Big Al

Good grief. This should have been resolved as part of the lease agreement. Are you saying it wasn't?If Hemsleys now expected to stump up some money, in the words of Kenny Carter they've got nooooooooo chance.

Back in the old days I'd hide Penthouse inside Speedway Star at the checkout. These days it would more likely be the other way round

Are you sure he doesn't keep it on the "top shelf"?

See you in the queue outside WHSmith then!

Why bother? (by that I presume you mean carry on being interested). Well it's not out of hate. Quite the opposite. Hate applies to the bulldung the previous promoter used, to try and con people with. People don't like it when that happens. So hate is now replaced by skepticism, mixed with hope. Skepticism because at the moment it resembles a dodgy car that's just scraped though its MOT. It's made it back onto the road but right now we're still not completely convinced it's going to get more than a mile down the road, you don't know much about what the garage has done to get it though the MOT. Hope, because yes of course you want the thing to keep going, but you don't trust it yet. So we hope, that over the weeks ahead, we will know more. The bulldung detector will be on full alert. The patient seems to be out of intensive care, but it's early days. Good.

Reasons to be cheerful (part 3). Dave Darcy..... 1. Isn't David Hemsley 2. Is not David Hemsley 3. Err....

An obviously Hemsley-controlled media release at 7am to get something out before the BSPA's version later-on. Says he is stepping aside.......Didn't he do that months ago??

all 15 of them in your case

Choice of race night/s will never suit everyone, but what about the price and the presentation? If a relatively high number of league matches need to be staged in March and April, they need to get the prices right to entice people along to stand around freezing their bits off. So lets have some realistic prices in early season, ten or twelve quid, promote the offer properly and at least try and ensure that some money is coming into the club. And get the meetings over and done nice and quick with minimum faffing about. Then from May start pushing up the individual prices but with good family group offers, more racing with the MDL matches, additional "entertainment" and once again promote it. Wakey wakey speedway, you have to be giving value for money and more in tune with the climate. Oh, and have it on a race track, to state the bleeping obvious.

It's basically twit for tat with the race night. Just depends how many ** there are as compared with tats. The w and ** added by mysterious forces. Jeez

Yes that's right I think. Hope so anyway. I'm not sure there will be scope for track changes that would involve changing the stadium's footprint,but you never know, will just have to wait and see.

He sounds like a man who is low on bullmanure output, and good on getting things done. Hopefully his wife's sane as well. Bit of a contrast to what we've been "treated" to over the past 5 years! The only thing he might be short on is the marketing/PR side of things, but hopefully he can bring in someone to deal with that. We live in hope.

He more or less re-iterated the BSPA press release, didn't give much away and when asked if he is the new owner, just said that a company has signed a lease to take over speedway at BP. We presume that company is Leicester Speedway (2017) Ltd (until a few weeks ago Kings Lynn Speedway Ltd) of which he and Cheryl Chapman are the directors! There was a question about the general development of Beaumont Park. He said that David Hemsleys company Beaumont Sports Complex Ltd remains in charge of this, and hopes that the end DH's involvement in operating speedway will enable him to focus on that side of things. He didn't say if the 15-year speedway lease is with BSC Ltd or with Leicester City Council.

If the above is correct, the next step would be an "arson attack", probably on the 25th

Those pictures are eerily reminiscent of Blackbird Road after the fixtures and fittings had been removed and the tracks were merging with the centre green. Different circumstances,obviously, and this is NOT a gloat post. It just brings back the images to mind. When we lost the place, it was sudden albeit not totally surprising but the empty shell lingered around awhile. This Brandon saga must be more like a drawn-out torture, but it's looking like there's only one probable outcome.

Sure I spotted Len Silver in Wilkos at Beaumont shopping centre this morning.

In defense of Jan Graversen from what I've heard I think he's been domiciled in the UK for quite some time, has an English partner/fiancee, and has a job as an HGV mechanic. Not every riders going to make it to the GPs or to heat leader for that matter.

Summers doesn't convince me he's going to go beyond his current level. Not good value for his average IMO. Buzz has had his best days, is very inconsistent, no I'd look for someone else better value. Sedgman impressed me in the TV match v Swindon he seemed the only one willing to try and use the extra room on bend 4 to generate an inside pass on bend 1. I'd like to see how Anders Thomsen can go at Leicester, if he's available. And Kim Nilsson

Saw him at the Kauko testimonial a few years ago and thought he had a neat style kept still on the bike and held a tight line. Well suited to the tight track. However the track may chsnge, we live in hope!

Donation of 18 pounds per congregation member also appreciated to help towards cost of the graveyard restoration project

The High Priest of Beaumont Park Temple is urging all the faithful followers to attend prayers this Friday during which kneeling and bowing in the direction of the mystical east will be mandatory. Bring your own mat and copy of Speedway Star,incense,myrrh, and hipflask

Q If there was anything left after other expenses were taken out? Wasn't David Hemsley on a mission to try and make the governance and administration more professional? Look what happened to him!

Sounds from what others more "in the know" have said, that repaying the mortgage to the bank was a priority, then after he got suspended as promoter the riders stopped being paid. So could that mean he was diverting the equivalent amount to increasing the mortgage repayments, and/or other repayments including what he himself may have been "owed" for his professional services dating back to when the stadium was planned, designed and built. I wonder what he would have charged for his track design and layout expertise? Would also be interested to know if riders did get paid, as DDarcy said they would?

I guess the only alternatives would have been to have one single league of 18 teams, or go for regional north/south conferences. Probably not enough riders to fill 18 teams in a single league with no doubling up possible, and would probably result in the same 4-5 clubs dominating the league table with the rest cast-off behind. In the county cricket championship, the two division set up has been fairly successful. I'm not sure if north/south conferences have been tried before in the dim and distant past, but I think the novelty would soon wear off. No, reducing the gap between the two divisions to a smaller one makes most sense, and should make it hard for anyone to reasonably decline promotion. The main issue is the price of the product, and the quality, as always but now even more so.

Was that Belle Vue OR Leicester, or Belle Vue AND Leicester? You'd think the financial situation with Leicester should be more straightforward than Belle Vue's. Much smaller scale of operation. But if there are more difficulties getting answers to questions at Leicester, more smoke and mirrors etc, then easy to imagine the relative complexity being greater.