alex wight

RIP Jessie, condolences to the family.

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about 2.30pm suit yi lol cheeky bugger

Thanks very much Paul, if we cant help each other out, what can we do. Glad to be of service to you, Alan and Dougie, and look forward to catching up soon.. Best regards ...........THE WIGHT VAN MAN.............

Only if the stubborn fanciers that dont want to believe this, start to listen to people who actually see whats happening around them

many happy returns Davie

not now

I heard that as well stevie, i approached our president about that, and his response was that no-one has contacted us at fife???? after myself and brian chalmers said that some feds were willing to do something his answer again was, we will wait and see??? bloomin frustrating but i think we may start putting the word out to get the ball rolling and see where it takes us. John McCord is looking at leading this for us.

Thats about the figures we have just now. we only use our transporter for 11, yes 11 races, the others are on the back of the snfc. I,ve done a lot of comparisons with the North of Scotland fed, and we are the same size ie 136 members approx, but they have 20 independent races along with their snfc races. They use a 7.5 tonne lorry, the big difference is the birdage. ours is low, and as we rely on birdage to pay our way the sums dont add up??

It beggars belief why we didnt liberate at the same time, however some of the rumours i hear is that some people werent happy, as they feel the DRAG would be heading to the far east of fife??? Our transporter holds in the region of 3600 approx, and we barely made 2000 at our highest birdage. I feel we in Fife may, just may be looking at changing the transport for next year however we need to approach other like minded feds to see what the best option is. It may be feasible to keep it, as long as it can be filled on a regular basis. I really hope it doesnt take a few years as we cant wait that long. again only my opinion.

Just been trolling through the replies and opinions. Not surprised by them, however on a positive note i see some light in the tunnel. If all feds were contacted to arrange a meeting, the feds interested would show their support and the feds not interested would stay away. We could then work on the interested parties, to thrash out a working plan for the future. It would have to be representatives from each fed ie 4 each, that would be responsible for relaying the information to their respective federations. I feel we need to act now, and not wait till its too late. When i joined pigeons my Fife federation split in two, and also the SNFC split in two. I,ve heard all the stories as to why this happened, and to be quite frank, this is what has caused most of the problem we have at the moment. Quite rightly so, people dont want to rejoin with the people that caused the animosity, but we really need to look at all avenues, to see what is the best way forward for the majority and more importantly for the sport OUR SPORT. This is of course my opinion. Regards alex

I read this article today and fully agree with the situation we in Fife find ourselves. I have approached our fed secretary to contact our president to hold a meeting within the next 2 weeks to discuss this matter and also see who is available to fill the soon to be vacant posts. No reply has come from the president, but vice president John McCord is looking to start the ball rolling. The reason i am so keen to get things going better is because i dont want to lose my hobby. As it stands just now i can see our fed hitting the wall within 5 years which frankly is frightening. With the support of the forward thinking members within our fed we can start now to put things in place for the future. here is the article. Last weekend we had Angus & Dundee federations going together in the same transporter to their open races from Wakefield; on the Saturday they were liberated with another 2 federations heading to Scotland at 07.45. We had Central and North West federations liberating at 7.30am. The Fife federation and the Kingdom Federation, both at the same liberation point, liberated with 15 minutes between liberations, Fife going at 11.00. How on earth can these federations not agree to go down the road in the same transporter and agree a race programme on the same lines as the Up North Combine with all the birds going up together? The UNC have done this for years and progressed whereas we in Scotland are stuck in a time warp. I’m going to be brutally honest, if fanciers DO NOT see what they are doing to their sport then their will be NO pigeon racing in years to come. We need to get together and TALK for the welfare of the sport. We need to see if the North of Scotland and Aberdeen federations started a couple of weeks earlier they could then catch up and go with Dundee; Angus; Fife; Kingdom; Midlothian; Pentland Hills (Scottish Borders go with Pentland just now) Almond Valley; Central and North West federations. All these federations could be going down the road in 2 transporters and even down to 1 when it comes to the longer races whereas just now we have 11 organisations paying for a driver and wagon to go down the road. It could be done on the other side of the country with I bet Lanarkshire quite happy to take the whole of the west of Scotland down the road. What is going on just now is just crazy and we need to get someone with some go in them to fix this out. Charlie Graham did it many years ago with mid week racing and picked up pigeons from Fife etc and it worked a treat and we need to get something done now or the sport will die. When you also think of the heavy losses we have experienced this year it is a nightmare whereas going together like the Up North Combine will help the youngsters come up the road. Next week we go to the young bird national and they are liberated together so WHAT IS THE DIFFERENCE? Far too many people have their OWN AGENDA and don’t want to come out of their little bubble; these are the ones who shout the loudest at meetings and the majority go with what they say. They are not interested in their federation or the progress of the sport. NO, they want to win in their own little back yard. I have heard it for years that Dundee will not go with Angus yet this year due to losses they have had too; so please tell me why this cannot be done on a weekly basis. I’m lost for words other than it is the agenda of certain individuals (which it is and I could name them but save them the embarrassment). I put a proposal last year at Blackpool show to people that John McCord from Crief could leave Perthshire, go to Forfar collect Angus, North of Scotland and Aberdeen federation pigeons then head down to Dundee, collect them and then go to Fife and uplift the federation pigeons; now if we use our heads he could go to Newbridge at the Forth Bridge and collect Almond Valley, Central and North West and if there were too many birds Pentland Hills could start there picking up birds then collect Midlothian and then Scottish Borders and head to the race point. We could have 2 or 3 lorriestaking the whole east side of Scotland down the road; you could have a Combine and your own federation race programme every week and believe me you would have more birds left at the end of the season. I have spoken to fanciers and this will work and save members in each federation and more importantly keep our sport alive so will fanciers please see SENSE before it is too late. Now is the time to act for next year as this will work. It is up to you!!!! regards alex wight. oops i,ll get the title changed soonest to scottish, ta.

Aye you done well, Brian, everything was suiting you today, very well done If your looking for a childish reaction, i wont lower myself to some peoples level. I applaud all fanciers no matter what, one thing i will not do is take it away from anyone with silly excuses that helped them win. Well done again

well done steve

Aye Brians always there or about

section c is always a tight affair, and sometimes a struggle for some reason (Leuchars airshow??). i feel it will be an east coast member, although i would like it to be a fellow Fifer, and seeing that i,ll be spending the day at the loft on form, i,m going for ma pal Davie Baldie and son David. And i would like to see my good friend Stuart Maskame and Craig Mackie win G section. I wish all the very best for everyone who is taking part, and hope you all have a good race with healthy returns.

ahem.......whats yours???????????

And they ask why our sport is dying of death. Sitting here in the west o Fife we have it hard on most weekends what with a west prevailing wind. We know that its going to be harder than in the east but we dont bleet on about it we just try to do better. What wind would suit us here in the west?? people will probably say, anything with east in. The only way to really see who is doing well, is with no wind at all, to level the playing field. But in the mean time why cant some people not give the fancier or fanciers that are winning the respect they deserve irrelevant of wind blah blah blah. No one, but no one has the god given right to win week in week out, but we are all in the sport to try.

Another very well done from me too :emoticon-0137-clapping:

gub it neep heed

Try the british legion doug.

Normally have the result by now, has anyone received it yet?

The dive bit was funny. On the Monday on kingdom fm they had the buckhaven councilor Andrew Rodger on, to try and sell the place as a well worth place to live in However he put Jades comments down to nerves and didnt knock her good job as she is the best thing to come out of Buckhaven or even fife for a long time

well done brian

as Archie has said no need to be sorry. Good job the knockers dont live in the west o fife, you,d never hear the end o it. We just get on with it and enjoy the sport the best we can, and acknowledge others achievements. well done again.