20th December 2006, 04:47 PM
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Join Date: Aug 2005
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Originally Posted by AngryPixie
Yes the "Betfair is your friend" side of it is a bit painful. Would like to see other markets available (coming in later versions from all accounts), and the ability to place a bet/lay without having to go to the Betfair tab. Maybe they could combine it with a much better version of that dreadful "auto-Betfair" tool.
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It seems to me that there is simply nothing new under the sun, what was in the past is still here only served up differently to make it look new. By this I mean, there are the punters and the various betting entities, with a supposedly clear line down the middle.
The amount of money that the punters has is finite and seemingly ever decreasing, and the betting side have no idea of what to offer the punter, so they do endless comparison after comparison, following each other and we inturn follow them looking for a premium and the whole thing goes round in circles.
Meanwhile the betting entities get fatter, the punters get skinner and not one new thing has been created to increase wealth for over a century in the Industry.
There were more jobs in the game 100 years ago, better more even racing, probably the same or fewer rorts and everyone got a pay day occasionally.
Today, the money is less due to a myriad of reasons, chiefly more opposition, and there are more players attempting to take the smaller industry pool therefore commissions are going to have to go down to the bone, or fold. This in turn will give a poorer quality product because when you are not making a profit you are not going to invest in research and new areas.
So the endless spiral continues with the closure of tracks, when people die they are not replaced. This is nothing to do with horses per se which have improved, technology has improved, communication and transportation have all improved, yet the industry with the exception of a few major carnivals is in dire straights.
Perhaps the message is clear, the game started as a working mans game and ever since it became a pseudo social activity, it has started to tumble. Do the cork popping set provide the blood of the industry - turnover? Is it time to hand the game back to the battler and let it grow to somewhere near where it used to be?
Oop's this has turned into a rant, sorry - nothing better to do today.
Tailwag
(woof)
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