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The trouble is when you need bits possibly just before the meeting starts or mid meeting and then go to settle up and the spares man has gone (, not usually in most cases) and then what? Chase them round the country when all that's needed is the spares van to contact the club and the club takes it out of the wages or speaks to the rider to get it payed back . Some of the spares vans aren't strict enough, you don't go shopping and pay for the goods sometime in the future! If at all , I think it boils down to trust and honesty on the part of the rider.

Edited to hypocritical

I'm sure Jason is aware of the consequences of making a public return and whatever team he rides for will remind him of this,but at the same time have a responsibility to help him too . Jason has broad shoulders so name calling and verbal abuse won't have a impact on him. If people don't want to go and watch the meeting he's in then away meetings are hardly affected because it's once or twice a season and home team ( whoever that might be) meetings would only affect the individuals who choose not to go which I doubt would be that many in the great scheme of things. Speedway is far from a mass spectator sport so no difference to people not going anyway for reasons like watching on streaming or being on holiday etc. There's also the hypocritical people who give it the " I'm not going" attitude and still go!! I've known people like this over the years.

One and borrowed tracks in the past other than where we are now. I was talking of the now and not in the past history.

Irrelevant, we are running and no talk of that changing but in this current climate nothing is definite like other clubs know to their sad ends.

And rode really well according to people who were there, not long till he's back in a team.

Let's see how yours is in a few years, if your still running that is !!! least at Berwick we've got covered seats, never hear any complaints about the track .

Says someone that talks absolute garbage

Again, I'm sure there's plenty fit in that category.

Nothing much to worry about, that applies to dozens of riders that spit their dummy out.

He's not the only speedway rider that's in your words "mentally unstable" , far from it .

Not forgetting other speedway criminals like jerran hart who with help from mate's beat up a member of the armed forces for fun or James purchase who killed someone through dangerous driving. I don't remember these individuals getting much stick and infact purchase was welcomed back to cradley with open arms. There's a few more riders who have done crimes similar. Jason hopefully has a second chance.

I think you might be proved wrong, this is speedway and anything can and does happen.

Your spot on with this analogy

But this is the whole problem, the standard of the ndl isn't going to get any better, speedway in this country needs to be rethought out because at the moment it's the same year in year out.

That's what these amateur meetings and practice days are for, any real talent could adapt to the situation. There's not enough in place to prevent the ndl going further into decline with juniors coming up through the years and missing out on a team place due to teams made up of poor riders.

Not only that, in general the racing is pretty boring to watch, yes I know these riders are ' developing ' but some can hardly race. And it should be alot cheaper to get in, the club running the meeting needs to accept this and it would probably attract a bigger crowd.

Exactly because at the moment the ndl is a complete waste of time .

Not bad after not riding for years, I would imagine he didn't really have any decent opponents.

Anyone know how Jason got on today

Freddy is ok , just a bent bike. Any updates on Lewis?

SpeedwaySlider72 is confused again, don't know why because its all there to see. That's if they actually attend any speedway or look at results.

The two Edinburgh riders are two of many in the ndl that will never be much good other than spending their or parents money chasing the dream, if they have fun that's all that matters.

Very difficult to say because the system in this country doesn't help riders who are starting out it's to boost vatchers self ego as the savior even though he's never ridden and so not many riders are produced that are exceptional, the British national League is happy for most riders to just turn up to make up numbers to form a team and eventually give up and retire like a few have already this season. I'm not that in the know of any riders who could replace these two specifically but realistically the system fails apart from the odd dozen that make it to higher standards.