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now now john not his fault its three nil got all mines from av on sat

can we have a gap between you too those feckin badges are making me ill

why dont the clubs still have their normal short racing ie up to say 60 70 miles every week after that distance the feds combine on an agreed race progamme that would be the first hurdle and get them down the road but still keep the short races going every week if you want to go down the road the opportunity is there birds hurt or had the ybs would still be able to get experience of the transporter on these shrt races also later bred ybds cn get a race or two to make this work all the old greivences would have to be forgotten for the sake of the ybds this is just a thought something i have been thinking about for a while what do you think guys ?

well done john mate top flying think romanov will be satisfied with that you should be ok

how exactly do i deal with it ?????

what bad weather ? am only wondering as it was near perfect at otterburn

why did the northwest move to coldsream ?

am the same never have believed it either you live and learn

no hawks either food for thought

am reliably informed there are five in the quarry at ratho round two miles from me

wires and trees etc are easily dealt with bop we have no control over just been told there are five percys at the quarry at ratho tats five in the one quarry could someone explai to me how that can possibly be an endangered species one was circling my loft last night as i basketed the young birds

12 out of 15 very pleased for the first race

elcho terrace just had sputniks like a normal loft never had dampness or a floating floor and it was only single concrete blcks harled never had cocci

i did i when i stayed at longniddry it was great and a concrete floor the droppings were like cornflakes never damp harled the front it looked fantastic best loft ive had

just saw my young birds back from first proper toss never ee the birds coming home what a buz forget how good it feels

theres nothing to stop you doing it nothing to do with the powers that be whoever they are

i give up wth some of you guys the conditions are what they are you make a call on what you know between the race controller who makes various line of flight phone calls weather forecasts and even me phoning people i know on the line of flight to try and get a wider spread you make the very best job you can do as i have said before get in the motor and try it for yourself

i have said on here many times go and do it and see how taxing it is what would you rather have someone taking pictures or checking the baskets to get birds out that have never been basket trained or hens that have laid in the baskets out to get up the road with the rest i have no problem someone doing it people have came and watched and took pictures of the lib

tell you what guys each fed member can take a turn each week filming if you like the convoyers have enough to do believe me cant see a big stampede for that i take great pride in what i do and lose most of my summer weekends doing and it certainly isnt for the money

in the mid nineties i wrote to the then committee of the to create a post to forward the snfc get into schools and colleges to push the sport the young people then still remembered the pigeon man that used to be down the road i even asked for the clubs to be contacted to find out why they would not join the national i didnt even get as much as a nod they had even read the letter i even designed a proper air con system for the then est of scotland transporter and was wiling to install myself foc but as told we dont need any of that sort if nonsense trying to instigate change with people who are entrenched cause weve always done it like that is impossible

all the best to you bobby heard by the way that you and john bird deserved a medal for the marking for eastbourne at musselburgh well done mate

something went wrong somewhere jim hannah is a good race controller you lanarkshire guys know that no chances are taken by him the convoyer also is first class so it must be the quality of info jim has access to if guys are known to members anywhere on the channel coast use them supply the info to the management committee we cant afford any more of these again we have good race controllers in most feds we dont all fly the same racepoints so we must have a good spread of people right down to the coast se them we have all winter to sort it out

i think you are bang on the transportation must be the best availiable i think the first inland national should be done away with the losses werent as bad when the first race was across the channel we must pick racepoints on the line of flight and stick with them use the best information possible and i am not having a go here at the race controllers i know how hard it is messac was a disaster the last time and its the same again we should put individual squabbles aside for the good of the snfc which is there to give us channel racing not glorified fed racing

seems like a very strange race unless guys are not reporting them well done to all those that timed on what seems to have turned into a real hard one

fantastic turnout all the best to you all