Rob Lee

Animals eat other animals. It's natural and it's called the food chain - we just happen to be at the top of the food chain. Should we try to stop owls eating mice, lions eating antelopes etc? If birds and other little creatures didn't eat insects (they are God's creatures too), there'd be much less healthy grain for the vegans to eat.

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Just thought I'd have a quick look to see how Swindon's new stadium was coming along, but I seem to have stumbled onto a Belle Vue slanging match thread.

What?? Name another sport where a competitor can represent two different teams in the same week.

Grand Central has hit the nail on the head. If you don't break the tapes then it's a fair start. Otherwise, what is the point of the tapes????

Wasn't thinking just of 5-1s against them, but how many times between them they failed to beat an opponent, whether riding together or not.

Not saying that Harris & Andersen are not a strong top two when they both turn up and dial their bikes in properly, but maybe one of the forum statisticians could work out which top pairing had the most 3rds & last places between them......? Might be the same two.

You can please some of the people all of the time ......etc etc. Most people on here argue for continuity instead of team changes every year. Come to think of it, Robbo is something different - when did he last ride for us?

On the subject of porcine aviation, another way to reduce engine costs would be for the promoters to pay the riders only what the sport can afford, so the riders wouldn't have the money to spend on trick engines. Then maybe admission prices could be reduced or at least pegged and attendances might go up. If the GP riders didn't like that, tough. The GP has already emasculated team / league speedway in this country.

Spot on. A few people have said it in different ways in this topic, but it doesn't matter where the engine comes from or how cheap it is to buy, riders will understandably tweak it to try & get an advantage, then the costs will spiral. The only way to cap costs is to have a standard engine with a ban on any mods (for league racing - you'd have to have more freedom for GP riders). Ideally, each track would have a stock of engines and they'd be allocated at random at the start of a meeting. Ideally.................was that a pig that just fluttered by? Happy new year

Ta. Makes sense as long as it only applies to EL 2nd strings.

Admittedly my arithmetic ain't what it used to be (fades with age), but those figures didn't look right, so I got out the calculator. 1/1.4 = 0.7142 and 1/0.6 = 1.666. So there are different conversion factors depending whether you are going up or down. Is it deliberate (if so what's the logic), or is it dodgy accounting or maybe just in the best interests of British Speedway?

Like the rolling reference. When I've seen him at Cov, his rolling average was about 3 starts out of 4. I'm actually really pleased that we've got the King of the rollers, 'cos we usually have a team full of racers (i.e. blokes who need a week's notice in writing to make the gate..!!).

Blimey! It's been 60 years since I was last given that sentence. My wife said that nothing good would come of this forum thingy. She'll probably confiscate my laptop when she finds out.

Ho hum... Got that wrong big time, didn't I? Not only got my facts wrong (Should have known about Cov's 2006/7 teams, I was a regular at Brandon in those days), but got my knuckles rapped by the thread police ably represented by Steve0. Merry Christmas.