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I think they have a really good chance of making the top 4 this season. Lets hope they stay together and not have riders leaving after a few meetings. They have now got a very good line up, there are no teams that really stick outas top teams this year. So it should be a very good season all told.

The post about the wind on the start straight is something that is always a problem at BP. Not sure if it is the fence that that channels the wind over the track in that area. Because when I went on Saturday, there was hardly any sign of a breeze outside the stadium, as soon as you get to sit in the stand nearest the pits the wind hit you and it is even there on a warm day so it must be as I said something to do with the fence. The boards on the back of the stands where put in place before the end of last season, must have been around the last 3 meeting, when the council was having a go at the track, not sure what upset the apple cart, but they told the stadium noise from the stands was above the level required. Can't really see who it would have upset anyway, other than a few shoppers dowm and Beumont Lees shopping centre. It is time the coucil came to their senses and either used the area around the stadium as origanally planned with various sporting complexes. Or if not to let the stadium have the ground to the rear of the dissabled parking area, as a carpark. It looks like something from a bombsite, overgrown with weeds and distracting from what the impresion it gives to the stadium as you walk up the path. But it seems that the local council will not backdown on the use of the land around the stadium. Shame for it would make a far better impression to people not only localy but from people coming to the area.

I must say it didn't make me smile at all yesterday. I have an infected ulcer on one of my toes, that has now eaten about 10mm deap into my toe. To say that it felt like I had been hit on my toe with a sledge hammer after sitting for over an hour and then having an even more painful 25 mile drive home, made me change my mind about turning out today. Would have loved to have gone, and the team really looked good yesterday what I saw of the. The young Pole was really giving it a go and it showed he had been having a few practice sessions at BP the week before. Really good to see that he was in a tussle with Garity, from what I saw of them and the whole team in general, I think that after they have had a couple of meeting to get it together, we will have a side that could very well make it into the top 4 this season. It is maybe on of the most contented years in the EL as there are nonoe of the teams that really shine out this year, with the team with the most money drawing all the best riders, it will be far closer this year than the last few seasons with only the same handful of teams being there at the top at the run in. Looking forward to it all starting off, but it could be a long wait for me to get to a meeting at home or away, unless the weather warms up a lot or they sort my toe out soon. Thanks for that I was really sad that I had to miss this. It could be a long wait before I get to my first meeting this season.

Nice picture on Darcy's Twitter site of a fridge full of energy drink, if he had stcked up with that for the day or early hours before the GP he would not have been in all the trouble he is now. He also states that he will be back and racing in the Cardiff GP this year. If he does then the whole system really stinks.

What was the final score, went to the practice sesion yesterday, but it was to far to travel for me again as I am not in the best of health at the moment, had to come home early yesterday as it was just to cold for me. I pressume we won, so what where the team scores and how did all the riders perform. Jason had a terrible day yesterday trying to get his bike set up right, never saw how he went on at the end, but they where really stuggling to get it even running, let alone, even getting in one lap around the track.

If Rob is looked after right and they give him the cances he needs then I can see him making into the top levels of World speedway, if not he will just end up as some many other young British riders that had the talent, but through no fault of their own where held back because they never had the chance to make it into the top flights of British speedway or at world level. Hopefully he can get a place with one of the top overseas clubs in the next couple of years as well as over here in the EL. If that happens we have a star in the making.

There is no way on this earth, that he should be handed a wildcard ride in any way shape or form, he did wrong and now he must sit down think on what he did and then really and trully earn the right to race again in the GP's. the earliest he should be able to take a step back in that direction in at the start of next year when he can go through re quallifing, if it takes him until 2017 then so be it He knew what he was doing the day of the Latvian GP by just turning up after a session drinking, then getting caught out. If he had rang and stated that he was not in a fit state to ride on the Sunday, he would have saved himself a whole lot of hasstle, and would have been riding in the next GP. If they keep messing around with all this stupid petitions about what they have done to him is wrong, then they should also be the ones who sit down and look at what they are doing, they are nothing but a bunch of fools who can see no wrong in anything that Darcy does. A clown being supported by a bunch of even bigger clown. Give them one of those funny cars that fall apart, with Darcy as the driver and all his clown folloers and give them a job in the Moscow State Circus. It will give him something to do for a few months, instead of acting like clowns, they could really be clowns.

Hit the A instead of the M. Never mind who ever Darcy decides to take on or his bunch of henchmen, he would have been far better to have just let sleeping dogs lie. Got on with getting his life together during his time away from the tracks and then coming back, stronger both in body and mind.

Maybe my e-mail to the SCB about Middlo's stupid rants on Twitter and in the papers did some good and they told him with a quite word in his ear to keep his mouth shut. Something has been done to reel him in. If Darcy is silly enough to sit and listen to his legal team who are only there to grab an extra few bob out of him, or as most Aussie's would look at it they are there to fleece him, just like some poor old sheep being sheared, they he is dafter than I thought. He has far to many idiots, who tell him what to do and 9 times out of 10 the things that they tell him only get him into doing something wrong.. He would be far better just riding out the last few months of a very leniant sentance and then get on with his life, in a far more sensible manner than he has done before. Because if he carries on in the way he has been doing these past few years then very shortly Darcy Ward will just be a long lost memory of a young rider that could have become world champion, but went totally off the rails and burnt himself out. All that people will remember of him will be all the bad things, that he got up to. Such a waste of a rider who could now be further up the speedway ladder than he is now. Just hope he see's sense and changes his mind about taking on the FIA, because things could end up far worse for him than what he is getting now. He needs someone to take him under his wing and straighten his life out for him. No Drink, No chashing after women, just buckle down to riding speedway, but as far as I can see from him, he is not learning any leasons what so ever and before very long, he will be in big trouble again. That could speel the end of his speedway riding, that is if the people who back him finally see what a spoilt little brat he is and deceide that enough is enough, who wants to emply a habitual trouble maker, it looks like Poole certainly do, also can't see how his sponsors want to keep backing him as he can't be a very good figure head for their company.

When will Darcy grow up, if he tries to take on the FIA I think he will be taking on bigger guns than he thinks and maybe just end up getting another ban on top of the very leniant one he got to start with. Even old Middlo has now changed his tune on the case. Take your rap do your time and come back a better and more sensible rider. But no he just has not got a brain. Just a load of sawdust dust and most of that has shaken out by now. The tweets from the so called fans are just a load of old claptrap

So who plays the role of Dumb and who fits the bill for Dumber. Both of they could take on both parts because has we have seen they both have got very confused over the past few weeks

Was just thinking today that they could do remakes of 2 classic films with Darcy in the leading role in both, but as a deaf mute to save him struggling to learn his lines. No 1 A clockwork Orange, with Darcy playing Alex No 2 Quadrophenia with Darcy starring as Jimmy. Can you think of any other films he could be in. Placed him as a Mod in Quadrophenia because I can't see him as a rocker in dirty old tee shirts and leather jacket covered in studs, more the Mod with his Italian designer suit on. Both Alex and Jimmy are thugs that had gone off the rails so I think he would be able to play both parts with no problems..

This is the sort off stuff that the young Brit riders need. They need meetings where they can come together as a team be it against a PL side or better still against lads of the same age from Poland Sweden Denmark etc. It will be the only way to bring them on, but I doubt very much if they have even given it aq second though. Unless they can come together as a team and race against young riders from different nations I am afraid that we will still be at the stage we where umpteen years ago when we started to neglect our young riders. If the governing bodies of the sport over here have any sense they will see a series of matches set up for them this season and seasons to come. We hope, or do they just want British speedway to fall into the doldrums.

In other words as soon as his ban is done and dusted some poor sod has to pack up his kitbag to make way for little boy blue.

Most suprised today when I got a reply from the SCB, about the e-mail I sent them complaining about Middlo stupid rants in the press and on the social media. He is now very quite as we all no so have they taken him to task. Hi Paul I will forward your email onto the SCB Prime Officer to be considered for action. Many thanks Nikki Jameison T: 01788 565603 E: info@scbgb.co.uk W: www.scbgb.co.uk SCB : ACU House : Wood Street : Rugby : Warwickshire : CV21 2YX Maybe just maybe they hyave told him to be very very quite about Darcy Ward.

As always Darcy comes out as the shining angel of the sport of speedway. What ever he does he does no wrong in some peoples minds. He drinks before a GP and the fans are saying he is being hard done to, not hard enough in my opinion. What will he have to do to make all the Darcy lover realise what a turd he is, ne will be back in the limelight again before long no doubt for the wrong reasons again, if he sticks with his band of advisers. Darcy get some some friends that will put you on the straight and narrow and let us then see your true tallent shine through.

What a total and utter farce. Should have got the full 2 years. This gives out no warnings at all.

Best one I have heard on here for a week or two. The Darcy Fans will be suffering from mental stress if it happens and will be put away in an institute that is if those places still exsit

It is a shame to see him struggle along like this, he was a rider with great potential and he could still make it in the EL, but if and when he comes back he has to have his heart fully into the sport. Just hope he gets back sooner than latter, he still has a lot to offer if he has the fire when he first started out.

It annoys me that when the start marshall has finally got all 4 riders to stop there shunting to and fro and setting a row of potatoes, that we then see one of the riders do an about turn and ride a few meters down the track and then come back to the start. Surely once lined up they are ready to start and any rider leaving the tapes should be disqualified.

I have been reading the Polle thread and it looks like Middo has been making more silly statements on Twitter. Plus it seems they have the knives out for Stary. I have just had enough of Middos stupid rants, so much so that I have just e-mail the SCB to see if they are in a position to put a sock in his mouth or a mouse trap on his fingers. Any other fans who see that what he is writing is only a detrement to the sport should also e-mail the SCB, w3ith enough e-mails being recieved by them from truley sensible fans they just may take a stand against him, can't see why they have not done so yet.

What ever the outcome of the decision, this thread will likely, become the hotest thread of all times on here. It could well break into the top thousand pages. Because if he is banned then the Love Darcy fans will be post in disgust and the fans on here that know that he did wrong that day and should have used what little bit of brain he has will be shouting for joy and it will be a 2 way slanging match for years to come.

How will Mr. D. Ward esq go about getting a visa for the UK if he is sidelined for a year or so, will he apply that he wishes to stay in the UK to continue the excellat tutorlidge that he has been recieving from Middlo over the past years and he wishes to carry this on. He will still have employment at Poole picking up litter after the meetings ans selling food during the races but they have advised him that he would be better if he did not work in the bar. He would also be there in the role of team captain even though he was not actually racing because he was doing this at the end of last season. He thought that without him being at Poole on meeting nights that the club might fold as he is the only person who is capable of keeping the team together. Also being there he would also be able to carry on riding on the track at practice nights, so that in a couple of years time, when he is older but maybe not much wiser, he can get his team captains place back as a rider, making sure that who ever stood in for him would be then able to go to another club. Sorry if this post is upsetting to anyone, it was only ment as fun.

Tatum knows his stuff but his hoppo hasn't got a clue half the time unless he asks Tatum to give him the answer to what he is trying to say. For both of them to say that Darcy should ride again this season is a total disgrace. I am still sticking to my 2 year ban and if he dosen't then the whole fiasco has been nothing but a farce. Poole should have told him that he was no longer required by the club as he had let the club down with his action on the day of the GP. His sponsers should have also have dropped him for bringing their products into a bad light. If this reads like a Telly Chat Show then let it be. Because for what he did that day when he turned up and failed the breath test was very bad indeed for the sport, and all this rubbish that is now going on in the press and on the social networks is doing nothing at all for the sport. Middlo needs shutting up by the SCB/BPSA, as his coments are doing t he gets everything he deserves to get and that is a lengthy ban. because if not the fans that can see comon sense and the riders will know that he has been let off because they all deam him to stand on a pedastal in white robes with a pair of golden wings, for sure though he is now gaurdian angel.

If they are his gardians then they have not made a very good job of it have they. Sorry about the typo, but why not 445 days at least he would have a bit longer to stew. What abuse are they being put under, they all know when they will hear the result of the case, so all they can do is sit back and wait now, all the name calling they are doing about the FIM is just showing how childish they all are. What the point of it all anyway if as Miiddlo stated that he thought it may be that Darcy takes a couple of years away from the sport, he for one has not done Darcy any favours has he.