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Nice to see we can have some fun and not take it to another level

Clearly , David can handle such situations , i wouldnt like it if he speak like that of my daughter .
Anyway , back to pigeons, is the sport growing in England , or is there a decline?

unfortunately niel it is a declining sport not enough young people coming into it also getting too expensive

Grizzle cock wrote:

Clearly , David can handle such situations , i wouldnt like it if he speak like that of my daughter .
Anyway , back to pigeons, is the sport growing in England , or is there a decline?

just a quick update niel, glyn is no longer a member of the group.......and also i would agrre with ian, the sport of pigeon racing in uk is in decline conpared to how it was years ago.

Neil this site is to have fun and if it got out of hand then i think David would put a stop to it

We are all grown ups

Niel the sport is on the decline with young people having better things to do

Niel the biggest problem is it is to costly

Also when you come into this sport you have to beat the best there are no different levels for people to compete at and that is what makes it hard at times

agree with all of the above posts don, spot on....didnt have computers when i was a kid to sit in front of all night.... (hypocrite or what ? im on here all night...lol) true what you say don about being costly as when i started last year i didnt realise by the time i had bought birds, loft, drinkers, nestboxes etc, etc it cost quite a bit of money. true again don, returning or starting out a novice you are in at the deep end in compatition with the top flyers....

yes don there are very few sports where you go straight in at the top to compete against the best but thats what i like the challenge

hopefully when i restart next season ill catch them napping, so to speak....hopefully they wont be expecting a "novice" to be flying on the darkness system, so by the time they realise ill have won the first 6 positions ...

that the way to approach next season david positive good on you lets beat the top men

thats right ian, got to aim high havnt you.....im after winning every yb race.

hope you do

If it was possible for people with the same level of ability were racing comes to it, then they can have a chance of winning something which may help with keeping them in the sport longer

Were we want young people to take up the sport perhapes we could provide them with a small loft at a reduced cost, fees and racing costs at a reduced rate just to help promote the sport and make it a little cheaper to fly

hi don. ive found by talking to some local fanciers who have been in it for many years that they have lost sight of wanting to win any more, they are breeding from the same birds they have been breeding from for the last 10 years or more and not breeding anything to win anything......seems as though they are disheartened because they never win and so they are giving the top flyers a free run, also some of them are not even flying widowhood and never even tried darkness.....they seem to think its all too much hard work, which lets face it its not easy, as with any system ....but they dont seem as though they even want to win any more.

Don Webb wrote:

Were we want young people to take up the sport perhapes we could provide them with a small loft at a reduced cost, fees and racing costs at a reduced rate just to help promote the sport and make it a little cheaper to fly

in the local midweek club they are offering new starters free membership to encourage them to join....

For the old flyers it is a shame this has happened

Spot on for the midweek racing

its good to give this to attract new fanciers in i think.....seems to be a dying hobby, when i was young there was a pigeon loft in every street...

Yes same here

But with children not getting involved with wild life ect then they are never going to see this great sport of ours

thats right don, kids now dont seem to play and knock about like we did....we went finding old bits of wood to build a shed for the pigeons and any old bits of wire we could find. gave us something to do and keep out of trouble...

too spoilt now computers and consoles