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An absolutely crazy situation to allow one rider to have his ban lifted but not the other. An absolute farce of a decision.

Great to know that any rider can be a complete Bell end now, start a fight and get away with it now that a precedent has been set. Or does it depend who you get on your knees for ?

At last, a proper fan starting a thread, well done

Whatever the provocation (and there was most definitely provocation) the man threw punches at the very least. if he gets no ban at all while Kennett and Vissing do; it will be a complete mockery of a decision.

BSPA can't make changes to SCB matters.

Must be one of the biggest scandals in modern speedway, that teams were paid £100k a season, and many of them did nothing but spend it on one rider for a season. The long term things you could do with that money.

There is not enough difference between the two leagues now. In the days when Stoney was hitting maximums week in week out at workington he would do a meeting in the elite league and score 5 points as a reserve or second string. Nowadays championship heat leaders can be heat leaders in the premiership. The whole set up has lost its way and teams have lost their identities.

I'm not bothered about getting into an argument about comparing averages, but the main thing that I miss from those days is the identity each team seemed to have, which is missing now. You knew the type of team (style wise) that each team would turn up with, there was always a good atmosphere with fans and usually some flash points with heroes/villains. Nowadays there's little, if any, of that kind of stuff. It seems like you could transplant any of the PL teams into another one now and nobody would bat an eyelid - if Leicester's 1-7 was signed by Sheffield, for instance, nobody would think any differently. It used to be a treat seeing the likes of Wilson, Stonehewer, Shields, Bjerre, etc coming to your track and taking on your number 1 (inflated averages or not) but now everything just seems so dull in the PL. The lack of teams has certainly contributed but it just seems an overall lack of personality in all parts (riders, teams, clubs).

Only just seen this link - intimidating atmosphere ? Blimey i thought these tough northerners could handle a few pensioners and kids booing at them.

150 Sheffield fans and 2 neutrals.

We all saw what all parties did. Eastbourne have got away with no penalty for there disgraceful part of the fracas.

We don't want him to

Nothing good about it. We all saw what Cook did. If he loses the appeal the ban should increase and he will certainly be hit with costs.

craig has got the right to appeal in which he has

I think Jon Cook made that sneer when he learned New Holland tractors - who had apparently turned down a Lakeside request for sponsorship - had linked up with Berwick. He reportedly contacted the NH bosses to tell them they should drop Berwick ("only a tin-pot Northern club" ) and link with the Hammers. Which they immediately - - didn't. Don't think it had anything to do with the late lamented Rockets.

Blobby up and out too early to have seen this morning’s SCB statement.....

Ah well that makes it alright then!!

WHO CARES!!!!! If you're ASSAULTED you are..... ASSAULTED!!! Jeeez. Re your point about the thread's gone mental, yeah it might help if folk didn't keep splitting hairs. You make daft claims about the assault being "fake news" cos you wanna split hairs about how it was achieved. Listen mate I couldn't care less. If somebody is ASSAULTED they are ASSAULTED. That's it. Re your point that I need to look at my own post and poster Red Flag. No I don't mate, I did (already) note the nuance of difference in how the assault had been achieved but had also (already) figured that... it DIDN'T MATTER, i.e. an assault is... an assault, regardless. I know it was Red Flag that mentioned about the assault, at least he made sense!! You then march on blabbering on about it being 'fake news'. The essence of it was it was an assault. If you wanna split hairs that's your problem mate. Christ you'd fight with your shadow!! Is your brain fake!!

Only one of these posts is rubbish, and it’s not the first one...... I think ‘Wealdstone’ got it spot on.

DC watches his Speedway at King's Lynn so that's exactly what he's saying. Racings crap, atmospheres crap but it's still value for money Apparently, Speedway fans should keep paying their hard earned £18 even though they're not enjoying the product If tracks close down, the finger is firmly on the owner, not being able to bring in enough punters to make it sustainable. That's where the buck stops. No blame and finger pointing should be had towards the fans at all. Fans are NOT responsible for the death of a once (and still can be) a great sport

It's well known that Tungate is poor at Monmore, nothing to do with 'wobbling', he hasn't got enough skill to get round. Riders who think the throttle only has one position i.e. on, will always suffer at Sutherland avenue. And so it should be.

Could have been worse 'the Cookie monster ate my hamster'

Oh goody, delay the ban and then what a shame misses the away meeting at Poole when it finally gets banned I hope all the people appealing get longer bans cos it's ridiculous.

I had a chat with Buster earlier,, and he said that Debbs is a lying xxxx. What he did say though is, if he could get all of Mr Greens alias to turn up to meetings, he would have to double the size of the stand.

My view is that the club is more important than the owner . If supporters stop going to punish the current owner then they are effectively closing the club down. If that is what you want that is your affair , but it will be you that closes the club not the owner. Nobody is going to continue to lose money indefinitely. What supporters should be doing IMO is to create a club that another party would like to take over. The above is not in any way an endorsement of Mr Chapman