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  1. Posted · Edited by iainb

    16 minutes ago, szkocjasid said:

    Stewart Dickson did the same at Glasgow, giving Schlein a 15m heat & not giving Hodder his 3rd ride instead.

    Dickson did the right thing tonight in replacing Douglas with Kemp when he touched the tapes and remarked on it in his after meeting interview. It was obvious that passing was going to be at a premium tonight, especially in the early heats, so even after Milik's impressive victory in heat 1 it was looking extremely unlikely he was going to come through from the back in heat 5 against Masters and Lawson, so to make that decision was very strange especially as Dickson had basically shown Birmingham what to do in the previous heat. 

    With the Brummies struggling for points on the track the last thing they need is for the management to be making basic errors like this. 

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  2. Posted · Edited by iainb

    44 minutes ago, Teromaafan said:

    Maybe, but you surely have to beat the visitor’s RS? Flint did Joe three times tonight.

    Twice, and Becker also. 

    There are very limited options with regards to JT, so it's going to be down to the management, club and his team mates to help him get going I think. 

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    Just now, Teromaafan said:

    Here’s me thinking that Joe might have turned the corner after his performance last week, but he looked way off the pace again tonight. Very worrying when you can’t get a point at home against the weakest team in the league. I thought that he may have be given a fourth ride in heat 14 instead of Kemp, but no. His confidence must be rock bottom.

    Weakest in the league but with possibly the strongest reserve partnership... although they didn't really show it tonight

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    4 hours ago, SPEEDY69 said:

    Some of the reactions on here are quite hysterical.  A person committed a crime, was caught and served their time - happens all the time, get over it :)

    As for other speedway riders, we've had alleged and convicted corruption, multiple drug abusers, alcohol abusers, violent criminals, including murder and many of these are/were warmly thought of e.g. Lee, Morans, Ward.   Very few have no victims, the drugs trade sees many deaths and abuses of people across the world.  If he wants to ride speedway then I have no problem with that.

    And don't even get started with some of the promoters!

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  15. Posted · Edited by iainb

    21 minutes ago, Lioness said:

    You judge me wrongly.  I care very strongly for the disabled individual he assaulted and put the fear of god into and basically ruined the final few years of their life.

    You do realise he didnt just burgle the house?

    Its also very telling the tone of your response to Fishersgate when you admit you wouldnt touch him with a bargepole compared to your rather aggressive responses towards me when I am saying the same thing.  I wonder why?

    Apologies if I have come across as aggressive, that's really not my intention. I haven't said you don't care, I have said you don't seem very forgiving. Unlike you I'm not prepared to write somebody off for life for a crime they have committed, pleaded guilty to and served time for. 

    He was found guilty of burglary, robbery and two counts of attempting to commit fraud.

    My reasons for not touching him with a barge pole are purely Speedway related, but like I said, if I were a desperate promoter I may think differently. 

  19. Posted · Edited by iainb

    19 minutes ago, Lioness said:

    As I have already said if you cared to read my posts, its horses for courses.  A school teacher can be struck off if convicted for behaviour outwith his school, you would not put a paedophile in charge of a nursery, Raith fans will tell you what happened when they tried to sign rapist David Goodwillie.   You commit a crime, you do the time.  As I have said I have no problem with him being a plumber although I wouldnt want him to be going into the homes of elderly or vulnerable.  He can be a labourer if he wants or any other number of jobs.  He has though forfeited his right to a sports position where he would benefit from sponsorship and get publicity and could possibly be seen by young or vulnerable as a 'hero' because he can ride a bike well.  He's not a hero, he is a violent thug who served time for what he did to an elderly disabled individual in their own home.  Let him get on with his life away from speedway - the sport does enough to make it less appealing to possible new supporters without the ruling body being stupid enough to see that allowing him back as a rider will give every nimby in the land extra ammunition to object to speedway and speedway tracks.  

    I have read your post and you don't come across as a very forgiving person. The difference with paedo's becoming teachers is the small matter of the law of the land forbidding it, it's not a matter of opinion. It is not law that burglars can't become speedway riders... or anything else for that matter the only thing he has forfeited is his liberty for a few years and his reputation. 

    There are many people that have turned their lives around and gone on to become inspirational "heroes"... Ant Middleton served time and now does motivational speaking tours. 

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  20. Posted · Edited by iainb

    4 hours ago, FishersGate said:

    I wasn't really following speedway much when Garity got put away, so I asked around last week at leicester and some folk explained what had happened and about his release. 

    I actually spoke to ex promoter/team manager on Thursday about Garity just to see what he had to say about his attitude and personality etc. What I will say is I didn't hear one shred of positivity about the bloke. When he was riding apparently his so called 'friends' from the travelling community were entering the stadium without a ticket. They were in the pits and just generally causing abit of a trouble. They were eventually thrown out but apparently it caused a lot of tension between the rider and management. There were other things said but I'd rather not go into it. 

    Now in my opinion this is a really tough subject, does the guy deserve a second chance in life? Probably he does. Does he deserve a chance in speedway? Not so sure. I don't know the guy and can only say what I have been told. I personally wouldn't go near him if I was a promoter/team manager. 

    I seem to remember him being taken under Gary Havelock's wing when he was a real hot prospect at Coventry, I'm not quite sure where it all went wrong for him Speedway wise. Personally, I think as he's not currently banned from speedway, as some riders are, he should be free to ride, if he can find a club that'll have him, I think he maybe needs somebody to take him under their wing again or a chaperone type person a bit like Glenn Roeder with Gazza when he went to Italy, just to keep him on the straight and narrow. 

    Many "famous" people have been to prison and then gone on to make a success of their lives, Gino di Campo also broke into somebody's home and look at him now. Sometimes prison is the wake up call for people to turn their lives around.

    Personally, I'm with you and wouldn't touch him with a barge pole but that's just me, if I were a promoter at Plymouth or somewhere I may be thinking differently. 

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  23. Posted

    What is even "sprint" about it? If they wanted to copy other sports, which they seem determined to do, they should run a series of one lap dashes...

    Or, god forbid, come up with an original idea! How about something like a rider nominating one of his races during the main meeting to count to qualification to an extra "Golden" race? This could be tactical, so Zmarzlik could nominate his "quali" race when he meets his nearest rival to harm their chances or an "easy" race to stand a better chance of qualification to the bonus race... that's just off the top of my head

  25. Posted

    2 hours ago, DoubleJ said:

    Jordan had travelled straight from Ipswich on Thursday to ride for GB in Pardubice. This was meant to be Saturday but postponed til Sunday. 
    His suit had gone home to Norwich to be washed. 
    With the delay to the meeting, he drove from Czechia straight up to Manchester and wasn’t able to collect his suit, hence the GB suit

    Doyley could have picked it up for him... oh hang on...

    49 minutes ago, Arch Stanton said:

    Spot on. 
     

    https://britishspeedway.co.uk/miscellaneous/scb-statement-jason-doyle/

    So whatever happened to Tungate was in his control. 

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