Tenny

This weekend I had 29/31 birds home from the 72 mile race and had one reported about 20 miles away. The bird was kept safe with food and water in an large hamster cage until I could collect. The lady was more than willing to wait a couple of days when I advised I would be in her area training the birds midweek. I took the birds training and Knew her address was pretty close. What I did not expect was for her house to be next door to the playing field where I train from. My birds have been liberated there about 10 times in the last 3 weeks and the bird dropped in less than 50meters away from the training spot from the race? What was she thinking? Was she going to sit and wait for me to give her a lift home or even wait for her loft mates to come and take her the rest of the way? She's home safe and well now but I hope when she back to fitness she wont try to return to her recent new home!

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Well done on your training result today!

All I can tell you is judging by the quote below taken from the Europa site where it states negotiation is under way, this tells me that the committee at the very least has been approached. Sorry Les I cant tell you anything more concrete . quote from Europa site North road racing into Wales has been very hard at the distance not helped I am sure by the shrinking number of birds on that route. That not withstanding it is probably time for us to have a change! And with this in mind negotiations are already under way with South road organizations with a view to be flying South in 2011

Les/Charlie Click on the link below for latest Europa News. http://www.europaclassic.co.uk/

As I said in my previous post I tell all my club and a few friends in others. The lib text service was only for people i dony know.

Thats exactly my point! Why keep things from the members . This thread asked earlier how much money goes back to the fed? Nobody seems to know. I ring about 12/15 fanciers every week when I know the birds are up. Nobody is happy with the libline sevice , costs,update frequency etc.. My offer is for the fanciers who gets fed up ringing every hour. Just leave it to me and I TEXT them. not a bad offer for 40pence a week(based on 25races) Regards TENNY

treherbert result Butler bros 1234 LEE + HUGHES 1232 JOHN EVANS 1231 COLLINS+WARREN 1229 STANT BROS+EVNS 1229

If anyone wants to send me £10 I will provide the following service. 1 Text withing 30 mins of liberation advising lib time and wind. 2 Text also if the birds are held over. All I require is a £10 cheque payable to T TIPPER and a letter advising me of your Federation name and mobile number. I will refund 25% payment to your relevant federation too. Its not difficult. If I get at least 20 people on board I will be prepared to do it. LEAVE RINGING LIBLINE TOO ME! SIT BACK AND WAIT FOR THE TEXT . HAPPY DAYZ! Tenny

MORRIS PUGH AND WHITCOMBE are clocking at 2.21.39 flying 74 and high yards. velocity approx 1235 I worked out roughly. 120 Home from 135 Tenny

27/31 and winning my club! Penywaun result will be on the WELSHNATIONAL SITE SHORTLY. What tim e you in rasbull? Im in 2.20 flying 71-920yds 1189 velocity I hear plenty of better times in other clubs mind you. Tenny

update 10:30

I put lol too! My bestest butty winding me up . Charming! Aint seen this much abuse since ny mukka maidment was on here. lol lol lol Good luck today . Ring you soon as I theyre up.

Below is the top ten for the SWOL race yesterday . Liberated with the local federation and on comparison would have been 2nd,3rd,4th,5th,6th,7th,8th,9th,10th,11th FED too! My mate Neil Francis bred the 1st and 7th on the result. Well done mate ! liberated Yeovil 73 miles 14:45:00 head wind # Ring Number Syndicate Date Time 1 WHU10R02638 Performance & Cooney 31-07-2010 16:33:47 2 GB10V46049 Mike Cooney 31-07-2010 16:33:47 3 IHU10S19743 Gerry McCourt 31-07-2010 16:33:47 4 GB10N427 Johnny Burns 31-07-2010 16:33:47 5 GB10N5910 Watkinson & Baldwin 31-07-2010 16:33:47 6 WHU10D11406 Bacos Bullets 31-07-2010 16:33:48 7 WHU10R02646 Performance & Cooney 31-07-2010 16:33:48 8 WHU10D00035 Dyserth Lofts UK N&S 31-07-2010 16:33:49 9 WHU10T06014 Harbour Rockets 31-07-2010 16:33:50 10 WHU10D04609 Rocket Ron 31-07-2010 16:33:50

Ha F****NG hA! Very funny franno! full of it this morning arent you. Kettle on pop up for a coffee ? you can watch mine 1st. Saying that mind you can watch yours come home from here cos they come to me 1st anyway for a feed . lol... 1 all?

I agree Tom. I have liberated the Europa classic for the last 6 years and every year without exception they have circled the site for a couple of minutes before clearing towards home in 1 or on 2 occassions 2 batches. Some people are never happy and always want to complain about something. Tenny

UPDATE 9:30

You got an old bird team Franno! I would like a repeat performance from last week. All home and win! Ring libline Neil , then let me know if they are up. ! Dug hawkins just text me to ask me to let him know when they are up.. Shall I tell him 8.02 if they r up at 8.00 , think he get me drift? ha ha

Thought u b in work? wot time u start?

Just want them all home mike to be honest. Any result will be a bonus. Might stop few cocks after today. Good luck hope your 2nd

No liberation yet. Looking likely for 8.00am

Fancy watching my birds come home tomoro mike. then i watch yours after lol

Following the smash from Thurso Derek issued a statement on the Europa site. Here attached is most of it. However for a number of years now, North road racing into Wales has been very hard at the distance not helped I am sure by the shrinking number of birds on that route. That not withstanding it is probably time for us to have a change! And with this in mind negotiations are already under way with South road organizations with a view to be flying South in 2011. This radical departure for the Europa Classic YB and Europa 500 OB will also coincide with new management for 2011 which will see Derek Nicholls relinquish control of the Business to a new management structure, and a new Loft Manager in charge of the daily running of the place while he spends more time away from home, in particular at the racing lofts he is involved with in Belgium and Yorkshire. The young bird race of 2011 onwards will be South Road but of the same distance, that being 240 miles approx but over the English Channel. The old bird race will be of about 350 miles from Tours or somewhere similar. The reason is we really do not want to run races where we have a load of visitors for the main race and you just don't see any birds on the day! it's great when it works like last years Thurso where they tumbled in from 500 miles but as we have seen this year you can take a real bashing from that distance! so we think 350 miles is long enough to test them without risking another smash race, this also helps people when they select birds to send to the race I am sure it will in the future become clear, that you want a classic middle distance racer not a sprinter not a distance bird but a specialist middle distance bird to win the Europa whether it be 240 miles for youngsters or 350 miles for old birds. Anyway, this is the vision that will be taken forward by the new management team, who will hope to carry with them all the existing Europa customers, and hopefully a lot of new ones as well, all inspired by the challenge of winning Classic Big Money races, while competing for national honours over the English Channel to home here at Cardiff the capital of Wales. WE WOULD NOW ASK ANYONE WITH CONSTRUCTIVE SUGGESTIONS FOR THIS NEW WAY FORWARD TO SEND THEIR VIEWS TO US BY E MAIL CLICK HERE BEST REGARDS THE EUROPA TEAM

Rob, have you seen the fed result for last week yet? Was there a bird in TREDEGAR doing 1300's?