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    Other sites are available

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    Quote Originally Posted by reet hard View Post
    The RP gets less useful daily, and though they promote their tipping, news and replays (all of which are frequently bettered elsewhere - and f.o.c) they continue to neglect their only real, marketable asset; their form database, which is still the most comprehensive on the net.
    However, even this becomes less reliable, and the number of "no form for this horse'' and "no result available" seem to increase exponentially. Time they woke up, or it really could be 'Goodnight, Vienna'.


    ps to Granger This "holier than thou" attitude of yourself, and a few other jump fans, does the future of this forum few favours - and then, where would you martyr yourselves?
    The only person with a holier than thou attitude here is you, reet.

    How many competitions have you sponsored? How many times have you sent Colin money for the upkeep of the site?

    I’d bet good money the answers are ‘none’ and ‘never’, so fu*ck off with this supercilious fu*cking attitude.

    The Jumps season is the life-blood of this forum, whether you like it or not. Get the fu*ck over it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Diamond Geezer View Post
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    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 annotate with my own ratings and notes prior to tabulating everything the way I sometimes put on here.

    When they changed to the new format that facility went and I cancelled my subscription.

    The other sites are no better.

    Thankfully wilsonl was able to devise a spreadsheet for me that could migrate the new RP cards in a format I could use but it's still a fair bit more unwieldy than ideal and takes me probably twice as long to create as the previous ones.

    Without it, to be honest, I'd probably have packed it in by now.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Grasshopper View Post
    The only person with a holier than thou attitude here is you, reet.

    How many competitions have you sponsored? How many times have you sent Colin money for the upkeep of the site?

    I’d bet good money the answers are ‘none’ and ‘never’, so fu*ck off with this supercilious fu*cking attitude.

    The Jumps season is the life-blood of this forum, whether you like it or not. Get the fu*ck over it.
    I know from past experience it's pointless trying to reason with you, and I don't need teaching how to curse, so my answer will be necessarily brief.
    I have no interest in competitions; don't recall even entering one, here or elsewhere. My donations to the site are my business, and should remain so, though you might try asking Col.
    Posters are the lifeblood of this forum, though they're unlikely to be attracted by constant belly-aching about NH racing being the only pure part of the sport, or streams of invective such as the above.
    Now wind your neck in, and go back to whatever it is you've been drinking.

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    I haven’t been able to access the results page this morning, is it me or them?
    Ah! but a man's reach should exceed his grasp......

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    I couldn't access the Hamilton card this morning. Haven't been back.
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    Website all over the show this morning and they've failed to provide today's newspaper in the iPad app.

    That is/was all I used them for but that's discontinuing from end of September and I'd need to switch over to the digital newspaper version. They can feck right off with that idea.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Desert Orchid View Post
    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 annotate with my own ratings and notes prior to tabulating everything the way I sometimes put on here.

    When they changed to the new format that facility went and I cancelled my subscription.

    The other sites are no better.

    Thankfully wilsonl was able to devise a spreadsheet for me that could migrate the new RP cards in a format I could use but it's still a fair bit more unwieldy than ideal and takes me probably twice as long to create as the previous ones.

    Without it, to be honest, I'd probably have packed it in by now.
    https://www.geegeez.co.uk/race-cards...ay=cards&day=0

    The cards here are based on the RP, don't know if it suits your purpose ?
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    That's a subscription service, DG. I'm not about to buy something that might not suit my purposes.
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    I think the racecards are free Mo, I can access them

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    They can be accessed free online but you can't download them or copy and paste from the screen, which wouldn't suits DO's requirements.

    Good shout anyway.

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    Is Windows snipping tool no good ?

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    Not for my purposes, DG. Appreciated all the same.
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    Quote Originally Posted by reet hard View Post
    I know from past experience it's pointless trying to reason with you, and I don't need teaching how to curse, so my answer will be necessarily brief.
    I have no interest in competitions; don't recall even entering one, here or elsewhere. My donations to the site are my business, and should remain so, though you might try asking Col.
    Posters are the lifeblood of this forum, though they're unlikely to be attracted by constant belly-aching about NH racing being the only pure part of the sport, or streams of invective such as the above.
    Now wind your neck in, and go back to whatever it is you've been drinking.

    Suggest you look-up the definition of “constant” for starters.

    As far as attracting new posters, they’re unlikely to want to join if they think the place is full of superior, curmudgeonly, arseholes, taking a pop at long-standing members who make a full (during the winter) contribution to the forum, for no valid reason. It’s even worse when they double-down, and effectively accuse said poster of jeopardising the future of the site - again, for no valid reason.

    Wind your own neck in.
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    Quote Originally Posted by wilsonl View Post
    Website all over the show this morning and they've failed to provide today's newspaper in the iPad app.

    That is/was all I used them for but that's discontinuing from end of September and I'd need to switch over to the digital newspaper version. They can feck right off with that idea.

    ************* (Racing Post)
    Aug 31, 15:22 BST
    Dear Mr Wilson,
    Thank you for your email.
    Please accept our sincere apologies for the delay in the publishing the latest Racing Post iPad daily edition download.
    Unfortunately technical issues have prevented us publishing the edition at 8pm yesterday evening and these issues have continued into today, despite the on-going efforts of our IT team.
    We are continuing to work hard to publish the edition although we cannot guarantee that this will be achieved this afternoon.
    Please accept our apologies once again and we will provide further updates as soon as we know more.
    Kind regards,
    *************
    Racing Post Customer Services


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    millington stepping down.....rejoice

    https://www.racingpost.com/news/late...e%20Millington

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    Hurray! Have stopped listening to the weekend Postcast because of him. Let’s hope they get someone less annoying


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    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 clusterfuck of an omnishambles.
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    It was going nowhere under Millington who was unlikable.

    Maybe it won't improve but if it worsens it was going under anyway.
    Some people say he’s the best since Arkle and that’s certainly true when you look at what he’s done

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    Website is a mess.

    Trying to find Richard Forristals latest column is like trying to crack a safe
    Some people say he’s the best since Arkle and that’s certainly true when you look at what he’s done

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