The White Knight

I don't believe the TOP Team take part in the Football League Play Offs.

Would they really? If you have a League Competition - it is just that - a League Competition. The Team at the TOP is the Winner - THAT is an incontrovertible FACT. You can have Play Off Competitions if you wish but they CANNOT (should not) be for the League Championship. They should be run as a separate Competition. Do you see a Play Off System in the Premier League Football Competition - of course you don't - the Team that finishes TOP are the League Champions - that is the way a LEAGUE is run in the REAL World. For those who support the Play Offs - you are supporting a GIMMICK nothing else, just a pure gimmick.

An interesting choice of words.

Yes - the Premier League looks after itself - just as well - it would be downright silly to do anything else. As regards 'self serving' - I don't see the Elite League handing out Cheques to Premier League Clubs from the SKY money. So - who is self serving now?

It didn't work though.

Do ALL of that - and - I would start going again no problem. Don't, and no chance will I return. You could add to your List - none of this carry on delaying things by returning to the Pits after a false Start.

I wonder if this is any relation to Alan Mackie who rode for Sunderland 'Stars' in the Seventies?

Simmo for me. A super Rider.

You never know - it doesn't seem a lot to ask does it?

Only where you deserve to be. Extra homework for you my lad.

Rider Safety should be above ALL other considerations!!!

I suspect that everyone on here knew exactly what I meant.

Bloody MICE!!! :rofl:

Well thought out Post with which I now would concur. The very survival of Speedway may well depend on something very close to this being adopted.

:rofl: FIFTY YEARS of experience this year. :rofl: As regards Ward's Under 21 Titles - if I had meant Under 21 Titles - I would have said that - I didn't - I said WORLD TITLES. Now - how many WORLD TITLES has Ward got - it's easy - you won't need a Calculator.

How about not marketing Speedway as a Sport any more. Market it as 'Sports Entertainment' the same as the WWE. It already has some of the more ridiculous Rules ergo it would make sense to make the change. Neither has any credibility - BUT - at least the WWE is honest as to where it is in the grand scheme of things and - doesn't pretend to be something it isn't. Not - I think - in my case. :sad:

Yes - I remember those Front Cover Caricatures.

As from last Sunday I have, reluctantly given it up sidney. I will no longer be attending Meetings regularly. I may go now and again, but then again - I may not. :sad: Started: 1964 Finished: 2014. My reasons are too many things wind me up at Speedway these days - most folk on here will know what I am talking about without going in to it all over again. Stupid Rule/Regulations are the only reason. Sad after FIFTY Years. :sad:

I agree with you sidney - but - there is plenty of things I am not happy about in Speedway - and that makes me very sad. :sad: Happiness is 40-38.

What has Ward won when it comes to WORLD Titles? Surely that is the yardstick you need to use when asking us to accept a statement like that. The answer to the question is - NOTHING!!! You even answered the question yourself. Surely saying that they were World Champions (which is something Ward will never be - unless he grows/wises up) you have to accept that currently they are more talented than Ward as they have BOTH won the Championship, one of them more than once. Thank you very much everyone.

Well I am!!! I don't like to see Rules/Regulations being bent at all. :mad:

Trouble is orion - you may or may not be right. But being the best run, most financially well off and best supported Club in the WORLD is not much good if everybody else in the League has gone bust. Put simply - you cannot have a League with only ONE Team in it.

In YOUR opinion. Yes you can.

My thoughts exactly Gemini. I am writing my Christmas Cards starting next week. :rolleyes:

Any chance of a 'Link' or the name of the 'Paper please? If not - what did he say?