I can understand the way your thinking Jamie but as you know it takes pigeon fanciers a mile to move an inch. At present I think the SNFC comittee (leaders) have to take the bull by the horns and start with the Gold Cup and Longest Race, both of which have the least birdage and re-introduce something like the old Usher Vaux (International) races, with the North East and North West of England, first of all to increase interest in long distance racing. A few years ago when the Ypres race was introduced there was a few hundred pigeons, now it has the biggest entry. Just introducing another channel race in May/June wouldn't cut it, as most distance fanciers lofts for example would maybe have a team of 12-20 pigeons for the channel programme which they would just spread their entries over an extra race, much like when the first Falaise was re-introduced to the programme a few years back the entry was about 1100. The "LEADERS" need to make it ATTRACTIVE as the BICC have done over the last few years, for the Scottish fancy to compete again in long distance racing.