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  1. 22 hours ago, StevePark said:

    I'm assuming this is for me (!), so here goes.  Yes you are correct, you must have two promoters, in case something happens to one of them, so that the Tim Stone scenario didn't happen again.

    Granty had to have an experienced promoter alongside him when he took over and Dave Tattum came on board.  When Dave became ill, I believe Neil Machin stepped in to help Rob out in that respect (but I could be wrong on this).  Of course he (RG) later added Steve Pate and Dave Tinning to the promotion.

    Was that just on paper to make it easier for him, and are you sure they both went through the required interview and investigation for new appointees. ? 


  2. 3 hours ago, Ghosty said:

    I'm sure Rob Grant lost a load of dosh in his attempt running Newcastle but he did step forward & give it a go, so you must give him some credit.

    Was he up to the job? probably not, did he get much or any help from the BSPL probably not. Should he have been given permission to run Newcastle speedway by the BSPL? 

    Overall I think Rob Grant is the biggest loser in all this & it's now time to move on.

    There are some who believe he didn't lose that much after all. Given the profits from the catering, and plus the begging bowl (twice), it would have lessened the amount to an acceptable level to put through his business. 

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  3. 3 hours ago, scampispeedway said:

    HectorRacing, as Rob Grant was the only one who was willing to continue to run Speedway the last time,

    I doubt with what has happened since we closed and everything has been cleared out from Brough Park

    that it would take someone with loads and I mean loads of money to get it started again.

    Even Rob Grant had to go into partnership with a former promoter to get started and so the chances of

    Newcastle Re-opening with a complete unknown to the SCB are very small.

     

    Yes but he didn't do a good job did he ?  He has very good at selling burgers/chips but, with his restricted investment in the team, even his food income dwindled dramatically and the usual queues quickly disappeared. Took us for mugs and both years he thought we would support any crap that he put on the track for the Diamonds. Now lords it big at Berwick wearing his Diamonds jacket. Oh the irony.     

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  4. 1 hour ago, Nickinho said:

    Why is it not possible? Football clubs have been financed and run by fans before. And speedway costs are nowhere near what it would cost to own a football club. Let's say 100 fans investing £1,000 each. That's £100,000 which is a start. I never said anything about buying a stadium. One could be leased and adapted into a speedway venue or a new site could be bought and the basic necessities could be added piece-meal. Then there's sports grants from councils/govt etc. The least we could be doing is looking into it instead of just saying it can't be done. 

    No chance of 100 people putting up £1000 anywhere.

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  5. 2 hours ago, Edin03 said:

    Great news. Common sense to get Speedway back at Armadale. The land owners were never going to sell the land for the price asked, so it's good news on both sides to continue with speedway.


  6. 2 minutes ago, Diamonds85 said:

    Lack of interest... It would help if it was advertised somewhere??? I didn't even have a clue it was on and I would like to think I'm pretty active online on the speedway websites... Sums up the death of the club tbh, we were cr@p at advertising things when we existed and we couldn't even advertise our final ever event, wonderful.

    Yes I read an announcement that there was an intention to hold a Get together meeting in November, and was waiting for the date and venue. 


  7. 4 hours ago, Skidder1 said:

    So the 2000 and the 600 are all full paying adults? I don't think so. Plus how much sponsorship  and advertising revenue do Oxford get? You really need to get down to Poole and see a big crowd. And once again no disrespect to Oxford who have done a great job. Long may it continue.

    When I was was with the Diamonds, I used the figure of 63% of all admissions were full paying adults for planning and from analysis. 


  8. 5 minutes ago, Fromafar said:

    The forecast is not good but as they are having to ride it this weekend the riders will be coming up anyway.

    Not true. If Edinburgh can confirm it is off early, Colts riders, management, sponsors and supporters can do something useful today and make new plans to travel tomorrow. Why travel and end up sleeping in vans or having to book into a hotel.


  9. 3 hours ago, Derrickn said:

    My mind could be playing tricks on me,but I can't help thinking I went to a meeting somewhere over the Christmas period. It would have been late 60s or 70ts,probably in Yorkshire.Of course,it could be senility setting in.

    Tim Stone of Newport tried several attempts to put a speedway meeting on for a few years during the Xmas period. I think some had to be cancelled because of snow. That would be late 90's and early 00's.


  10. Has anybody had any proof that it was said the Grant claimed the wages of the catering from Newcastle Speedway, but put the catering income through his catering account. If true, is that not illegal especially when the speedway account goes bust, and the takings not taken into account to pay creditors. 

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  11. 4 hours ago, HectorRacing said:

    What did folk think of the new email we all got?

    Grant has certainly come out of this smelling of roses. A large creditor himself, and no sign of the GoFund money, Where is all the money he has coined in recently for the disposal of track equipment. And of course all of the food income has probably already been through his own account. Talking to someone yesterday and they thought Rob would not have lost anything given where all the loose change money that is not identified.  Even got himself  down as a creditor getting a share of the £6000 assets available.

    Rob Grant, the worst Promoter Speedway has ever had. 

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  12. 59 minutes ago, Fortythirtyeight said:

    appear to be “ is the correct phrase.

    It clearly isn’t as a suspected user was ‘randomly selected ‘ in all his teams 5 checks in one season and when the testers were asked how the ‘ random selecting’ was done no response was given, even when asked to test all 14 riders present to make it ‘ fair ‘ but the request was turned down.

    The individual passed every test.

    Likewise for checking engines. A ride with a suspected 'big' engine tends to be tested more by careful selection. I think it still gets out and the rider puts another engine in that conforms. A well known rider at the top of his game reputed to be riding a big engine. Sure enough he was selected, but he just smirked his way throughout the examination. I suggest his club tipped him off. Our rider that was chosen was Dickie Juul. He knew why the other rider was suspected but as he claimed, why should it cost me £400 to put my engine back together when I only get £50 as the rules dictated. I must admit for the first time I agreed with him.


  13. 7 hours ago, THE DEAN MACHINE said:

    That's probably why most of the guilty have got away with it over the years 

    NO not true. One Aussie in the 90s at Brough was obviously under the influence, and the club withdrew him when he "sprained his back" getting the tools out of the van. it would be ludicrous if he wasn't picked and rode whilst 2 others were tested and clean. Now that would be when he would have got away with it.

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  14. 6 minutes ago, geoff100 said:

    No he done the first 2 seasons when they returned in 1999.

    Yes thanks, got it the wrong way around. Barry at Worky was better in the box, as he didn't seen to have the same confidence when out with the mic on the centre green.

    I've known Barry since his first stint in the 60 's at Newcastle, and played Darts with him for many years in the 60's.

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  15. Just now, geoff100 said:

    Am sure he was the voice at " st james park " aswell.?

    He was at St James Park for awhile working alongside Alan Robson of "Night Owl, Fame from Metro Radio. Something happened with Alan, and Barry was then dropped as well with a new presenter coming in.


  16. On 8/9/2022 at 12:00 PM, THE DEAN MACHINE said:

    Whilst on the subject of barker over the weekend I learnt that drug tests have to random, even if someone gives a name of a rider that is suspected of taking drugs to the testers they can’t target that rider, I suppose they could say it was random but they know a certain rider was in a certain race or meeting 

    Any rider can be tested if there are strong reasons to believe he would be dangerous in a racing situation. What would be the point  of just testing random riders and finding them drug free, when others could strongly suggest another rider would definitely fail the test.

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