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He’d made a home here for sure. People will always be a bit suspicious when riders say they won’t ride anywhere else though. We all know money talks. Pretty sure we’d have been his priority though. Still think we might see him later in the season…

Doyle was never getting a contract offer from Belle Vue. Kurtz and Bewley were always going to be there and they’d have made their availability quite clear early on.

I also liked the new faces with Steve Marriott.

Yes definitely. I think he does odd things with Paul Weller too.

Think he lives near Norwich so Ipswich suits him down to the ground - unless there was significantly more money he'd not want to join BV.

The perfect example of an overseas rider that adds something to UK Speedway, and will be greatly missed.. Unlike so many overseas journeymen down the years, and still the same today, who will hardly be noticed, never mind missed... Yet will have blocked medium to long term UK rider development... Edit. His Heat 15 at the NSS a few years ago, with Doyle, Kurtz and Bewley, when Ipswich knocked the Aces out of the PO's, was one of the best races I have ever seen in Team Speedway..

I could be wrong but I thought Doyle announced he wouldn’t be racing in this country well before Kurtz and Bewley were announced. And he’s never really been a one club man has he . Like Danny King etc … and Bomber 😁

They have been quite critical of the whole thing in several pieces written... Fairly done as well...

Yes his three year work visa expired and it was apparently very expensive to renew. He done the three years of his visa, won medals in both the Cup and Premiership, so things all came to a natural end.

And still performing still today

Steve Ellis. Total legend

Up to you if you choose to believe him or not. I’m just quoting what the bloke said. I wouldn’t have thought an offer from Belle Vue would have been forthcoming anyway. They already had their top two.

Doyle would have to drop a league overseas to come back, and will have signed contracts... And Sayfutdinov would need a new visa, (which is why he left wasnt it as it ran out?)... A new promotion would struggle to be a sponsor too I think given the rules that need to be followed..

My favourite former group.

Having lost Dan to Leicester, maybe they are trying to get Jason and/or Emil back. They would be mad not to try. The team posted yesterday will be on a hiding to nothing. Crowds would drop significantly.

I'll start.... I see your £15k and raise it by twenty pounds... Could be a long thread this... I seem to remember the bond has changed down the years with the last I heard it being £50k.. However, I also seem to remember it changing into assets also being part of the bond, rather than just cash, hence new promoters in particular were encouraged to make riders into their assets.. (Which also often meant more, unattached in the UK, overseas journeymen coming over who became as asset. Great for UK rider development!!).. Obviously, there are no assets anymore, so if a track closes the BSP no longer inherits the riders and are, therefore, no longer able to either loan or sell them to other teams to help pay the debts of the closed track.. I can't believe the bond is £50k though anymore to be honest, given so few people seem interested in coming into the sport to promote... £15,025, my final bid...

Why am I getting images of a courtroom in my head with Hamish festooned in wig and gown, pacing hands behind his back during a cross examination

What a tune the love affair one

So to repeat, this would seem to infer that C.Louis would have continued to operate Ipswich in the PL, in the event of a sale of his business not having been achieved and completed. If that was not the case, surely the BSPL statement would have been misleading, unless C.Louis had given BSPL such a guarantee?

If he didn’t want to ride for anyone else here , that means he’d have turned down a similar offer from belle Vue on the best racetrack in the world. Which he wouldn’t have ..

Still a tad too much for my pension.

Santa Claus you c#nt , wheres my f@cking team Kevin Bloody Wilson

Whose he under now then?

No one will believe the figures anyway Unless it suits their agenda

Come on, what are we talking then? Or are we going to have to guess? 😁