Arthur Daley

The track was awful and very dangerous in the latter stages. The fact that you think it was okay just about sums up your knowledge of speedway.

So you now think GP racing is as bad as the action in the British leagues? Haven't seen your company name in the GPs for a while, how's the lift business going these days?

There's been some serious back-tracking here.

The facts remain, shovlar, that your opinion would be completely different if it had been Poole who had this meeting stolen from them in these circumstances. And also we all know what sort of bile you would be posting if Coventry had done what Poole have just done. Your bias towards your leader holds no bounds and has very little credibility.

Nice bit of spin!! Unbelievable attitude.

And of course you believe and quote everything your promoter tells you. Also, to add, since when has the NYC ever been put out to tender?

For once, I actually agree with you. Speedway fans seem to live in their own fluffy little world.

QUOTE (Rob B @ Aug 3 2008, 11:13 AM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}> Best Pairs is two weeks today, yet no lineups have been announced etc? The Peterborough/ Coventry/ Ipswich/ Hans Andersen/ Rory Schlein/ Ryan Sullivan and everyone else situation may have delayed things a little. I'm sure you can understand that.

Get a grip!! Some speedway fans do really live in their own fluffy little world. Quite sad really. Riders fall off, people cheer and are pleased when it gifts their team points and possibly the match. It's a normal human reaction. Nobody really wants to see them hurt, but when riders slide off at the back unopposed, most fans, riders and officials will be pleased if their team gains from it. Nothing wrong with that in my book. This is competitive sport for christ's sake, not a school sports day - 3 cheers for the winner and all that mallarky.

This has to be one of the great comedy moment of recent speedway times. Chapman dreams up the worst though out qualifying idea in years and then when his own team doesn't qualify, has the nerve to whinge about it and say how hard done he's been. You couldn't have scripted it!

Great thread

Brilliant. Putting the admission price up will take the sport forward. Good to see the forward-thinking Poole promotion setting the standards.

Considering the meeting is still 2 weeks away, I very much doubt you will see any confirmed line-up at this stage.

Actually I would like to read your thoughts as I'd probably agree with them. I think promoting a GP in each individual country and selling tickets is a 1000 times easier than getting a crowd in each week at a league club. Where are the big sponsors we were promised years back from BSI? And don't tell me Meridian Lifts. It's just the same old few speedway sponsors recycled. As you have already stated on a number of posts, a complete highjacking of the riders and prime dates with no regard for the bread and butter of league racing and no compensation to the clubs when they withdraw from league racing as a result. BSI have even started to believe their own hype and hence when they went into Reading they thought that the fans would flock in large numbers - how wrong they were. But what actual promotion have they done at EL or GP level? The GPs look good on the box and in actual fact they are, but any reasonable organisation could make a success of them when you are selling 1, or 2 at the most, events in each country a year. Try doing that every week at domestic league and it's not so easy. To BSI's credit the good things they have done is the British GP at Cardiff. Can't fault that at all. Also the Speedway World Cup is superb.

Well do what Runa Holta did - change teams!!

No matter what happens some people will always find something to moan about - sad little people, with sad little lives. WELL DONE ENGLAND.

Why not use Chris Louis?