All this commotion about springboards could have been avoided if the FED.had given us a choice about springboards,[they would probably have been voted out there too] but as it is the FED commitee are blackmailing everybody into using boards as it is no good one body banning them & not the other. Why should six selfish people have this effect on whippet racing. [its time we got a say ] if both bodys had banned them i think people would have accepted the decision .