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Whilst I agree to a point, women's football is growing bigger and bigger with good crowds and sponsorship. It's another thing Speedway has a challenge with. More and more every year are watching woman's football in comfortable stadium facilities. British Speedway stadia every year continues to crumble at the hands of greedy landlords. I would not be surprised in 20 years woman's top league and International football are regularly played out in front of tens of thousands and Speedway, what remains of it, a few 100. Woman's (manly) sports are rapidly on the up.
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Craig Cook: what next?
Daniel Smith replied to Hamish McRaker's topic in Speedway News and Discussions
It was reported that Belle Vue released Craig for similar. GP rider demands for a bang average rider. He also publicly slated Belle Vue's management. So Craig has pretty much left himself with Championship Glasgow or Premiership's Swindon and Wolverhampton. Neither of the Premiership clubs management teams would be stupid enough to pay what his "Speedway Superstar" wages. -
I agree, next season I believe will be his last UK season unless Poland's bubble bursts or until his early to mid 30's. Saying that, like many "Superstar" rider's before, he ends up being not all that by his mid 20's. There's just no way of knowing where someone's career will end up. Someone has to be a legend and another an also ran.
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Who could really blame Robert if he's using the UK for extra spending money abroad. This year I'm sure he'll be pushing for SGP 2020 qualification, SEC to compete in, Ekstraliga and Elitserien. Plus no doubt Bundesliga is on his fixture list, possibly Metal Speedway League too. He's a very busy boy in 2019
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This nonsense that Lambert scoring 13 (9 more points) would have won the meeting is ridiculous. Here's why. Heat 1, Lambert 2+1. 4 point swing 42-48 Heat 6, Lambert 3, Riss 1. 2 point swing 43-47 Heat 10, as is, no result change there. 43-47 Heat 13, Lambert 3, Jorgensen 1. 2 point swing 44-46. What would of happened in heat 15 would be pure guess work but say he was in the heat and he won, Riss would have been in and he fell so 3-3. 4 point swing 46-44. A 2 point win for the Stars, not really an improvement over a 2 leg meeting. So prior to heat 15 Lambert would have been 11+1, but Riss would have only been 8+2 rather than 11 and Jorgensen 7+1 rather than 8+1. All in all, over a 2 leg meeting not good enough. Andersen is a poor poor poor signing. The middle order doesn't have that strength in depth from 2-5 and Palm-Toft is a reserve and nothing else, not strong enough in that position to have 6-7 rides to cover others. These first 2 meetings have made things very clear. There's no backup for Lambert and Palm-Toft can't make up for Andersen.
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Correct and the legal system is moving onside with open air music and sporting venues. It is now the responsibility of the developer and agents to be frank and open with buyers and renters, if not, they are now liable and can be taken to court.
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Wolverhampton v Peterborough PSC Mon 8th April
Daniel Smith replied to bigcatdiary's topic in SGB Premiership Speedway League
The weather system is moving slower than predicted first thing this morning. The rain is almost guaranteed from around 1730 - 2100. Only a 30% chance of no rain. A glimmer of sunshine a couple of hours ago but now the cloud is rolling in again. -
Wolverhampton v Peterborough PSC Mon 8th April
Daniel Smith replied to bigcatdiary's topic in SGB Premiership Speedway League
Likely to be off, rain predicted all afternoon -
He's cheaper than Simon because Kasper scores f@ all points to get paid
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Anyone think this Stars team will deliver needs a reality check. Reserves abysmal and asking Kerr to deliver in the top 5 is a an ask. If Lambert has a bad day we're stuffed as proven. 1st meeting of the season or not, we've been shown up big time against the other weakest team in the league. Let the Wooden Spoon battle commence with this current septet.
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Peterborough Panthers 2019
Daniel Smith replied to Flappy's topic in SGB Premiership Speedway League
I'm not no Buster fan but the situation at Peterborough was caused initially by Rathbone over budgeting and Cook's sulking and greed. As for Tungate being better than a spiralling Harris is laughable. Harris is a good team player and when the chips are down he can pull something out the bag. Tungate is just one of those steady rider's nobody talks about. Beat nobody of significance against Belle Vue whereas Harris would of likely won at least one of those heats. Harris every time over Tungate. -
Peterborough Panthers 2019
Daniel Smith replied to Flappy's topic in SGB Premiership Speedway League
Harris, Andersen, Cook, Wilson-Dean, Wright, Bjerre, Barker = Cheap If you believe that you'll believe anything