..
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kavvie,every time i go on a thread wildbore comes on and ruins it cos he feckin stalks me everywere.............this is the 2nd thread of workriders hes has done this on
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stop commenting on stuff so for a few weeks.he mite go away
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Kavvie tis you that's ruining Never Give Ups finest hour,he has got a racing question correct,he has desisted from using smileys and has a post of three lines,now that's what I call progress.
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The forums are dying in any case,golf and general betting are ghost towns these days,horse racing one is getting quieter all the time.Not saying anything against the two of ye but ye are hastening its demise here.
Surely time to call a truce between yourselves. |
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here here pa.one as bad as the other
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