Service update

Whilst it wasn’t an official selection, I hope a few of you were on Pires today (I know that at least 2 of you were).

Win, lose or draw today, he is the kind of tip that I want to include more of in the service.

It’s all well and good getting 14/1 winners (or runners-up !) – but by their nature, they don’t come round that often. I’m hoping that the likes of Pires will be able to keep things ticking over a bit better – thereby enabling people to sit a little more comfortably whilst following the TVB adventure.

He actually would have been a challenge to tip, as only 2 bookmakers had priced up the race yesterday evening (and I’ve said I want a minimum of 5 to have priced up a race before I tip in it). He was a best price of 3/1 this morning – which would have been a borderline call. Hopefully I would have swayed in the right direction !

I’m sure that a few of you will have noticed that I’ve removed the ‘single month’ option from the subscription options on the right hand side.

In truth, it was there mainly as a security blanket for me, in case I didn’t get sufficient subscribers for the full season, to make the effort worthwhile. By having a monthly option, it would enable others to join in after a month or two, once they had been able to see how things were going…

Pleasingly however, I now know that I will have sufficient subscribers for the full season – and I am therefore taking away the monthly option (I can certainly live without the extra admin that it would have created !).

I said in my initial post that I would take on anyone who subscribed to either of the Specials last season – and I will honour that statement.

However, I am getting close to the target 30 people, committed to the full 5 months, so I won’t be taking on board too many more…

The door will be closed on November 1^st : anyone who is on board, is onboard for the duration – everyone else will just have to sit on a waiting list and hope they get opportunity next season !

Finally, there will not be any more blog posts before next weekend.

I’m going away for a few days (it’s half term where I live) and whilst I will have some mobile connectivity, it will be limited (far too limited to consider blogging !).

Still, I’m back on Friday so I should be able to post thoughts for the weekend cards at Chepstow and Aintree (which are likely to be the final dress rehearsal before the real event kicks off).

Please also bear in mind my absence if you email me over the next few days. I’ll try to respond if I can – but no promises !

Until Friday then…

TVB.