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Skidder1

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  1. 3 hours ago, HGould said:

    I saw on Countryfile that South West eg Devon and Cornwall had 300% of average winter rainfall from 1 December to 29 February.

    I cancelled a week in mates cottage from Thursday for a week on basis of forecast down there next 10 days last weekend. 

    Off to Portugal tomorrow. 

    Plymouth rain off won't be because of this week it'll be past 3 months. 

    Hopefully they can sign someone for a month as they seem confident Covatti will be back on early May. 

    We'll done them for not paying 4 figure sums especially after Crump did them over big time

     

    Just back from Portugal today. It was cool and raining when I left with similar forecast for Easter!! Enjoy.


  2. 31 minutes ago, lewy said:

    I was told different when doing my sponsorship deal aswell,and you been outed for lying on numerous occasions :nono:

    Whatever! The point being that the vast majority of Championship promotions voted for the lower limit so the BSPL Board members had to go with the majority and clubs will just have to get on with it.

    If you want to accuse a BSPL Management Board Director of lying, that's down to you!!

    Anyway moving on...I assume from the Plymouth Management video comments from p&p day, that Saturdays meeting may well be off as the track is not yet raceable?? (Ps that's a question, not a statement.)


  3. 1 hour ago, Hamster00 said:

    Sheffield have started their season with Tai already riding so would get the appropriate facility? So I’m not quite sure how that is the same as Plymouth losing a rider for the first portion of the season before it’s even started?

     

    I personally think a team starting a season with only 6 riders and say having to use an NDL guest to cover it completes strips away any ‘credibility’ the sport has.

    I feel the sport has spent a lot of time (Mainly Phil Morris) trying to restore some sort of credibility and excitement to British Speedway recently and I don’t think it’s good for the sport to put a club in a potentially untenable position moving forward.

    Promoting a speedway team and making it work in this day and age seems a tough gig at the best of times and the sport has often cut its nose off to spite its face in recent years, I feel this is potentially one of those times and I’d be really disappointed if Plymouth struggled financially or otherwise due to this.

    Phil Morris is only responsible to/for the Premiership, as CEO.

    As far as the Championship teams are concerned only Glasgow and Poole voted against the reduction to 38 points.


  4. 8 hours ago, szkocjasid said:

     

    Technically promoters have a right to suggest that, as riders should score more points than last season (without improving), due to a weaker league. 

    If every promoter did it, it could work, but we know that'll never happen.

    So every team is 'weaker', so 'riders should score more points'???

    If only admission prices were based purely on rider points!!

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  5. If it wasn't for some fans insisting rider announcements are started even before the previous season ends, then I'm sure teams wouldn't be confirmed/announced until January! Otherwise there is not a lot to promote in the final weeks run up, just as Poole - and others - are finding. Suffice to know that season ticket sales are booming and once again continuing their increasing numbers.

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  6. 15 hours ago, Diamonds85 said:

    Think this is one of the best Berwick teams in years and should, if all goes well, be nearer to the top of the league... However I just can't see anyone getting near Poole (Possibly Redcar but they look weaker with Knudsen instead of Jorgensen?). Poole's top 4 just look ridiculous and I think Hagon will do well at reserve. Don't think Tobias will be as bad as some think, but I don't think he will be spectacular either. Poole and Berwick top 2? Possibility.

    Nobody is expecting 'spectacular things' from Tobias!  Scoring to his average is all thats being looked at.

    Jewsons make Berwick a very solid-looking septet!;)


  7. 11 hours ago, Fozzie4388 said:

    According to the folks on BSN, Eurosport are showing 18 fixtures over the season

    Its always been 18-19 fixtures whether its Eurosport, BT Sports or Sky!!

    The difference this season is the slightly earlier start (April rather than May), possibly because this summer there are the Euros and the Olympics!


  8. On 3/7/2024 at 1:15 PM, iainb said:

    Are Thursday's Britain's to "give up"? I thought it was Monday and Wednesdays that were protected but we just elected to go for Thursday's instead, don't know how Denmark fits into that scenario? I thought it was all agreed at FIM level, could be wrong of course

    If it was Mons/Weds there would be every chance of Poole running at Prem level again!!

    However, the likes of Ipswich and Sheffield could be an issue.

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