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  1. Posted

    19 hours ago, Skidder1 said:
     

    "Marry in haste, repent at leisure" Well, five years anyway. ;-) Time will tell. I hope it works but 30 years' experience of this network suggests otherwise. 

    Oh and by the way Quest and DMAX are indeed on freeview. They are not dedicated sport channels and will probably only be used for overspill when the Eurosport channels are full of their priority sports. They're minor players, as the EFL is finding out with their highlights package even if they are available to more homes than Eurosport. I suspect only the diehard fans will go looking for speedway there or stumble across without switching channels because the viewer is on Quest or D-Max for their normal non-sports programming. 

    But then, what would I know eh? Experience in the industry plus study of it for fifty years counts nothing against loudmouthed speedway fans out to make cheap shots ;-)

      

    Oh the irony!

  4. Posted

    16 hours ago, iris123 said:

    Thanks. Must have missed that news. Typical, had a bit of time on my hands and thought the Star would be a good way to pass the time

    But with around 200,000+ people passing through every day it is an opportunity missed

    You reckon? - you obviously have no idea of how many of those 200,000 are interested in speedway - or even know about it.

  12. Posted

    51 minutes ago, Shrub said:

    Guide and other working dogs are certainly not pointless, the pet ones to me are. I haven't a problem with people who like dogs, that isn't what I said. It was a genuine question as to why the need to drag them along to speedway? 

    You sound like a real twit ...

  13. Posted

    30 minutes ago, the hobbit said:

    To my mind, Zach is a major disappointment. He quite clearly looks for the safest place on the track where he is in no danger of contact with any rider or any situation which may need him to mix it with an opponent. Yes he’s scoring his average but, he’s staying safe, not taking any risks and several times last night, you  could clearly see him close the throttle off or deliberately change line to stay safe rather than to race. The clearest case was against Kennett when he  gated level but then, turned sharp right going into the first bend and rode the fence to avoid having to compete with his opponent. We all saw that no one rode the outside all night as there was no dirt, no grip and  no point doing so 

    Zach is flattering to deceive. To me he hasn’t had a half decent meeting so far but, is settling for safe second and third places in most races. He makes one decent gate a meeting for a race win which helps his average. I wouldn’t shed any tear if we dropped him

     

    this is without doubt one of the worst ever Brummies teams I have seen and I’ve been watching since the late 1970’s   It won’t win a meeting all season, home or away.  

     

    Ulrich  continues his downward spiral and is at best, a third heat leader. Unfortunately, we don’t have any other heat leaders, the rest being second string or reserve quality at best. 

     

    Newman is a major disappointment and doesn’t Look like his heart is in it at all 

     

    every rider seems capable of one good ride a meeting then several poor ones 

     

    god forbid, we even managed to make Kennel look good last night. 

     

    Our gating is appalling 

     

    The meeting was over by heat five and we only looked better in the later part of the meeting as Eastbourne relaxed and eased off. 

     

    Its May 2nd. We are out of both cups already and can have no  hope whatsoever in the League. Season over already 

    i undrerstand why the team was  constructed this way, to be able to afford to survive financially BUT....   

    the team is so weak that only the die yards like myself will watch it: 

    people will not come to watch this dross every week  attendances are woeful and will only get worse  I, as a diehard , am struggling to find the motivation to go every week despite being a season ticket holder 

    I had booked the time off work to go to every away meeting but, will not be going away, to watch this team as I work way to hard to earn my money, to waste it on a completely uncompetitive team such as this 

    i don’t think the owners are prepared to spend the money needed to sort this out and sadly, I  an see us folding mid season 

    things aren’t helped you having such a tactically inept team manager  with both the meeting and, the tie long dead, he takes Tobias out of heat eight , his easiest ride,  when he needs all the track time he can get then, he uses Kyle who is struggling badly as his tactical rider when surely it should have been Ully. Rogers is speedways answer to boris Johnson  he’s a clown 

    last season was ruined by not making the glaringly obvious changes and I have no doubt the same will happen here

     to have to keep reading official club reports that we are only a few  points from winning a meeting and that there were many positives from our performances, is quite frankly an insult to our intelligence 

     

    this team is garbage and with it, we are doomed to closure 

     

     

    Once a clown, always a clown ...

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  15. Posted

    5 hours ago, Gemini said:

    No-one mentioned Peter York yet? :D Having put up with him at Coventry for several seasons commenting on each race my answer is definitely NO it is not needed and is damn annoying. 

    Damn annoying hardly does it justice - and of course most of the time he got the facts and figures wrong! 

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  19. Posted

    We are in danger of not seeing the wood for the trees here. How on earth would Tony Steele, Jan Staechmann and Andrew Silver (quoting Incognito) turn speedway around. The sport is in a massive hole now ... and only major surgery will, in my opinion, save it. It needs a fresh broom, not three old ones! And that's no disrespect to Steele, Staechmann and Silver. It's like Peter Oakes suggesting a PR guy in the SS this week ... surely we've been there done that with PR firms etc etc and nothing has stopped the decline. Again I mean no disrespect to Peter Oakes for the suggestion - at least he is putting ideas forward. There's plenty asking all the questions but so far I haven't seen one single person with any worthwhile answers. And don't tell me transparency from the BSPA would change things ... we all know the fundamental problems go much, much deeper than things like that. 

  21. Posted

    Rising has explained before - starting each piece with a capital letter is an old journalistic habit. Most newspapers do the same.

     

    As for not quoting MacFarlane, perhaps he is one of those still insisting this fantasy series is still going to happen - and SS are trying their best not to make him look an idiot. Just a thought.

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  22. Posted

    A comedic episode indeed.

     

    After reading that article I'm now not sure that Peter Oakes is really Peter Oakes.

     

    His writing oscillates between between various modes.

     

    From that of a latter day John Pilger exposing the scandalous activity of an African Dictator.

    To parts where his wounded feelings at being the intended victim of an elaborate hoax are painfully on show.

    Written in the style of a pius country parson who has been 'goosed' in the vestry.

     

    Clearly this Toto is a nut-job.

    Which could have been made plain in two paragraphs.

     

    But at least this is light relief from the dark clouds over 'real life' Speedway in Britain.

    Probably one of the best pieces in SS for years ... and you think it should have been kept down to two paragraphs. I'm lost for words.

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  25. Posted

     

    Agreed and I would not be happy of camera kept on focusing on me. I am not saying she asked for it to happen and could well be p**sed off when she watches the meeting but the question still remains... why the hell did the producer keep on showing Miss Hancock standing there?

    Yes that's a good point ... though you didn't need to diss Mrs Hancock (I don't know if you have history with her!). As women in speedway go, she's not bad at all! Colin Pratt is no Colin Firth either.

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