JustPlodded

Totally agree Alan. Covered in adverts and they want us to pay for “Premium content”? really? This “Premium Content“ has gone down in visible word length and is now about 8 of 10 articles. I look at their headlines and generally find the same article at sites like the “New York Times“, where they copied it from. Don’t start me on their proofreading or standard of reporting. Any one liner to grab the attention of the lowest common denominator. Yes the standards are a shadow of their former newspaper. Hell will freeze over before I pay a subscription.

R1: 2, 5 R2: 1, 7 R3: 4, 5 R4: 3, 6 R5: 6, 7 R6: 8, 10 R4: 8, 10 R5: 8, 12 BB R6: 5, 7 BB thanks PJ

R1: 1, 8 R2: 3, 9 R3: 2, 11 R4: 3, 9 BB R5: 1, 3 BB R6: 9, 12 Good luck V thanks PJ

R1: 4, 5 R2: 3, 7 R3: 6, 7 R4: 5, 6 R5: 1, 7 BB R6: 1, 5 R7: 4, 6 R8: 7, 9 BB R9: 2, 11 thanks PJ

R1: 5, 12 R2: 9, 11 R3: 8, 11 R4: 5, 7 R5: 2, 3 R6: 4, 13 R7: 2, 6 BB R8: 3, 4 BB R9: 2, 14 R10: 4, 11 thanks PJ

The Dolphins, Bengals and Redskins all win today! Luckily the odds on the teams playing them were so small as to make me ignore them as multi options. Looking like the Patriots are going to lose too. These wild days do happen about every 4 or 5 weeks. At least the 49ers and Ravens was a good game.

Would that be the same Mr Typhon I selected a couple of weeks ago at its previous start ? Where it failed to beat a horse home? I broke competition unwritten rule 1.45... stick with horses until they end up at the glue factory! or they will bite back!

Just checking.... is Howie one of “the rest”?

R1: 2, 9R2: 5, 10 BBR3: 6, 12R4: 8, 10R5: 3, 5R6: 6, 12R7: 5, 12R8: 9, 13 BB R9: 1, 4thanks PJ

R1: 2, 3R2: 1, 7R3: 6, 9R4: 5, 6R5: 12, 13 BBR6: 6, 8 BBR7: 4, 7R8: 3, 6thanks PJ

R1: 2, 6 R2: 9, 11 R3: 9, 12 R4: 5, 7 BB R5: 7, 9 R6: 6, 12 R7: 1, 10 BB R8: 3, 7 thanks PJ

I change my Forum name from time to time, before PJ Drafts comps, in the hope that Howie will not know who I am and think.. "LastOf40 doesn't sound great... JustPlodded doesn't sound too good either.. I better give him a miss". It hasn't worked yet but I live in hope 😉

No worries Howie. I am warming to this boom or bust method of the Imperial Air force. Pinned on the wings after a rocky start. Favs were the order of the day yesterday but unless you were on most of them then probably not enough $$ to score points. I got $0 and scored 0 points. Paddy got $210 and scored.... 0 points. Like the rest of the squadron, there will be many more zeroes in pursuit of that elusive $25 winner. But unlike the normal PJ comps, that only hurts my team of .... me!

R1: 5, 13 R2: 6, 8 R3: 3, 10 R4: 7, 10 BB R5: 8, 15 R6: 3, 11 R7: 6, 15 R8: 4, 15 BB thanks PJ

Washed out of Kamakaze school at race 1 😳

Forgot 2nd BB again 😒 R7: 6, 15 BB

R1: 3, 11 R2: 1, 10 R3: 7, 10 R4: 3, 12 R5: 4, 5 BB R6: 2, 9 R7: 6, 15 R8: 2, 7 R9: 4, 13 Earn my wings & also make sure Trudy Thornton does not stuff anymore of my Trebles & Quaddies 🙂 thanks PJ

Yes back in those days the public had to come to watch. There was probably only one or two channels on TV (black & white) and none were showing racing. Nowadays when everyone has large screen TVs and a well stocked fridge, they actually need to compete for the public to choose live viewing over their lounge. I suspect there were only 500k Aucklanders in those days of Uncle Remus (don't start me 🤔 ) and it wasn't an hours drive from the suburbs to get there. When last making the expedition to Ellerslie we find the TVs down the side of the public lounge turned off and the betting machines taken away. The tote at the back of the public stand was closed and the area by the track half way down the straight that we liked to watch from is closed too. But they certainly had the man person on the sound system revved up to blow you out of your seat after every race with what goes for music these days, distorted by volume and static, just in case you wanted to listen to a race from down the country or even talk to the person next to you! So it won't be a hard choice next raceday at Ellerslie will it?

Different competition, different strategy needed. No points for 11th - 52nd so I signed up today to the Imperial Airforce for the duration of the 13 Days of Christmas. I am betting the squadron will be taking on many new recruits in the next couple of rounds. Pukekohe and Te Rapa will be excellent choices to stretch the wings ....

BB please

R1: 1, 3R2: 4, 7R3: 3, 8R4: 6, 8R5: 1, 5R6: 2, 7R7: 3, 6R8: 1, 2 BBR9: 2, 8 thanks PJ

I am with you on that one. Howie and I have stopped going to Ellerslie after decades of attendance there. They have made it very clear lately that they don't really want public there. Every week it was a case of "what have they closed, removed, made unavailable", so we can take a hint.

😉 register me please.

Is that you John?