Brodie

Mikey, I have noticed it as well looking at the tote pools. The win and place pools prior to the changes were normally about the same size! However there is now a major shortfall on the place tote pool since the stupid changes! Who would’ve thought??????? Clueless decision making or have they deliberately done this????

Firstly I dont know what Harness forum you are talking about that has posters happy with the changes? Is that the site that has many of the posters that do not bet on harness, but get so excited anyway?? Secondly, why on earth is it trial and error? Whatever they put up should surely be an improvement to what existed, and I can not see one thing that has been improved to what we had! Surely you can appreciate that what they have now with only the WIN odds is not going to encourage extra wagering????? You say MOANERS, what I would say is that BOAY posters have more participants that want the harness industry to survive and are not just around to accept mediocrity and just go with BS! At the end of the day, let us see how it works out, Brodie is staring here and now that what has been changed this week is to the detriment of racing! Turnover will drop, but then again maybe that is what they are looking for?

Had noticed that as well but they are all over the place with these changes for non better! The commentators and presenters are having trouble as well, they used to quote horses fixed place odds suggesting they would be worth a go at those odds! They havent been able mention to this in the past few days! It all seems rather flat and a turnoff for many. Is it to cut costs or just done to piss punters off?

Walt, they arent going to be doing that as they are needing to show us the people walking the cogs around to the starting boxes. Isnt that more exciting and necessary?

Change is always difficult to handle when the change is for the worse!! It is a moronic change to get rid of the place odds displayed as well as other things! Can you advise us what is the reasoning for this and what has been improved?

Great run from Franco Marek, made up good ground in the straight. I always thought he was a better grass tracker than all weather but that is now not the case! Note the tote pools poor tonight for a Premier meeting as has been the case in recent times!

TABFORVEVER, can you kindly advise why your mates changed the graphics and info that we had last week? Personally can not see one thing that is of any benefit to the viewers! Not one! Why did they remove all PLACE ODDS? Why is there no betting pools? What was wrong with the previous colours? Do you think that many gives a rats what the trackside presenters think??? Does anyone actually care about who the trainers of greyhounds are in OZ??? Do you know who the DICKHEAD was that approved the changes??? It is AMATEUR TIME from Entain without doubt!

What was actually wrong with the way it was before? What has the changes actually achieved? What I do know is that it is to the detriment of racing and although they wont say it, the presenters and commentators wont be thinking it is an improvement!

Lol maybe he sticks to the dogs then, No idea of what the place odds are though

No room for any place odds as nobody needs to see what they are! However, plenty of room for presenters tips, 1st 2nd 3rd and 4th picks but they cant all win, but we do not know what any of the place odds are?? Nobody gives a toss what Aaron White’s 4 picks out of 8 dogs are that covers part of the screen! Diabolical!

You couldnt make this up! Christopher Haigh also stated “it’s believed the new dividends display will have a new renewed focus on fixed odds betting which now dwarfs tote betting for most meetings and is therefore a far more accurate guide of the market” 😂 Mr Haigh if fixed odds is what people want the info on, can you please advise us all why you REMOVED THE FIXED ODDS PLACE ODDS????????? Why dont they just come out and tell us the real reason that they are trying to stuff racing? This is going to be an absolute disaster for the TAB without doubt!

Entain’s Chief Media Officer Christopher Haigh, states that their new look has more space for live racing video to be displayed, alongside providing viewers with more of the key betting information they need! What an absolute load of BS, they have taken away so much of the key betting info required!!!! Mr Haigh must be on some pretty strong stuff that has made him delusional?

Everyone is allowed their opinions obviously, we now live in a democratic country unlike what we had for the last 6 years! I have yet to hear from anyone as to the benefit of removing PLACE dividends from the Trackside screeen! Absolute lunacy and TAB or Entain have not done research on what the punters want at all, or they would not have changed what was working! Galah, have you ever heard from anyone at all complaining about the way the Fixed Odds or tote odds were displayed on Trackside????? Not sure at all what you mean about me complaining about having the two win dividends up before, never mentioned this at all, as it didnt bother me at all. Anyway it is not up to Brodie to determine how the TAB and Entain operate their Trackside channel but I can guarantee that it is going to cost them a helluva lot of wagering and loss of revenue! You watch the complaints that come in and if I was a betting man, I would bet that there will be some major changes to this current format! Not sure about your TV but I reckon the pictures are a lot hazier than they were for some reason! Anyway good to have debate and far better than the loveathon on the Darkside forum.

My eyes must be shocking as well, still trying to see the place odds!

Give me one logical benefit of putting up the 2 win options alongside each other? So if the tote win odds are a lot more than the fixed win odds, everyone will whip into the tote win odds not knowing what is in the tote pool? The place pools fixed and tote are every bit as popular as win pools!!! You will have people who have been watching Trackside that will nlt bother and will not be betting without place odds up. You could tell today that the presenters were having difficulty with not having place odds up as they couldnt talk about them as they were not on screen! But hey, was’nt it just great to see the speed of the greyhounds in the race some were going at 63.2 km per hour and some were 63.4km per hour! How spoilt we are going to be having so much detail! With respect, Just makes you wonder how these Clowns get in these positions?

Rubbish Galah! There is not one person I have spoken to today thinks that any of it introduced is of benefit to punters! What research have they done? None, and the Natives will become restless! Total nillness from TAB!!

Just makes no sense to have changed the previous format that Worked! So you have these win odds up both tote and fixed and some are say at $50 to win! Punters arent going to be taking that but would be interested to see what the place are? They are going to be losing a lot of turnover over this, you watch!

Respond anywhere would be fine Ranga! Total incompetence, you watch the backlash!

They wouldnt respond Ranga! They are clueless and this is such a mistake that makes absolutely no sense whatsoever! Is there a single person that can see the reason they have done this???????. Why even show Win Odds? Just bet blind!

Could someone who represents the TAB or Entain please advise us who approved this total stuff up? What is there reasoning to ditch showing what place odds are????? Entain obviously DOES NOT care about racing in NZ!!

It is a terrible decision to not be showing place odds!! Can anyone workout why on earth they would even think there is any positives to doing this??? Does the TAB expect punters who are watching Trackside to just bet without any idea of what the place odds are?? This is going go backfire on whoever approved this!

Lets hear from the TAB as to why they have decided to end showing the Place dividends? Seriously, it does look like they want to put people off wagering with them on racing! This is another stuff up which they will end up having to reverse as there is no logic to it whatsoever!

No it would end it for harness racing! How is it beneficial for anyone,? Punters arent going to bet into place, when it is a mystery as to what the place odds are unless they are on an ipad or phone? What is their reasoning, as they say they eant to provide more info for the punter, and yet they take away important info?

Great to see Trackside and Entain trying to make harness racing great again in NZ! They want to get people excited again and get then into wagering to increase turnover so that racing remains viable! SERIOUSLY, who was the DICKHEAD who came up with getting rid of showing the PLACE DIVIDENDS on the screen?????? Whoever it was must be seriously lacking any semblance of business sense, if they think that it is going to attract wagering solely on the Win!!!! All they are now showing is the FIXED WIN and TOTE WIN odds alongside each other! What an absolute balls up if they think this is going to be beneficial for wagering! Yes there is your phone or ipad or computer that will show the place odds, but seriously how could this decision be beneficial to punters and the TAB to increase turnover??? People will say give it a chance but get real, it is idiotic!

The BIG night is on Friday week at Cambridge! Yes I am sure they are chucking money into “The Race” might as well give the Corporates and ones that dont need it more! Is there a lot of excitement in the harness world???