have said for the last 10/15 years localised weather is as much to blame as bop for some of our crap races...we cant do nowt about either ...but when we actually know the weather is against us ..then a degree of flexibility is required ....in this day and age we have too look after what we have got...ie the hard core doo men not much more coming through 500/600 mls racing will allways be tough on the doos but we have to optimise what we have at our disposal, weather forecasts, delaying basketing , bringing basketing forward a day. we never sent , none good enough at the moment , but a big well done too all who timed and got birds home from a very tough race . read some of the post regarding the controlling of the race , believe all they guys would have doos on the lorry, including john mcord . how many guys on here have actually controlled a race ??? I have once and was shiting myself and it was only a wee get together toss we turned into a race from 100mls.. after the dust has settled i hope there are many questions to be asked at the agm ...sure it wont bring the doos back ... but it will let other folk step up and offer there services as controllers. jmo