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  1. The BSPA have seen fit to take away the license for Belle Vue Aces, but are adamant they will come up to tapes next season. This suggests to me that, firstly, talks are going on between all 3 parties, and that all 3 want to find a mutually agreeable solution, which is amazing in itself, but secondly a new consortium will be taking over... but that's not necessarily new faces. Dave Gordon stepping down means that the others could reasonably come together and form a "new" company with a new name, that enters into a whole new agreement with the council.


  2. Putting aside the issues of doubling up/down , are the likes of bomber and watt going to ride for premier money when they double down ? I doubt it , so how is this helping the likes of Workington or any premier team financially ?

    He seems to be implying he would, so we can only take him at face value. Don't forget it should be easier money in the PL given the standard of opposition, and maybe any lower income offsets the time/costs of travelling abroad. Plus he had to be losing money riding in the GPs, which he doesn't have now.


  3. one aspect which I do think should be addressed is the extra's that riders get from clubs , firstly I would just like to say riders deserve millions however the millions are not there so something has to change ,I recently saw the demands of a premier league rider and points money aside he was asking for the equivalent of £10000 in add on's up front , add on's being flights,van,mechanic ,workshop,signing on fee + a few other things and this seems to be the norm these days, ive even heard of national league riders asking for some of these things , now can clubs really afford this ? if all 7 wanted this then that's £70000 even before a wheel has been turned , I heard today of one of the tracks in financial trouble hadn't paid the lease money for their reserve riders van and it was returned to the company ,why is he even getting a van ?

    Because money talks and even if this practise was banned there would still be ways around it, backhanders and "incentives". If that's the amounts you've heard about I can only imagine those which you haven't.


  4. I will give it go but I'd feel a lot better, if I knew we had Elite League, sorry, SCB Prem speedway to look forward to.

    I think, for me, the worst part will be seeing our riders being distributed amongst other teams. That feels like we're waving goodbye to the Lakeside team, as a whole, not just the individuals.

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  5. Just thought I'd bung this article in here and duck for cover.

     

    http://sportowefakty.wp.pl/zuzel/641055/przyczepny-12-jak-zostac-mistrzem-i-zrazic-do-siebie-ludzi

     

    "Another thing that is equally absurd as Greg's behaviour are the voices calling for depriving him of his title. The American gained it through injury to a rival - but he won it by working hard all season, and his behaviour in Melbourne, although extremely unsportsmanlike, should not have anything to do with it."


  6. It did happen in Sweden did it not?

    Yeah, it did, officially, but I've not seen any evidence that it happened in practice. To remove his points would have changed teams' league points and meeting results, which I don't think happened, possibly because no one could be bothered to go back through them all and work out the ramifications at the end of an already decided league situation. I stand to be corrected though, and will check up on it later.

     

    Edited to say SVEMO are still showing the results as unaltered. He even rode in the meeting following the Latvian GP, and those results remain unchanged, as do the others.

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  7. ...and they are surprisingly joined by Hans Nielsen who thinks the exclusion was a farce.

     

    Perhaps not so surprising when you consider he wouldn't use Denmark's best option for the World Cup race-off squad, and the reasons he gave for that decision, which ultimately cost Denmark their place in the final. Great rider, but questionable opinions.


  8. Emil was injured for the qualifiers.

    Whilst that's true, it's not clear whether he would have taken part in them anyway. He said at the beginning of the season he wanted to come back to the GPs eventually, but the time wasn't now. His quote when asked about the series that "my plan for the 2016 season is to ride through it without injury, equipment issues and financial problems" seems to suggest the qualifiers weren't yet in his plans, but I guess only he knows the answer.

     

    That said, he's obviously ready now, and he will be a big draw.


  9. Given that they've missed a simple word from the first sentence of the rule, I think a lot of people are overestimating the ability of whoever wrote it to string together a comprehensive sentence...which throws the meaning of anything else written into question.

     

    I think we have to assume the FIM know what their interpretation of that rule is, have applied it accordingly, and considered it to be the end of the matter.


  10. SAT behind her at Teterow and she spent most of the meeting taking a selfie VIDEO :mad:

    Would be interested to know the timeframe of their split. It was obviously post Teterow, where he only scored 7 points and didn't make the semis, but could it have been pre Rybnik a week later when he won the SEC and seemed to be experiencing a turnaround in form?

     

    Anyway, wildcards...while I'm disappointed not to see Laguta, and also think a case could have been made for Hampel, I'm okay with these picks. Certainly stops any ramifications from the should he/shouldn't he be disqualified argument re Hancock. :)


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    It is rather ironic that the only reason Play-offs were brought in to the PL in the first place was that SKY said they would show the Final LIVE, then changed their minds. Despite the fact SKY show a few meetings through the season, they have no interest, it seems, in showing the 'important' PL stuff!!

    Don't feel singled out as they have no interest in showing much of the EL either. If you're not Wolves or Poole you apparently don't matter. Same with any big company - they do what they want and to hell with everyone else.


  12. Taken from Monarchs Chatzone (I'm afraid I'd lost interest by then)

    Ht 13 S Worrall, S Lawson, R Worrall, K Wolbert

    Ht 15 R Worral, A Summers, E Riss, S Worrall F/ex

     

     

    Thanks but the problem is the discrepancies between the Chatzone, the Edinburgh website and the official scorecard, which is why I was hoping for a first hand source. :) Preferably one that doesn't confuse me further this early on a Sunday. :D

  13. On form this year Laguta is probably the only other outsider that might have a genuine claim that I can think of.

    Assuming you mean Grigorij, he's the one addition I think would make the series more exciting and would welcome with open arms. Emil would be an added attraction ( I never said that in public :P ) , as would, obviously, Nicki P.


  14. Congratulations to Bartosz Zmarzlik for his incredible achievement, which seems to have been forgotten amongst all this, and also to Niels Kristian Iversen for making it into the top 8. Some exciting riders in the series next year - I'm really looking forward to it already.

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  15. You can probably say the same about most clubs tbh.

     

    But for me the biggest winner of our successful season is undoubtedly Dave Parry.Without his funds propping the club up,hate to think where we would be now.

     

    I know lots of sponsors that would have given up long ago,given our dismal performances of the last few seasons.

    But he stuck by us,and our title triumph is a just and worthly reward for his outstanding loyalty.

    I've been meaning to ask for a while, and your post have given me the opportunity, but is the sponsor, Dave Parry, the same guy who rode for Wolves in the 60s?
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