alec guinness

was 3rd sec 25th open same race and when checking the results in the homing world was beating some club winners in the unc, still will be very tough.

support your local team thats real supporters.

was up their in the scottish a few years ago have east fife added anything other than the main stand?

cart before the horse.vincent. :)

anything to do with scottish distance racing i am most interested in. ;)

hotrod did prompt fanciers in one of the earliest posts to show an interest!!!!!!!!!!!!

yes stu you did say in a previous post,good luck anyway and never say never. :) ;)

hotrod you reckoned with the smaller convoys this might have given the west lads a wee chance recently,(i did agree)competing with the unc with vast amounts of birds heading east do you honestly feel the same.?

i think you guys in the west are going to have a harder shift getting birds across into the west section convoying with the up north combine.

will the reims convoy be only snrpc birds?

no pies for me rwb on a diet and health drive over 40 now and needing to shift a few stones and get ready for the season ahead,they do very nice pies at firhill lol. :)

watched my first old firm game for a few years and to say i was disappointed would be a massive understatement,overpayed and overhyped mediocre footballers,watched a much better game yesterday,blood guts and snotters and some skill, dunfermline beating partick thistle 3-2 the jags losing to a late penalty ,these guys are on a fraction of the money earned by their old firm counterparts,i know who i would rather watch. :(

remember winning a federation open race at the start of the old bird season(second week in april) a white griz cock homing into a blizzard same cock 2nd fed cheltenham 290mls,next week 5th west coast combine dorchester 370mls this 2nd & 3rd week in june,the cock scored sartilly 511mls the following year,1983 or1984 the year. :) :)great memories.

dont be so suspicious hotrod.

agree about the guy letting birds go in traffic daft and dangerous,i was talking about winter training which i have no problems with if done properly,as for secrets dont quiet follow!!

gentleman and a top fancier,a big loss to the fancy,rip.

the late great jock allan of symington trained some birds all through the year,hail rain or shine,snfc gold award winner "irish mick" was trained most days through the winter wherever jock was working,myself i have a team of 16 latebreds who are trained(short distances) right through the winter months on reasonabilly good days,historically previous teams of these latebreds have gone on in later years to score at national,combine & federation open racing. :) ;)

jock allan,may have been "cytacon",jock was a big fan.

use it every sunday,monday during racing.

lofts cleaned out on sat & birds having a bath,looking forward to pairing up the stock birds on sunday with some new interesting pairings. :)

website updates poor,150,000 hits on the website,the site must be taken forward asap.

no first open for "peter thorpe",top top racer though 3rd open snfc rennes twice. :)

wee joe is the only scottish scribe who can get the winners of the snfc races on the front page of the weekly journals,i just hope recent problems can be rectified, it would be a shame for the snfc members to miss out on the top scribe,wee joe for pro!!!! :)

having watched this thread with great admiration i thought with a bit of research some of the named and unnamed fanciers could recieve a mention,having only the last 7 years snfc results to hand i have only used results from over 500mls and only positions won in the top 10 in the west section,each of the following fanciers listed have 3 or more top 10 positions from 500miles,in no particular order, J&J GILLON MOTHERWELL,J COSGROVE&SON LESMAHAGOW,G ORR EAGLESHAM,MR&MRS D ELLIOT NEWBIGGIN,W MCGAFFNEY LESMAHAGOW,WILSON&JACK LANARK,J CALLAN LESMAHAGOW,J&J HOOD MILTON OF CAMPSIE,J CULLEN UDDINGSTON,AK LOCKHART LARKHALL,J OHARA & SON ALLANTON,G RANKIN & SON LARKHALL,J NEWBIGGIN LARKHALL,G HARRIS DUNIPACE,D&L HAY KIRKINTILLOCH,J HOUSTON GREENGAIRS,J HANNAH BLANTYRE,N ORR LARKHALL,J&A STOKES CARSTAIRS,THOMSON BROS FORTH AND J CLARK AIRDRIE. i could have used other stats but being a distance club this was where to start. no top fancier,but i will say the most top 10 finishes was a very impressive 11. :) :)good luck all snfc fanciers for 2009. :)

yeah had some real disasters recently, lymm putting the tin lid on it 1st & 2nd club that day were a 7 yr old and a 5yr old cock who had both taken top snfc positions from over 550mls, says it all,as for the poor doos in the yb leyland race i verified "only the lonely" it was that wet there was a wee pool of water on its perch!!!!!!!!!!!! 1home from over 1000 birds,yes a disaster. :o