***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?

Undecided, i'm happy to be a hinderance to the team ;-)

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

myself and chyp are up for it.welcome War Admiral.

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

seen the thread i'm back in

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

KBGJ will be available if you want him, he has probs getting on PC but he phones me to place selections

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

Well done Mr Ferret, some each way points to get us up and running

Hi HH and Team

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

GL all

Just had a look at the team selections and notice War Admiral has not yet made a selection.we may need a wildcard,if someone can keep an eye on this,off out now.
good luck team.

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

i am going to post 3.45M ingleby spirit 5pts ew it ran really well there last time winning by 16 lengths i dont think war admiral will pick now

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.

Well done on your points Andrew in Sweden to add to Duke's and Mr Ferrets earlier scores.

Puts us nicely placed going into the second phase of the first round.

Best of luck this week.

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

If War Admiral doesn't turn up today I'll invite dogdayafternoon who was next on the waiting list to join you.

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 Duke and undecided

Anyone else around this afternoon to be on standby for the wild card?

I suggest give War Admiral until 2.00 then feel free to post a wild card if he does not post - this will allow a few more races to select from (with the 1 hour rule)

Best of luck everyone - I will look in again around 230 and ensure that we do not waste a selection.

Thanks for posting Mr ferret - best of luck

Well done Andrew on keeping your winning record only another 28 to go,also wd Chyp and HH.

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

Hi Hoof,Ive just seen the message from Undecided,if you still need another player i'll step in for war admiral if you like.I dont know how northern I need to be,I was even born south of the river.Let me know.

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 DDA,will be good to have a full team.
Prizes Andrew,keep up the good work.

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

All the best dogdayafternoon, hope you enjoy the competition

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

Best of luck everyone

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

Best of luck with this dogdayafternoon.

I will be posting Saturday morning, but will then be going racing at Doncaster so in the event of mine being a late non runner, anyone who is around please pick an alternative selection on my behalf as I won't have access to the internet.


Best of luck everyone

Good luck DDA.

gone for 4.10 kelso according to pete 10 win
its a decent horse with some grade 1 wins this is grade 2

the national winner ballabriggs is running its 1st race since the national,so i think how fit is  he and how hard will the yard try for the win ?

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

Best of luck today team.

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

thx for that

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

well done on your winner yesterday mr Ferret - i was shouting at home for you at the track

thanks HH & Andrew,did you have a good day HH? was a lucky track for me when i went there 6 or 7 times in the 90's,even went there for the first ever sunday meeting,no betting,very strange.

Thanks Mr Feret - Doncaster's my local course so I go whenever I can although York is my favourite track.

My next track appearance is next Tuesday - pity its at Southwell and not Cheltenham.

Best of luck tomorrow

I am at the football tomorrow afternoon so if anyone is around please keep an eye on the shop to ensure that we have used all our picks in the unlikely event anyone forgets or has logging in problems.

regards
HH

Be at Cheltenham Tuesday,the antisipation is almost unbearable.
good luck all today,Umorist in the 4.15 @chepstow for me.I think it will slog it out on heavy.

Good luck for today and Cheltenham dog.

Have put up Sir Des Champs for us in the Jewson on Thursday,been sweet on this for a while.happy punting team.

I fancy peddlers cross to win but I wont take you on Mr D.So Im going for Somersby in the Ryanair.

Well done mr d ferret

well done Mr F

thank you for congrats,have had a bit of a cracker at Cheltenham today,so any winnings tomorrow will be a bonus.

off to chelts tmoz so wiil post on satday

Hi team just to let you know a friend of Chyp and myself was rushed into hospital today in a vey bad way,so if i cannot post our selections by 2pm Saturday can someone post a couple of wildcards please.Thanks

Sorry to hear that mdf, hope your friend makes a full recovery.

Thanks Andrew,have made a selection,so no problem.

Sorry to hear the news Mr F puts things into perspective, hope things are ok.

Best of luck everyone this week

good luck all,no quevega today,so kentford grey lady should win.
hope your mate is ok mr.d

going for kickingthelilly in the 2.25 lingfield probably out of its depth in this but you never know

hopes your friend is ok mdf and chyp

Thanks guys,lets bang home a few winners today.

Have Replaced nr hope thats ok.

Well done Andrew and therobster

Ditto the above and yourself HH,nice going.sorry about mine went out like a light.

Well done this week,  a nice solid start with only a late wild card knocking us off top spot at the half way stage.
Sets us up nicely for week two - best of luck.

Well done guys, a couple of nice price winners yesterday.

I have put up my selection for tomorrow, in the unlikely event that it is a non runner if anyone is around please replace it as I will not be on the forum tomorrow.

Best of luck everyone

Interesting pick today Andrew,happens to be my selection in the naps comp,so fingers crossed for both of us.

hope I can get on the scoreboard today and help us win.going for shamdarley in the spring mile.good luck all.

mr d ferret, it had the race won 3f out

Just marked the class register - everyone has reported in, and we have our full 8 picks used

Best of luck today

That's more like the old Chyp,very nice.

well done Chypmunk sets us up nicely for next week

Well done on your place points dogday,sure the winners are just around the corner.

Well done on your points mr ferret and dogdayafternoon, we are hitting the bar, hopefully a winner or two will be forthcoming tomorrow

Best of luck

Well done duke,hope you won a few quid.Unlucky for more KBGJ.

Well done yesterdays point scorers, 80+ points is generally a nice platform for the second week but there have been some excellent scores in other teams.
Best of luck this coming week

KBGJ,you need another selection,duke has already picked that one.

As above, which I never noticed until now,
Sorry KBGJ, I've had to take your winner off as your team mate had already selected Sanctuaire.
You can select again.

Well done again duke.

gone for dunaden at HQ its won its last  2 massive prize money events at sha tin and melbourne.i was going ew as the price is massive at 6-1 but masked marvel may not run if the ground gets softer therefore reducing the field to 7 from 8 and therefore place terms 1-3 to 1-2

Best of luck tomorrow, I will be at Hillsborough tomorrow afternoon, so wont be following progress in this competition, however if anyone is around tomorrow afternoon please keep an eye on the shop and ensure that we have all posted prior to the deadline, playing a late wild card if neccessary.

regards
HH

ok i should be around but cant guarantee anything so if anyone else notices we are short then feel free to post but es que love at newmarket is an ew chance that i think might do well

Hi chaps your player KGBJ goes for Fury in the 2.00 Newm, I had to put it for him as he it out working,

Some nice points Chypmunk, well done, and good to see that we have all made selections.

Best of luck to those yet to run.

KBGJ

Your team mate already has Grumeti, please pick again.

Thanks ud will keep an eye on things.

Good afternoon - I am about to go out until late afternoon hopefully KBGJ will spot this otherwise if you are around Mr Ferret ( or anyone else) please post a selection to avoid losing a selection shortly before the cut off time for making selections.

On a slightly related note we will shortly be entering the holiday season and no doubt more opportunities for playing wild cards.Has anyone any strong thoughts on this - I suggest a rota so everyone knows when they can make the extra selection to cover for a known absence, and the pick wont have to be a last minute Saturday one.

Regards
HH

duke do know yours was withdrawn.

I'll take duke's wildcard attempt Thackeray as a replacement.

A good team effort this week with a lot of us picking up points, would have set us up nicely for week 2 had two of the teams not had a really good weeks.

A bit of advance notice I will be away for a week from next Saturady - I will post this week (but in the unlikely event that I have not posted by this Saturday e.g. computer problems, place a wild card for me as I will not be posting on the final day).

I definately will not be posting w/c 10 June therefore please play a wild card on my behalf.
Regards
HH

Not a problem captain,last week before summer break.

KBGJ you need to pick again.in the event he fails to see this one of us will need a wildcard,i picked last time so if anyone fancies having a turn.Will be around till about 4.30 to keep a lookout.

yes this happened a few times now
i will pick 7.45 newc bilidn
i doubt if he will check as he hasnt before

ive posted for KBGJ

Nice going with the two winners duke,shame about the rest of us.Have a good summer team.