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  5. Posted

    8 minutes ago, GiveusaB said:

    You can if he touches the tapes or exceeds 2mins

    Perhaps Sam can take you along to break the news to the riders?  "Hey Leon, go out there lad, and screw your chances of earning some points money, I want you to touch the tapes so that someone else can get the chance to earn some more money instead. Be a good lad a and do as you're told, there's a good boy!"  I'm sure you'd relish that job, eh?

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    10 hours ago, iainb said:

    https://www.bbc.co.uk/sport/speedway/68537618.amp:rofl:

    I saw that and was intrigued. Are they planning on building a speedway track on top of the athletics track? The athletics track was a hell of an expensive track to lay down, and as soon as you "blue groove" down below the shale, you will risk destroying it. Or is the plan to build the track inside the athletics track and put an end to the field sports like Rugby League, that are played there now? Or is the plan to build a temporary track for every home fixture so that the rest of the stadium can be used in between speedway meetings? More questions than answers at the moment. But at least options are being explored.

  9. Posted

    2 hours ago, GiveusaB said:

    why didnt Pawliki just do an Eddie Kennett ?

    What did Eddie Kennett "do" that PP should seek to emulate?

    Surely the issue over Eddie Kennet was how his team's management twisted (or were allowed to twist. by the BSPZzz) the rule book inside out in order to gain advantage? That's not something that the rider is necessarily responsible for. And didn't the Brummies do something very similar with James Wright already? "Fool me once", and all that. And if you are advocating more rules and regulations shenanigans, aren't you advocating a course of action that is at the heart of why the sport is losing so much of it's fan base?

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  11. Posted

    2 hours ago, heathen52 said:

    Surely Birmingham have to sign a short term replacement for Pawlicki ?.

    Or a long term replacement that uses up the spare capacity within the averages, and sack Pawlicki.  Maybe showing "toughness" on the Poles may boost the fans opinion of the management, especially those fans who hate the Poles.

    1 hour ago, szkocjasid said:

    Based on previous seasons, they should be allowed to use a guest up to 5.63 (75% of Pawlicki's average). But I'm sure they'll find someone willing to race for a few weeks.

    Which bit of the rule book allows for that? Has the rule that says that NO facility is allowed for a rider who hasn't ridden for a team been removed? When that rule was enforced on us in 2007 (for the absent Emiliano Sanchez) all that the Brummies were allowed was a 3.00 NL guest, who was purely there as a make-weight..Have things changed since then?  Using that logic, Theoretically then, if Pawlicki is sacked and someone is "hired" with an actual or assessed 12.00 average (if such a person would exist) then if he never showed up, a permanent guest up to an average of 9.00 (=75%) could be allowed? That would be handy wouldn't it? 

  14. Posted

    23 hours ago, GiveusaB said:

    They need to make changes before the season starts ! Lol

     

    22 hours ago, Pauldoveyspeedway said:

    They do look poor but u have got to give them a chance ...Riders will come available  into the season..


    Nah! As soon as someone drops out, the trusty old faithful "Tactical Facility" will be used. Just as is has been the past few years. It's a trade mark of Laurence Rogers.  I'm even wondering who's going to the rider to fall on his sprocket shaped sword to make way for the tactical facility. Milik perhaps? I wonder if there's a sweepstakes going on for which week in the season it happens?

  15. Posted

    On 2/3/2024 at 8:17 PM, mikebv said:

    The Sky millions being the huge opportunity missed...

    Not forgetting that only 60% of the Sky money ever reached the sport. The other 40% was Terry Russel's, er,  "commission"  

    Nice pay day in the era when Sky Sports had cash to splash and were glad to have every sport in the country harboured under their umbrella. 40% for pushing against an open door. And the rest of the sport were mugs enough to just accept that.

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  19. Posted

    2 hours ago, Toady said:

    Can they not appeal ?

    Apparently not. HOWEVER, what's to stop them doing a redesign of the proposals to get around the councillors objections, waiting a while to show whether any serious motions to buy back and renovate the stadium come forward, and then starting the whole planning process off again with their Mk 2 Planning Application?

  20. Posted

    17 hours ago, Byker Biker said:

    What's the point when he won't ride at half the tracks in the league and that Wroclaw pull him every time they have a crucial meeting coming up?

    Sounds like the perfect candidate for a Laurence Rogers "Semi-Permanent Tactical Facility" stunt, like he likes to use and has used in past years. :D

  21. Posted

    On 12/10/2023 at 5:26 PM, uk_martin said:

    Would Janusz Kołodziej  and Jarek Hampel have "old" averages that they could bring forward, or would they have new assessed averages?

     

    On 12/10/2023 at 5:43 PM, GiveusaB said:

    Its starting to sound like Billy Smarts with all these has beens being banded about?

    Glad that you no longer think of  Janusz Kołodziej as a "has been"  :t:

  22. Posted

    6 hours ago, GiveusaB said:

    That's what I thought when I looked at his pedigree! 

    As I said on 7th January, he finished 4th in the Polish averages in 2023. But then as LagutaFan said in reply, he hasn't shown any interest in riding in the UK for the last 15 years. So who knows? I love his never-say-die racing style, and would love him to come and ride for the Brummies. 

  24. Posted

    8 hours ago, Najjer said:

    If they announce Schlein then I think there will be riots… or the equivalent to that of what small fan base there might be!

    Zimmer Frames at Dawn! :D

    7 hours ago, LagutaRacingFan said:

    ...Acceptable riders for Birmingham to sign as number 1

    1. Zmarzlik

    2. Laguta

    3. Vaculik

    4. Madsen

    5. Lindgren

    6. Dudek

    In a previous post, I suggested Janusz Kołodziej and Dominik Kubera to which I only got rebuffed on Kubera because he's doing the SGP's (as are others, but hey ho). I'd like to know why Janusz Kołodziej isn't currying favour bearing in mind his blistering season in Poland last year.

    And for those singing Dudek's praises, let's not forget that Anders Thomsen, Mateusz Cierniak Oskar Fajfer and Grzegorz Zengota all out-performed him over the the season just gone. Won't they do? 

    6 hours ago, TTT said:

    ...when you take into account that Brum are now being linked with new riders like Milik and Chugunov and they're engine room riders so it reeks of desperation.

    And again, those riders I listed are way above the rankings of Milik & the long haired pseudo-Pole from Russia. 

    I'd be happy to have Janusz Kołodziej as #1 and Oskar Fajfer at #2. Fajfer, for those who aren't aware, was brought in by Stal Gorzow to fill the gap left by the loss of Zmarzlik, and he exceeded everyone's expectations in the role that he performed. He's a guy on the upward swing of his learning curve and could well make a big impact on the British scene, if he was made an offer.

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