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I've been telling them as much in my email correspondence with them.

I've told them it's obvious to genuine enthusiasts that the editorial staff have no insight into what real racing people...

I heard that from inside the next room. I presumed I must have missed something else in the advert.

Either that or they're trying to appeal to the non-racing person to buy the paper just for the...

I was a week early. It's up to £3.60 this week.

So long as they keep producing the form I'll keep buying it. The hard copy suits my needs much more than RI.

Oh, and the published ORs are out of date too. Al Dancer is showing OR 141 as opposed to his current (and has been since the Betfair a month ago) 152.

They've kept the Weekender at £3.40 so expect a rise at either the Grand National week or Royal Ascot.

But another gripe rears its head.

The advance cards do not contain the official ratings...

... which means the Weekender will go up to £3.50 or £3.60 this week too.

I've been engaged in ongoing email conversation with the RP people this week (re the Weekender) and surprisingly enough...

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I think that sounds okay if you're heavily into the sport and want to access stuff every day but it's not for someone like me. Apart from site itself being a dogs dinner.

The search facility...

It will go further downhill. They will get in someone younger with even less knowledge about racing who will want to appeal to the clueless majority.

Sadly, there is no competition for this...

Not for my purposes, DG. Appreciated all the same.

That's a subscription service, DG. I'm not about to buy something that might not suit my purposes.

I couldn't access the Hamilton card this morning. Haven't been back.

If that's addressed to me, DG, you should know that I started a thread on this some time back and how the old RP cards page was the only one I could copy & paste on to a Word document to enable me to...

I can't get Saturday's cards to come up. I'm getting the race titles but underneath just the RP logo and 'no runners'.

IIRC, the last time I had a letter published in the Weekender it had been edited slightly. I didn't mind that. What I minded was that the headline bore no resemblance to the point I was making!

And now of all times, the fvcking cvnt of a shite site has developed a glitch preventing people - well me anyway - from accessing form.

The site developed a serious glitch going into royal Ascot...

At my age you need to learn to know your limitations...

Chatting up the barmaid...

Deepest Lanarkshire. The 7am is the workers' express bus but it accepts my pass. Normally bus and train to get get into town would be over 90 mins. I'm happy to get in early and enjoy a quiet time on...

Indeedyo.

The brothers and I are now retired. We meet up once a month for snooker and lunch.

My bus leaves at 7am, gets into town just after 8am so I have two hours to kill. Most of those two...

Yep. I read that this morning while waiting for the snooker hall to open.

Apart from the 48h decs, which I'm all for, I kept thinking of Airplane and "Shirley you can't be serious".

I should...

I do accept that rising costs are inevitable and I've been reading a few good articles lately regarding print news.

Apparently, pretty much across the board with only a couple of exceptions,...

The Weekender's annual rise kicked in today. Up [20p] to £3.40.

I know it's Lent, GH, but I'm not going to punish myself any more, thanks.

Being off the bevy, snacks, sweets, autoerotica etc is tough enough going...

The survey has been going for a while now. It must be at least a week since I entered my comments.