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  1. Posted

    25 minutes ago, StevePark said:

    One problem of that is, how many mechanics have riders got these days?  

    Don't get me wrong, I see what you're getting at, I just think that there are more pressing problems with the sport, before how people are dressed in the pits.

    Like already pointed out, this clothing everyone with apt attire is purely only for TV meetings so its not a massive thing to achieve. It's the who gets into the pits that needs to be stricter and adhered to that needs sorting. Photographers wandering about etc, people who don't need to be in the vicinity. 

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  9. Posted

    3 hours ago, chunky said:

    "MADE IT to the Cardiff GP lineup"? He was named as "track reserve", which is hardly the same thing. You could say that Keith Yorke made it to the NLRC, and at least he actually rode!

    Yes, Iris123, why are you slagging him off for being a heartless violent thug and criminal?

    I didn't realise anyone riding as a track reserve ( not in the 'line up ' ) was picked at random and didn't have to qualify for that position. 

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  10. Posted

    16 hours ago, iris123 said:

    People say he is talented. Maybe so.But he never really produced much and was on the decline before he was banged up. Not many come back as good as they were before a long break. I doubt he would get a 5 point average in the second tier.

    Even with the lack of riders available, it would seem a major gamble to even bother ringing him up

    Never produced much? He made it to the Cardiff gp line up which very few riders from this country ever do, and I bet you cheered him on that day like all his haters that are now slagging him off. 

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  11. Posted

    43 minutes ago, THE DEAN MACHINE said:

    That list is still huge and amounts to around £60,000, it stretched back to the 90s, some of the non payers are no longer with us, some have just retired and gone off into the sunset but some are still riding and have no intention of paying, said this before that if any rider has a debt to a speedway van sales at the end of the season then next year they shouldn’t be granted a license till it’s paid, I know a few years ago this was the case with Aussies but not sure if that still the case 

    The trouble is when you need bits possibly just before the meeting starts or mid meeting and then go to settle up and the spares man has gone (, not usually in most cases) and then what? Chase them round the country when all that's needed is the spares van to contact the club and the club takes it out of the wages or speaks to the rider to get it payed back . Some of the spares vans aren't strict enough, you don't go shopping and pay for the goods sometime in the future! If at all , I think it boils down to trust and honesty on the part of the rider. 

  13. Posted · Edited by ONTWOMINUTES

    I'm sure Jason is aware of the consequences of making a public return and whatever team he rides for will remind him of this,but at the same time have a responsibility to help him too . Jason has broad shoulders so name calling and verbal abuse won't have a impact on him. If people don't want to go and watch the meeting he's in then away meetings are hardly affected because it's once or twice a season and home team ( whoever that might be) meetings would only affect the individuals who choose not to go which I doubt would be that many in the great scheme of things. Speedway is far from a mass spectator sport so no difference to people not going anyway for reasons like watching on streaming or being on holiday etc. There's also the hypocritical people who give it the " I'm not going" attitude and still go!! I've known people like this over the years. 

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  20. Posted

    1 hour ago, *JJ said:

    Maybe the one who I once saw having hysterics in the pits, throwing a fire bucket around, and shutting himself in the changing room ... because he had been excluded under two minutes ...

    Nothing much to worry about, that applies to dozens of riders that spit their dummy out. 

  21. Posted

    29 minutes ago, GiveusaB said:

    I think his opponents will question whether they will want to be in a race, on a lethal machine, with someone as mentally unstable as he is?

    brick laying, plumbing, etc etc etc.....are one thing....but, one of the most dangerous sports in the world is another!?

    Just saying.....

    He's not the only speedway rider that's in your words "mentally unstable" , far from it . 

  22. Posted

    7 hours ago, secsy1 said:

    I think everyone on here should cast their minds back several years ago to a certain incident involving 3 young riders and what they allegedly did to a young lady.

    Who bailed them, who paid monies to certain parties to keep the alleged incident quiet and where are they now?

     

    Not forgetting other speedway criminals like jerran hart who with help from mate's beat up a member of the armed forces for fun or James purchase who killed someone through dangerous driving. I don't remember these individuals getting much stick and infact purchase was welcomed back to cradley with open arms. There's a few more riders who have done crimes similar. Jason hopefully has a second chance. 

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  24. Posted

    11 minutes ago, Sings4Speedway said:

    No going to disagree with you there. Unfortunately those who run the sport and ultimately run teams in higher leagues cannot see that a higher level in the NDL will generate a higher level across the sport. Instead the NDL was viewed as a competitive viable product and therefore a threat to higher divisions and was dumbed down rather than focussing on developing the product higher up.

    Your spot on with this analogy 

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  25. Posted

    24 minutes ago, Sings4Speedway said:

    But surely if a rider coming through the junior ranks isn't good enough to displace a poor established rider.....With the low numbers competing an U21 league would virtually guarantee anyone with a bike a team spot and thats no good for making the standard better.

    But this is the whole problem, the standard of the ndl isn't going to get any better, speedway in this country needs to be rethought out because at the moment it's the same year in year out. 

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