Cheltz Fest 2021 Behind Closed Doors ?

[Overturn]

I bit the bullet and joined as a member today to give myself as good a chance as possible of attending in March. The guy I spoke to said that whilst membership was significantly down they were imminently closing new member applications shortly due to the current situation. Guess this could be a sales technique but may be food for thought for anyone else considering.

[Saxon Warrior]

I bit the bullet and joined as a member today to give myself as good a chance as possible of attending in March. The guy I spoke to said that whilst membership was significantly down they were imminently closing new member applications shortly due to the current situation. Guess this could be a sales technique but may be food for thought for anyone else considering.

Was the price reduced by around ?100, as racing in October November and December has taken place?

[Overturn]

Total was ?485 - not sure whether reduced or not?!

[Istabraq]

Total was ?485 - not sure whether reduced or not?!

New members cost was ?430 + ?100 joining so looks like they've reduced it by ?45.

Is there anyone here who was a member but didn't renew ?
I just wonder what the deal was for 4,400 people not to renew, I assume they have been given a 2020/21 'off' and that they can re-join without having to pay a ?100 joining fee...

[Spectre]

I renewed, but that was the deal if you didn't. Take a year off and no re-joining fee.

[Istabraq]

I renewed, but that was the deal if you didn't. Take a year off and no re-joining fee.

OK thanks Spectre, I assumed that was the case given such a reduction...

[Saxon Warrior]

Total was ?485 - not sure whether reduced or not?!

Sounds like it was, as usually there is a ?100 joining fee, plus ?430 or ?440 annual membership

[Saxon Warrior]

Just got the Cheltenham Members email to enter the ballot for the New Year's Day fixture.

Unfortunately my home slipped into Tier 3 territory, by about a mile, at around 11.40am this morning.
So they won't let me buy a ticket.

[Istabraq]

Just got the Cheltenham Members email to enter the ballot for the New Year's Day fixture.

Unfortunately my home slipped into Tier 3 territory, by about a mile, at around 11.40am this morning.
So they won't let me buy a ticket.

From the noises coming from the Jockey Club last week SW I think they’re expecting the region to go into tier 3 soon so could well be behind closed doors.
Here’s hoping things are improved by Trials day though that looks a big price right now...

[Saxon Warrior]

From the noises coming from the Jockey Club last week SW I think they’re expecting the region to go into tier 3 soon so could well be behind closed doors.
Here’s hoping things are improved by Trials day though that looks a big price right now...

They won't have anyone allowed to travel to the course, the way its going.

Furlough extension shows what the Govt feel about a slowdown in cases/deaths.

[charlie]

Whilst today is obviously very positive news, I don't trust this government to deliver a vaccine promptly, not one bit. They've been useless from start to finish, and a vaccine rollout in record time is littered with pitfalls (many of which will be out of their control). They can promise what they like, but the reason we are in lockdown right now is because this chronically inept government failed to put in place a successful track and trace system despite having 9 months to get it sorted, and having spent 12 billion pounds!

Happy to go on record and say I'd be nothing short of amazed if a single vaccine is administered in 2020 outside of a clinical trial. The data shows that two doses, three weeks apart, are needed and 90% protection is only achieved seven days after the second dose - which means one month from first vaccine to actually being protected.

Given a vaccine won't land till December/Jan at the absolute earliest, and they are starting with 80 year olds plus/NHS workers then working their way down, I'd say there is next to no chance this will be widely available to the masses till at least the middle of next year, and I'm being thoroughly optimistic at that.

All in my opinion and of course, I hope I'm wrong, I'd love to be wrong, fuck it I'd pay money to be wrong!

I did say I'd love to be wrong

138,000 Pfizer vaccine's so far is a start, and I'll happily eat humble pie when it means the vulnerable get protected sooner rather than later.

Credit to the government, but it's predictably slow due to the logistical frailties highlighted in other posts. As predicted, Lockdown 3.0 looks inevitable and there's even talk of a tier 4 system.

Next 4 weeks will be key, to state the obvious.

[Istabraq]

As predicted, Lockdown 3.0 looks inevitable and there's even talk of a tier 4 system.

Next 4 weeks will be key, to state the obvious.

Was there anyone who took any notice of Lockdown 2.0 ?

Current tier 3 rules basically mean you can do everything you would normally do except go to a pub or restaurant yet no-one has managed to work out that pubs opened at the beginning of July and cases continued to drop right through to September when, shock horror, millions of kids went back to school.
So the schools stays open with kids free to pass this on to anyone and everyone safe in the knowledge they personally won't suffer, yet the hospitality and leisure industries gets destroyed.
Yes I'm a bitter man who wants a beer with a few mates, but despite that I still can't make any sense of rules, high streets/shops are absolute carnage and this in supposed tier 3...

[charlie]

Was there anyone who took any notice of Lockdown 2.0 ?

Current tier 3 rules basically mean you can do everything you would normally do except go to a pub or restaurant yet no-one has managed to work out that pubs opened at the beginning of July and cases continued to drop right through to September when, shock horror, millions of kids went back to school.
So the schools stays open with kids free to pass this on to anyone and everyone safe in the knowledge they personally won't suffer, yet the hospitality and leisure industries gets destroyed.
Yes I'm a bitter man who wants a beer with a few mates, but despite that I still can't make any sense of rules, high streets/shops are absolute carnage and this in supposed tier 3...

I genuinely believe we'll look back at what this government has done to the hospitality sector as one of the greatest media distraction strategies of all time.

Shutting down a sector never responsible for more than 2-4% of new infections (PHE) has little to do with slowing the spread, and everything to do with distraction.

Shut the pubs and what does everyone talk about, the pubs being closed. Shut the pubs and what do the media focus on, the pubs being closed. I can't count how many news reports over the last two months have been outside Borough Market pubs, or in pubs interviewing hospitality managers etc.

Guess where the media are not? Universities. Schools. Cares Homes. These are the places rife with Covid! These are the areas we should be talking about and demanding answers.

Closing the pubs and punishing a sector that's taken huge measures to remain safe is a painfully blatant, yet superbly effective means, of distracting people from a failed track and trace system, which is the overarching reason we've had to enter this tiered system in the first place.

[ComplyOrDie]

I genuinely believe we'll look back at what this government has done to the hospitality sector as one of the greatest media distraction strategies of all time.

Shutting down a sector never responsible for more than 2-4% of new infections (PHE) has little to do with slowing the spread, and everything to do with distraction.

Shut the pubs and what does everyone talk about, the pubs being closed. Shut the pubs and what do the media focus on, the pubs being closed. I can't count how many news reports over the last two months have been outside Borough Market pubs, or in pubs interviewing hospitality managers etc.

Guess where the media are not? Universities. Schools. Cares Homes. These are the places rife with Covid! These are the areas we should be talking about and demanding answers.

Closing the pubs and punishing a sector that's taken huge measures to remain safe is a painfully blatant, yet superbly effective means, of distracting people from a failed track and trace system, which is the overarching reason we've had to enter this tiered system in the first place.

Absolutely bang on!!!

[jonthehammer]

Spot on Charlie, but as usual they wont give answers. It makes you wonder what is really going on.

Also did you see flu seems to have been cured now, very few deaths from that this time of year. Seems these are all in the COVID death pot now.