***Northern Punts***

hoof hearted are you about?

I calculate you are one short and am advertising in the naps league for new blood.

Hopefully the remainder of your team is ready?

War Admiral will be joining you, hopefully you'll have a full team now but it should be clearer by next Saturday, good luck!

Welcome aboard War Admiral, and thanks for the recruiting Undecided.

War Admiral - hopefully the rules of the competition are clear but feel free to ask any questions.

Nice to have what appears to be a full team compliment, and hopefully we can return to winning ways this year.
Irrespective of the results hopefully we can have an enjoyable year, in what is an excellent well run competition.

Thanks for signing in Mr Ferret and Andrew, if the remainder of the team see this please confirm hat you will be playing this year

Regards
HH

Good evening all

One or two relatively new faces,but hopefully we have now got a settled team and can look forward to a good season ahead.

Please feel free to add thoughts and suggestions as to any tactics etc, but generally in the past there have been no "team instructions" and it has been left to everyone to make a judgement as to how to best use their selection. We generally have a mixture of short priced selections, each way value bets, some choosing to play early in the week others leaving it until Saturday.

A few general points which I am sure everyone will agree with:

The main thing is to ensure that we don't lose any picks, inevitably there will be weeks when someone  cannot post be it for lack of computer access, family commitments or simply just forgetting to post. Therefore if anyone intends posting late on Saturday can they state their intention in the week in question on this team thread, otherwise anyone who is around on the Saturday afternoon should play a wild card on their behalf if there is a "no show" at say 3.00 to avoid us losing a pick.

Regarding holiday absence etc - although this should not be a problem this time of year, any absences should be notified in advance and I suggest we draw up a rota for the wild cards -picks can then be played anytime in the week rather than leaving it to last thing on Saturday.

Feel free to put up alternative thoughts.


Finally and most importantly, hopefully you will find this an excellent competition, enjoy it, and best of luck.

Regards
HH

Thanks for the update The Grey One

Yes, please tell him to continue, and hopefully you will be able to post on his behalf please (on the selections thread)

Many thanks
HH

Hi HH and Team

I managed to get on today and have selected on the nose - Tornado Force 3.55 Ling

GL all

Good afternoon KBGJ best of luck with your selections and glad you have got access.

Mr Ferret - I'm not sure who else is around this afternoon. I will be around most of the afternoon.

It is slightly easier today having the evening meeting at Wolves, so I suggest leave it as late as possible to give War Admiral time to show, but we have a 4.00 deadline so suggest we give him to 3.30. After that time if anyone fancies anything place a wild card.

I will play if no one else fancies anything to ensure that we do not lose a pick.

Best of luck
Regards
HH

Well done Duke with Everard, and good luck with your wild card.

I'm sure all the Team will agree that unless someone actually posts to say that they are around and will be playing their selection late, we have got to play the wild card if there is no show by mid afternoon.

i have picked the minack ew so we now have 2 picks in the race with penny max ew, i was going to pick balder success but gone.we now have war admiral to pick who seems to have sunk without trace so it looks like we need a wildcard, and as i picked the wildcard last week its now up to one of you to chance your luck

will have a bash duke,and thanks ud war admiral has not made himself known to the team so i think we will need another player.

Thanks for posting Mr ferret - best of luck

Yes well done everyone it was tight for the minor places, but a 4th is a nice steady start to the year which we can now build on.

Best of luck this week

Dogday, I hope we don't need to be from 'up North', I was born in Cornwall.

Thanks mr d ferret and hh; 13/8 not a fantastic price, but what do points make ? ;-)

Welcome aboard dogdayafternoon, I'm sure you will enjoy the competition, hopefully the rules are pretty clear on Undecided's threads, however just post if you have any questions.

No problem with the geography!, the name came about when the competition was revamped probably 4 years ago - new teams were formed often to coincide with preferences e.g. all weather punters, each way etc, we put up a team for us Northern guys but those days are long gone, and myself apart all the original team has left the comp. I'm Sheffield based so I continue to carry the team flag!

Best of luck everyone this week

gone for emma's gift ew at lingfield i was going to pick oasis dancer but KBGJ has that so good luck.

try to get us rolling with double handful 4.00 at newbury hopefully go of at about 3/1

Good luck DDA.

i see that hoof is at donny on satday so if any no posts i will be around but as i have posted a wildcard recently,then maybe its up to someone else to post,but if anyone else cant be bothered i have one att lingfield 3.55

This is from KBGJ who plays for you lads, he couldn't get on so I posted for him

News Desk 5.05 Ling WIN

Well done with the winner (our only one yesterday ) mr d ferret.