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  1. 3 points
    Thanks for the feedback. It does really show why you would have to be start raving bonkers to invest in a track or a club where you are not allowed at the top table for a few years during which you are told when and how you run your business and any decisions made by those who are at best only considering their own self interest yet they can materially affect your bottom line and you have to accept it even if it makes no sense.They also want you to put up a bond in the knowledge that they can change the rules at anytime that can be detrimental to you and your business and you can do nowt about it and if you pull the plug you effectively get fined even though continuation could leave you with substantial losses. You have a sport run by a few incompetent people and yet next step up in the chain of command is the ACU who are in effect condoning the behaviour of a collective body that is not fit to run the sport. Good luck to anyone mad enough to invest in speedway.
  2. 2 points
    Just caught us with this ,just another sad and standard tale of someone who is hooked on Herion . Once your hooked you become a different person and will do and anything to fund your Habit even if it means hurting your family My heart go's out to his mum who quite clearly will not give up on her son no matter what he has done .
  3. 2 points
    With respect, I struggle to see what good - for the rider and the team - having Kyle Bickley in a Premiership team would be. He has failed to reach his 2 point Championship starting average and really needs to substantially exceed that before moving up. I’m not knocking him in any way - in my view, he arrived with too much hype and needs to gain more experience, and points, before thinking about moving up. The bravest thing for him to do would be to say no to the top league until he has become a Championship top scorer.
  4. 1 point
    I have heard that showground availability is one of the reasons that Peterborough are going up as very few clashes mid week where as they already know that there are 5 Sunday’s from March until May that the stadium is not available. It also makes sense with local matches against Kings Lynn and Ipswich plus possibly Leicester depending on decisions with the level of racing in Championship
  5. 1 point
    totally. agree quick enough to sack riders so that means contract dont mean much either
  6. 1 point
    Always one in every village...
  7. 1 point
    He'll be used to them by now, BB.
  8. 1 point
    He'll be nursing his hangover today
  9. 1 point
    Try doing a PM to THJ on here. Look in your profile for a link to it. He doesn't bite that much.
  10. 1 point
    My honest belief is the Robins faithful are going to be very disappointed. As much as I am an Oxford fan. I feel for them. The sport unless it gets one hell of a shake up is dead on its feet in this country
  11. 1 point
    I remember him, came to Hull with Oxford in 1995 and maybe also in 1996 with the Cradley/Stoke venture, a tall-ish rider with a fairly upright style, bit like Per Jonsson as mentioned. Seem to recall he was highly rated but had some kind of accident and was never the same afterwards. Bit of a sense of humour too, unless I'm mistaking him for someone else....
  12. 1 point
    I don't need to save up. I have £25k saved up and I'm only 22. I'm going places.
  13. 1 point
    Finally managed to catch up with Blair`s appearance and my thoughts are this, firstly I hope Blair gets and completes the treatment he was off to start at the end of the show which helps to heal at least some of the rifts that clearly remain within his family and sees him remain clean. Unfortunately I have zero sympathy for him, he has put himself in the situation he is in, and dragged his family down with him, he has lied to and stolen from his close family and split his family asunder right up to the point where his mother has lied to her husband. Whether he can be reconciled with all of his family remains to be seen but hopefully his appearance on tv the other day is his turning point in his life.
  14. 1 point
    rider of the year- cookie most impressive team- worky team rider of the year- campton for staying and risking his job for next year one to watch- theo pijper (good young rider with bags of potential and put over a point on his average after signing for Berwick) bulldog- auty meeting of the season- edinburgh v berwick (league) suprise of the season- berwick bandits gentlemans club underpeformers- sheffield unluckiest- kerr newcomer- kemp
  15. 1 point
    would or did you attend the last meeting v lakeside ? workington could also have finished second if they had completed all their league fixtures . lets make it equal second and call it a day , eh . workington,lakeside, eastbourne and mildenhall may get slapped on the where ever . but to fine them all shed loads of cash is not on . fine the two just men that caused it, not the teams ..
  16. 1 point
    Speaking to people in and around belle vue I don't think He will be back. He will be at Glasgow who will either be in same league as us or riding Friday for them on same race night. So He will have to pick and choose. A full season at glasgow will do him good. He's very happy there. It was good to see a smile on his face again soon as he signed for them. I'm 50/50 with Worrall heart saying keep him. Head saying go top heavy. We have kept the nucleus of the same team for near enough 4 years. We have failed to deliver when it matters all those years. Think the owners will while the slate clean and start a fresh
  17. 1 point
    Once you have declared your side within whatever points limit/rider numbers, no team changes allowed except for long term injury. R/R to be employed to cover any non availability due to other comitments or injury lasting less than 6 weeks.
  18. 1 point
    from a simple selfish point of view i hope 2019 is the same as 2018 as ive seen some outstanding speedway this year at many tracks,and for 15 or 16 quid ive been very well entertained the racing at Scunny has been top draw this year,seen excellent meetings on well prepped tracks at Boro,Redcar ,Workington,Sheffield etc, plus the BT sports presentation of the League and the GPs have been tip top,Also enjoyed the unfancied teams emerging this year such and Worky and Berwick [ ill even confess to become a secret Bandits fan toward the end] only bad meeting ive seen all year was the Swindon dust bowl on TV i hope the clubs with an uncertain future manage to find solutions and arrive at the tapes next season and entertain me as much as they have this year
  19. 1 point
    Its Big Tony, Garys dad that will keep him grounded, and there is hope that he will also keep Gary grounded as well.
  20. 1 point
    As I said, would love the opportunity to watch Leon race regularly, if his progression in the sport is elsewhere to the benefit of his career, then I am happy whatever his decision. He is it a stage where sentiment is launched right out of the window. He owes Berwick speedway nothing, most of his progression has been elsewhere, and with the support of Big Tony is all of his own doing.
  21. 1 point
    'Hello Dragons, I'm the Chairman of the BSPA and we're looking for an investment of £200,000 for a....' 'We're out'.
  22. 1 point
    One of the major cancers affecting british speedway is the farcical way in which the published league fixture list is ripped up by some clubs on a whim. Is it any wonder hardly any fans travel away now.? Booking an overnight stay even a week in advance has proven to be a very risky thing to do as some clubs treat potential visiting fans with potential long journeys with utter contempt. One wonders if any clubs will ever arrange any formal away travel ever again... I cannot imagine any credible sport allows individual clubs to cancel fixtures like we have to put up with. Totally unprofessional and the fact they are allowed to do it so regularly sums up the awful lack of governance of our sport. To be honest I don't think they deserve us fans they still have. This season has been so awful with so many fixtures still outstanding which was totally avoidable. The whole prevalence of self-interest by so many clubs is galling and a major reason why the sport is losing fans.
  23. 1 point
    The thing is we live in different times now when everything is down to money. I was lucky being an Ipswich supporter to have been able to regularly watch the likes of Thomas Gollob, Tony Rickardsson, Denis Sigalas, Peter Moore etc. But Speedway is no different from other forms of entertainment, As a youngster I regularly went to my local theatre and was able to watch a music show with the likes of Cliff Richard, Cilla Black, Tom Jones all on the same bill. I once saw the Beatles and Roy Orbison in the SAME show just for a few pounds, now it costs a fortune to see an ageing rockstar (Rod Stewart) at Portman Road. Comedians like Dave Allen, Des O Connor, Harry Worth used to appear just as comperes, now to see Michael McIntyre I need to take out a mortgage and have to go to the O2 and watch him on a large TV screen. The days of being able to see the stars at our local track will never return, so sadly No, I don' t think it is any longer viable.
  24. 1 point
    Sorry but the current product has to change. I was at Lakeside last night watching Craig Cook thrash others (apart from Lawson). Keep a top league by all means but allowing top riders into both leagues is wrong. The sport has in the past only profited rider wise by keeping a production line of new riders and this has been stifled in previous years. Time to change before it’s too late and if that means weakening the product then so be it.
  25. 1 point
    Tbh, I think you’re kidding yourself about the “professionalism of this promotion”. They were handed a ready made stadium, a ready made track and a ready made team manager and done what exactly? Where are the new sponsors and the new supporters? Look at what Glasgow have done if you want to see professionalism. Turned an absolute dump into a smart welcoming little stadium with good food and bars, clean toilets and promotional activities that are almost unmatched. Plus entertainment all through the meeting and new sponsors. The result is that crowds have more than doubled and supporters are properly engaged. That surely is professionalism.
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