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Why?? Its the right decision!! How does not abiding to rules help with credibility!!

Kyle will be very busy then!

As has been said so many times on here this season they can only use the track on a Monday night so what league does that leave drrrr.

After heat 2 it's irrelevant what number the reserves are at as they get swapped around more than a Kate Middleton photo

Great result after being ten down at one point.go tigers!!

and how did that effect Milik?

Yes, but the lack of card payments is, I believe, because they use WiFi, which doesn’t stretch to the admissions gates. You can buy your chips with a card! Maybe Stewart Dickson could put a WiFi access point on the tractor.

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Many, many times. Like a cracked 78rpm disc. Like the Burnley and Sheffield United supporters who currently believe they'd get access to better players and get off the floor of the table if soccer across the nation would only go to ten-man teams.....

Given they don’t have card payments for entry yet, I’m guessing not. Still a lot of other things they’re working on, I think.

At a guess, I would say no. I've heard or seen nothing to suggest they are going to start doing this but i would love to be proven wrong. Thankfully, I don't plan to miss many home games this season with it being on my doorstep

They should have been told to not select a middle age rider from the other side of the world ( again ) who couldn't average 5 points last season and give the place to a ‘developing’ Brit , isn't that the point of this league ??? but this is how British speedway is now being run.

Totally agree it doesn't matter.

It's here: http://scunthorpe-speedway.com/?page_id=15341

Sheffield have started their season with Tai already riding so would get the appropriate facility? So I’m not quite sure how that is the same as Plymouth losing a rider for the first portion of the season before it’s even started? I personally think a team starting a season with only 6 riders and say having to use an NDL guest to cover it completes strips away any ‘credibility’ the sport has. I feel the sport has spent a lot of time (Mainly Phil Morris) trying to restore some sort of credibility and excitement to British Speedway recently and I don’t think it’s good for the sport to put a club in a potentially untenable position moving forward. Promoting a speedway team and making it work in this day and age seems a tough gig at the best of times and the sport has often cut its nose off to spite its face in recent years, I feel this is potentially one of those times and I’d be really disappointed if Plymouth struggled financially or otherwise due to this.

Id rather see the rules followed and the sport have some form of credibility than just ignore them because someone put effort in (how much is unknown) whats to stop other rules being ignored as long as theres some effort

That was dated March 2022!

Classic! In a day when the sport is on its arse, supporters are walking away year on year and tracks struggle to survive, the authorities would rather hang Plymouth and their fans out to dry rather than work together to provide a solution. If Saturday goes ahead it will likely be a mauling and all that does is see more supporters walk away. It will be the same in each meeting. I don’t know when Covatti may be fit but based on what I’ve seen and am aware of, this is a problem that Plymouth didnt cause and have tried every avenue they can to resolve (without financially crippling themselves) and yet the authorities are sticking two fingers up rather than offering support. Classic reaction from a body who has their own interests at the heart of what they do. It’s not the authorities fault either, I’m acutely aware of that but the lack of flexibility is piss poor

Those that have lost clubs never loose hope it may take years to get it back it may never come back but, Support the sport we lost our club many years ago and since have travelled all over the Uk to watch various teams and events, since we lost ours we started a family and the sport has gained a couple of supports! Don’t give up on it

It's a tricky one, I wonder what Wroclaw fans thought about the possibility of guests last season when they were heading into the play-offs without Woffy & Magic and with Connor Bailey & Charles Wright? It made the final if not a farce, certainly a foregone conclusion

I think it's "hats off " to Scotty the oldest rider in British S/way still being a force to reckon with ,not just there to make up the numbers !

Feel for Brum. If anyone should’ve been disqualified from the super heat it should’ve been Holder, shot across the track and into the side of Scotty

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Haven't got going yet? Its meeting number 2 for god sake. You really do bring it on yourself with your thick comments. Birmingham doing well fair play and a big crowd in sounds good. Hopefully hold on for a win.

My reply was just to this meeting, and the bet.

A lot of clubs use a company called Infinity21, it requires a steady internet upload speed. Northside has nothing yet being isolated, believe it's somewhere on the openreach/Fibrus roadmap! Berwick being in a built up area (and being a football stadium) will have ADSL lines at the very worst, so could also have card payments.

Spot on, it’s definitely working!

Interesting the SCB have used a photo of Ashfield with the championship trophy yet gave the title to Edinburgh ? Well they did award all the titles in the NDL as well so…..

SHEFFIELD -4.0 @ 10/11 and the Hcap Tie @ 10/1 This Handicap is a gift imo.

Answered my own question, they've updated the schedule with the 2024 fixtures streamed, good news. https://tv.scunthorpe-speedway.com/

A bit late but a few thoughts about the decision to raise the limit to allow Edinburgh to fit in Max Perry. 1) i'm absolutely delighted Max has got a NL team & think it would have been a travesty for a 16 year old improving rider in his first Champ season to miss iut on a place in the development league. 2) I'm very impressed that the fellow promoters agreed to a rule change that directly hurts their own chances at glory. 3) I think its rediculous to change a rule after the AGM. Mainly because its shows a complete lack of thought & planning. Did they not consider whcih riders could miss out, perhaps it's just easier & "lazy" to just pick a low points limit, create a weak league & hope it works for developing riders. For example a developing 16 year old on a 7+ average almost misses out, but "journeymen" riders who will never make it on lower averages, will have no such issues gaining a team place. Now I have zero issues with these older / more experienced / doing it for a hobby type riders racing in the NL, just feel these rider sgaining a spot over the likes of Perry goes against the supposed point of the lower points limit (development). They coulkd have picked rider gradings based on ability & experience, a % reduction based on experience to help "developing" riders, rather than the quick an easy option of "let's lower the points limit" . 4) Edinburgh could have fitted in Perry by not signing Wood or Watson for example. So in the future, whats to stop a team picking a rider just over the points limit and asking for the limit to be increased?

The former - but it would be worth a go. Maybe Newman could guest for Covatti, and then they could have R/R for Newman!

My bad. thought it was a lot different to what was broadcast this morning, which was basically a moaning piece NT doing a Steve Mallet doom and gloom piece, along the lines of "use it or you lose it "

Plymouth have had long enough to either sign one rider as a direct replacement for Covatti or more than one signing if that were needed. I applaud the decision to not allow Plymouth a facility.

Rowe is a better option, agreed. I more meant Morley is the strongest rider who is likely to sign. If Rowe wanted a Champ spot, surely he'd have signed for Workington months ago? But there's always a possibility he'd take a short term spot?

As the first match is this Friday, do Scunthorpe intend to put this year's admission price on the website before then?

With the Eastbourne alumni, you could also include Martin Dugard... Boston's Andy Fisher is another one to add to the list.

Yes… he has already said that he could have made one more change at Oxford…. Cook for flint in heat 14 but as those of us in attendance debated, would that have knocked Leon’s confidence and remember that Leon had won his last race in heat 8 . A hard call… we were doing far better than any of us expected but, which way would you have gone? personally, I was happy to support whichever decision he made because there were pro’s snd cons either way and, he’d already shown he had the nouse and the bottle by dropping milik for Worrall in heat 13

Most Championship clubs were charging £20 last season, whereas Poole was £19. So am surprised there is a debate about it (we are just catching up!) Maybe they need the extra pound from everyone to cover costs more. They said publicly that season tickets have been going really well, so maybe not that much picking and choosing!

I think Ben Morley is the best option. Just be honest & say he might not have a team spot for long, but as you say it's an opportunity to put himself in the shop window for another team, till Covatti is fit / another rider is found. Even then he might keep his team place if he's out performing Hook or Joe T?

Kryterium Asów, Bydgoszcz, 24.03.2024: https://vk.com/wall393669591_1259

Toruń v Zielona Góra, sparring, all heats, 24.03.2024: https://youtu.be/v_o-T05uFiA?si=F0907-OKFyqwiz7v

If that`s the line up its very weak at 3 and 4 as you have two riders brand new the the league, much better to having Vissing in one of those numbers.

Keep faith. In the mean time try and go see a few meetings keep the love for it best you can

Speedway riders?

Would Garrity even be better than Morley anyway? Not ridden for a few years. Won't have up to date equipment etc. I wouldn't pick him anyway, no matter how good he might be. Not after the crime he committed.

The clock and riders being ready to race before the 2 minutes expire is a uk thing, a welcome new rule.

I disagree, can't see any major sponsorship deal being scuppered by the use of guests. If guest use were sold by virtue of Speedway needing the system because it is so dangerous and the injury rate so high it is impossible to keep a reasonably level playing field without them it could even be seen as a positive by some brands. Where it would be a more difficult sell could be if guests are used to cover riders who are competing elsewhere.

I beg to differ.

LMAO!