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Buster's right to drop this guy. This is exactly the type of guy you'd have had & would have put your club in the s#!t mid-season. Total 'Big Time Charlie'. What a be!!end

Let's hope the track is as good as it was before buster took over,,, instead of a very fast follow my leader

The thing is,if he wants to criticise Wolves riders(and he has done ,also saying Douglas and Flint can't ride Monmore) then he should put his comments on the Wolves thread,just to see what reaction he gets from his fellow fans.(That's if he supports Wolves)...It has f... all to do with Peterborough.

I thought Tungate was the spanner

Sorry pal, my bad, maybe I just didn't understand how this forum works, must post 2513 posts chatting nonsense to qualify my news as genuine. Sorry I'm a bit slow, I'll try and catch up

Freddie Lindgren called the Panthers last week. The whole game changed. Panthers acted quickly.

Can I just personally thank the management at both Ipswich and Peterborough for delaying their team announcements for so long. If everything had been cut and dried by the end of 2022 this forum would have been as dead as a door nail! It's given us all something to read during the long winter days/nights so more of the same next year please.

Must be due a NDL Testimonial soon.!

I don’t think for one minute that anyone would suggest PC illness had no effect on his wellbeing BUT I can not and will not accept that should excuse his disgraceful behaviour at the book signing and his disrespectful treatment of Mr Casey who actually bought his book only to have defaced with an insulting message. PC issue was with BV not with Mr Casey!

Again, not here to answer your questions. You made a cheap shot and got called on it, get over it, your life will go on.

I am a big fan of Chris Holder, chatted to him at the play off final meeting, my daughter used to a big fan too, probably for different reasons!! I was at that particular meeting at Kings Lynn and if I was a Kings Lynn fan, I would also be appalled and disgusted by their actions that night and I don't blame Buster for being unforgiving especially as all our team didn't seem to have any issues with the track including Jack Holder.

He ends up looking like a d!ck because instead of a well worded statement, he’s sabotaged the launch of the new team colours out of spite and comes across as totally unprofessional. He’s got every right to feel aggrieved but have some respect. I never really liked Holder when he was at world champion standard but have grown to quite like him over the last couple of seasons in Poland - but you see things like this and remember why I disliked him before.

Two sides to every story. Buster gave Holder a job after Poole dumped him because of a high average.. He let Buster down the fans down, his team mates and himself down that night. He didn't give a toss. For all we know MT might of agreed with Holder( as i believe he has a connection with him) without clearing it with the owner . If that is the case then Buster hasn't done nothing wrong. Who would employ a person that acted like Holder did for a second time?. If Buster did agree then said no, then i get why people might be miffed off..

Goes to show Buster is a……….

https://www.instagram.com/p/Co2o_hJj9S9/

Excellent lunch at the King's Oak today to celebrate the 95th anniversary of speedway in this country. I found myself sitting between Bert Harkins and Jim McMillan with Len Silver on the same table. Len, who is 91, was in great form with plenty of stories and anecdotes. The after-dinner speaker, who gave an illustrated history of High Beech, was good too!

Also, this will probably be an unpopular opinion but... IF Ipswich do sign Emil (let's face it, many of us would travel to watch him, even across the whole country) would it not make sense to line him up at number 3 and Danny King at 5. Danny ain't a TERRIBLE number 5 compared to others, so should be capable of winning races in that position, particularly at home, however, lining Emil up at 3 means that Jason and Emil will be split up throughout the meeting (disregarding Heat 15 obviously). This means that there will be 8 races with at least one of Jason or Emil in, so there's 8 chances of heat victories rather than just 7 if both were in heat 13, I'd rather see Danny King coming in second behind Jason in Heat 13 rather than Emil, spreading the heat victories as much as possible seems sensible? 1. Jason Doyle 2. Keynan Rew 3. Emil Sayfutdinov 4. Erik Riss 5. Danny King 6. Danyon Hume/Cameron Heeps 7. Jack Thomas

But he won't have ridden any of the tracks before,,, and we know good polish form doesn't always translate

NKI looked rapid at the showground in the meeting he did with the stars last year, happy to have him on board

What's gone wrong? - mislaid your thesaurus of insulting words or simply unable to justify/substantiate your points of view?

Beware of people who say “ I know...so and so “ anyone who had info would not divulge on social media.

Having read the SCB statement dated 7th February I can see it being possible that both Sittingbourne and Plymouth tell the BSPL that either they are allowed to have the NORA and BSPL racing at the track or the BSPL can get lost and the only racing will be NORA sanctioned. If that happens then the BSPL will have shot themselves in the foot and that will open up the possibility that Mildenhall would jump ship which would practically destroy the NDL. Personally I hope that both leagues exist side by side and that both are successful as that is good for the sport and the more tracks that are successfully running increases interest in the sport. You only have to look back to the 1960s and the effect the Provincial League had on the sport leading to far more tracks opening.

Ha. Maybe I am too forgiving!

Speedway is always a shambles!!

It wasn't so much the refusal but the way Holder and Batchelor went about it and held the fans who paid their wages in complete and utter contempt. All parties conducted themselves poorly that night. That I would agree with.

i wouldn't be surprised if Ben chose Peterborough thinking Holder was in

Can't say I understand your philosophy. If Buster thought Holder would walk out on the club mid-season then why hold talks at all?

Well it isn’t because that’s just the way it is. If Buster is the owner it’s his final say it’s as simple as that.

We lost Bjerre against Coventry r/r and Kurtz last season r/r which cost us two titles so brought in a guest with a lesser average this season with no rules broken. Badly written rules have been exploited for years Matt Ford and Ian Thomas are two that spring to mind and fair play to them despite all the stick Poole got they didnt break rules, interestingly the football authorities are looking into changing the wording of the financial fair play rules as clubs have been using lawyers to get around breaching the ffp, a poorly written rulebook doesnt seem to be just a speedway problem, Man City have been charged with over 100 offences puts all the hot air over Lambert into perspective,

Think the biggest reason you lost was the non performance of your number 1 at the NSS, weve had bad luck in all our finals and suffered some controversal decisions but still lost with good grace, we even lost two riders last season one a Sheffield track specialist so bringing in a replacement for Max with a lesser average which was within the rules was good management, wasnt there some debate on the signing of Kerr at the time too?

Extra grip in the wet

Easily. First meeting of the season with Pedersen, NKI, Basso v Doyle, Sayfutdinov, King around the showground should be a classic.

Always goes very well around our place, He'll put a point on his average if he stays fit imo.

Bickley confirmed as number one for 2023.

I do have a soft spot for Plymouth so their last signing means a lot to me. I'd personally like to see someone with a bit of track experience in the Championship already, could be important with someone as fresh as Ben Trigger at number 7. What about Josh MacDonald? He's posted on Twitter that he's looking for 2023, could be a risk though with a year out with injury, but could be brilliant equally.

The commentary was by dick bott . Who was also Peter Collins manager and wrote for various national newspapers. That race was definitely the greatest race ever . I have followed belle vue for 65 years seen speedway all over the world . The other thing I remember about that night is my dad had his car stolen . We kept ringing the police to ask if they had found it but they kept saying no.. I had to go past Gorton police station and my dad's car was parked outside. The police were no better in the good old days.

"Croydon Hitmen" Race Jacket would be a Two Knives

As I said yesterday, the random post out of the blue from someone who hasn’t posted for an awful long time, and the posts he did make are all about Leicester and none on Ipswich or Peterborough until yesterday, makes it more believable to me. I can understand the scepticism because this has been going on for months now and here we are approaching March and we’re still doing it but the chap seems sincere to me. It’s a bit like Mr Blobby the Edinburgh fella who hardly ever comes on the Premiership section who came on here and said Ipswich had signed Keynan Rew. A fortnight later Ipswich announced Rew as their latest signing so there’s no doubt people do get genuine information and it’s not all “rumour” and mischief making although I appreciate you get some of that as well!

As far as I can see, the SCB has no power whatsoever to decide who benefits and who does not from the SRBF. I would be very surprised if the charity that runs the fund, the beneficiaries (ie the riders) and those who donate (substantially but not entirely the paying fans) would agree with the SCB's view.

I am not absolutely certain of this but I believe the SCB has a monopoly on 'speedway' events in this country. Its why the Isle of Wight termed their meetings for the last couple of seasons as 'dirt track'. The wording could therefore be important if not decisive. What you have quoted - I haven't seen the article - sounds very much like a restraint of trade which is, based upon case law, illegal. It won't be the first time that the SCB has tried to enforce something that they know won't stand up and from which they will back away from at the first sign of litigation (the attempt to bar Scott Nicholls riding Championship springs to mind). What they are doing, in no uncertain terms, is blackmail. Its a high stakes game, however, because the potential loss of 2 more tracks (reducing the number of stand alones to just 17) would be disastrous and they well know it. The statement 'part as friends' is so absolutely insincere and false the mind boggles, but then that sums the SCB up. (Apologies for the thread nap).

Wrong thread, this is Plymouths last signing nothing else. Thanks

Good post, very clear.

Here you are, attempting to take the moral high ground - fooling nobody. Oh, and I'm not here to answer your questions so you'll have a long wait.

Yeah Sam struggles on the big tracks, only managed a combined 35+6 from 3 meetings at Belle Vue last year, shocking!!!! All this rubbish about Sam not being a proper No 1 is complete BS

This is the tip of an iceberg speedway (and every other 'extreme' sport) must face in future. The ban on motorsport in Ulster will force all branches of all disciplines to look hard at their control procedures and all forms of insurance for activities. The ACU/SCB would be remiss if they did not take every prudent step to protect their product, ensure their licences allow speedway in the rest of the UK to continue under properly-controlled, legally-insured conditions.

Yeah sure you did. Might be easier to believe if Ian had compared their riding careers - you just took the opportunity to take a cheap shot. At least be big enough to accept that when you are called out, back pedalling like this makes you look, quite frankly ridiculous.

You watch him round Leicester he's as good as anyone .

Masters weaker than Klindt.....lol

I didn't say it was against the rules or illegal and Poole would have done the same back in the day.

I think it's safe to say Nikita Bogdanov would have been World Champion this year had the FIM not kicked the Russians out.