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I'd be ok with that as I agree with him. If they can't be taken back to the French coast they should be left at sea or put on a plan back to where they originated from. This is a country that can't look after it's own homeless people, we shouldn't be taking on others until our own house is in order.

From the man who made stupid comments to someone months ago and when an insult was "thrown back" at him, got the bloke banned and whined for days about it. Maybe when someone asks a civil question, give your honest answer and just leave it as that. No need to insult someone for asking a question.

I am rather intrigued that there are so many “fanatics” who refuse to accept speedway’s declining support, and see it all as some media conspiracy against the sport. As others have said, apart from those who live inside the “speedway bubble” the sport is now an irrelevance. That’s not diminish Woffenden’s achievements, but to the great British public is this anymore noteworthy than Chris Anderson picking up his fourth successive world championship at Cooper's Hill this June? I would suggest..not! It isn’t the media’s fault that Speedway finds itself where it is…..and the reasons for it’s spectacular fall from grace have been well documented. Now in my lifetime 1966 was a very good sporting year. Unsurprisingly the top three in the BBC Sports Personality of that year, was in third place England World Cup hattrick hero Geoff Hurst, with Sir Robert Moore the winner…..and sandwiched twixt them was a New Zealander by the name of Barry Briggs! In addition, a few years later Eamonn Andrews surprised Barry with his big red book and the famous line: “Barry Briggs….This is Your Life”! For any youngsters out there “This is Your Life” was serious mainstream telly. It was broadcast when there were only 3 channels available, was on at primetime, when the audience was counted in tens of millions, not thousands! Barry Briggs was (and probably still is) a major personality….sadly over the ensuing 50 plus years speedway had become so marginalised that folk no longer can name / recognise the current world champion...or in a lot of cases even know (or care) if the sport exists!

Maybe.But it is a crime to advocate killing or drowning people in U.K. law and we don’t like criminals,do we?

He is the founder/owner of the company, slightly different to a random employee. A high profile figure that other companies may not want to associate with. Plenty of examples of things on social media being brought up from years ago and used against people, costing careers etc. And no I’m not crying nor have I said that Ford should cut all the ties with the company. I merely asked starman for his opinion.

It's not the 1960's anymore. Nobody can say or do anything without somebody crying. People who eat meat are in the wrong according to vegan's. Female models who promote sporting events such as the Darts and Formula 1 are in the wrong according to feminist's. Some people agree with gay marriage and some people don't. Donald Trump is a racist according to a group of people yet the other group of people voted for him to become President say he's not racist. People who voted for Brexit are racists according to a some people. I can go on and on about various subjects in the current times. Do I agree with Andrew's comments. No I don't but I'm not calling for Matt Ford to cut all ties with Meridian Lifts just because someone has an opinion on a certain subject. It's the world we live in where everybody has an opinion on a subject that will leave a sour taste in people's mouths. Get with the times. Learn to deal with it. If you cant accept people having an opinion you don't like then quit all forms of social media.

Having seen the guy once making a fuss at the Gelsenkirchen ticket office,he is your typical small person with a chip on his shoulder type.Maybe feeling a hand on that shoulder soon one way or another

Nonsense Seasons Greetings ‘Wealdstone’! Quite.....

Like most rumours that surface on social media, it will be complete bollax

Nothing wrong with the BNP

Charlie Williams, Jim Bowen, Bernard Manning, Fred Flange. Comedians

Its gonna take him literally a day or so to work out what you mean lol

I'll set up a twitter account later. I will come on here and post Andrew Tomlin's tweet that way you have double evidence. You can then send the Government a letter about your feelings getting hurt. Tell them you couldn't sleep because tears were constantly running down your cheeks all night. Not like they would care but it would make you feel better in your own mind knowing you tried.

Had beef instead of turkey this year, so nice to have a change to a piece of meat with taste

Welcome back Ashley Morris

Crossing borders illegally is also a crime. It seems that the Government is not even able to protect our borders from invaders in rubber dinghys, it just highlights how incompetent they are...

I suspect he was just saying what many many others are thinking...

Well I tend to differ,I think that witches will have a top level number1 signed and by news years day everyone will be full of confedence for the 2019 season ,first 2 signings look great so get behind ya team as positives are always better than negetives ,happy team and fans is a fast one that holds the cup at season end!

Bang on. I too hold Woffinden’s achievements in high esteem. In pure speedway terms - he is the complete rider. Blaming the media for speedway’s regression to national irrelevance is utterly barking up the wrong tree. Speedway needs to take a long hard look in the mirror, rather than pointing the finger elsewhere. And those whose heads are in the sand are part of the problem, not the solution.

Why is a question a stupid comment? Can't hold a civilised debate can you? Would you like it in words of 2 syllables or less so you understand it? Grade A moron, go straight to the top of the class. Jeez, even Floyd could actually give reasons in his comments, not just spit the dummy because of a perfectly legitimate question asked.

Not the most convincing post that I've ever read. I'm a plain english man myself and that's stumbled over the finishing line

If it got up a real head of steam then he might respond (but for such big issues it's odds against) or there might be some reference elsewhere from management but we're some way from that as it stands. A couple of people who think that they know something is just chip paper atm!

Sounds like a brexit voter

Because you wont do Jack rubbish. End of conversation

Evidence is above. Now get typing. Try not to eat all of your Chocolate Santa at once.

Voice of Reason‏ @brexitblog_info Dec 28 More Why the hell aren’t we forcing these boats back to the French coast? Send the navy and marines in. We must defend our borders. Zero tolerance for this invasion

It certainly looks like an excellent book. I must get a copy.

Same troll

I'm not sure what thread you are reading, but it isn't this one.

Where did i say that. They are sponsors and that is all im bothered about. Anything else said is none of my business. Now go crawl under a stone.

And I would like to know if the buy back clause has protection over our current assets as we may find Drew Kemp may not be included and remains a buster asset. This is my biggest fear.

So, to those sports that don't exist, those "made-up" ones... England’s Jason Bastable won gold at the World Blind Golf Championships this year. Scotland are current bronze medallists in the World Wheelchair Curling Championships. So, here's a chance for you to redact that and admit your mistake. Those sports are not made up. Fact. Perhaps you might roll out an apology as you are proven to be wrong? Another option is for you is to stamp your feet and throw childish insults. I wonder which one you will choose? You are the one who is saying every British World Champion should be given due credit at SPOTY. You can bet your life that when the BBC tried to this approach in the past, they were inundated with complaints over missing out this and that sport from every pedantic Tom, Dick and Harry across the UK. Instead, SPOTY recognises the most significant rather than the mass appeasement-fest you are championing. I think a line has to be drawn somewhere, so far you have been saying there shouldn't. Are you sticking with that or will you admit another mistake? Or are there more toys left in the pram to have still to chuck out yet? Yes, the crowds for a couple of GPs are impressive, but it's delusional to pretend that makes the whole sport of great national significance. Put it in context. The World Cyclocross Championships gets over 60k paying spectators, there are more people involved in a mass participation event like the London Triathlon than there are with the Cardiff GP, Greyhound racing has a larger annual audience at its race meetings. To call speedway a minority sport in the UK actually doesn't cover it accurately enough. It's one of scores of minority sports and among that chasing pack, it's lagging towards the back of those and going backwards still. Go on, have a go at looking at the bigger picture, try looking at the facts and perhaps park the childish insults, you'll feel much better for it.

You do have the evidence Boffy the baby posted it on here yesterday word for word. Police wouldn't care and neither would the government. I know how things work in this country. Like I said to you earlier if your feelings have been hurt and you're upset then go and complain to the government and ask them to put Andrew Tomlin in prison for sending out a tweet containing an opinion. No point crying on a Speedway Forum.

You wear your ignorance like a badge of pride Firstly I don’t have any evidence to report him as I am not and never said I was on twitter and haven’t seen the post.I was just giving some advice to the person who did.Understand so far? Then it would be the police who deal with it,not the government!!You do understand how things work in the country?Seems not

Well I've been thinking long and hard about the move up and I'm still not convinced it's the right thing to do for the Witches and I'm certainly not alone in that opinion. The whole concept of 1 owner controlling 3 top flight teams doesn't sit right with me at all at the end of the day . I'm sure Mr Chapman has his own agenda and that is predominantly to keep the Premiership in existence, not to necessarily do what's right for Ipswich Speedway ? Just seems strange that the only 2 teams left to be completed happen to be 2 of his 3 ??? Hopefully he doesn't ruin us and thank heavens Chris has the buy back clause if things don't go according to plan ! (and it's not too late of course) I also know previously die hard season ticket holders who would normally have paid their money by now that are holding back till the team is announced purely because they don't want to waste money if we end up doing the same as we did towards the end of our last top flight campaign ! If we've signed 4 riders announce them for petes sake, then we at least have some room for speculation on the remaining slots with how many points left to play with. Come on, give us something to go with as I for one am not in the least bit enthusiastic at this point, I think a few more out there are seriously interested in seeing what's going to happen to justify the increase in admission costs.

Tell me what is pathetic about my post?4 people did turn up to protest.That is the truth.The number of fans turning up might be considered pathetic I guess,but making a comment that is fact isn’t.If anyone’s post is pathetic then it is yours

It doesn't wind me up. I simply find it amusing that people have such a lack of intelligence they can't put forward any form of sensible argument. This latest one of yours is ever more desperate. I'd suggest you quit embarassing yourself now and move on. SPOTY served up what I suggested year after year for decades. The fact you now have to resort to making up 'sports' that don't exist, let alone that we have World Champions in really does show that you have no argument at all. You can try and portray speedway as a sport akin to some of these made up ones you are listing as much as you like, the facts remain, Woffinden is World Champion of a truly international sport, performs in front of 40,000 fans at Cardiff, 50,000 fans in Wroclaw as well as five figure crowds at other GP's across Europe, something which the rest of your minority and made up sports don't.

Woffy is not really one them is he ..this guy is a 3 time World Champion

How they always pan out. Made up nonsense as usual!

I detest racists, fascists and Nazis....Have no problem dealing with them....Is that a problem for you ?

The club's choice, nobody else's

No nomination for best place to meet a furry friend!

+The result of Middlesbrough v Edinburgh was changed from 52-44 to 42-44 after Middlesbrough's Shane Parker’s 10 points were deducted after he used an oversized engine. Just found the info in my book, another I compiled, Alan Robertson's British Speedway Leagues 1991-14.

Me too, wishing you the best of luck

Signed, good luck

I bet you have it on in the background

Me too

Signed a few weeks back

You can’t have it both ways, if clubs want loyalty in the manner the initial post is suggesting and first refusal a year later then riders need to be contracted and salaried, you can’t have riders being self employed and therefore if they’re injured don’t get paid etc. But then come the end of the season have absolutely no control over who they sign for and at the mercy of a club. If you want it to be this way then clubs need to sign riders onto multi year contracts with a weekly wage agreed and performance related bonuses on top of that more like in say football as an example. But there’s simply isn’t the money in the sport to do this! The original post seems to forget these guys are people trying to make a living the same as anyone else, they’re fortunate to be skilled enough at something as fun a racing motorbikes against there friends for a living but that doesn’t make them any different to anyone else and should be treated accordingly. imagine you’re subcontracted to build an extension for a bigger firm. Once the job is done you get offered to build an extension for someone else for more money than the firm you’ve done a contracted job for, would it be reasonable let alone legal for that firm to say you can’t go and build an extension for someone else because I want you to do this for less money, I’m not willing to employ you full time and pay you a salary all year round but if you don’t agree because you’ve just sub contracted on a job for me, you can’t work anywhere else in this country for 12 months!! Farcical idea isn’t it!