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no 7 followed by no4

for me 1st no 1 , no 29 2nd and no 17 3rd some cracking birds but difficult as pictures dont do some justice .

no 2 for me but closely followed by 33 (nowt between them )

what can i say about big george rankin ,a giant, an outstanding pigeon fancier,and above all an absolute gent ,always time to stop and talk , a great great lose to the sport rest in peace big man. stuart mullan

couldnt agree more florida is miles ahead of any other mantioned on here ,done a cruise in january (canaries) went to fuerteventura in sept ,and going on a red seas cruise in january 2012 ,cruises are brill as well ,first class food and entertainment ,you are treated like a king by everyone on the boat . but florida still does it for me.

rab the £100 doesnt cover the longer races ( around 9 old bird races and 6 youngbird races thats 15 races for under £7 per week and u ca race as many as u like brilliant unless u only have a very small team ) ,as for the 2 or 3 hundred birds being libbed just over the border what race please ? if its the young birds this year ,this was the same weekend as every fed in the area got a hammering ,so it doesnt matter hwo big the birdage if yer going to get it then u get it im affraid . bigger birdage bigger losses .

is it u thats running them tom or is it charlie ?

great program andy but in my opinion marborough on the 2nd of june is toooo far toooo soon .

naw if i moved to one of those places tam my birds would win and win well i would just have to alter my feeding and tweek my system a wee bit.

a very good friend of mine joe oribine of port glasgow had the very very best from billy ,he became very good friends with billy in his last few years before billy died , joe must have topped the fed with them around 30 times in a few short years some times taking the first 5 or 6 in the fed ,the were a very fast maturing family and would win as young /yearlings as well as old birds. i think theres a guy in largs( mackinly) still has them from m.finlay port glasgow (joe gave morgan the best of them before joe packed it in).

anywhere east of where i stay now that would do 4 me (best location) . where i stay now (worst location)

post up as soon as you get the dates charlie if u could thanx ,great wee night out during the winter months,oh and great company as well.

i must have ybs then wullie as all mine have food in crop in morning after a good feed the night before ,but by the time they get out at around 6pm they are all empty , ps my ybs are exercising well up to 2hrs at night,and droppings are brill u could eat them .

i have been saying about the inland national from huntingdon for years now but it falls on deaf ears robert. and the y/b national from a bit shorter as well maybe newark ,would get more interest imo another point is why has the gold cup got to be on the last friday in june why not move it back till either the first or second friday in july as the weather paterns are all to begger now with our summer gettin later in the year ?

after reading all these post i have decided to put an outsiders answer to most points made ,one is being a member of the snrpc and having birds at all the gold medal reims races there has never been a great race from there(with the snrpc) in fact most have been very hard not least 2010 when they had 25/30 mph head winds to deal with all the way , point 2 why did the snfc not go back to reims this year after a great race last year ? chopping and changing does the birds no good imo,point 3 the weather on friday ? well even dogs could see that the weather front was coming in from the west and if the messac birds had held there line they would have run into it well down the country , also a read one post that there was mist /fog on the channel? was this not the real cause for a bad race ? it wouldnt have made a blind bit of difference where they were lib'd from if there was mist or fog on the channel they would not have crossed. point 4 i agree 100% about racing birds on a straight line of flight why race all year down the east then jump back to the west where most have never seen ,it happened at marlborough and has happened at messac ,crazy in my opinion ,what the hell is wrong with maidstone or abouts ? up till now and not wanting to tempt fate weve had had great races from arras and lillers and the snfc has had good /great races from ypres all eastern france /belgium ,dont understand why anyone apart from selfish reasons would want race from anywhere else , yes the west boys will vote for eastern france/belgium not for overfly but just for good racing .all the great west section fanciers i know firstly want there birds back if there not winning then they try harder for the next race /year .well done to all the gallant birds that made home

i agree derick well done eddie great performance mate all the best

. i know the lib line hasent been updated or some havent phoned in but i know there is around 25% home from reims ,although a lot are still waiting on a timer like me .

johns phone code is 014(75) not (85)

its naw the only fed not to clear a lib site (birds were still flying about for nearly 40 mins ) ,i hear

does any one have the web site in spain for pigeon medicines a friend is looking for some stuff thanx ?

ANY TAKERS ITS VERY VERY YOUNG

i always take a couple of latebreds off my best ,this past year no different any that race will race as far as i can take them be it 150 mile 300 miles or even across the water to arras 496 miles .i will assess them weekly

got a new job last week with the samaratans ,phoned in sick this morn and the fkrs talked me out of it

great point ,thats why my opinion it cant work ,and as king billy says where is the breaking point ?,each week it could be different and this could alter the result and make it even more unfair. jmo

seen one this morn in port glasgow , early by about a month i would say, the swifts will be here soon as well, we get hunders of them here