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Patience, Dear Boy, Patience

Rob,, please don't rise to the replys, People who were there in 1999 especially know what you sacrificed for the club you don't need to explain yourself or ask for validation form strangers, you know the truth.

I meant to say Rye House was still closed in 1998.

That rather harsh Steve, you have every right to disagree with anything/everything that Rob has written but he desperately wants speedway to survive at Rye House and he himself has taken some damn right abusive comments. Whether he is a nice person is for you to judge if you actually know him? but if not, can I let you know that when Rye House was closed and closed for good in 1998 (the track was tarmacked) he put his time and money in supporting the Ribbons & Entwistle plan to re-launch the club and if that had never happened then there would have been one less team for Poole to beat. In short he is not the typical fan who pays £18 to watch a match, turns up 15 minutes before the start and then feels he has the right to spend the promotors money on a fantasy line-up but strangely never actually chucks in £10,000s of his own money. Finally I hope you reconsider your comments above that will only help push another fan away (even a fan with different opinions to yourself as the sport needs everybody right now).

Rob, I hope you rescind your decision as I for one appreciate your views.

Well IF Rye House are going to run again this season they will not be able to afford the three big earners (rumoured to be on guaranteed money, I not blaming them for taking it who wouldn't) Nicholls has rode his socks off all year and apart for Kings Lynn so has KK but Harris has been the biggest let down of the three so if he has gone it may that Rye House are reverting to financial sanity and that it does not automatically mean that the Fat Lady has struggled out of her chair.

Does it REALLY matter if some teams might be a rider short if Rye House run on a Saturday or Belle Vue on a Friday or Swindon on a Thursday. Does it REALLY matter if your team finishes 2nd, 3rd or 4th I suggest it REALLY matters that 8 teams finish the season at the correct time

Respect to you for your post and best wishes. Sadly I think we might all be in this lifeboat.

Great post. Straight from "The Donald" playbook, Make British Speedway Great Again. Time to think not only of us first, but only us.

Sounds like a glimmer of hope and it implies that the last few days have been at the behest of the BSPA. Good luck with saving the situation Steve.

People say "give me good racing" People say "give me a great racer" Well Belle Vue have the best race track (perhaps bar Hackney and Peterborough) for years and Dan Bewley "the most exciting rider perhaps since Mark Loram or Kenny Carter" and apparently the crowds are well down. What part of the above is hard to understand SCRAP FIXED RACE NIGHTS

What a day for Rye House Speedway with the funeral of the greatest bar none. Great Eulogy from Steve Ribbons, a fan through and through.

Good last point

I wonder if there are some backdoor negotiations going on as the BSPA or Rye House have made no formal acknowledgement. I have no inside information but even for the BSPA I am surprised we have not had the normal statement "it is with regret that Rye House have withdrawn/suspended from the Premiership"

I have re read your message and I completely took it the wrong way, by reading it with "tounge in cheek" I now totally agree with it. Sorry.

Thanks Steve,

Steve is this confirmed or presumed?

I remember following Bob Garrad up the M11 and he had his bike tethered to the boot of his of car with the front wheel inside and he worked full time in Maldon. Oh, for those who do not know who Bob Garrad is, well he has ridden the most matches and scored the most points for Rye House EVER.

Sorry Waytogo28 I appreciate your reply. its just emotional the thought of possibly losing the club again (1973 and 1993) I hope, as there is no announcement that the club has withdrawn from the league, that Rye have decided it is simply not financially viable to ride on Wednesdays anymore which means the ball is now in the BSPA court.

This is my club that I have supported since 1970 and it could fold due to a ill thought out whim of an idea (just look at all the postings for months warning of this) and you regard it as unfortunate, a justification last used by Dr Harold Shipman

If Rye House have pulled out and I stress IF at this point, then this is 100% on the BSPA, this was totally unavoidable unlike most track closures. Whilst BMR have probably made a number of mistakes I am sure those mistakes were made in good faith, they have made hugh committments into the club, paying top dollar (in English Speedway) for Harris, NIcholls and KK to put out a competitive team and were rewarded with great crowds last year. But the BSPA true to form weren't going to leave a good news story alone so they imposed the ffffing ridiculous fixed race nights on Rye House, top that with the collapse in TV money (negotiated by ????), it didn't need Hercule Poirot to for see this one coming. Lets hope if and I stress IF Rye House cannot continue in the Premiership speedway is not lost and Championship or even National League would be a return to sanity. I sincerely hope to apologise in the next few days for this posting and that I (like everybody else) has misread the smoke signals.

Oh yes the old "Vultures" race Red: Barry King Blue: Garry Monk White: Dave King Yellow/Black: Dale Rook (the perfect name for a vultures race)

Well said White City Rebel

Cant comment on Monday but I guess it was a bad day at the office but overall I think KK in the 20 odd matches for the Rockets has been more than fine (four home matches he has won heats 13 and 15 when we needed it) and after flying in from Poland and crowds of 12 -15,000 and seeing Max Clegg unloading his bikes one wonders what goes on his mind. Like everyone I suspect he will go through a spell that has blighted his career in England but that hasn't happened yet, so please give credit where credits due. My bigger concern is Chris Harris, another home meeting laced with 3 very ordinary rides mixed with 1 belter (last night he got overtaken by BOTH opponents on one lap) not the trademark of "even if I lose I will be buzzing around the riders in front of me" that has graced his career has made him such a crowd favourite. A normal Bomber score would have allowed us to accommodate Nicholls (still he busted a gut in every race) who really did have "one of those nights Absolutely, if the business plan needs to be watered down, please say so, I will continue to support the Rockets through and through.