NeilWatson

The confirmation has been given and Coventry’s place in the NDL confirmed by the confirmatory press release. What further confirmation were you expecting?

The full 1-7 is in place, and will be announced shortly I believe. Mick Horton and my successor will be ‘The Promotion’.

National Development League has been the official league title for as long as I can remember, but ‘National League’ or NL is often used in the vernacular.

8.00 or above

Happy Christmas Steve. The putative 2017 Bees team was built to include UK based riders only.

Way off the mark Steve! Even further off the mark

The most relevant party where speedway is concerned is the club owner of course,

Coventry Bees

Barry And Martin from the Isle of Wight sometimes post here, Dale, Laurence Rogers, Tsunami, Gordon Pairman, there may be others. There will always be issues that are confidential that cannot be immediately responded to but I will generally answer reasonable questions posed without too much unpleasantness, and correct clear misunderstandings.

The Promoter situation is as you surmise, however that is not the reason Coventry's application is not yet confirmed, there is an arcane admin matter that should be resolved very soon.

I attended the NDL AGM to represent Mick who was out of the country, not as the ongoing Promoter/ helmsman.

That's not true, but I sense that you would never let facts get in the way of your snide, anonymous posts. The only Club I've ever been involved in that has ceased racing is Coventry in 2017, which was purely down to stadium availability.

Peterborough will take priority as I'm now a licensed promoter there, I will attend as many Coventry meetings as I can.

Not for the first time you are 100% wrong.

Thank you. Not really, although I was aware of the plan. Thank you

For those who don’t know me, my speedway cv reads: Various track staff roles at Peterborough Promoter at Peterbough three times and consortium member in 2014 Club Chairman at Mildenhall Promoter at Coventry EL and NL Reserve Management Committee member Team sponsor of Mildenhall and Kings Lynn Young Stars Sponsor of Jake Knight

Yes I was No, something much more arcane that I hope to be clarified very shortly.

Why would it? Each rider’s fixed costs are similar, and a 9.00 heatleader would expect to score on average three times more than a 3.00 reserve so earn three times more.

‘Teaboy279’ is much nearer the mark than ‘TurnTwo’. We certainly adopted that approach with the Coventry Storm, the pay differential comes because you expect a heat leader to score more each meeting hence earn more.

Our application will go before the NDL AGM, which is likely to be in the next couple of weeks.

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No worries. As others have said, my status this year precludes attendance. Typical, after many years of UK AGMs in the dark, dank winter!

For 2018 our application is for NDL racing.

Im not in Tenerife sadly. Theres really nothing more to say in a Coventry 2017 thread, and nothing to add regarding 2018 until our application to the BSPA has been considered. (Edited - but seems missing apostrophes are now a feature of the board)