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its late! was given a red pied last year which i broke and lost earlier this year! When i went to transfer it i found it had an old ring on it.

is it a ped pied?

i would stick to back of the neck!

its a long way from home but may suprise you and go when its fit!

Ian need members support on this, fund have been raised but need members to put forward schools for the project. If any members have children or grand children at school then pm Ian with the school details including e-mail address and he'll do the rest! Well done Ian!

how many schools have you got on board for 2010 and how many more do you need Ian?

well done, keep up the good work!

Generous and genuine! Especialy for 2010 where schools will be involved.

Happy Birthday Ryan, hope your seasons going well. Phil

have a look through old BHW's there is a guy in Swansea with yellow and choc Grooters!

Do you feed them while in the cocks section or when they have returned to there own section?

ok, let me know, i'll be at Yarnton Sunday and poss Friday.

Spot on Abbey, also how many sec's have told the RPRA etc not to contact them if a non fancier gets a bird in thats local to them? Answer:- A lot!

Does the National Flying Club not cover all of the UK? Maybe there should be 1 England National, 1 Wales National and 1 Scotland National, all convoyed together for 1 UK National! That would be worth winning!

"nail on the head!", there'll be some nails thrown in this direction for sugesting such a thing! ;D ;D ;D

How can they be called Nationals until they do all go together and cover all of Wales.

I have known and flown with members who used to send 30/40 birds each week to the club but then put 80+ birds in the NFC, nobody complained about them. There aim was national racing, the club was just for training, did there 80+ influence the section result, no, not to my knowledge, wind, location etc effected the result not the number of birds they sent!

And i'll be going near mikes on Friday if it helps getting them there!

thats nothing to worry about, it will keep worn down on pickstones if not use a nail file!

suits me!

below is the top 10 from the NFC, do you consider any of these to be mob flyers? 1 1B Mr & Mrs C Lever Romsey 190 346 GB05J35066 9 1 22 1583.72181043999 8 2 2B K Davison Southampton 178 293 GB08N86334 8 48 40 1578.38758389262 4 3 3B A Cowan Southampton 179 835 GB08K43978 8 50 28 1575.69837046891 10 4 1A Mr & Mrs Brian Wall Havant 174 104 WHU08R3599 8 45 39 1565.77561972911 15 5 2A Crammond & Langstaff Fontwell 170 1155 GB08N41667 8 41 58 1564.6205938531 20 6 4B R Harbour Newport 169 553 NWHU06X4522 8 41 17 1557.86181057768 10 7 1C P J Hollard Poole 187 1044 GB06N84537 9 2 5 1556.76542239686 10 8 5B Jason Bowen Waterlooville 175 1213 GB05C62092 8 48 48 1555.39738430583 8 9 2C R Hooper Poole 184 153 GB06E81485 8 58 54 1550.94782192437 8 10 3C J & D Staddon Merriott 214 36 GB08N43820 9 33 29 1547.02991306729 30 Birdage in red

I hope when the NFC verify the bird its transfered!

It one of the things we have to put up with in this sport! We do have a choice, roll over and accept being beaten week in, week out or raise our game and compete! Every club will have small team and mob flyers its up to the individual how they deal with it. Phil

A small team flyer with his birds on form will still beat any mob flyers, look in the national results and see how many members in the top handfull have sent a small team!

true, think of what could have been won at last years europa but would you want to race a bird with extra weight?