What can be said that has not already been said about this problem Gareth?
On a positive note, it’s nice to see my old mate Alan Tuck still doing the business.

most people i know are either really skint
or bloody terrified at the moment ~think

It beats me why people dont turn up after initially spending the money, sure things are tight right now, but a quick call to cancel would have given someone else the opertunity to fish,

I bet there are a lot of local anglers that are kicking themselves right now for not turning up on the off chance.

Its sad really when you think so many people applied and never got tickets

There should be a phone number on all tickets for Fisho qualifiers. If you dont want to fish or have a problem getting to the qualifier on the morning of the match. A phone call is all that is needed to let the organizers know your not attending. At least then anglers can be contacted and replace the no shows. If those anglers dont attend after getting a ticket and dont phone to give up the ticket. Then they should be banned from entering th competition. Its not difficult to make a phone call if you dont want to fish or have a problem getting to the venue. In an age of mobile phones there should be no excuses. Especially when so many other anglers want tickets!

@dirkdiggler wrote:

most people i know are either really skint
or bloody terrified at the moment ~think

Terrified ?????????????? Terrified of what exactly ?

@Mongloid wrote:

@dirkdiggler wrote:

most people i know are either really skint
or bloody terrified at the moment ~think

Terrified ?????????????? Terrified of what exactly ?

The New Government?

I am not going to Woodlands on Saturday. I have mailed At today to tell them, which gives them the day tomorrow to contact the next on the list, and give them time the time to get ready.

On the Wilinghurst match, they have suffered KHV as most know, and are obviously stuggeling to get it back to how it was.
One whole section blanked, in June, it must be bad!
T hats why Sarah at Barford decided not to have a round this year, one bad match and it gives you more bad publicity that good!

30 is a hell of a lot though % wise and personally i wonder why they applied in the first place if they had no intention of fishing~think .I suppose it could be PMT before the footie?

perhaps people are fed up with commercials all the while lets get back to the good old days of fisho qualifiers on natural venues

@Geepster (moderator) wrote:

Take that on board but DD has a point, everyone is skint or terrified of being laid off.

Your not wrong but a guy i worked with now retired said to me dont worry about things beyond your control as their is no point.Wise words or just a guy who no longer had to worry cos of his age?

@Geepster (moderator) wrote:

Take that on board but DD has a point, everyone is skint or terrified of being laid off.

Phone calls don’t cost much emails are even cheaper.

The current economic climate is rough for sure but a little forward planning and some of the no shows could have got there money back, 26 quid when things are tight goes a long way.

I think the real reason for not going for most was, a long journey to possibly blank, there was also a lot of talk flying around at how bad this was going to be which is a shame really, its a nice fishery the lads are working hard at it, that can be seen by the amount of work going on, a few more fish and they will have it sorted.

You did the right thing Nigel and i would not expect anything else from you.

However, i do suspect that the main number of no shows will be occational match anglers and club anglers who where having a punt. The vest majority of hardened regular match anglers would turn up and fish even if the venue was crap. Thats what most regular match anglers do. Week in, week out!

I might be wrong. However, it would be interesting to know which anglers did not attend this Fisho qualifier.

I HATE no shows……had a sixth of the field not show up for Duanes the other Saturday!!!!

Thanks Steve, this is the first time ever that i have decided not to go. I did break down on the way to the Fish ‘o’ on the Nene once, thats the only other time i havent turned up (and i still phoned!)

If those 30 no shows had contacted At the day before, the next 30 on the list could have been contacted.
If i was 30th on the reseve list, i wouldn’t travel all that way not know if i was gong to get on, but would go if i knew i would get on.

Choice?

Fish a quilifier up north i dont particulary like, or go off to Poland the weekend on the beer with me mates to watch the GP speedway???~clap ~clap

Not surprised 30 people didnt bother turning up to Willinghurst. Its not exactly the best venue going is it ! I spoke to a couple of guys who fished it last night and they think it should be dropped from the qualifiers altogether because its so rubbish.. They had the ear of a very senior person in the AT aswell !!

Dave, did Roly and Sparky tell you they were fishing in mine and Nicks place for Duanes match ? I had problems so made sure someone was there to fill my space.

Yes Mark…..that comment of mine wasn`t aimed at you mate

No problem, I had meant ot send you an e-mail but totally forgot.

I like Nigel was one of the 30 ‘no shows’ due to having problems with a shortage of staff at work

However I the same as Nigel again had emailed the Angling Trust giving them 48 hours notice that I wouldn’t be attending and the reasons why.

Did the Angling Trust attempt to fill these positions.

~think

Thats what should be done RH.

I wasn’t on the willy list, its tomorrow i am not going.
I didnt get a reply from my email to the the NFA, so assume they got the email, i did call today too, but the no has changed and i didn’t get though!