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  1. Posted · Edited by hurricanes

    Somethings don't change Popples interview was terrible he just hasn't got a clue.

     

    What is even worse is i hear he will be even more involved next year & to top it off this clown Chris Popple is going to make OUR great club the laughing stock of speedway when the sky camera's come.

     

     

     

    well that won't happen as the Sky cameras never show or pick up the words of the track announcers/presenters, whether they are good bad or indifferent, from what I've seen
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  2. Posted

    It would be nice to see on the Lions web site what is actually going on at BP. They have told us about the new sponsers and the new Kelvars. But still the most imortant issue has not been mentioned and that is who is the last rider or who are the last 2 riders if Jason Doyle fails to get his Visa.

    We are now in Febuarry and thje new season will soon be upon us. So why all the big huss huss ?????.

    And are we having a team manager or not. Be a little unwise in the Elite League without one. !!!!!

    I am sure by now the powers above know all the answers to these questions.

    On Team, Nothing to announce till last riders signed or Doyle Visa sorted is there?

  8. Posted · Edited by hurricanes

    No disrespect but where is the profanity and language used by some? As far as i can see you could probably say both Jim The Whipper and Long Eye have a colourful way with the english language but if you are here you know what you're getting from either (they come from the differing views and aim it at the different sections). It goes both ways. where have you seen this 'direct language' and 'worst language'. I saw Lionking get called a 'tw*t' on the very first response on facebook and that is where you generally find that level of language, abuse and those general threatening tones. You, as ever, appear to be making it up. I remember poor old George Wood get royally abused for saying the track isn't producing great racing on one of the facebook pages before being told to 'do one', and he is about as 'pro' Leicester as you get.

     

    Having said that, When i manage to catch one of Liontamer's posts in the moments before they are removed they probably fit the description of what you say! You have to be quick though as they don't last long!

     

    Re: Tom Perry, I mean't nothing to do with Tom Perry. More aimed at the facebook 'mob'. If you didn't understand that being my point or were purposely trying to turn it into an anti-rider advantage then i think we are as far as we are going on the subject! time for one of my 'jeez's' i'm afraid.

     

    Anyways, i think we've responded enough about the subject so i'll offer you the last word where you can back up the language and profanity stuff. all yours.

     

    Mick.

    Your previous post was responding to my post that specifically relating to Tom Perry's post about LionKing's post and talked about the 'mob' in the same response so reasonably I took one part of the post to relate to the other part.

    The complete dissing and belittling by SOME posters of anyone who disagrees with the negative views of most things or even everything re the running of Leicester Speedway is legendary on this page more than any other on BSF I have ever looked at.

    And my main point was that if they had to put their name to their posts and say it to the Promoters face then nearly all of them wouldn't be seen for dust.

    Anyway I'm done on here for another period now, until I decide to dip in again to see if anythings changed 😜

  13. Posted · Edited by hurricanes

     

    You're answering your own question hurricanes. If you're kicking against the pricks then some might feel they require a level of anonymity for just the reason Lionking is probably thankful of his. Doesn't bother me much whether people know who i am or not but does make you think after you look at that response to what looked to me to be a fairly innocuous view about one persons view on a rider, and that just because that rider just happened to take offence at it. Makes you wonder what's gone on.

    But it's obvious that most of the more critical posts on here and some of the language used by some, would not appear if people had to use their own names to post? And of course the old best rule of 'don't post anything that you wouldn't say to the persons face' is never followed on here by those who spread hate and use the more direct language which is why the BSF's name is in the gutter and those who put points reasonably and use the Queens English are drowned out by those who shout loudest with the worst language.

     

    As for 'what's gone on' re Tom Perry? Nothing's 'gone on', just a human being Rider reasonably wanting to be given the chance to prove himself at a new Club before being slated, that's all and not too much to ask I wouldn't think ?

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  14. Posted · Edited by hurricanes

    I just don't see the logic of wanting Simon Lambert over Max Clegg as LionKing wanted and also think the 2 (as you have to look at them combined seeing as the higher ranked you picked in round 1 the later pick you got in round 2 and vice versa) were good picks.

    SLambert v Clegg?

    Lambert , a long time rider, coming off a bad injury after a year where he got dropped from PL Team and dropped down to NL

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    Clegg who is 16 and increased his NL Average by 1.7 points last season and showed good strides in the right direction from the age of 15 to 16, giving hope that he'll improve further next season.

     

    Also as a pair the NL boys ride together at Dudley so know each other styles and Perry at his best for Somerset was excellent at Leicester track. And picking Perry as 10th seed gave promotion chance to pick their first choice on Clegg.

    Sound basis for picks as I see it.

     

    And Volty, if a lot of people supporting somebody with posts using their real names on Facebook is "a mob" , what is the name for a lot of people on this Forum constantly being negative about almost everything and shooting down almost anyone who dares not be negative, posting fully or partly anonymously called? "A Mob" again dare I say? Or "a Mob of Keyboard Bandits" ??😜 😁

  15. Posted

    Is this a reaction to what someone has told him has been said on here or what he has actually read as I don't recall anyone actually saying much if anything about his inclusion.. In fact I've just had a look and bar Lionking pointing out Perry had a shocking year last year (which I guess even he would probably admit he did) I can't see anyone saying much at all about Perry. Most of the comments about Clegg are also positive, they just point out it may be too early for him and as such he may not have been the best choice available for this season . Which again I would say is a pretty valid point.

    He said in his Facebook page that he came onto this Forum thread himself for the first time in a year only to see himself being slagged off to the hills by 'Lion King' before he's even ridden for us.

    And he can't wait for season to start to prove this doubter wrong.

     

    To this time he's got 115 Likes to his Post and 57 Comments all supporting him and slating Lion King.

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  16. Posted · Edited by hurricanes

    Great to see the lions at last signing a pl number 1

    Yes a PL No.1 and the Elite League Finalists, Birmingham's, 3rd Heat Leader in 2013 with an average just 0.26 away from being their No.1 and 0.48 higher than Chris Harris, so a great signing to start our top 5 😄

  17. Posted · Edited by hurricanes

    Jim, We are all entitled to our opinions and it's amazing that you can't accept that some people are pretty content having compared the fayre offered at JRSS in the last half of last season with the other tracks us fans who actually go to almost every away match as well as every home match which was as good or better at JRSS than at those away tracks in the 2nd half of the season, and also content that we've announced a great first signing for the Top 5 and also got 2 decent NL Reserves too, so Team Building has made a promising start, so why in this season of goodwill shouldn't we be positive? LOL

    This Forum is for all views to debate not just for the negatives to take over completely and make the rules as to who can and cannot post in a thread . And as said by nightshift ours is just a differing point of view to yours, which is what debate is all about, which you obviously don't like .LOL.

    I have started a new thread for you and your cohorts , It's in the elite league section , I hope you , Hurricanes and mrcts enjoy yourselves agreeing with each other , seeing nothing but positives in everything and not expressing any point of view , I also hope, Now that you have your very own thread that you won't feel the need to come on this one and preach how anyone else should not have a point of view different to yours , so off you go enjoy your new thread and leave this one alone .

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  20. Posted

    Hope the Jason Doyle signing (announced by David Hemsley on Radio Leicester this morning), starts to shut at least some of the negative doubters about signings up, a rider on the up who had his best season to date last season, people like Jenga who said the promotion 'didn't even choose the 2 riders' in the NL Draft? What a ridiculous statement, when they were chosen from the 23 available In the Draft both at points of the Draft when there was still most of the riders available to choose.

    ..... I won't hold my breath though. 😉

     

    Can't wait for the next announced signing, as this shows some hard work going on behind the scenes by the Promotion.

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  22. Posted · Edited by hurricanes

     

    You're right about most fans not posting on here but that has very little if anything to do with the arguments i make.

     

    Unfortunately your second sentence is just assumption on your part pure and simple. Unless, of course, you both know all the critics and are David Hemsley or some relation. Fess up!. Most if not all the people i've spoken to say the track may not be quite as dire as it's been for two years but on the whole it's still absolutely rubbish week in week out. Most don't go anymore for just this reason. What is a fact is that there are enough critics of the track week in week out on forums and social networks for there to be genuine substance to their complaints.

    With regards to complaining behind a keyboard, I've been critical in person. DH knows exactly who i am, and we have exchanged quite a few emails about it in the past.

     

    Our crowds having been very up and down this year. Your reasoning behind expounding your view on the level of our fanbase with facts about the last 2 league meetings means nothing and is actually rather spurious. Are you actually saying our crowds are as good as last year?. Those last two meetings amounted to crowds of maybe 1100-1200. That is massively down on the previous season and massively down on the season before that. You are also failing to mention that for the first time this season we have seen large fluctuations in crowds on a week on week basis that we haven't seen in previous years. If you are going to make a pertinant point you need to give the whole facts. Most of this season i would say we've struggled to get 1000 people in and with a number of meeting beeing around the 700-800 mark. Some meaningless meetings have struggled to get past 500.

     

    cheers,

    Mick.

    Whatever FACTS are posted on here you will rubbish if they don't agree with your always Critical stance.

    Leicester Crowds factually are consistently amongst the biggest in British Speedway.

    Amount of overtaking since mid season is average or better than at the many tracks in British Speedway I've visited or watched on TV this year.

    So if crowds should be higher and racing better then these are problems you should put at the door of British Speedway as a whole , not just at Leicester as you always do.

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  23. Posted

     

    I didn't miss the the dirty great pile of shale no, but the track was riding perfectly OK irrespective of that. It looked and rode exactly the same as it does pretty much every single week we go. You are mythologising the benefit or not of dirt on the track. Remember the better meetings we have had, Ipswich for example, have happened when its been mega slick and we have bladed the shale off the track. This one was riding well, it was slick and it was holding plenty of moisture so to speak, all the ingredients of the better meetings we have seen at BP

     

    The racing wasn't decent. You are having me on. You honestly think it was?.

     

    Here is what you need to take in, it's something you appear unable to comprehend in telling me to change the record. Maybe worth reading it a couple of times. The most critical people haven't acknowledged it's got a lot better as the season went on, It may have improved but we started with a Trabant and ended with a Yugo. The people most critical of the track haven't acknowledged anything as nearly all of those are among the 1500 people who no longer bother and don't give a monkeys any more what the racing is like. You need to take you head out of the sand if don't grasp that. It's never more than the odd one or two people who continue to perservere because of the love of speedway but want better (that's where i am). I'll always be in a minority of opinion for just this reason but it doesn't mean i'm not right. The fact that i and others are still on forums and social networks like this saying it's crap every week shold be enough for you to realise it ain't good enough.

     

    The track was hopeless for the coventry meeting, it was hopeless for the Belle Vue meeting (excuse was because it was a challenge no one tried hard enough if i remember rightly), it appeared to have found it's level watching the wobblers wobble round, it was shocking for the freestyle show (riders weren't equal enough in standard was the excuse i remember given), Edinburgh had some passing (but only a series of riders overtaking a super fast starting but mega mega slow derek sneddon, that was the limit of it, not even Cook could get by Edberg when he was winning other races by the whole length of the straight). Berwick was rubbish, everyone wanting to kick off with Kozza providing 100% the entertainment rather than anything happening on the track. Rye House was dreadful, no passing whatsoever and we lost!. Scunthorpe and Sheffield were OK but not great. Pride of the Midlands was a total waste of time for the few people who turned up. We're back to the middle of July, do i need to go on. And that's the improved period! No one i know thinks it's anything but hopeless. Hurricanes, you're living in the bubble with weatherwatcher.

     

    And all this because some numpty can't accept he ever gets anything wrong and do someothing about it that would have cost him nothing but a bit of pride.

    Most of the real fans who go every week don't post on here.

    The critics who've got the nerve to actually ask questions of DH in person rather than criticise from behind their keyboard have acknowledged racing has got better since mid season.

    And as for the crowds continuing to reduce as you keep stating , how come the last 2 home league meetings of the season were biggest league crowds for over a year????!

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  24. Posted · Edited by hurricanes

     

    you forgot to add our track is better than you're track ner, ner, ne, ner, ner at the end of this.

     

    and your point made is other tracks are just as crap as BP... jeez.

    My point was I went to Sheffield, Somerset, Scunthorpe and Peterborough 7 times this year (gas and go track shapes that people like you say Leicester should be like) and I haven't seen more than a couple of passes in a meeting at any of them whereas there were more than that in first 6 races at Leicester on Saturday by Andersen and Hansen alone even with all dirt scraped off to get the meeting on!
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