The TT has hardly been announced as a brand than it is being watered down.
Talk about squandering the family jewels!
All those who dared to disagree with the TT program, and called for more variety and the return of smaller capacity classes, have been fobbed off with a Mickey Mouse TT to shut them up.
Drawing the excellent organisational reputation of the Billown people into the equation, borders on duplicity.
So of course the races will be hard fought and enjoyed by the spectators, but everyone will know, perhaps most of all the riders, that they are not TTs.
How will the winners feel on award night when they are announced as "TT" winners beside those riders who have won over six laps of the mountain course?

"The bargain was struck, and the cow exchanged for a few paltry beans."
Jack and the Beanstalk