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    All 4 back question

    I'm sure I was told a few years ago that referees were briefed that in the case of two riders from the same team colliding, it is the teammate who falls that is excluded, regardless of whose fault it was. Don't think it's ever been in the rulebook, but something in the back of my mind says that a referee told me they were directed to do it like that.
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    TV new deal?

    The point was that they are POLISH companies not UK companies as the previous poster mistakenly thought. He thought they might be interested in the UK if they were UK companies. (which they're not). No one is suggesting Polish companies are interested in the UK market. Try reading it properly rather than rudely rejecting it. Sorry if I didn't make it simple enough for you.
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    Belle Vue Aces 2020

    Belle Vue's season hasn't finished. Still potentially 3 home matches left. The first of which is tomorrow. Would be a bit stupid trying to pencil in open meetings when the dates are needed for play-offs and cup finals. if you want some meaningless open meetings, why not do as suggested above and ask Sheffield? They've had every day free since Sept 11. As a second division club they'd probably draw a massive crowd if they invited all these top liners who you believe are free and desperate for meetings.
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    Brandon Update

    Yes. Nowhere near Coventry, but only about 15 miles from Milton Keynes. I believe Brafield has been looked at by those wanting to revive Milton Keynes, but as it's basically just a Stock Car track carved in a field, with no stadium to speak of, it would cost a fortune to bring it up to any suitable standard, even if planning permission could be obtained, and it would be cheaper to just start from scratch elsewhere. Anyway, that's nothing to do with this Coventry topic
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    TV new deal?

    Not sure what all that's got to do with the price of fish. I was simply pointing out that Fogo and Cash Broker were Polish companies,since a poster mistakenly thought they were British companies.
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    TV new deal?

    Fogo is a Polish generator manufacturer from near Leszno. Cash Broker is a Polish currency broker from Poznan
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    Tai Woffinden book at £8.99

    Yes indeed. Very easy to buy the book from WH Smith. Just follow the link below. For a delivery charge they'll post it to your home address. Or for zero delivery charge you can just pop into a WH Smith branch and collect it in person (including Beckenham and Bromley) https://www.whsmith.co.uk/products/raw-speed-the-autobiography-of-the-threetimes-world-speedway-champion/tai-woffinden/hardback/9781786062789.html
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    Tai Woffinden book at £8.99

    This total makes sense to me, and is in no way the ramblings of a fantasist who is making up crap and seeking attention. It's simple. He went from his home in Penge to Bromley for a lunch (which he said 3 pages ago he was treating himself to with the money he's saved because he definitely isn't buying Tai Woffinden's book). After lunch he called in at the Bromley WH Smith to ask about the TW book (which he isn't going to buy) by giving a vaguely misleading discription of Lewis Hamilton. The confused assistant took the easy way out by telling him they don't stock whatever book he was rambling on about and describing so badly. He then got the bus home to Penge... but part way through the journey, he disembarked the bus in Beckenham, to visit another branch of the self-same national chain of shops, who had already told him they don't stock the book that he doesn't want to buy (even though they do). He then had to wait for the next bus of the same service that he had just needlessly got off. Sounds believeable to me. No Mr Dodd. That's not how income tax works. But the good news is that there is no VAT on books. (And definitely no VAT on books you haven't bought and never intend to buy). Again, why are you so sceptical? What is the point of Facebook if not to ask for book reviews from people who don't have the book in question? Maybe you aren't a member of enough prestigious Facebook groups?
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    Tai Woffinden book at £8.99

    Perhaps Mr Magoostix should have called next-door-but-one before going into WHS? Meanwhile there's a twitter account that could be interested in the story of his failure in the simple task of finding a readily-available book. It's called @_DHOTYA
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    Peterborough Showground

    http://www.peterborough-speedway.com/news.php?extend.3702.2
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    TV new deal?

    Out of interest how many meetings have you been to this year compared to last year, or compared to 2017? What bit of the structure and organisation of the meetings you've seen this year did you have a problem with?
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    Belle Vue 2019

    He doesn't need to change his mind about the Scunthorpe team spot. He could sign as a Belle Vue asset and still race for Scunthorpe in the Championship in 2020. In fact that might be his most sensible option.. Sign for Belle Vue as an asset. Go on a free loan to Scunthorpe in the 2020 Championship, stay there until he's ready for Premiership and then straight up with Belle Vue. It'd be the same path as Dan Bewley who signed for Belle Vue and went on loan to Edinburgh (and then Glasgow and Workington) whilst having a ready made place at BV once he was Premiership ready.
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    NL Pairs August 25th

    So presumably both are now banned for withholding services?
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    NL Pairs August 25th

    Only other meeting on is Newcastle v Birmingham, so only Max Clegg is required elsewhere. Jack Smith and Tom Spencer are crocked. Presumably Dan Halsey and Luke Harris are now banned for withholding their services?
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    Rosco steps down as GB boss

    Hope that's a typo, or we're truly in a mess!
  16. Jye Etheridge in for Jakobsen. They already confirmed that earlier. But with only Ipswich not riding, it's poor pickings for Fricke. Choice of Bomber, King or Lawson. Unless you go with R/R
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    TV new deal?

    That would be the big advantage of going with Eurosports. To get the sport onto Quest. We need to have speedway on terrestrial TV. Either Channel 4, Channel 5, ITV 4 or Quest.
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    Sheffield Speedway help wanted

    Only seems to be one person who doesn't know what they're talking about https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lxZ1IkeraQ0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hqp57hIw8Ic https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLP1pqkkSwY
  19. You've got your wish. It's R/R at No.2 for Adam Ellis
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    NL Fours 7th July (now 13th)

    The fact that the meeting went to the last heat with 3 teams level, and the winner was only decided in a photo-finish on the line, will probably see this meeting claimed to be a success, but the reality is that it was a poor advert for the NL. The track caused numerous accidents, and it was lucky that Rob Ledwith was the only one badly hurt. Len Silver didn't seem too pleased that he may have lost Ledwith and Rowe from Monday's meeting. Some of the accidents coming out of the second bend were frightening to see. Thank goodness most were able to walk away as none were rider error, all were riders picking up on the inconsistent soft patches. The hole in the third bend wasn't as bad, but still claimed its fair share of victims. Did Max Clegg touch the tapes both times on purpose to avoid having to ride the track? Near two-and-a-half hours to complete the 16 group heats because of the accidents and two appearances of the ambulance meant the final was in danger of being beaten by the curfew, but some track work during the short break before the final improved things. If the track had been the same for the first 16 heat as it was for the final it wouldn't have been a bad meeting, but sadly it was poor. Congratulations to Stoke, commiserations to I.O.W, and best wishes to those injured
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    Belle Vue 2019

    The huge car park on the other side of the road is the Showcase Cinema. It's free but in theory it's only for use of cinema patrons, and for big meetings they often have someone on the gate trying to turn away non-cinema people. But for ordinary meetings you'd get in. The entrance to the Showcase Cinema car park is on Hyde Road, the big main cinema entrance there. The Speedway stadium is very disabled friendly. Being a modern stadium, they have to cater for the disabled by law. If you're going for the grandstand, there are disabled parking spaces right next to the main reception by the ticket office and turnstiles (Bring your disabled badge and you're ok). There are lifts inside, and wheelchair viewing areas at both ends of the grandstand. If you're going for the backstraight you want the South car park off Pink Bank Lane. You can again park very close to the turnstiles as long as you're there in time.
  22. Wells was injured on Friday. Edinburgh used R/R for him today.
  23. It seems some still don't understand it. The breath test is for alcohol only. Apparently no one had a problem with the breath test. The urine sample is for a drugs screening test. If this comes back negative, then all is OK. However it seems Howarth's screening test produced what is called a "non-negative". This therefore means the sample has to go off to a laboratory for a drugs test to find out what produced the non-negative (it may be a banned substance or it may be something else). Howarth declared taking Night Nurse, and this is what may have triggered the non-negative screening. Night Nurse is not a banned substance (anyone can google the IOC to get the list of WADA banned substances) and if this is what is found, then all is OK and Howarth is in the clear. Of course if the drugs test comes back positive for a banned substance, then he'd be in big trouble.
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