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  1. Posted

    26 minutes ago, Fixer2 said:

    Where's Tatum + Louis, are they there... do they ever attend or is it all voiced over from a studio remotely?

    Agree poor show from Discovery, got to be a technical issue surely, thought the coverage had been pretty good to date.  

    Maybe they’ve worn the wrong suits ? 

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  3. Posted

    I was at Odsal a couple of weeks ago watching rugby league and the place is in an absolutely terrible state. It is literally falling to pieces with the terracing badly cracked and crumbing. It would cost hundreds of thousands of pounds to bring it up to a condition where you could even think about holding a GP there. 

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  5. Posted

    On 7/6/2022 at 8:22 PM, JCookie said:

    It's a shame Newcastle Speedway is too isolated/small time to get anywhere at the racecourse. If they are going to build the training ground there then that would be football, golf, racing, 5-a-side all in one place.  A proper sporting community, imagine speedway too?

     

    Someone should ask Semore Kurdi if he’s interested. Already owns 2 sports clubs in Newcastle Falcons RU and Newcastle Thunder RL. Owns Kingston Park stadium and 37 acres of land surrounding it so plenty of space for a speedway track.

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  7. Posted

    8 minutes ago, iainb said:

    That's what I thought too... that and the fact that they're timing all riders to the thousandth of a second. 

    If it's not a transponder the timekeeper must be on speed!

    Yeah I think Tatum was wrong. Although of course transponders don’t necessarily tell you who has finished ahead. It is theoretically possible for a rider to actually be beaten technically (ie his wheel doesn’t touch the line first) but have a quicker time than the other guy in a tight finish and be awarded the placing. It’s possible for someone to be finishing faster than someone else and although his wheel isn’t first to the line his transponder could cross the line first if he’s accelerating quicker.

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  8. Posted

    2 hours ago, iainb said:

    How come there was a debate about the Zmarzlik Fricke finish? Don't the bikes have transponders on them? They were giving the race times for all riders down to a thousandth of a second

    I was under the impression that they do have them. Isn’t that how they know whether a rider is on their A, B or C bike for the graphics before each heat ?

  13. Posted

    6 hours ago, bruno said:

    Just phoned bt to add the monthly sport package for 3 months even at £25 a month I thought I'd treat myself. Utterly useless from start to finish. Tried to sell me the TV deal on a 24 month contract and said no monthly fees were available

    If you have Sky you can order it through your Sky box. Go to the BT sport channel then click the red button on your remote and it brings up the option to add it to your Sky package.

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  19. Posted

    2 hours ago, Taylorj said:

    Fingers crossed it doesn't go ahead, complete waste of money for a Sunday League Football/Amateur Rugby Club to pull in around what size of crowd , a few hundred ?? sitting in a massive 8000 Stadium with a few offices in it :rolleyes: 

    So no benefit to the area at all then ? Not the Sellafield and NHS workers putting money into the local economy at lunchtime etc ? Not the new NHS facilities and clinics ? Not the staging of pop concerts and major sporting events that provide a large economic boost ? Not the vastly improved facilities for juniors and grassroots sport in what will be a community stadium ? No wonder this area will never have anything when all of the above is a “complete waste of money”. Sometimes I think the folk round here get what they deserve, ie nowt.

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  20. Posted

    2 hours ago, geoff100 said:

    The track was left between 1987 - 1999 although tony mole altered it when he came onboard, i think town accept the stadium wont get built in time for the world cup and want derwent park to look better for those matches  .

    Derwent Park won't be used for the RLWC under any circumstances. The RLWC organisers have officially confirmed that if there is no new stadium then there will not be any games in Cumbria at all and they are looking at alternative venues elsewhere in the country as a Plan B.

  22. Posted

    1 hour ago, SteelShoe said:

    For the track not to be destroyed so that there is a possibility of someone taking it on. Looking in it appears that the opportunity has been  seized to make sure that doesn't happen.  Even the armoured electric cable around the track that powered the red lights has been severed in multiple places.

    The pitch did not meet the FA's minimum width dimensions for football so the only option was to widen it. Which obviously meant the track had to go. I'm sure if they could have done the pitch alterations without dmaging the track then they would have done. But as long as football is going to be played there then there is no room for a speedway track. Now that it is looking increasingly likely that the new stadium won't be built then football looks set to be played at DP for a long time to come. I know its an emotional issue but you really can't blame anyone for a decision to accommodate a club that does exist over one that doesn't if you look at the hard facts.

  23. Posted

    9 hours ago, SteelShoe said:

    Yeah we all know about the rent agreement Derwent it helped keep Town solvent for many years just like the food and bar takings from the Speedway , not so much a symbiotic relationship then. 

    Comets did have a very difficult 2018 financially due in part to circumstances outside their control but i doubt very much whether Town are in a financially cosy position. No doubt they will exercise their right to charge the Reds to play at DP in order to make up for the income they will lose from the Speedway .

    I'm a Town supporter so are some other Speedway Fans but what they have done to the track is making me consider not going again i'm so incensed. They have botched the place up for no great reason other than to try and get themselves a new pitch and changing rooms before the poop its the fan.

    I understand your anger about the track, it’s not something any of us are happy about.

    But the other side of the coin is that as of now there is no speedway entity in existence to ride on it. Subsequent events re Laura’s finances have shown the claim that it was a one year moratorium to be completely untrue as the promotion simply don’t have the funds to resurrect it. I don’t see anyone on the horizon looking to pour money in either.

    So, what are people expecting ? The track to be maintained in perpetuity on the off chance that someone eventually decides to lose money being a speedway promoter ? 

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  24. Posted

    5 minutes ago, jenga said:

    sure i mentioned this a while back on this thread . its called a licence , where both parties can pull the plug at any given time 

    if the comets were on a lease , the council or the rugby club would have to buy the lease from laura .think its called a sub lease , but then again , town dont own the ground , the council do 

    not having a legal lease has made it so easy for the rugby club and the council  to pull the plug on the speedway .

    Not quite true, Town do own the stadium. The council own the land it stands on, for which Town have a 199 year lease which began in 1946. Its a bit like owning a house on leasehold rather than freehold. But Town do own the actual stadium and it appears as an asset on their balance sheet. It was funded partly by the Mitchell and Graves families and also a loan from the RFL.

  25. Posted

    23 hours ago, SteelShoe said:

    Where would Reds have played if the Comets had of been running this season ? Would Town have evicted them ?

     

    Well here's the thing, Town wouldn't have needed to evict the Comets. You may not know but the Comets didn't actually have a formal lease for Derwent Park. They had a contract to rent it on an "as required" meeting by meeting basis subject to availability which is a completely different thing to a lease. They basically had no rights whatsoever regarding the stadium.

    People who are having a go at Town need to realise that if it wasn't for their largesse then the Comets may not have completed their historic treble. Town let them use DP for the end of season meetings despite not having been paid for several weeks for the stadium's use. They could have just said sorry but you're not using it until we are paid up to date and there's not a thing Laura could have done about it.

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