RaceCafe..#1...Tipsters Thread.... Share Your Fancies For Fun...Lets See Who The Best Tipsters Here Are.

barryb

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  1. I think that's a silly question Lee & one that I am not interested in responding too.
  2. So tell us what is the acceptable number of road deaths a year then?. What would you be happy with?.
  3. The Zero road toll thinking comes from standard Health & Safety practice worldwide. Whist we all know that goal is unlikely, it comunicates that no accident or injury is acceptable, the theory is good, just was piss poorly delivered. Many workplaces in NZ have an All Injuries Are Preventable plan, it’s about creating a belief that it’s possible so that people take responsibility for themselves. Then it sits alongside a personal responsibility plan for when things go wrong, like a 3 strikes policy.
  4. Luckily we are all allowed differing opinions & mine happens to be thinking to future & positioning for more young people being engaged in the sport, I don't think you do that by investing in Radio at the expense of mobile technology, if the industry was flush with funds then yeah sure, but its not. If you were in charge of a finite budget for technology & marketing, would you invest in restarting racing radio or upgrading the app & website?.
  5. Its called Bluetooth, its been around for a fair while now, I don't have any issues with linking Trackside to it.
  6. Yes exactly the feedback I gave them on it, it would remove bad conotations associated with the TAB to a younger or less accepting audience.
  7. Don't disagree with anything you have said Nomates. However we can't look back on those decisions & want to go back to something that no longer is fit for purpose.
  8. No one said I was self appointed on anything, expressing an opinion & encouraging open debate is what its about surely?. & don't worry I hold the Whingers & Moaners at other sites to account as well, I posted this information here because I thought being the leading discussion forum that you might be interested to know this is going on in the background.
  9. No, this is what was asked of us to comment on. For your info it got shot down in flames from what I can see.
  10. Here is the question they have asked today
  11. The layout of it for a start, its largely unchanged for years, its slow & cumbersome. Go on course & see how many regardless of age are now betting via the App, that's where you need to invest for advancement, not in Radio that no one under 60 cares about.
  12. Yeah & look at what % of Aus population is interested in Racing its significantly advanced of ours, here no one even cares if racing is on or not & you want it on a loss producing system like radio & in the newspapers that are out of date. Wow.
  13. The fact you can post on this site suggests you are more than capable of adopting new things, you can still be old and use social media & a mobile phone. The unwillingness of a small vocal minority (thinking they speak for everyone) to want to progress the industry into the 21st century is sad & shows a short term thinking methodology that has handbraked the industry for yrs.
  14. & don’t worry, I will strongly be encouraging them to not fund those things, focus on the website, mobile app, enhancing some of the products and creating new ones, along with better form information. Sounds great doesn’t it.
  15. & on the radio front, that’s a dead duck, not enough are interested to make it economic, let it go as well. Time and effort are better spent on improving other things than trying to appease a small group that struggle with change.
  16. Correct you are living in the past, you wasted good betting money on a publication that’s dated before it’s printed. Tallied up over 12 months it’s $500, doesn’t seem that smart when better and more up to date info is around for free on your phone or tablet. Let go of the dinosaurs and embrace change, it’s not that scary.
  17. Not at all, everyone has different opinions, yours are no more correct than mine. What it tells you though is I am not afraid to say mine and I am a staunch thoroughbred supporter, I am happy to consider new ideas and not live in the past of racing radio and print media, progress often upsets many in the journey, but the way they are going about it this time is great.
  18. It was an invite only thing & No with regard to radio, its a dinosaur I am afraid & soon to be defunct as a medium, like print media. Better energy spent getting the internet sorted & mobile app updated.
  19. Don't think I can recall anyone mentioning this on here. IS anyone else on this site taking part in the TAB Exchange?. For those unaware, its a small selected group whom are helping frame what the TAB will do & look like in the future, they are coming up with some great ideas & some rather shit ones as well. They have a discussion forum & also send out weekly things for us to rate & score, plus provide other ideas. Don't fear I have been very clear on what I think works & want to stay, plus what they should do differently. The current one this week was a look at a new tag line & approach to advertising, it looks ok but my comments were that its targeted too much toward those under 30 & ignores those of us whom have kept them afloat for donkeys years. Yes it had plenty of race content.
  20. There is nothing worse than watching a Flemington 1200 mtr race & seeing them get flogged the last 200 mtrs. We all know the arguments for whip use, the trouble is the arguments against are logical, have some reasonable research behind them showing performance improvement is negligible & fails from a progressive industry stance.
  21. Shame she did as he’s on the money with his thoughts in that space.
  22. Warm day in the sun & the booze was flowing bigtime. I don’t have any issues with drinking at the races, but when from about race 3 no one in the crowd could hear the commentary due to the level of pissed patrons yelling it was beyond annoying. In fact many were beyond pissed but completely f—ked off their heads, host responsibility was not evident today that’s for sure. It was the worst I have ever seen it at TR except for Cup day in Dec. I hear there was broken glass every where in the public area with a few drunken hoons letting loose late in the day.
  23. They would have taken Prize Promotion Insurance via Lloyds of London, at odds of 400m to 1 they wouldn’t have paid much for it either, relative to the $10m prize.
  24. TV 3 do such a shit job of that stuff, it was incredibly amateurish. The fool from the herald at the end was so bloody obviously a green voter it was embarrassing how biased his commentary was.