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Good morning to you all and hope we are back to normal after the festivities and wish you a great 2009 (if my maths is correct, only 1 year to 2010!)
I will be on my travels next week, including a boat trip, so might be off the air at times, a cunning plan from Mrs S?
I look forward to continue in providing an interesting and informative service to everyone via the home page and forum and thank you for your continuing support, both from the sponsors and posters.
As you can imagine its not easy trying to supply a 24/7/365/6 "open" forum and must say I have been in the fortunate position that in general 80% of our posts have been constructive and informative. I would still like to have direct inputs from the racing authorities, to provide a speedy replies to many frustrations, that could be addressed via the forum.
Just to remind you, the Forum was created using Betfair as a benchmark and I am sure we are all aware of the success of this very well run professional company.
I have attached a few remarks from the Racing Post's Bruce Millington , including a few reactions from the Betfair Forum.
Consider Betfair's Forum is monitored 24/7 by a team of very capable employees, it gives me hope that ABC is heading in the right direction, with far more quality posts than most open Forums, and I trust the quality of the site will outweigh the very occasional complaints, keep it up guys, you are the best! (sorry about the spelling, it was taken directly from the Betfair Forum).
"My sporting wishes for the year ahead" from Bruce Millington R.P.
"Betfair does something about its increasigly pathetic forum where one by one the shrewd, witty insightful contributors have driftered away to be replaced by people who are not safe to be let losse with a crayon let alone a Keyboard.
How a respectable company like Betfair, which prdies itself on the transparency of its product, allows itself to play host to such feeble, nasty, predictable, pocket talking, barely regulated, anonymous viewpoints is utterly beyound me"
Apart from him calling betfair a respectable company,i think he has a point.
Must get there goat when people like ppking under a host of names(ppking,Jerry lundegaard.,bignose dave,mnsr alan charnier,the romford slim,chalkman to name but six) are critical of journalist and spotlight writers on a regular fashion.
People like ppking don't post articles on here,because its easier to criticise journalsts than to actually make the effort of a reasoned point.
Lets face it betfair allow any user as many annonymous forum names as you like now,its pathetic you can argue your point with six or more others who are all infact the same betfair user.
The deluded like chalkman should stop crying about their lack of journalistic fullfilment and post something other than endless critics of those working in the racing world.
Perhaps some of his critcism is warranted.... but he needs to ask himself why has it got to this point.
IMO...
The informed respected people trying to change things stop posting on the Betfair forum because they get no support from ANYONE....
Idiots and muggs ridicule them, or make the thread decend into gutter talk, so it gets removed. Betfair dont remove individual offending posts, the remove entire threads (why? ask them)
The Racing post does not cover the real issues that are discussed on here, it does not suit thier incestuos relationshsip with bookies. tipsters and insiders.
The BHA (and predcessors) have largely proved incompitant and inmpotent, though I think things are rapidly improving there
so in effect, the establishment, have rounded on all the useful contributors and either shouted them down or ignored them.... so they then stop posting.
and Bruce and his mates get a free ride on the gravy train without regulation, montiors or cricits.
Thathe then aks for thier return, is iether total hypocracy.. or just wind trying to make himself look good when deep down he is happy they are largely gone... and leaving him and his staff, and insdier mates alone.Yep i agree with Bruce too. the worst thing is when a decent and interesting thread is hi jacked by the bickering children on here and just comes to a halt as a result. same old names all the time although some seem to have been banned or stopped posting recently.
At least the AP and Chelt forum are largely decent and posts are pertinent(until a few days before chelts when the idiots appear)The last thing the Post or the bookies want is a forum were people can compare notes, discuss things reasonably and gain a consensus opinion, which is often (more than any tipster) the most informed. If this forum really worked properly what would we need the Post for apart from the stats which can be got else where. The forum is far from perfect but it is about the only way you can compare your ideas with people that regularly seem to know what the they are talking about, there are a few despite what this arrogant divisive balloon thinks. How can he take any sort of moral high ground while his paper continues to promote the tipping lines it feeds so greedily from and consistently refuses to take any sort of stand against obvious abuses of punters.I think this forum is 80% sh1te ( that is the nature of open forums).........however it is worth it for the occasional gems you uncover. By slagging it off Millington displays arrogance and ignorance of his potential customers. I purchased the RP everyday for 5 years.........now once a week.....Bruce Baby it may mostly be sh1te on this forum but at least I'm no longer payng £1.60 a day for it........Get a grip man before its too late.
So the bottom line is that if Betfair is a benchmark, we are holding our own, especially as far as grammar goes? I again thank you for the quality and content of the contributions in 2008 and look forward to your continued support in 2009.
Have a good year and may your God be with you.
Good punting!
Dave Scott
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