Delboy

Good advice and info Roland, thanks. It seems the English are more interested in the possibility of this race than the Scottish, this is according to posts on Facebook .Strange but true.

Superb Roland, please tell all

235 mls of water where they cant hide fae the wind and then downhill into Dunfermline lol. One of these 3 cocks having 1st International sounds appealing , eh? Food for thought .

Just found out that access to the Faeroes is through Denmark .

I took it would be the same as Lerwick regarding ferries Chris but you know different m8. Pity as something like this would get doomen on their toes.

Its just a wee discussion about options we have got. Chris has offered tae get his boat out for the cause lol

I'm not sure about that m8, what do you think ? They had a race from there before into central Scotland.

Its the only chance any Scottish fancier would ever have to compete in an International race m8.

With the likelihood of no continental races in the next year or two I thought what a great chance to have a UK International from the Faeroe Islands. Distances approx. Wick-271 mls, Inverness-320 mls, Fraserburgh - 335 mls, Aberdeen - 367 mls, Dundee - 400 mls, Edinburgh - 430 mls, Glasgow - 427 mls, Ayr - 451 mls, Lanark - 443 mls, Dunbar - 435 mls, Berwick - 458 mls, Annan - 494 mls, Scarborough 576 mls, York - 587 mls, Blackpool - 575 mls, Doncaster - 615 mls, Leicester - 673 mls, London - 761 mls, Bristol - 739 mls, Southampton - 786 mls, Hastings - 812 mls. Food for thought !!!!

I agree, its a terrible state of affairs. I'm hoping we get a few Guernseys/ Jerseys though, if it goes that way.

Doesn't sound good John, what do you think our chances are for future racing in Europe ?

It has been suggested that the death of Prince Philip maybe connected to the cancellation of this meeting as The Queen is patron of the RPRA ???

The meeting to discuss Avian Flu and the licence to race pigeons between DEFRA and the RPRA was meant to take place at 2pm today but has been rearranged to sometime in week starting 19th April.. DEFRA are doing a Risk assessment (which is not yet complete) and will look at potentially reinstating the general licence but this will NOT be before 1st May 2021... taken from Facebook

Just missed getting a letter fae the Queen .

The old fella dies aged 99.

I would hope so m8

I think a PLAN B from the Scottish feds is in order. Do we want to go down the east and risk clashing with the north road feds? Do we race on different days if we decide to go down the east? Do we go down the west? Do we start off east and then gradually go west to tie in with the Guernsey line of flight? Its always better to have a plan in place , regardless if its used or not. OMHO

I would hope a cull of peregrines in all the affected areas must happen?

Yip, not all doom and gloom yet Geo

Up North Combine still hoping to go ahead on the 17th April. The Avian flu has went from medium to low risk so heres hoping it goes to zero risk soon.

Yes Tommy but can you remember last year when we all started regardless of the directive we were given and that was without anybody being vaccinated. This year we can train locally from the 2nd April . Can we not train 1-4000 doos from the 17th ? It sounds strange but I don't see a problem. 1. We are all staying local with covid protocol in place at all club houses 2. 99% of doo men are vaccinated. 3. The convoyer is doing a paid job taking our pigeons therefore is allowed to travel outside his area. You will know there are loads of lorries travelling all over the UK every minute of the day 4. We are not racing outside of Scotland until May anyway. Just thinking outside the box. Three new cases, are they in Scotland?

Said it for years, its not a race, its a game of chance.

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