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« Reply #120 on: July 30, 2013, 12:48:49 AM » |
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99% sure they said they would send out the tickets in July, well I haven't received any..
Curtis/Simon, have yours arrived?
Also, probably wise to start thinking about whether we are doing football or horse racing on the Saturday.
I vote football!
Options:
Barnet v Kidderminster
Wimbledon v Oxford
Dagenham v Rochdale
Brentford v Shrewsbury
Orient v Rotherham
Reading v Millwall (at a push)
Spurs v Hull (maybe get a box for this if there's enough interest?)
Palace v Arsenal (good luck getting tix for that!)
I would favour Wimbledon v Oxford or Brentford v Shrews. Although I've never seen Bale play live and would fancy that too if it doesn't mean flying to Madrid.
Also, need to think about booking a table in the restaurant for the dogs. Wimbledon match followed by Wimbledon dogs has a certain simplicity to it...
Thoughts and ideas welcome.
No immediate rush, but I think we should be booking stuff before the end of August.
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« Reply #121 on: July 30, 2013, 01:57:20 AM » |
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Would prefer the dogs on saturday night if anywhere is running, and during the day on the saturday any football match would be preferred by me over the horses, but I am easy. What a freeroll this is, completely forgot about this.
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« Reply #122 on: July 30, 2013, 02:31:37 AM » |
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Forgot about Wimbledon dogs.
I'm no London expert but on my few trips there the tubes have been much more awkward / less frequent on a Sunday.
Wouldn't that make staying near Wembley for the NFL type thing more sensible?
Getting around on Friday / Saturday shouldn't be any kind of problem at all.
They will put on extra trains on the tube for the NFL game. Don't think getting around will be any problem - game will finished by 9pm. Yeah tubes fine for the NFL. I travel up from South Coast so tube from Victoria. Always fine getting to Wembley. Bit busy straight after game but extra trains put on so not much waiting around |
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« Reply #123 on: July 30, 2013, 08:21:44 AM » |
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Happy to go with the flow, but if the decision were mine, I'd choose the Dogs over football.
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« Reply #124 on: July 30, 2013, 08:23:04 AM » |
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Dogs is a +1 from me. Question is what we do in the afternoon, I think
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« Reply #125 on: July 30, 2013, 12:07:58 PM » |
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Dogs is a +1 from me. Question is what we do in the afternoon, I think
Poker at The Vic followed by dinner at the dogs? |
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« Reply #126 on: July 30, 2013, 12:23:09 PM » |
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Dogs here too. Only get to go to Swindon and I dont think its fair reflection of how greyhound racing really is
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« Reply #127 on: July 30, 2013, 12:25:42 PM » |
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I think dogs is a certainty.
It's just whether we do anything on Saturday afternoon is the question.
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« Reply #128 on: July 30, 2013, 07:24:28 PM » |
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Dogs here too. Only get to go to Swindon and I dont think its fair reflection of how greyhound racing really is
Ha! if you really want to see a fair reflection of greyhound racing as an industry go to a Bags meeting on a Tuesday afternoon. Sadly. |
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« Reply #129 on: July 30, 2013, 08:38:22 PM » |
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Dogs here too. Only get to go to Swindon and I dont think its fair reflection of how greyhound racing really is
Ha! if you really want to see a fair reflection of greyhound racing as an industry go to a Bags meeting on a Tuesday afternoon. Sadly. I can see us all turning up at a dog track and barely having a bet given the ridiculous books these days. I've been to 2 BAGS meetings in the last few weeks socially and went to look at the prices for the first at Sheffield to find em betting 6 runners to 135%. by chance the SP reporter stood next to me and was relaying them for the betting shop shows so I said to him 'you aren't really sending that lot as a show are you, it's a disgrace' and he said ' nowt I can do kid, I just send em but you are right' when the hare is running was sounded they pushed every dog out one price to provide a lol competitive SP. the tote return for the winner was 'no return' cos there were about 10 punters there and nobody had backed it. I just laid the 2 guys I was with a bet in each race and never had a bet myself all day. will be better at one of the big London tracks but we will prob end up betting between us. |
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« Reply #130 on: July 30, 2013, 09:44:26 PM » |
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No longer living in London but still keen to get involved in whatever activities get planned.
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« Reply #131 on: July 30, 2013, 10:37:40 PM » |
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Dogs here too. Only get to go to Swindon and I dont think its fair reflection of how greyhound racing really is
Ha! if you really want to see a fair reflection of greyhound racing as an industry go to a Bags meeting on a Tuesday afternoon. Sadly. I can see us all turning up at a dog track and barely having a bet given the ridiculous books these days. I've been to 2 BAGS meetings in the last few weeks socially and went to look at the prices for the first at Sheffield to find em betting 6 runners to 135%. by chance the SP reporter stood next to me and was relaying them for the betting shop shows so I said to him 'you aren't really sending that lot as a show are you, it's a disgrace' and he said ' nowt I can do kid, I just send em but you are right' when the hare is running was sounded they pushed every dog out one price to provide a lol competitive SP. the tote return for the winner was 'no return' cos there were about 10 punters there and nobody had backed it. I just laid the 2 guys I was with a bet in each race and never had a bet myself all day. will be better at one of the big London tracks but we will prob end up betting between us. When I was a student I used to go dog racing in London at least 4 nights a week. Used to often see Harry Findlay and all his mates flipping coins for odd/even traps for a couple of hundred a race even back then. Sure we can come up with a better value way to punt between ourselves and then maybe just try and absolutely clatter the books there for one race to pay the exes for the weekend... |
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« Reply #132 on: July 30, 2013, 10:41:57 PM » |
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Could just play £2 a race and have a giggle on the way...
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« Reply #133 on: August 15, 2013, 12:44:13 PM » |
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Got a group of about 10 of us all 49ers fans going, up for any gambling before hand at dogs or whatever...
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