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  1. 6 points
    I couldnt care less where we finish as long as the club and the sport survive but thats the difference in your mentality. You would rather win the league and watch clubs disappear. If we come bottom i dont mind as long as we get value for money in the racing and the club doesnt go under
  2. 4 points
    Whatever the rights and wrongs , its such a shame Cookies 8 yrs as a BV rider as ended this way
  3. 3 points
    He who laughs last doesn’t get the joke.
  4. 2 points
    Is it not all just all a bit pathetic to introduce this rule,just opens a can of worms.Woffy will be looking for Team now.If that’s the best they can can up with it show how pathetic the sport is run IMO.Your are negating the benefit it is meant to help young riders but letting riders who have been riding for 20 + years have a reduction NOW.
  5. 2 points
    Heeps is a seriously overrated Aussie. Would be a poor signing for anyone in the Premiership.
  6. 2 points
    When you consider some of the other teams so far, going with 1 heatleader will be a disaster
  7. 2 points
    Very pleased to see Luke Ruddick get a chance. I have been a fan since his early days at Mildenhall and he's improved season on season in the NL, with a near 1.5 jump last year. Its a massive leap from the NL to the Championship but there's no doubt he'll give it everything he's got.
  8. 2 points
    Its difficult to see where the sport is going in term of finance,as it doesn’t seem much has been addressed and there is no way that crowd levels will dramatically increase in the sport by charging to much for children and families.Kids have to go free to inticed the fans of the future and hope some stick with it.
  9. 2 points
    Whatever Buster wants
  10. 1 point
    The problem with no adult, is they run around all over the place making a pest of themselves
  11. 1 point
    Simple answer is kids go free but accompanied by a paying adult, based on 1 adult 1 or 2 children
  12. 1 point
    Loyalty cuts both ways. Belle Vue stood by Cook as well. From many posts, it seems that this was a matter of terms. As much as I would have wanted him to stay with the Aces, if he was asking for more than they were prepared to pay I totally agree with the decision to show him the door. Its about time other promotions had a sense of financial responsibility - we have seen Glasgow banging on about continual 6 figure losses but word is that they are again throwing serious money about to get who they want for this season. Its anything but the first time we have had a situation where a rider says one thing about his departure, the club says another and I suspect we'll never know the truth of the matter(Acef's point above, however, is a very fair one). It has all the appearance of a childish slanging match but if someone was being untruthful about me I'd almost certainly respond.
  13. 1 point
    Armo, Bowen, Hurry, Clifton all ruled out as only 1 rider who has obtained a 2nd tier average of 4 at some point in their career (even if that rider obtained that average 1/4 of a century ago when there was no third tier). With Monday's looking most likely now JT cones back into the frame. I d like to see Kemp Ablitt Spooner plus one other personally.
  14. 1 point
    Disagree let's see eh?
  15. 1 point
    Does that mean they will be sh!te?
  16. 1 point
    Lewis Kerr is the real deal. He will love Arlington (and we will love him) and and away from home, he will be magic. Too many people under-estimate the Eastbourne effect on riders.
  17. 1 point
    DC loud in the close season. Come July he will disappear again with Swindon croaking again.
  18. 1 point
    Does this drip feed of information happen anywhere else? Polish fans knew who was in their teams weeks ago. Why wouldn't Sheffield, Somerset and Scunthorpe want 7 newspaper articles if they thought it was good for them? Like many things in Speedway, this is outdated thinking, perpetuated by those who can't or won't move with the times.
  19. 1 point
    Agree but we’re in a different stratosphere in terms of losses. I get that speedway is run on a shoestring and promoters deserve a hell of a lot of credit for sticking with it but clubs need to cut their cloth. The point being made about riders thinking they have a right to remain professional in a struggling sport is also a valid one.
  20. 1 point
    Which is what I suspected before hand. craig is just your bog standard, run of the mill rider. It also ties in with the rumours that he wasn’t part of the plan. There are a couple of fan boys on social media, they know who they are some post on here, who engage mouth before brain. It’s good that the heart is there but sometimes you have to keep your counsel. Wish Craig all the best for the future but the time was right
  21. 1 point
    Klindt, fomerly a 4/6 shot to return to Poole has seen his odds drift right out to 16/1 following TNT's declaration he will be at Poole
  22. 1 point
    And ??? That just sells papers...it doesn't bring in 'new' supporters! ?
  23. 1 point
    I think you still need riders with an affinity for the club and more importantly riders that the fans can see have an affinity for the club....I can still remember the old Bradford team having a great relationship with the fans , most based fairly local and ready to mingle with the fans..they broke that up for fly in fly out stars like Tatum and Nilsen and were successful on the track but much less so off the track and the whole thing closed for a number of reasons. Losing Cook is a big mistake..
  24. 1 point
    Nobody really knows why Craig as been omitted from BV , high wage demands are just speculation, what I will say is that after 8 years at Belle Vue , CC was everything you’d want from a Speedway rider ... loyal , committed, gave 100% every meeting , i certainly wish him the best wherever he ends up
  25. 1 point
    I remember a few years back our team in the 2nd division was Doyle, Nick Morris and Josh Graz' so what's changed, have the riders costs gone way up and why? as a result are riders asking for more money? are the owners of some stadium's charging more rent? Is the financial situation so bad Somerset cannot reduce admission for OAP's? If people are going to pay more for less something needs to be done to make an evening at speedway more than 15 minutes of racing. There is now plenty of speedway on TV, you have Swedish and Polish speedway with top stars. So why would you want to go and stand in the cold to watch it live. If it was football, or Darts or many other sports the answer would be, Well it not the same on TV you don't get the atmosphere. and there's the problem, speedway at many tracks has no atmosphere, love them or hate them air horns added to the excitement, the jingles like you have 2 minutes, or music specific to each rider or wipe out when you got a 5-1, or perhaps even one firework at the end of a meeting, or not doing interviews when the tractor grade obliterates the riders reply, or a club mascot for the kids, (used to think Wolverhampton's Mr Wolf was great). I remember the old Bristol flag man dressed up in his flashy suit, dancing around when he waved the flag. It's difficult if you don't have a grandstand as people are spread around, but there is no excuse not to play up to date mood and uplifting music to create excitement, or an announcer who sounds enthusiastic. Why in boxing do the competitors get such an over the top introductions, it's not to make the match boring is it. Speedway does nothing to attract new young customers, and the old boys, who make up a large percentage of the fans, will drift away because of it's no longer value for money and they will sit in front of the fire in the warm with a glass of wine and remember the old days when you could smell the methanol and the bikes were louder and your favourite rider ( for whom you had his coffee cup and rosette and badge) stayed for more than one season.
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