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Iain makes a grand cuppa though!

Wow!

This is a consequence of riders demanding more and clubs agreeing to pay it, if the BSPA/L pay what the sport can afford and the event can sustain then there is no cause for direct criticism. It's always been a prize money event based on finishing positions with the "senior" league having a bike or an engine for the winner up until a few years ago. The bike stopped when Jawa ceased and went into financial hibernation for a while. This prize had a concessionary purchase price to the BSPA/L as well.

You have reminded me of one of the funniest things I've seen and heard in Speedway, after Jackie Biggs kicked off at Eddie Lack over the amount of dog rubbish everywhere having walked across the centre green at Hackney following an EF. Hilarious....

Now if I was losing £10k a meeting and my riders were carrying injuries or with-holding that might just work and save me a few quid but as I'm not in that position I'll go with your suggestion and not get my ego confused with my integrity 😉

Muck fe he's only 36 try 20 !

Zlotys?

At that time under IBA rules regional broadcasters had to comply with producing so many hours of local content which included some sport so 10.30 after the news suited with 1 or 2 ENG type cameras.

We've been there so many times before with good people; Peter Toogood, Rick Frost even Sandhu to a certain extent just to name a few. The man who had the greatest vision was condemned by fans, riders and Promoters for demanding change if ever any of his proposals ever get published openly you will see he was talking about what Richard Coleman is doing and proposing. That man was deposed in a Thomas Becket event, he wasn't perfect and absolute Marmite but he stuck to his vision and paid dearly for it. Oh yes he was called Terry Russell..

It took that contagious to come up with a new excuse..

You don't know just how true that is..

It is very clear that a stadium is the preferred option for the residents, the local authority and the would be owners for this to be a community facility that is led by it's motorsport heritage. All of those parties need to come together to enable a sustainable operation to be permitted, it is not as simple as chucking a Sunday boot sale on the car park. Overall consent needs to open the door of opportunity with the right balance of utilisation it could be a huge success.

Someone has hung their bobble hat on the wifi antenna!

Overall this is a sensible move and hopefully the commitment is there to see it through. Like many before him Coleman will not be fully embraced by the BSPA//L and will become a disruptor because of his passion, innovation and commercial interest all of which antagonise the status quo. The backstabbers will be sharpening their steel and rinsing their bobble hats, I can't wait to be proved wrong

Except it didn't, he came into Speedway with Chris Morton and David Gordon taking him as a Belle Vue "Trainee" which kept him out of custody at that time. The probation service stayed close and he got off to a great start in the sport only to be poached away from his mentors and then slipped back into his old ways until it all caught up with him. He's bitten plenty of people along the way, mixes with the wrong folk in the wrong places which is why his early release failed and he was recalled. He is a very likeable lad though.

Since I blocked you and your aliases - no not at all. No need to respond I won't see it, count the hairs on the palm of your hand instead.

There's a Josh Hewitt listed as a director of Forever Panthers Limited

It's called consultation..

Upwards I hope! The truth is the BSPA/L as it is now have no-one capable of handling Richard. His logical approach will be seen as threatening and disruptive. They will make allowances for his relative naivety then try and get him into line and wear him down just as they have done with others before him. Some great and capable individuals have been lost from the Promoters ranks because of this, RFG is so insular and just doesn't get any bigger picture at all. It's bobble hats and foot stamping all the way.

I agree with your opinion and many, many parents and helpers were focused on track time for their charges but with the exception of a minority these virtual "clubs" were awash with egos. As I mentioned previously well intentioned, sorry I wasn't ignoring your previous post.

I didn't really want to go into that but I can assure you the same names were cropping up year after year

And maybe not if you look at the very public bickering on Social Media right now which makes the sport look juvenile. This is an example of why the BSPA/BSPL have rules and penalties not withstanding their opposition to Nomad teams run by well meaning amateurs.

And is only a fraction of the cost to riders allowing them to take out their own policies.

Like they lost Rick and Julie together with other capable business folk.

This just reads like the clubs ignored the broadcast partners agreement again. GoSpeed got some sh!t on here but the broadcast operating manual they produced and every club agreed to was spot on and very professional. Clubs still didn't trim the centre green, clean the air barriers and screwed up Broadcasters Brand Banners leaving them covered in sh!t for the rest of the season. The clubs wanted their share of the fees but wouldn't adhere to the agreement and just left TR to battle it out. If it wasn't for the need to fill summer live sport airtime Speedway would have been discarded years ago