Byker Biker

Artem Laguta wouldn't have turned up!!!!!!!!!!

Include plenty of recycling bin storage and cycle storage across the piece and Clark's yout uncle !

I agree but in trying to protect his investment they offered him just over 3 months so to get a full season of racing it had to be a compromise outcome. Right or wrong it was his money going down the toilet.

Had Chapman not gone quietly then Peterborough would have closed a year sooner

The consent of the home federation/governing body (PZM)is required before start permission can be given by the ACU (devolved to SCB) and a certificate of sponsorship is then applied for. The Polish clubs now effectively have a veto by recalling their rider or not sanction start permission. It's very messy but when it works it works well but it's a farce when British riders are recalled for practice or sponsors activity and can't race for their British club the day before a crucial meeting in Poland.

Not quite, the Polish clubs have to agree start permission for their rider and withdraw it when it suits so they simply recall their rider. They did the same with Laguta last year on a match by match basis by issuing sick/injury notes through their track doctor. The game was up when they told KL by telephone that he'd had an injury but didn't tell their Doctor so he put a note out saying he had food poisoning! Disgraceful behaviour but the conspiracy theorists blamed Chapman when in fact he was the victim.

Last time I was there it was the medical room and static but that may have changed

Eddie Lack?

It's only just feasible Steve because the gap between the costs in both leagues is partially filled by the tv money so the net losses are not too dissimilar. If you take away some of the egotistical sponsorship and take into account three or four of your riders could be doubling up and demanding Premiership money in the Championship you can see how difficult it is to run successfully in either league. There are still clubs in both leagues trying to buy (win) the league by throwing brewsters at riders so as always there are have's and have nots and in my opinion this is doing more long term harm to the sport than some of Buster's strokes. In fairness to him he can't say "owing to the stadium being unavailable " like others have done so has to be more "creative". He must be thinking every day "when I'm up to my ass in crocodiles I wish I'd never entered the swamp in the first place". As some of us know he was not the architect of King's Lynn entering the Elite League.

And your hourly dig at him, you've made your point every day for the last 6 - 12 months don't you think it's time to give the rest of us a break?

Of course, this goes back two years now to when Leicester were joining the PL there simply wasn't enough rider resource. Had Wolverhampton not closed and some of the bigger players not come back with Oxford replacing Peterborough it could have been worse this season, look at the struggle Birmingham have had just to build a team. If there is a bad run of injuries across other clubs the outcome will be dire for both leagues. I don't agree with not running but I do agree with his right to make a stand unfortunately he won't enjoy the support of his colleagues in the BSPL

Totally agree but when the BSPL decided to agree specific race nights for the UK Buster told them the Polish authorities wouldn't abide by the agreement. He knew they couldn't be trusted and made it very clear he did not want to keep changing race nights to accommodate the Polish clubs and if the BSPL went ahead with the agreement he didn't want to be a part of it. He made it abundantly clear that as there were not enough riders to go round the British clubs would be at the mercy of the Poles. He had more than a belly full of their antics with Laguta last year. He has to make a stand otherwise the BSPL will continue to roll over.

Duchess of Sherborne I think

Unfortunately there is no normal life for Jason, he is a talent on two wheels, very funny and a likeable guy but the but goes a long way back. Jason was kept out of a secure place to stay because of his ability on a Speedway bike when Chris Morton and David Gordon agreed/were persuaded by the probation services to train him and give him an opportunity to change his life. Those commitments kept him out of custody but when it came to formally signing a contract other clubs stepped in so off he went and became effectively unsupervised. The rest is fairly well known the negative almost feral influences around him put him back to square one. Others from our sport were influenced by Jason and got into similar difficulties with the authorities, one I know is certainly not riding anymore. What you see is what you get with Jason it's the bags and baggage that will be the problem I'd put him in a team tomorrow but wouldn't allow his entourage anywhere near a Speedway track.

What's the point when he won't ride at half the tracks in the league and that Wroclaw pull him every time they have a crucial meeting coming up?

Is this how they get away with half the losses/costs whereas other clubs fulfill the "mandatory" requirement?

We're you actually there? The crowd was very good with a delayed start to get everyone in.

The DMU have to agree his release as well and he is already in Denmark.

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Which is one of the reasons Buster bought his stadium

Ask your source again please.

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Ask Alex who agreed he didn't have to ride at Wolverhampton.

Anything to do with Chapman

It's whatever the medical certificate (bent doctor) says. Imagine being told "he" has an ankle injury then the medical certificate (bent doctor) forgets which rider is being invalidated and submits a medical certificate saying "food poisoning" to the controlling body.