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Hopefully they will turn up in the morning. I think you need to ask some older members of your club for advice on when it is suitable to train. I take it you liberated them quite late in the day and there has been no sun here today and if there is fog nearby it is really not conditions for training young birds. I know you are young and keen but doo racing is a hard game nowadays and you get a lot of knocks along the way. Good luck

Would be interesting to know if this is a Newbury pigeon

Yes I`m the same but it is ok on wifes laptop. I just get home page on mine but options at top are not there.

Is anyone else having problems accessing snfc website? Someone said you need google chrome but I was told that can affect the security on your pc. Any experts out there?

While I have sympathy with your difficulty running a marking station your answer to criticism (often constructive) is always "well if your no happy get on the committee". You must admit the SNFC website is badly in need of improvement. We are in the 21st century with modern means of communication and what is on offer is not good enough. If it needs money to sort it then so be it. I am quite happy for the subs to increase to cover the cost. If it means paying someone to update the arrivals on race day then again add the cost to the birdage. If the members wont agree to cover the cost then they will have to make do with what they have at present. One thing required to make the "live" update during races work is that it must be COMPULSORY FOR EVERY MEMBER to phone in their first arrival.

How about this idea from an outsider. You have two transporters. Why not have one go the west route and the other down the east for the young bird season. Members to decide before the first race which route they want to go FOR THE WHOLE YB SEASON. That way you will find out which is best.

How many feds have Newbury in their race programme

It is on information sheet that SNFC will supply measurements as the site has been moved

I don't agree with just 15 minutes between liberations. As they are going the same route why did Pentland, Midlothian and Dundee not go together(yes I know!!!). Then wait at least half an hour for Lanarkshire as they are going a (slightly) different route.

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Yes well done Chelsea but is JT the first footballer to "win" two European medals without kicking a ball

Got to be Moyes. He is out of contract at end of season. If he was going to stay at Everton he would have signed by now. Think it will have been sorted already. Only problem is there will never be another like fergie.

Why did you not go on Friday. Didn`t see anything wrong with the weather for yesterday. Hope they work in for you. Too early in the season for a bad race

just windin walter up (its nae hard)I dinna like them up too early either at the early races

except for national races of course. At sunrise(or before) we go!!!

Good to see never seen such a big live liberation. Surprised how long it took some of the birds to leave the crates. No doubt some were hens which had laid lol

Good post

Off topic lol

What is mental about it? There are posts on here saying it is better for the birds in geraldy transporters. How do they know?? Personally I don't care who`s transporter is used and I don't mind if its baskets or metal crates. I don't like seeing birds on corrugated paper, I prefer shavings but that's just my opinion. I also think the transport costs for some races last year were ridiculous but it is up to the committee to scrutinise this. If they have got a 20% reduction this year that is positive.

No I have not been on the committee because work prevents me from attending evening meetings in central Scotland and I could not guarantee being available to run a marking station.

I have no hidden agenda either but have yet to see proof that geraldy transporters/crates give you better racing than wicker baskets. I`m sure all the technicalities will be sorted at the next agm. If all you guys who are quick to criticise had offered to serve on the committee at the agm you could have had it sorted out this year

Yes any section could win the averages because you have to time from every race including 600+ miles and only a few are capable of doing that and I could name members from every section who have that capability

You enter the SNFC and then duplicate into your federation not the other way round

well anyone who is glad a frail 87 year old lady has died is a moron in my book

One person ruined the mines and that was Arthur Scargill. Some of the comments on here disgust me. Whether you agreed with her or not there is no need to disrespect the dead.