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It's not the riders wage demands that puts the club or any other club at risk, it's the idiots running the club who choose to pay what they can't afford that puts the club at risk. It isn't the riders responsibility to make sure their wages are affordable to a club. If someone is stupid enough to pay stupid money, that's on them. I mean, who the hell would pay £15K for 3 meetings? Depends on what it's worth to them. Promotors need to stop blaming riders wage demands for the insolvency of their businesses. If you can't afford Rider A, don't employ them.

To go with the purple helmet colour?

Who are the idiots though, those who see modern day speedway as a bit of a joke and have walked away to spend time and money on other things rather than speedway or people like me and others who continue to spend money and be happy to be watching any old rubbish.

Stop feckin moaning and wait a few hours ....... jeeeeesus!!

The majority of the people on this forum moaned about how the 2022 season was run, yet the same faces are moaning that the results of the AGM have been delayed. Good grief...if it takes a couple of days longer to get it right for 2023, it's worth it isn't it? I'd much rather they took their time and improved the product. Whether they actually do improve it is another thing, but give them a chance at least. Moan afterwards if necessary! And personally I'm glad they said there's been a delay, that's already an improvement on keeping everyone completely in the dark for two days.

No point really. Lewy would have a guest!!

Never going to happen and probably for the best cause we’re not in the 70/80s anymore.

Lets hope they have stopped any team for using a guest for the whole season, after losing their Number one at the start of the season

Compared to the Jubilee Trophy, it’s nothing to worry about.!!

I really wouldn't mind Castrol R40 coming back -- that aroma was heavenly!

No because most of the idiots who do critical posts on here don't attend anymore just hark on about the old days when everything was so much better . Upright engines ,13 heats ,wooden fences ,open face helmets with monkey masks , Castrol r, open silencers,

Unless our former owner has managed to get an engine & gearbox for his food van he won't be able to go to the AGM & sell food & drink so we won't be represented

Bjerre and Anders Thomson now that would be a good 1 & 5 whichever way round. Sounds very much like good news is around the corner for panthers! Fingers crossed for an announcement soon…. I certainly feel like the new owner could be the man too take panthers forward and listen too the fans more aswell.

You mean Prescott was a politician who had a real job before entering politics as opposed to the the useless arrogant posh boys who use their sense of entitlement to blag their way through Eton, while fornicating with pigs, prior to landing a cushy number as a party advisor.

You could try asking Lewy.

Makes no sense to drop down. No local derbies on bank Holidays, watered down product in the Championship that would see attendances take a hit. Basically no point in Tomlain buying the club just to throw away his own money and run at a big loss. Pretty sure we're in the Prem and the AGM statement is just being delayed so they can release it on SpeedwayStar day.

Never before has a truer word been spoken. If people want to discuss and debate any other situation involving bickering between the two clubs then create a thread for that. let’s just focus on the Gladiators and what side is announced for 2023 first of all Interesting to see what signings are announced in the coming weeks

The shortage of eggs at the pre AGM Wetherspoon Breakfast Bash caused chaos as egg replacement wasn't available. Premiership promoters claimed priority, but were out voted and had to scramble for more bacon. It all made a hash brown of things! The Chairman was blamed for the deal that had given one egg supplier (Hen-ilass) an exclusive supplier agreement.

Crikey, a 2 day delay, so what?

Because they know all the usual idiots will be waiting for some kind of statement to criticise so they gave them one

Yep and the other famous Aussie was Tero Aarnio.... doh...

Well you certainly seem to know all that goes on plus you drive us round the bends & seem to be a good mouth piece on all topics.

There's 4?

Panthers new owner has big plans and has provided a budget he claims will at least be equal to Belle Vue. Apparently exciting times ahead for the club and this won't be the last year. Expect an announcement soon. Oh we'll be wearing purple it seems

Outside of the outside of the box idea... just give it to Poole

You should light a fire to dry yourself out then

He was a waiter who crept his way up the union ranks, then up the government ranks, and when he was Deputy Prime Minister it was obvious that he was just a waiter.

I would have just assumed it hadn't finished yet!

I think points should only be scored for finishing ahead of an opposition rider. There shouldn't be any reward for finishing 3rd and 4th and would avoid the inflationary problem of bonus points.

People would be expecting news after the AGM, to say nothing would have been worse imo.

The same "idiots" that everyone will be expecting to put their hand in the pocket to watch meetings next season. Great stuff.

Purple?

I'm not biting

Jack Thomas

Bewley is perfectly within his rights to ask for a lot more money than his last Belle Vue contract and would be crazy not to…it’s up the club to decide how many extra fans he would bring in and ideally get the sponsorship required to do the deal.

Kerr is elsewhere

Many riders give up the ghost after a couple of laps and just settle for what they have,it just they make it look good.Explain how a rider can win a race then in his next outing can be the length of the straight behind when the race is won in the same time as his with no obvious reason.That’s speedway though,they are not going to thrash their engine if they are getting beat.You would expect them to be a bit closer on race time.

If we are looking at changes, I'd like to see the Championship revert to the old race format which used to be used to be three pairings and only one reserve. This was over 16 heats, but could easily be modified to 14 heats, doing away with the nominated race, and giving the three heat leaders 5 rides each and the three second strings four each. The reserve would only have two scheduled rides, and I do think that promoters would be much more inclined to persevere with a young reserve if his two rides were not making the kind of unfair impact on results that they do now. I agree that two rides only, is a bit hard on the reserves, but if all tracks took on an eighth rider and staged one second half race in which each team's numbers 7 and 8 took part, and if the 7's and 8's were interchangeable at the team managers' discretion, this would give the opportunity for the number 8 to gain a place in the team and also give a number 7 who has lost his team place, a fair chance of getting it back. If for financial reasons, a number 8 couldn't afford to travel to a distant away track for just one ride, then the staging club should be able to recruit another local junior to fill his place.

Reading through the thread two people seem to disagree on virtually everything. How about at the start of next season there is a series of of scratch races between Skidder and Lewy at both St Boniface Arena and Wimborne Road. If equal a decider at Oxford. Think this would be worth watching.Only having a laugh oh course.

There are rules to stop this as is deemed "not Racing" but is hardly ever enforced by the referee as difficult to prove(ha).

Well I am sure he only said what he thought was true at the time. That may have changed but that isn't necessarily his fault.

I resemble that remark????

I think averages including bonus points for team building was the norm until 2006/7.

Few things to iron out. 1. Who's going to make the Tea/Coffee. 2. Will the hot drinks be served with Custard Creams or Bourbons. 3. Triple check everything to stop Belle Vue from finding any loopholes again.

I can’t even access the website now. But not sure if Leicester were in prem section or not. But doubt they were tbh.

I prefer it when clubs announce one rider at a time. Means I can predict teams throughout the winter, which I've always enjoyed doing. When a team announces all 7 in one go, I feel what's there left to talk about lol!

Reccomend having a chat with Rob Godfrey, discuss how Scunny solved their unwanted incursion problems of a few years ago ....

Don't bother with cameras , wire the electrics to the gate !!

B'ham's final signing (if you can call it that ?) Adam Ellis, who signed on P/P day....went on to appear in only one full Home meeting!

Poole definitely didn't as they had lots of talks regarding rent. So prob wasn't til like January.