I would do my best, but where are you?It's our 75th this year. Really want to go ahead with it. Maybe no produce entries which may make it not such a celebration that it could have been. But if we do go ahead please come on down!
I would do my best, but where are you?It's our 75th this year. Really want to go ahead with it. Maybe no produce entries which may make it not such a celebration that it could have been. But if we do go ahead please come on down!
Its up to the ploughmen now,injection of "can do" needed!I think that ploughing has lost the will to live. It will be lucky to survive more than five years.
I think cancelling the qualifiers is a good move as these can draw competitors from 100-150 miles away possibly more at some matches! I am still hoping to hold a small local match in November but i don’t need to make a decision on that until the start of October, hopefully by then we will have an idea of what sort of shape a match may take!Its up to the ploughmen now,injection of "can do" needed!
If everyone had your attitude you may be correct! Our local matches have a good following in the vintage/classic classes (world style has been dead for around 10 years here with ploughmen moving to the other classes). I can’t imagine everyone is just going to give up and scrap there ploughs over the next 5 years!I think that ploughing has lost the will to live. It will be lucky to survive more than five years.
hard to believe, I know. but, you say that world style is dead, and the ploughmen have moved to other classes, fine, in the short term, but there has been no increase in numbers, and that the root of the problem. I have mentioned this before, world style numbers at the national have dropped form over 80, to 36, and not all of the missing men have moved class.I cant comment on the other classes, but I have often travelled a great distance so that a match has enough in the cl;ass to include it.If everyone had your attitude you may be correct! Our local matches have a good following in the vintage/classic classes (world style has been dead for around 10 years here with ploughmen moving to the other classes). I can’t imagine everyone is just going to give up and scrap there ploughs over the next 5 years!
I am hoping to do something similar, and to give an airing to a few ideas. I know of a very good site, its just convincing the landowner to let us have it! It will be maize stubble, but beggars etc etc.I think cancelling the qualifiers is a good move as these can draw competitors from 100-150 miles away possibly more at some matches! I am still hoping to hold a small local match in November but i don’t need to make a decision on that until the start of October, hopefully by then we will have an idea of what sort of shape a match may take!
Some do that for normal matches!! Trouble being that due to the lack of matches people will travel much further than normal to plough.I think cancelling the qualifiers is a good move as these can draw competitors from 100-150
Don't you think that sop should ban all matches until review on 1st January, this would stop anybody being put at risk, at the end of the day what is a year out in the timescale of life,Some do that for normal matches!! Trouble being that due to the lack of matches people will travel much further than normal to plough.
As it seems that Horse racing, and F1 will both be running with spectators before long and the fact that open air boot sales etc are now going ahead, there is no reason for any match not to run.Don't you think that sop should ban all matches until review on 1st January, this would stop anybody being put at risk, at the end of the day what is a year out in the timescale of life,
Distance travelled is meaningless. competitors are so far apart at a match that whatever a competitor brought with them, they would take it home with them!Some do that for normal matches!! Trouble being that due to the lack of matches people will travel much further than normal to plough.
Don't you think that sop should ban all matches until review on 1st January, this would stop anybody being put at risk, at the end of the day what is a year out in the timescale of life,
Don't disagree with above , but also are we out of the woods yet with COVID ? , I doubt it ,and there are still dark clouds hanging over us with lock downs and renewed outbreaks potentially affecting us all.No I dont!! Ludicrous suggestion. 3 day eventing has started, National motor racing started, you can get a hair cut, play cricket, go to the pub, jump on an airplane, go on holiday, play polo and suspect you can even book yourself on a discount cruise!
All this negativity is just plain dull, news is negative, social media is currently negative. I'll be doing my utmost to have a match here as soon as crops are off and soil conditions suitable.
I guess it also depends on how seriously you take your ploughing.
I would do my best, but where are you?
See what things look like come the time of the matches if needs must limit the distance a competitor can travel to the match! Things like that are very much an unknown at the moment hence the need to cancel the international and national matches!Some do that for normal matches!! Trouble being that due to the lack of matches people will travel much further than normal to plough.
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