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Grand Central

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  1. Actually Jon Cook must be as thick as two short planks. To 'reveal' that fans at the public meeting had expressed a wish for more frequent meetings. When he is the promoter of a club that is only able to put on one farcical challenge match, masquerading as a League fixture, in a five week span. And the guy heeds to be told that by others ! And to have the report trailed and anticipated as some sort of Gettysburg address. Give me strength He is as culpable as all the other promoters in all the ills and yet he is portraying himself as some sort of evangelist for change. Me thinks Jon lives in Cook-Koo land. .
  2. I once applied to be an 'ankle monitor' at school. Until the girls complained.
  3. Goodness, that is a very low proportion. Personally, I cannot recommend the iPad version high enough ! Any chance of incorporating the features being pushed onto 'SpeedwayStar Xtra' into the exact editions platform, though? Just for us? I understand the dilemma, though. Speedway has such a 'dyed-in-the-wool' demographic. It hinders progress on just about every front.
  4. .All very understandable when cutting costs for printing and transportation. But for those of us who are paying the same price for the electronic version online, without such costs, not quite so... If more features are to be offloaded into the Speedway Star Extra to reduce the printing costs. Would it not be possible to include these features in our exact editions online version. Seems a bit daft to have to use a completely different platform via a different website just to read what Bert has to say. PS Not for me to tell you your job, but ... Might not be a bad strategy to offer more, truly extra, features in the online version to stimulate a greater uptake. Surely the magazine, in the long run at least, will have greater viability the more people you get to subscribe to the twenty-first century version?
  5. Absolutely spot on. Just that one of the tell-tale signs of some clubs whose ownership have lost their sanity. Turns out, with hindsight, to be taking them into the 'First Division' when they really shouldn't.
  6. Probably true on both counts. Which is why any current supporter of Sittingbourne could be justified in their concerns. That may be the judgement passed, this time next year, if this fails too. I'm not sure it is a gamble I would want to be taken, by others, with my team. If I was happy enough right now.
  7. Unfortunately there are quite a few examples from the past that would give me huge misgivings over this move. There have been many examples of the rather dire consequences of 'moving up' in similar fashion Wimbledon, Reading, Birmingham and Hackney spring to mind. Some were only saved by 'dropping back' as soon as they could. I know there have been success stories as well. Much could be made of the Lakeside fans following to Sittingbourne. But that rarely happens in Speedway, to any great degree or for very long. No, if I were a Sittingbourne supporter I would hope for the best in any such move. But still really fear the worst. It would be awful for one season in the limelight to be followed by the doors closing forever.
  8. This thread keeps coming around on a regular bisus. For me Greg is very good. And yes he is now old, and stil very good. But he is so just uninteresting, nonetheless. Its nothing to do with gating, or not passing. Being good, grinning and being a nice guy. It just turns out to be not enough and it leaves me totally cold. Greg has managed for 45 years without me cheering him on, quite well. And he will not care a jot, which is just how it should be.
  9. Admittedly it is perverse for the SCB to ignore a FIM CDI ruling.And even more so to do that with the bureau chief making a public statement to that effect. But it would be even weirder for there to be any real appeal process. Whereby you actually request that an FMN, that has followed the obvious procedure, to then set it aside and ignore it after they have already carried it out. I just think we try too had to find some way still, of believing this guy. Each time the facts, when they emerge, suggest differently.
  10. So true to form. He had not appealed. Everytime facts are produced. We understand more fully just what a litany of falsehoods we have been fed from the Ward camp
  11. Thanks Ghostwalker. I suppose we must take that at face value. Of course I have no idea how authoritative this Swedish source is. But reports in the English press last year from a supposedly trusted journalist caused a whole load of debate about an 'off duty Policeman' and turned out to be utter tripe. So who can tell? I notice that this report appears to directly quote Ward himself. So at least we have the word of a man we can all trust.
  12. When you say that 'Darcy has appealed' ... Do you really mean that? I cannot say I have seen anything at all from the Ward camp that would indicate HE has done that, himself. The odd line in The Star, at least. Considering the costs he had just got stuck with for the original case that seems an awful lot of expense for him to go to. When the determination looked sound. Kerrching! For the lawyers. If he has.
  13. Ghostwalker has raised once again the point about the expunging of Darcy's points from the matches he rodeafter Latvia. Has anyone heard of the SCB's action in this regard. Now that the FIM have given full detailed and reasoning for that decision. Some journos and even Graham Reeve seemed to have difficult in understanding this part of the FIM code earlier in the year. I wonder if that has changed.
  14. I do not argue with the general thrust of this post; and certainly concur with the view to look forward rather than back. Recollections from the past should remain as articles in 'Backtrack' not seen as a bizarre blueprint for the future. But I would take issue for some of the glory that is being reflected on BSI that is a little undeserved. I think that the success of league Speedway in Poland is fairly unconnected to the GP series and that is what has driven stadium improvements there not BSI. I do not agree with BSI being to blame for the ills of British Speedway, as some do. But I similarly do not believe they are the cause of Polish success either. It is a little 'rich' to give BSI much credit for the boldness of the Warsaw initiative. We have been firmly told by Paul Bellamy that this is a PZM promotion. If BSI are to use this as en excuse to avoid flak they really should not be able to take whatever glory remains after April 18, either. Equally a little too much to give them credit for their moves into untapped areas such as Finland if they have executed the initiative so poorly. Tampere was wrong to start with and it was wrong to have to go back. Management decisions are not 'beyond reproach' as some would have it. It is all very well to pat people on the back for trying But to be 15 years into their 'ownership' we should not be giving them too many plaudits just for their enthusiasm and ambition. We should be seeing solid results of that experience so that they get more things right and more often, now. Rather than less.
  15. I understand fully that so many people stayed in the beer tents.Far more enjoyable than watching the track I would think. And if the quoted figure TRULY is what the raw data from the scanners tell them of the attendance. Then the only explanation is that you are underestimating the beer tent capacity by quite some bit. My guess is that they look at what the scanners says and then they add on quite a few extra for vanity purposes. There are always enough freebies given out that it is not an accounting problem. .
  16. Well, 24 hours hasn't helped improve my memory of the Finnish GP.
  17. We really have gone down a long way in just one short month, haven't we? I have no idea of the details of contracts but ... We must have seen the last ever Finnish Grand Prix last night. No one could seriously consider taking us back to Tampere and there really does not look like any viable alternative. And equally, with what happened in Warsaw. An SGP return to the Polish capital would be difficult to imagine, For all sorts of reasons. After screwing up Germany with Gelsenkirchen, ending the use of fine old Ullevi, the Riga debacle of last year and milking dry New Zealand for the future. BSI are leaving behind quite a few no-go areas, aren't they? Cardiff, Horsens and Melbourne really have to be perfect.
  18. I am 6 ft 2, with an IQ of 210, drive an Aston Martin and have a net worth of £5.8 Million. This may or may not be true. But would it be more believable if I announced it to group of journalists. And kept a straight face.
  19. Two 'dead' GPs down. Seven days to the Marketa. And cadaver number 3. Then just a month to prepare for Cardiff. The long term future of the SGP is in Ole's hands. I hope the 'pyramids of shale' work their magic. .
  20. Are these new rules for the SGP? Or is it the method agreed to placate the riders? If Greg falls we relay the track. And remember NP is in the next race. So Red Alert ! Action needed ! Extraordinary way of running a World Championship.
  21. So annoying to see the riders jumping in front of the cameras to push their brand. Whilst grinning and laughing about the state of the track. Just four weeks ago they clubbed together to get the meeting called off on a better track. And took a vow of silence. The integrity of polecats. Some people.
  22. Thanks for that. You are quite right. None of them have the apparently essential banks of unused red plastic seats. A few of the tracks looked quite good, though. But it would be silly to consider that in discussing 'suitability'.
  23. For what purpose? It seems a little indulgent for this few people. Or are empty seats an FIM requirement? A small temporary one would surely be more than sufficient.
  24. What capability would they lack, that this place has?
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