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So, what was the REAL (supposed?) reason for Lagutas absence? According to the Polish Press, on the fimspeedway.com web site, the reason that Kings Lynn gave was an ankle injury. But on the SCB statement it's given as food poisoning. The fimspeedway.com site appeared to be down when I tried to see for myself, but here's the reference to the Polish site that points you to it. https://sportowefakty.wp.pl/zuzel/1067867/artiom-laguta-zawieszony-podpadl-wladzom-ligi Interesting that the Wolves web site's match preview posted on the Sunday before the meeting has Chris Harris in the KL team. Chris van Straaten obviously has amazing crystal balls to predict that, hasn't he? Sad though that the lie about Lagutas absence is compounded by those lies about the programme being printed on the Monday morning. And as ever with these characters, it's all in the best interests of British Speedway.

This wouldn't happen to be the same Kings Lynn Stars, who in 2010 faked an electrical problem that couldn't be fixed for at least 4 days whilst the appropriate electrician was found, and what a shame it was that the meeting that their injury ravaged team was due to have against an all-conquering Birmingham Brummies team would need to be postponed until later in the year when the injured riders were all fit again, would it? Once a cheat, always a cheat.

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10-15 years ago, people were saying exactly what they are saying today. In fact, when I first started watching speedway in the 1970's people were saying the same thing too.

Well done Brummies. Isn't it amazing what you can do with a 7-man team?

Yeah, he supported the campaigners to retain the fly-over in Perry Barr. Fat lot of good that did.

And the Mayor of the WEST MIDLANDS not Birmingham to boot. Someone like Sharon Thompson, perhaps, who was responsible for bringing 400 homeless people into the Perry Barr. Remember to thank her when you are stuck at a junction by the stadium and someone with a Costa Coffee cup in their hand threatens to scratch your car unless you give him something to go away.

Whilst LR was in charge, the "Tactical Facility" was a staple of the Brummies lineup almost since day one. Let's hope that with a new team manager, the Brummies can go back to being a 7-man team again.

Same as at the One Stop Shopping Centre in Perry Barr, just don't tell that to Brummies_Ste - he doesn't want you taking any chances

One day, there may even be 7 riders (not including guests) in the team.

Now that Lawrence Rogers has stepped down, will all those on here, who wanted him replaced, do likewise from this forum if results don't instantly improve?

Ok, I apologise...it's 8pm not 7pm. So you can still park any time after 4pm, stay for 4 hours and then take advantage of unrestricted time. Anyone planning on arriving before 4pm will obviously be affected. As to just who you expect to need to park up more than 2 hours before the stadium opens, and therefore what impact that will have, I'll leave it to you to explain.

Why not? The 4-hour parking restriction ends at 7pm, After that it's unrestricted. It says so, not exactly in black and white, but definitely in dark blue and white on one of many notices posted around the One Stop Shopping Centre. So, the way I see it, you can arrive any time after 3pm, use up your 4 free hours and then you free to stay after that in unrestricted time.

I don't think confused covers it. In what other sport can you declare a team that doesn't stand a chance of taking to the track? In particular Nielsen. Nielsen was dropped. Now his name is being taken in vain, in order to get a facility. That's pulling the wool over the fans' eyes. And the rules allow for it. How does all this crap work? What's in it for Nielsen? As soon as Thompson is fit, he'll be out again, and at risk of being unemployed if Thompson rides to his potential. And how do the BSPZzz allow for a rider who is medically unfit be introduced as part of a redeclared team? Surely one of the rules that HAS to be looked at, is that only riders fit and able to ride should be part of a redeclared team. And the sooner the better, Well done Laurence Rogers for exposing yet another set of rules that makes a mockery out of the sport.

Last I saw, R/R and Guests come under the heading of "facilities". To be eligible for a facility, you need to have ridden for the team. So, no facility (R/R or otherwise) for Thompson. The second qualifier for a facility is that you have to be medically unfit. We are now 2 weeks past the point when Wright was declared FIT to ride, and was fit enough to score 4 points. So that's him out of that facility reckoning. The third qualifier is that a rider withholds his services, incurring a 28-day ban. What you are suggesting is that the Brummies sink to Poole's level (which we are unanimously in awe of, aren't we?) and essentially cheat. You are suggesting that LR bends or breaks the truth, or persuades Wright to either feign an injury / reaction to injury, or to enter into a dispute that will lead to him walking out on the club, just to fiddle a facility for the sake of not losing by as many as we are going to lose by at Glasgow anyway. Well, if that's the way forward, then don't expect to retain any fans with any sense of dignity on the terraces. But as you have said that you are not attending for as long as LR is team manager, you won't notice the difference, will you?

If hardened fans get into a lather about what's going on, how do you explain it to a newcomer to the sport? Or more importantly, how do you expect a newcomer to take it seriously? And you wonder why the likes of Deano, myself and many others who have been long time fans of the sport are fed up with it now? Anyway, my understanding is - James Wright - he was passed fit 2 weeks ago. Not being "on the pace" is no reason to have a guest or RR for him. Not seen or heard anything to suggest that he's been given another doctors note to say he's unfit again. You either ride him in your team or you sack him and replace him with someone else. As for Dan Thompson, he's not ridden for the team yet, so no facility should apply for him. EXCEPT that there is a "facility-lite" for when "proper" facilities don't apply, so that's a guest up to 75% of his average. But this being speedway of course, the rules are made up as we go along, so basically anything can (and probably will) happen.

No way will the tennis be finished in 30 mins.

This is Speedway, so surely in the absence of a regular stream, a streaming facility can be granted, be it either a guest stream, or streaming replacement.

When did Birmingham last track a 7-man team on ANY day of the week?

Congratulations to the Brummies on the launch of their new TikTok channel. At long last, something to appeal to the youth, whose support they really need. Good luck with that. How it all contrasts to a few years ago when social media was controlled with an iron fist from BSPZzz headquarters, with legal threats and withdrawal demands on dubious copyright grounds. Speedway teams were banned from having Social Media channels back then, either in the form of Facebook, Twitter, Flickr let alone TicTok (had it existed at the time) and fans ran the risk of getting into trouble if they took their own photos and videos and posted them online. Thank goodness those days are over. I just hope that the ground that speedway has lost to other sports and attractions over the years can be caught up again before it's too late.

Yeah, but LR is the person who is in a "professional position" and who it's made a point of, that he doesn't get paid. Like the contrast is being made to every other professional team manager where there is an expectation that they do get paid, that LR is some kind of hero for donating his time for free...maybe? I mean, why else was that fact made public? So, does not being paid make him an amateur?

What's interesting is that LR never become one of the partners / directors in the consortium that runs the club. He assembled a group of people prepared to invest their kids inheritances in the club, but financially, he's kept at arms length from either the risk or reward. It'd be cheeky beyond belief to ask for a salary when he hasn't made a financial commitment, and the people who have invested in the club probably aren't getting paid either, and stand to lose their investments if the venture goes belly-up.

In my last post, I did refer to BSPZzzz rules and regulations. There's the clue. The very organisation who makes up rules with the sole aim of driving a bulldozer through them sometimes. Overlooking the promoters license rule for Belle Vue was obviously deemed to be "in the best interests of British Speedway" or something. Bet your bottom dollar it wouldn't be allowed at Birmingham though.

The point is that LR is the only person at Birmingham with a promoters license. Birmingham's "actual" promoters, as yet, are unlicensed, so if you get rid of LR, the club would need someone else with a promoters license in order to continue, according to BSPZzzz rules & regulations.

Wright was injured on 4th April. His 28-day doctors note expired over a week ago. And the "facility" expired with it. Yes we were told he was fit and will be riding tomorrow (Wednesday) So why isn't he racing today? If it's known about some days ago that he's fit to go, then he'll be no less fit today than he will be tomorrow. So why isn't he going to turn up? And nobody is telling the fans anything. Something isn't right. And it's the fans who are being made fools of.