British speedway is a joke.

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34 minutes ago, The Dog said:

The saddest thing for me is the fact that the BSPL are making one desperate last move to show the rest of the speedway world that British speedway can attract the best riders in the world again when we all know the real truth. 

We probably can but only if club sponsors provide the funds - otherwise where would the financials come from.

[tellboy 3,672]

2 hours ago, Arch Stanton said:

You’re wrong on this one I’m afraid. Louis wanted to give Heeps more time but couldn’t because the League meetings were starting a few days later so had to be quick to stay within the rules and the change was made. My work company sponsors some of the meetings at Foxhall and Louis will always come and chat with us in the bar after those meetings. A colleague brought this up and he was adamant. None of this off the record nudge nudge wink wink stuff, he went through the rule clearly and concisely. 
 

They really need to do a far better job of writing these rules down to avoid all the uncertainty. 

He's not going to tell his sponsors "no we broke the rules" is he.

[Arch Stanton 2,297]

40 minutes ago, tellboy said:

He's not going to tell his sponsors "no we broke the rules" is he.

You don’t know him very well. We’ve heard plenty over the years “off the record” believe me. There are two ways you can interpret the rule as it’s written, it’s certainly not clear either way. You immediately interpreted them as rules were broken, no ifs buts or maybes, they’d been broken. Chris Louis is adamant that wasn’t the case. 
 

The problem is, we all know that over the years rules definitely HAVE been bent/broken at times by certain clubs so that nowadays, when there’s a grey area crop up like this one people like yourself automatically think on the negative side and claim a guilty verdict. It’s where we are unfortunately. 

[Steve Irving 393]

Think it’s clear the rule was league fixtures. Not one but two clubs made changes before the league campaign, and yet neither was challenged by any of the others. No club tried to make a change between 25% and 75% of league fixtures did they? A poorly explained rule yes, but ultimately it explained itself in the end. 

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9 minutes ago, Steve Irving said:

Think it’s clear the rule was league fixtures. Not one but two clubs made changes before the league campaign, and yet neither was challenged by any of the others. No club tried to make a change between 25% and 75% of league fixtures did they? A poorly explained rule yes, but ultimately it explained itself in the end. 

You will never challenge the rules as you may need to bend some yourself during the season...

[tellboy 3,672]

3 hours ago, The Third Man said:

So if Adam Ellis gets injured tonight, we can sign Dan Bewley

Maybe Zmarzlik on his old average and re-declare your team with them being over a point under the limit.