I would do my best, but where are you?
British National Cancelled
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wuddy
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Update from the Society of Ploughmen!
No qualifiying matches to be held this year and competitors who have qualified for this year will be carried forward to 2021.
No qualifiying matches to be held this year and competitors who have qualified for this year will be carried forward to 2021.
Its up to the ploughmen now,injection of "can do" needed!
wuddy
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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!
wuddy
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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!
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.
At the moment, I believe there are at least three ploughs for sale, on facebook, with no takers, the rot has started.
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.
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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,
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The sop can try to ban matches, I wish them more luck with that than they get with observance of the rule book! In truth, they have no authority to implement any ban or control.
You can now go to the pub, restaurant, beautician, nail bar, swimming pool etc, but you cant go to a ruddy great field with a few tractors at work.
Another thing, this virus is here FOR EVER, we will have to learn to live with it, vaccination is the medical equivalent of a bullet proof vest, good protection as long as the bullet( virus mutation) is not aimed at your head!
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.
The sop can try to ban matches, I wish them more luck with that than they get with observance of the rule book! In truth, they have no authority to implement any ban or control.
You can now go to the pub, restaurant, beautician, nail bar, swimming pool etc, but you cant go to a ruddy great field with a few tractors at work.
Another thing, this virus is here FOR EVER, we will have to learn to live with it, vaccination is the medical equivalent of a bullet proof vest, good protection as long as the bullet( virus mutation) is not aimed at your head!
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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!
A competitor from Leicester could travel to Nottingham, and be more of a threat than one from Truro going to Cambridge.
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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.
bactosoil
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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.
I know some event insurers will be jumpy of any large social gathering and posted by others on this forum the word is the NEC are saying nothing will happen until 2021.
Of course if a ploughing match can safely happen it should , no point pretending otherwise, but hopefully anyone into competitive ploughing will also consider taking part in the Virtual Ploughing Match on the 26th September , is it the same as a real ploughing match ? , well no it will never be the same as a real event( but its similar) , but it would mean say three of four farmers could meet up and plough together ,family could compete against each other, or and I would say more importantly people who haven't got the time to attend a match or are just too embarrassed to try competitive ploughing for the first time could give it a go ,and that is were maybe new entrants will come from for factual events .
At the end of the day all entrance fees go to the air ambulances and will keep competitive ploughing in peoples minds, lock down of no lockdown and I hope you will all consider entering, Entry forms will be available soon www.vplough.co.uk
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wuddy
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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!
Devon James
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It's our 75th year and the easy option would be to cancel. But I would like to see if we can get the go ahead and get as many ploughs as possible
Mydexta
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