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  2. Posted

    39 minutes ago, Islander15 said:

    So Tom Perry can manage to guest for Peterborough today, so why isn’t he in this meeting?

    I still think Perls is favourite but it’s not that clear cut but Kinsley & Kemp are going to be there or thereabouts. Best of luck to Morley and Verge and of course Ben is a double winner so you cannot write him off!

    A bit unfair on the last minute riders BUT now Newcastle is off wouldn’t it be better to have Max clegg and Danny Phillips back in.Max is at top of the NL averages after all...

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  10. Posted

    1 hour ago, Sings4Speedway said:

    With the greatest of respect the rider who said he is quitting and off to Australia should have got the answer of enjoy the flight and the written off van on the M5, get another one from your insurance. Pandering to riders is a big reason why the many clubs are in trouble and that kind of behaviour shouldn't be tolerated in the NL. Far better to oust the riders at the time (X has left the club because he didn't show the level of commitment we required/expected to maintain his place) the sooner there is a return to it being a privilege to have a team place rather than a rite the sooner the sport can start t get up off its knees.

    He van that were written off was the van that were supplied by cradley after “the rider” threatened to quit.so they had to replace that,not sure who’s insurance it were .the other rider caused a lot of damage to his rental van also..so not surprising the club were a little peed off.

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    17 minutes ago, greyhoundp said:

     From what i recall the last fans forum with the promotion at the Liberal Club (some years ago now) a vote was taken on would fans prefer to see a higher standard of league racing the vote was overwhelmingly for a higher standard, the reason given for not moving up is that there is a lack of available dates to move into a higher League, I have not heard of the not having our own Track be used as a reason to not move up.

    There’s a spare/unused track at Buxton! Just a thought but could it be a possibility for the heathens to use that on Sunday afternoons.Not a lot of difference to using wolves or brum(apart from the distance) ..

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  12. Posted

    1 hour ago, greyhoundp said:

    Cost reductions by diluting the product on offer just doesnt work how many years have the BSPA been doing that for ?. There has to be realistic cost reductions beginning with machinery, tuning etc etc, a small step could be a bog standard Bike with NO tweaks to it, but thats where everything falls down with most riders trying there best to get even the smallest extra bit of power from there machinery.. and so it goes on, fewer and fewer spectators being asked to pay more for an inferior product, on Tracks that were built for less speed than what is acheved nowadays, whats the issue with being 5 seconds slower but with better racing ?, oh i get it, every rider wants to be a GP star ;). Then there is the issue of newish sign written vans, I understand the days of having a bike on a rack at the back of the car have long since gone, but jeez surely the object is to get from A to B with whatever mode of transport is available how much does a half decent trailer cost ?.

    The thing with having sign written vans is that even amateur riders do manage to get sponsorship so a mobile advert is a plus for even the smallest of sponsor.Also there’s the thing about bike security,and secure storage for a trailer.

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  13. Posted

    1 minute ago, brianbuck said:

    Nothing to be gained by supporters sniping at each other - we don't want to lose any more clubs especially in the Midlands - so let's all get down to Perry Barr for this match and show that when the chips are down, we back each other. 

    Don’t think there’s any doubt the supporters will back the riders ,it’s all about feeding the “promoters” back pockets ...

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  15. Posted

    27 minutes ago, greyhoundp said:

    If the NL does become a type of MDL training League will people be prepared to pay £10, £12+ to watch riders learning to ride, I very much doubt it. The NL will suffer due to the incompetance of the BSPA, There should have been a break away from the BSPA years ago but Clubs/Teams were not prepared to grasp the nettle, the breakaway by the Provincial Leage from the National League in the early sixties forced the Perceived stronger National League to be realistic, then we had the amalgamation of the two Leagues which gave us a period of strong/good League racing for a number of years.

     Two of the worst things we have at the moment is doubling up/down, and Teams constantly changing riders, there is no bond being created between riders and fans its just watching seven riders wearing your teams colours for that particular meeting or that month, Team changes should be limited to 2 per season unless a rider is unavailable due to long term injury, or another possible suggestion could be that teams have a squad of 10 riders to pick there Team from with any 7 riders totaling a combined average of a certain number of points.

    The BSPA along with certain promotors are ruining speedway full stop not just the NL..

  17. Posted

    42 minutes ago, Mimmo said:

    Bloody hell, not another one.  Coventry, Workington, Buxton, Stoke and Peterborough in the future, what on earth is happening.

    I feel so sorry for everyone connected with all of these clubs. 

    You can probably add cradley to that list by the sounds of things .

  23. Posted

    7 minutes ago, MattJ81 said:

    "Heathens Speedway Limited" is the company with Messrs Pearson and Van Straaten as directors, so I would imagine that along with the right to promote Cradley if such a thing exists?

     

    So just the name then really.cant be worth a right lot that then ...

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