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Lol , found someone who believes what barker says

Everyone is trying their best to make it happen... here's hoping for next season... Regards THJ

Well for one I was happy to see Zagar in action at Foxhall last night regardless of how anyone interprets the rules

And a Runners Up one too...

The bspl ignore or change the rules as they see fit….. have done for the last 50 years

Surprised they have been changed. After all speedway has a habit of keeping supporters in the dark

You really are still quite bitter about last years Play Off Final aren't you

Not at all.But sometimes you lose the will to get your point across,especially to the ones who don't want to accept it or indeed don't understand it.As the saying goes"there's none so blind as those who will not see".This certainly rings true here so there is no point going on.

Aye some of the fencing has gone in and once its finished I will stick some pretty pictures on here for all to see the latest progress but by all means call round for a look see and chat with the lads on site as they would love to hear your views Regards THJ

No... It was too dark....

Ignore him , he's always looking for a reason to have a pop at us

It also happened some years ago at Coventry from memory. 3 riders were excluded and only Rick Miller was left in the race, who was then excluded for pulling wheelies!

understandable, coming from Poole, that you don't know what a 'motorway blade' is

Looks as if he will be the man this time. There was a film released in the 1960s called "A Man For All Seasons" starring Paul Schofield. In late 2022 we could well see a sequel to that as "A Man For All Reasons" starring Chris Harris ! By the end of the season wonder how many teams will not have included the ever reliable Mr Harris as a guest for whatever reason ? Fingers of one hand maybe ?

Absolutely true!! But who is actually right and who is wrong? Posters have interpreted the same rules & regulations in different ways. The speedway governing body has sanctioned several things that surely must be within the rules as they meant them to be applied - or have they? Anyway, there's certainly a strong 'split' of opinion on whether they have or not. The only 'opinion' that counts in the end, though, is that of the speedway governing body. It won't stop the debate, but perhaps everyone from both sides of the argument should be lobbying for the rules and regulations to be worded in clear, straightforward and unambiguous English. And, anyone who might say they already are .... well, maybe that's case of 'none so blind' too?

To be honest, the issue of whether the regulations rule on this subject is rather academic. However, I think that riders who give up when they are last, are universally disliked by fans. I've took to putting CBA in my programmes (couldn't be *****). It's clear that the only way to cut out this habit of not racing to the flag is for team managers to kick a few behinds.

Of course there would be questions about the heat 15 selection. If they wanted to stop the so called keyboard warriors maybe they should have announced the reason over the tannoy

That surely isn’t even up for debate. World class riders that have been as loyal to British speedway as he has over the years are as rare as rocking horse sh!t.

Yes so correct. What this site does show is the amount of people in life who just want to moan. It was obvious that Doyle must have had a problem but those keyboard warriors just wanted to jump on Richie Hawkins without knowing any facts. I was very impressed with the team effort last night and shows we not a bad team when we have our full 1-7

Maybe the reasons that Doyle was not in heat 15 should be known before slagging of the team manager hey? You don’t mention that the switch made when Starke came in got us a 5-1. could easily have stuck with Rowe as he was doing OK.

Pearson looked quality in his first race at scunny and you can clearly see he got massive potential..I think he’ll do well nxt season as long as he can keep on top of his equipment and keep his place..if not ewr could be the place for him he seemed to like opening the throttle and not giving a rubbish who was around him..could be a winner in a couple of years and be a top rider..but others may disagree..I’m only going by what I seen that night before you all start

You would have thought the super team manager would have realised that.

RIP Back Straight Bogs!

You have got to remember the average age of the current supporters,they will have forgot the answers before they get to page 32.

Decent photo on SpeedwayGB Facebook seems to show pretty clear contact.

That's like 16 yrs ago!! No rider is on the same form after 16 years

https://vk.com/video-53550004_456241169?list=7bbf1bcd5546055ab9&fbclid=IwAR3pnJFErmJ6r0aw6vlfKbXvrPaibRAoN6Lp-klisKCw9lcR4JlcrgQLsD8

Can someone start a different topic this rules s**t is getting boring as f**k now

Don't be so stupid

And webbed feet

At Workington's first ever away league meeting in April 1970 at Rochdale, in heat 8 both home riders fell and were excluded. In the re-run, Mal McKay and Chris Blythe of Workington were then excluded at the end of the heat by the referee for not racing each other, leading to a 0-0 heat result.

My office is on York Street couple miles from ashfield. Looking out the window seems to be drying up now

.......... and most of the time it is the top/better riders that are doing this.

He has had one bad match in 4, it happens and unlike Batchelor he wasn't signed as a number 1

Ditto...waiting patiently for Swindon to rise from the ashes after losing Somerset. All very sad.

That's his season done then I suspect. Such a shame as he was pulling up some trees before his crash. I hope he recovers fully and swiftly; the very best of luck to Dan

Just on the Belle Vue point thing, I was also a bit disappointed we didn’t stop them taking anything from the meeting. But to be honest it matters very little as they’re guaranteed a top 4 spot anyway along with Sheffield. It’s Wolves, Lynn and Peterborough we’re competing with for the other two spots so it’s those three we need to prevent taking any points away from Foxhall.

What on earths happened to cookie? He rides owlerton far better than this,reminds me of the t.batchelor scenario last season.

A wind up merchant that can't take being wound up himself.

It’s become popular to jump on the bandwagon and stick the boot in on Hawkins at every given opportunity these days unfortunately and it’s getting a bit tiresome. “It was an amazing effort by Doyley to do four rides given that he has a perforated eardrum and is really under the weather. To put four rides in and get three wins was an amazing effort, it was a leader’s performance” There simply HAD to be an explanation and I’d have thought it was pretty obvious that it wasn’t because the manager tactically thought he had two better options. I certainly don’t agree with every decision he makes and I still don’t like the riding order seeing Riss at 2. But hearing him give his reasons for the riding order before the meeting it was hard to argue. King and Barker go back a long way and have ridden together many times in their Birmingham days and enjoy riding together, so after speaking to the riders he paired them up. Fair enough. Just then leaves one decision, Riss and Batch at 2 or 5.

Looks that way unfortunately. Legends the lot of them for last season and for that I get why they all came back but in hindsight it needed 2-3 changes

We thought it was strange to not put Doyle in but Nicola asked him after the meeting and he is feeling poorly so that’s why he didn’t go in 15

Yes there is SR 011.1.18

There have been cases where a rider has been excluded by the referee for not making an attempt to race.

When has the sport been credible in the last number of years.

Steve once told me that 50 per cent of his output was genuine and 50 per cent wind-up and that no-one knew which was which. Including, on occasion, him…

This is now two of eleven sides using a permanent guest for their No1. Can't be good for the credibility of the sport but I'm sure the promoters and riders love it.

I find it odd people jumping on the wagon to jump on young James, poor guy has moved country at the age of 16 is on tracks hes never rode before what are you expecting from a first season. He won his first ride at scunny the other day so got his 3 points job done. He would have won his first heat last night however got a puncture. Its still only his had 2 home meeting , id hate to work for some off you lot , youd be sacked after your second day. I personally think middle to end of season he will be on 5-7 points at home. Keep the faith and get behind your riders.

Meeting off because King's Lynn's management are too scared to face Wolves knowing half of the Stars side are not feeling 100%

Champions bounce back after setbacks.