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Or he could just say ? I listened to that same podcast the other day. He mentions in the podcast about this all starting in December and still goes on up til now. He also mentions the kid issues in the same breath. Non uk residents can apply for a visa based on being a parent exercising access rights. I do wonder if Holder has gone along these lines to get a visa here and the partner is mischief making to slow it up. To me, it sounds like the mother has lodged some kind of refusal of access or something which has cocked his application up , and that has maybe impacted on his ability to just get a swift re-issuing of his visa. Maybe he's had to reapply along the conventional visa terms ? Just my opinion reading between the lines and asking a few questions of people i know..

I see they are going to be trialling a live stream at the meeting designed for the future, very good news and exactly what Speedway needs imo.

I think you would make a brilliant Speedway promoter as you only see it from their prospective. You are always backing them in there ways and find it difficult to understand those whose question them. If the product was that good the fans would come, If the prices represent VFM the fans would come, if we offered a good environment with plenty of enjoyment , probably the fans would come back. Waiting for the TV, the Councils, the sponsors to come on board will never happen until the product is greatly improved.

You are right Trees, Poland has a much more helpful infrastructure but I think the contrasting fortunes of the two leagues emphasises how badly British Speedway has been mismanaged over the past 25-30 years. Huge opportunities missed by promoters not working together and instead looking out for themselves. We probably could have something similar to Poland or Sweden but it will take a lot of time and effort to build it up again, and a big change in approach.

Having just watched the recording of Lublin v Lodz match, you realise just how antiquated our sport has become. Having travelled to most tracks in the UK, I am convince none of them would compare to that we saw last night. Its little wonder we have no supporters anymore, they are treated like maroons from afar with no consideration at all. At Lublin, all the fans were treated to a wonderful experience of exciting racing in a clean modern environment. Each had a seat, and a excellent vantage point, to watch the riders race on a beautifully prepared track, that looked the part.. The meeting ran like clock work. Thousands of supporters wearing team colours all added to the occasion. I accept the weather was a big factor, but even on a hot summers day we could never replicate that. In the UK, the Promotors (en-block) feel all they need to do, is to rely on the riders attraction to get the fans through the turnstiles. In Poland they get so much more,,,,,

Personal issues are personal. Nothing to do with any fan. No point in speculating. Some people think they are owed an explanation into every riders or managers decisions and private lives. I don't expect any of us would like our dirty washing aired in public. Read last week's Speedway Star if you need to catch up on Chris' issues. That's public enough I would imagine.

I'll return to this thread after the actual event. To childish for me. See you all down there for hopefully a good match

i love reading the Poole threads... pure comedy

Ellis Perks - it’s a crime the lad doesn’t have a team.

This early season competition(Zloty Kask) has the added importance of doubling up as qualification for the grand prix and SEC qualification rounds. semis are on April 10th in Gdansk,Poznan and Ostrow with the final in Pila on Thursday 19th April seeded to the final are Janowski, Prem Pawlicki, Dudek and Zmarzlik . .1. Individual World Championship Grand Prix - 6 competitors: places 1 to 5 from the finals of the Golden Helmet '18 - 5 competitors GKSŻ nomination - 1 player 2. Individual European Championship - 6 competitors: Places from 1 to 5 from the final 'ZK '18 - 6 competitors GKSŻ nomination - 1 player Gdańsk: 1. Michał Szczepaniak (Zdunek Wybrzeże Gdańsk) 2. Krystian Pieszczek (MRGARDEN GKM Grudziądz) 3. Oskar Fajfer (Zdunek Wybrzeże Gdańsk) 4. Krzysztof Buczkowski (MRGARDEN GKM Grudziądz) 5. Szymon Woźniak (Cash Broker Stal Gorzów) 6. Tomasz Gapiński (Euro Finannce Polonia Piła) 7. Krzysztof Kasprzak (Cash Broker Stal Gorzów) 8. Mirosław Jabłoński (Car Gwarant Start Gniezno) 9. Piotr Pawlicki (Fogo Unia Leszno) 10. Kacper Gomólski (Falubaz Zielona Góra) 11. Dominik Kubera (Fogo Unia Leszno) 12. Dawid Lampart (Speed Car Motor Lublin) 13. Paweł Przedpełski (Get Well Toruń) 14. Jakub Jamróg (Grupa Azoty Unia Tarnów) 15. Igor Kopeć-Sobczyński (Get Well Toruń) 16. Artur Mroczka (Grupa Azoty Unia Tarnów) R1. Dominik Kossakowski (Zdunek Wybrzeże Gdańsk) R2. Wiktor Lampart (Speed Car Motor Lublin) Poznań 1. Mateusz Borowicz (PSŻ Poznań) 2. Bartosz Smektała (Fogo Unia Leszno) 3. Rafał Karczmarz (Cash Broker Stal Gorzów) 4. Janusz Kołodziej (Fogo Unia Leszno) 5. Robert Miśkowiak (Orzeł Łódź) 6. Damian Dróżdż (Betard Sparta Wrocław) 7. Norbert Kościuch (Orzeł Łódź) 8. Maksym Drabik (Betard Sparta Wrocław) 9. Marcel Kajzer (PSŻ Poznań) 10. Oskar Polis (OK Kolejarz Opole) 11. Daniel Jeleniewski (Speed Car Motor Lublin) 12. Sebastian Ułamek (OK Kolejarz Opole) 13. Daniel Kaczmarek (Get Well Toruń) 14. Kacper Woryna (ROW Rybnik) 15. Sebastian Niedźwiedź (Falubaz Zielona Góra) 16. Artur Czaja (ROW Rybnik) R1. Wiktor Trofimow (Fogo Unia Leszno) R2. Michał Łopaczewski (PSŻ Poznań) Ostrów 1. Kamil Brzozowski (MDM Komputery TŻ Ostrovia) 2. Marcin Jędrzejewski (Arge Speedway Wanda Kraków) 3. Patryk Dolny (MDM Komputery TŻ Ostrovia) 4. Ernest Koza (Arge Speedway Wanda Kraków) 5. Tomasz Jędrzejak (Stal Rzeszów) 6. Grzegorz Zengota (Falubaz Zielona Góra) 7. Piotr Protasiewicz (Falubaz Zielona Góra) 8. Patryk Rolnicki (Grupa Azoty Unia Tarnów) 9. Jarosław Hampel (Fogo Unia Leszno) 10. Adrian Gała (Car Gwarant Start Gniezno) 11. Damian Baliński (Stainer Unia Kolejarz Rawicz) 12. Marcin Nowak (Car Gwarant Start Gniezno) 13. Adrian Miedziński (forBET Włókniarz Częstochowa) 14. Mateusz Szczepaniak (ROW Rybnik) 15. Tobiasz Musielak (forBET Włókniarz Częstochowa) 16. Adrian Cyfer (Euro Finannce Polonia Piła) R1. Zbigniew Suchecki (MDM Komputery TŻ Ostrovia) R2. Oskar Bober (Speed Car Motor Lublin) 4 qualifiers from each semi with 1st reserve from Poznan and 2nd reserve from Ostrow

We've got what we've got, if we went to support our clubs with the same enthusiasm as Polish people, bought merchandise like they obviously do, were proud to support our team as they are, chanted and cheered our team like they do then we might have a different product on our hands. Their clubs have EVERYTHING going for them, support from every which way, TV, council, fans and sponsors. Every rider is desparate to get a ride out there as the rewards are good. They can't go wrong. Compare that to the UK!

I can't imagine how the Coventry match on Sunday would have affected track prep for Monday night - had the weather remained dry. At Lakeside, we used to have the track ready for Monday night Sky Meetings - even after banger cars had been running on the Sunday afternoon/evening. That included building the fences and airbags up from scratch. And 5 hours of cars knocking 20 shades of the proverbial out of each other caused significantly more damage to the track than I'd imagine a National League meeting ever could.

Speedway is now a "Team Sport "that the individuals ride for every Team nowadays.Can you really take it serious these days?.

I’m perfectly happy to call out Redcar fans and riders when I think they are in the wrong. Every team has fans whose behaviour doesn’t reflect well on the team. If I thought JBA’s move was wilfully designed to cause Worrall harm I would say so but in my opinion it wasn’t.

The BBC forecast was wrong, forecasting no rain until 9pm and the Met Office got it right. The management made the correct call. Covers would save some meetings but would have been no help at all tonight. I can see why you say that because of Auty's performance at the NSS but he is inconsistent and Wright is a better rider overall and certainly so at PL level. I don't think there is anyone on Worrall's average who is likely to get close to his current scoring at Belle Vue but personally I would choose Wright over Auty because although Auty might do better if it's one of his good days Wright will more often score more.

Equally many people in speedway prefer to watch and support a team, be able to watch all the action and have no interest in motorcycles. Speedway is a team sport that happens to use motorcycles rather than a motorsport and also has the odd individual championship as an extra bonus

How About giving Nathan Greaves a chance.

The Speedway star is very important to Speedway i can't ever imagine not ever having it touch wood it goes on for years to come.The bumper March edition for me people would pay extra for it it is certainly worth it certainly from my perspective.

Hmmm, I tend to agree with you however reading back your wording on some of your posts i would suggest you reign it in a little. The guys who were posting are decent reliable who don't post BS. Yes we were all concerned about Doyle but there are many people on here who know the Polish scene very well and have direct connects into the meetings and deserve respect and not to be sniped at. HenryW and Racers and Royals are certainly two people who know what they are talking about and don't deserve snarky remarks. Anyway we are all glad he is ok and we move on......

Not interested in your snidey comments and predictions go talk about your own p--s poor team.

Correct. Especially when riders are rusty through no practice, the last thing that a rider or a team wants is to be denied the opportunity to get some practice in. The meeting was lost early.

......and he will have been dumped as well.

I think you'll find they need the sales to grasstrack and overseas supporters. Small price to pay for the survival of a magazine that, let's be honest, was dumped by a major publisher (IPC) and had to be rescued by the brave efforts and financial risk of its own editorial staff. With the sport collapsing in Britain they needed to do anything to prop sales up.

Reading the article Bachelor wasn't complaining so much at being sacked, accepting that it is not a problem if you disagree about something but about the way in which it was done, so close to the deadline for team changes as to deny him any chance of getting a team place elsewhere. He also makes some comments about Chapman which are similar to what has been said by people on here.

Ive just realised I forgot to renew my subscription!!!! Aaarrrggghhh!!!