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  1. Posted

    On 9/23/2019 at 9:19 AM, gustix said:

    I did try to buy a copy in Sainsburys, Penge, south London. A person who I presume looks after the books, magazines, newspaper section appeared puzzled when I asked about the book.

    To be fair, the confused old fool was in the Fresh Fish aisle at the time.

    13 hours ago, gustix said:

    I visited WHS branches in Beckenham and Bromley today. Neither had the book in stock and staff at both looked quizzical when I asked about it.

    Why would anyone ever have the need to be visiting two different WH Smith branches, in two different towns, in one day?   Something smells fishy here (And it isn't the Penge Sainsbury's)

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  2. Posted · Edited by WalterPlinge

    It's nonsense to suggest that Kent need team changes.   In fact I'd be nipping down the bookies to get a bet on them winning the play-offs.

    Gilkes has been a big loss, but he'll be back soon, and once everyone else has had their 2.00 riders gain new averages and move into the main body, he'll be cleaning upat reserve.

    Kemp is a top quality rider.  He had bike trouble and had to ride borrowed machinery for the 1st leg, but was excellent last night.   Rowe is also developing into a superb rider.  Ledwith was always going to more than double his joke 3.50 assessed average.  Spooner was quick last night and will get better and better with an injury free run.  Jenkins has been a bit of a weak link, but only through injury.  An injury free second half to the season will see him move up the averages.

    I think Kent heads went down last night when they knew Ablitt was out and they thought they had to cover with a "no hoper".  Turned out Luke Mulford was anything but a no hoper, but they'd beaten themselves by the time they found out he was quite useful.

    The other thing Kent did to beat themselves was watering a bald track and making it greasy.  Crazy!    Belle Vue always seemed to have someone at the pit gate watching everything, and maybe feedback on track conditions helped them make changes to cope, while the bad track prep backfired on the home riders?

    A fully fit Kent 1-7 with Gilkes back will hit form just in time for the play-offs.   No need for team changes.   Get your money on them.

     

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  4. Posted

    9 minutes ago, tellboy said:

    People do get a bit stuck back in the good old days.I liked it because there were bigger crowds,better atmosphere,more villain riders and i was younger:D.The actual racing wasn't as good as some of them pretend it to be,they have just got carried away with the above and your mind thought automatically thinks the racing was excellent.I look back on several old meetings from the 70's,80's and the racing was maybe slightly better but not as good as some pretend it to be.

    It's a bit like Cardiff,i love it for the atmosphere and big crowd.But you get home and  watch it again and think did i really enjoy the racing the answer would be no but you just get carried away with everything else.A bit like in the good old days really.

    You're spot on with all you say, but I was just querying how a 13 heat match could have 11 heats with passing and 4 heats with no passing...

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    10 minutes ago, ouch said:

    It’s hilarious the stuff he makes up and in such an obvious manner. 

    It’s all one note though so you may as well block the troll as you’ll only get more of the same. 

    THE hilarious thing is that he's not even a good troll.

    To troll well you have to give biased opinion, which people may disagree with, but they can't say you're wrong, because it's a matter of opinion.   But this troll makes up stuff that is easily verifiable as untrue, and makes himself look a complete plank.    What's most hilarious is when he follows up his made up nonsense with the word "FACT" in capitals.

    But he's given me a great laugh today with the "I know this is true because I know someone who is a mate of a photographer!" :rofl:

    On that basis I have a direct line to the Glaziers as I know someone whose nephew is going out with a girl who works behind one of the bars at Old Trafford.

     

     

     

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  8. Posted

    1 hour ago, Sings4Speedway said:

    Bumped back as its not the flagship event they wanted and will now rather than staging at a neutral top flight venue it will be held at Stoke.

    The Pairs is already down to be held at Stoke, and now they have the Fours too.  So instead of neutral venues, Stoke now have the advantage in both.

    The change will have appeased Cradley who can now have their full top four with Max Clegg now available.  But the new Stoke date clashes with the Berwick v Leicester Championship match which means that Belle Vue and Leicester now both lose their No.1 rider with Leon Flint and Ellis Perks now unavailable.  That's two of the stronger teams and two of the league's drawcard riders now out of the running.

    Basically they've took a problem of Clegg and Phillips being missing and swapped it for a bigger problem of having Perks & Flint missing, a non-neutral track, a poorer venue, and the loss of a Sunday raceday.

    Only way to make it a bigger farce would be to change the rules and let Belle Vue and Leicester have a guest for Flint & Perks.

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  10. Posted

    2 hours ago, bigred said:

    Newcastle have just released fixture changes.the 7th of July is now a championship meeting again Scunthorpe.so max will be missing from cradley  presume so will Danny for belle Vue ..

    Presume BSPA will say the NL 4s take priority over a late Newcastle re-arrangement?      Surely the only solution is that Newcastle will have to use guests if Clegg and/or Phillips have been chosen for the 4s

    In Jason Pipe we trust.   I'm sure Mr Pipe will have foreseen this kind of thing happening and will have an agreement with the BSPA in place for priority over riders like the NDLRC has. 

     

  11. Posted

    37 minutes ago, bigred said:

    Guessing cradley will be without max clegg with him at Newcastle on Sunday’s ..

    Cradley presumably will be without Jack Smith, but would have thought Clegg would be available, as surely the NL4s takes priority over an open meeting?

    Group B looks the tougher group to me.  Leicester should be fairly happy with their draw.

  12. Posted

    1 minute ago, Islander15 said:

    The Fours do not have priority but Pipe is publicising it on Facebook. 

    Is he?

    I don't do Facebook.  To be honest I didn't even know the BSPA had an official Facebook page.  Why haven't they duplicated the publicity onto the BSPA website?

    For those without facebook, what info has he publicised?  Do we know the two groups or any team line-ups?

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  13. Posted

    1 hour ago, Fortythirtyeight said:

    MR.Pipe?

    The only thing that's changed since he took over is that he has a new coat with his name and title on to go with his previous ones.

    Be fair.   He did introduce the farce of a NL KO Cup draw.   On a plastic christmas tablecloth on his kitchen table, with bits of scrap paper from a cardboard box which came out in almost the same order as they went in.    We know that was his idea, because the BSPA/SCB were very quick to distance themselves from blame for it.

    And he's got a new coat with his name on.....

     

    But hey, he's got the showpiece NL Fours coming up soon.   8 teams in the league, so the 2 groups of 4 are easy without needing any decision to leave any team out.   

    Sheffield and Redcar are racing the same day,   So will the 4s get priority over Drew Kemp and Jack Smith?  Other than those two, can he get each team to track their top four?  Or will we get teams leaving top riders out and devaluing the competition with 2 point reserves?  

    3 weeks to go, but no publicity yet....

     

     

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  14. Posted

    20 minutes ago, wealdstone said:

     

    You have to worry when the eternal optimist is not happy. Seems to me guests being recruited from the charity shop cost wise and present Panthers bosses mere pawns in the wider Chapman plan whatever that may be if indeed there is one.

    Who else would there be who is a better guest?

    Hans's average is only 7.05, and as of this morning Wolves were the only team not riding.  The other matches have now been called off, but you've still got to find someone under 7.05 who could divert to Manchester

    Danny King, Josh Grajczonek, Nick Morris, Kyle Howarth?

    Would any of those be better than MPT?    or who else?

  15. Posted

    What exactly is Cook's position with Eastbourne?  

    He's not a promoter - Mike Bellerby and Trevor Geer are the promoters.

    And according to Companies House he resigned as a Director of Eastbourne Eagles Ltd on 28/05/19, and ceased to be a shareholder of the company on the same date.

     

  16. Posted

    At least the comments of Ian Jordan are a tad more sensible, and he distances himself from the disgraceful comments of Jon Cook.

    However a bit of digging suggests that the SCB can not take action against Jon Cook, as neither Jon Cook nor Ian Jordan are promoters (Nor are they SCB officials at all).   The people who will have to take responsibility for the programme comments which bring the sport into disrepute are the licenced officials Mike Bellerby & Trevor Geer.

    But I wonder if all is not harmonious at Eastbourne.  

    The promoting company (Eastbourne Eagles Ltd) was formed on 14 December 2018 with Ian Jordan and Jon Cook as the Directors and both as 50% shareholders.

    Then quite recently on 28 May 2019, Jon Cook resigned as a director, leaving Jordan as the sole director.  Cook also ceased to be a 50% shareholder, so it looks like Jordan is now the sole owner.

     

     

     

     

     

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  17. Posted

    2 hours ago, Sings4Speedway said:

    " a very different animal to being a star in a League where half your opponents struggle to stay on, get their bikes to do four laps and in some cases can barely skid a bike.

    Riders can (and have been)  banned for making derogatory remarks on social media.     It'll be interesting to see what action the SCB take against Mr Cook for these disgraceful comments.

     

    Perhaps Mr Cook should concentrate his time more on the Eastbourne track and see if he can sort the dangerous surface where the Championship riders struggle to stay on, do four laps, and in some case can barely skid a bike.

     

     

     

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  18. Posted

    38 minutes ago, lucifer sam said:

    Advance bids are allowed, but there's no guarantee that someone there on the night won't outbid it.

    That's fair enough as long as people are allowed to place an advanced bid up to their own maximum limit.

    (Still would have been better to do it online too)

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  20. Posted

    This does seem a very naive way of auctioning off potentially valuable items, which would certainly have raised more money if put to a worldwide audience  (very easy to do in this internet age).

    But if it's true that  " They add that anyone who can't make it, ask someone on their behalf whose attending to make a bid. "  then surely anyone can contact the auctioneer and instruct him to make bids on their behalf up to a set amount.  

    A cynical person might think that the people organising this auction are purposely restricting the audience to try to increase their chances of snaffling the goodies for themselves on the cheap.

    If they refuse to accept advance bids via the auctioneer, then you know something underhand is going on.

     

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  24. Posted

    41 minutes ago, ouch said:

     if a team signed two 2 pointers at the start of the year and another team member had a loss of form and dropped to 2 it seems unfair to me that one of them should be sacked,

    You're making your own rules up!  

    Where has anyone said you have to sack a rider if his average drops?  :blink:

    All we're talking about is the rule that you can't bring in another 2.00 rider if your reserve berths are already filled with two 2.00 riders.

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  25. Posted

    2 hours ago, Gunner85 said:

    Both Jordan and Ben started on a 2 point average and now Connor is doing the same.

    That makes it a total of signing three 2 point averages

    Kyle Bickley and Ben Woodhull also joined Belle Vue on the minimum average as a reserve too.   So it's a total of 5.   (as did Paul Bowen, so it was 6).

    Leon Flint and Danny Phillips joined the NL on the minimum average, just not with BV.   In fact most riders come in on the minimum average.  Only those dropping from a higher league don't.   (can only think of Ledwith).

     

    Of course there is a rule saying that you can only have two 2.00 riders in a team at a time.  This is to ensure that a new 2.00 starts at reserve, and isn't thrown straight into the main body.  (e.g. BV couldn't have signed Bailey and thrown him into the main body while Palin and Rathbone were still both occupying the reserve berths on 2.00.  They had to wait until one or both moved up on a higher average and a space became available at reserve)   

     

     

     

     

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