Steve Shovlar

What on earth are you on about? I have an antique shop and run an auction house.

Deplete the earnings of proper speedway promoters and wreck the league as we know it. This is a dead idea which will get no further than this thread. Time to move on. Nothing to see here.

This "group" couldn't come along and deal with just the gRA at Poole to use the track, as the contract for speedway is with Matt Ford. Even if a deal was made, the shale on the track would belong to Matt Ford who could stop this group from using it. The whole thing is dead in the water and hardly worth a debate now. These people went about it all wrong and have blown any chance they "might" have had. Its just like John Leslie has said above.

What other sports have sole rights? Just about every pro sport in the UK. As Orion said the other day, see what would happen if you tried to hire Rooney, Bale, Gerrald etc and have a Team GB V Brazil at Reading. You wouldn't get very far. No different to what this bunch are attempting, and rightly knocked back.

You have sole rights to a sport in the UK. Your members have spent tens of thousands building tracks, which cost thousands to maintain and pay rent and insurance. Your members pay riders every week during the season. Then Fred Blogs comes along, asks some of your riders to ride for him, on your track, taking gate money away from you! No different from me going to Matt Ford. Asking to use Wimborne Road on a Monday. And asking the Poole team to ride for me against a world select. What do you think Matt would tell me to do? I reckon a short pier would be in his reply. This bunch are basically trying to leech of the current setup. Why don't they go build their own stadium and run some of their own meetings (obviously without speedway bikes as that also wouldn't be allowed) and then there would be no problem. Alternatively they could ask to join the bspa and bring their ideas to the table As it stands now they are trying to act like parasites on our sport

So good they didn't do a little research into who can run speedway in the UK.

Christ there's a lot of nonsense and naive posts on this thread. Orion has summed it up perfectly already. Some two bit organisation comes along and wants to run some speedway meetings. They don't even have the savvy to do a minimum amount of research to realise this is not going to happen. A load of guys quizzing around on their mx bikes is one thing. However some on here like to moan, speedway is a professional sport in the UK and is run just like football, albeit on a much smaller scale. I couldn't come along and organise a football series of Team Gb v Brazil, hire a stadium and make a killing by putting out Rooney, Bale etc. the FA would not allow it, and neither would the SCB. If these guys want to run an event using motor cross riders on motor cross bikes, they "might" have stood a slight chance of hiring a track. Though I doubt they would get peission to do even that. I'll though out concept by a bunch of amateurs.

Who would film UK EL speedway if Sky pulled out allowing Eurosport to take it? Eurosport would need a feed to take and show. Doubt it wouold happen.

Eurosport take feeds, they don't film events themselves. So at best it is likely to be like the dreadful coverage of the Swedish League on Premier Sports. One camera and a bloke in a booth at a studio somewhere, with long periods where the single camera points at the track. It would be awful

Great news being at Poole. Superb race track which is fair to all and guarenteed a massive sell out crowd. In the diary already. Well done to all who made sure it came to a proper fair race track.

Thank god for a quality ref like Akroyd. Any other ref would have called it wrong with the possibility of wrecking a gp series. When the incident occurred I called it all four back but was worried the ref might call it wrong. It was clear Pedersen rode Holder onto the grass causing Holder to straighten. All four back the only option and the correct one End of the day Pedersen was looking for it and the ref never fell for it. Good call from the ref who far from bottled it

Fantastic result I am so pleased for Chris! Well done that boy! Brilliant final round and the best series to date, no doubt about it.

Thanks I will be there.

As we are between homes I currently don't have Sky so wondered if there are any pubs in the Poole/Sturminster area showing the GP. If anyone knows could they please post here otherwise its just updates for me. Cheers

Just heading out of Cardiff after a fantastic day. Well done Noddy what a win. Well done KK and Toninio. Brilliant being a Pirates fan tonight. Holder clearly the most popular rider there tonight after the Brits.

Just next to the main entrance. There's usually a long queue. We buy the cheapest seats possible, if not from a tout then from the box office. Then move after 4 heats to a better location!

Absolutely. Snoozefest bar none.

He didn't spit at the camera. The camera would have been yards away from him. And don't you think the cmeraman might have asked him to even do it to capture that moment?

Considering it was a fairly sparce crowd with the home team riding, I think it should be done away with. Sweden wouldn't have been there on merit.

Holder very good in defeat. Pretty good meeting though not as good as the first two of the series. Think the joker needs to be abolised or altered. Ref should have excluded Pedersen and that would have stopped the young Dane doing the same. 5 riders and 25 heats has to be better, with t/r's allowed but no jokers. Well done to Denmark. A couple of very good youngsters coming through.

Well done to the danes. Shame the joker ruined it but they would have won it if they had played it straight.

Pedersen " we want to win it fair and square"... LOL!!!!

Justice served by Holder.

Total farce. Well done Denmark in starting it.

Clever from the Danes but Pedersen should be excluded for not racing.