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But Alex Harkess was not at the original, fake AGM as his team were racing in a play-off meeting at the time. He is also quoted as being unhappy that in his absence the BSPA voted in the PL draft rule. So clearly some things were decided, and they were decided without a chairman present!!

I would imagine the race-off crowd will be bigger in the UK than other countries as we tend to be less patriotic than other countries and support other countries and rider more.

I think his point was that Tai couldn't be Australian even if he wanted to be. Yet Crump could be British or Australian.

To answer the question in the thread title. It's obvious. It's because we have a new BSPA chairman who wants openness!

Maybe if BV had not made promises they couldn't keep we wouldn't have had to wait 10 years for the final and we may have had it elsewhere in the last few years?!

As a statistician I both agree and disagree. If Hall score 5 it "might" be 5 the opposition don't score. BUT if his team mate his behind him ever time it's only 5 his team mate didn't score

Kyles an odd one at PL level. He tends to have a year where he finds a point, a year consolidating then has another year finding a point and then the year after consolidates. He's a slow burner but then so was Ben Barker until he had a great year at Coventry and Stoke. So who knows?!

I think when you first moved into the EL it did. Mainly because it was a new track to a lot of EL riders who had never ridden there plus the way Ronnie Russell set it up. As time as gone on most riders visit twice a season and it's not set up by the track man to be so tricky so theres less of an issue.

Just agree to buy him. Sign a deal with him. Refuse to buy him. What are they going to do? Take you to court? Any judge would piss himself laughing!

Come back Len! All is forgiven! Boxall and Mear next?!

Yes. Exactly that. They got it wrong calling it a heat leader list, it's confusing people. The list should be tier 1 and tier 2 riders. you can only have 3 riders form tier 1, a tier 1 rider is someone who has a lower average due to riding as a heatleader. A tier 2 rider is someone who has a higher average due to riding as a second string.

I cannot emphasise how much fading stuff in and out and sliding onto the screen is a ballache and people will hate it. People expect a website to load as quick as possible. By including them gimmicks you slow it down, intentionally. It's one thing to use it for stuff that doesn't matter but for important content (like the actual content and the menu!) DONT DO IT! Moving stuff is a PITA and people seem to like to do it to show, "our stuff isn't static, look how clever we are", wrong attitude, it should be how easily and quickly can we allow people to navigate our site and get to what they want. Clearly you or whoever is doing your website has a reasonable technical knowledge but you seem to lack design ideas/concepts, so can I suggest looking into using a framework like twitter bootstrap to help tame the web design phase. I know some web people will go "argh, but thats making all websites look the same" but others (me!) will argue that once you have masters using a framework you can eventually break out and do some of your own design stuff. I love the concept and think you should be commended (or committed!) for the time and effort involved thought in the main though. Good luck!

Christ. When the man making your signing is "impressed" that a man who has racd the outside line for 10-13 years where ever he has ridden has "learnt" to race "on the outside" you have to question his knowledge of the sport and the rider in it that he is signing. Next he'll be complimenting how Sarjeant has learnt to gate, Harris has learnt to pass people, Hans learnt to ride the inside before drifting a little wide that Greg Hancock seems to have become a very good gater this year. No, thats exactly why there needs to be a heat leader list as its not that simple. Take Zengota and Watt, rode 95% of meetings as second string but have 7+ averages. So they're second strings. But North and PL have 5.XX average attained riding as a heat leader so are heat leaders.

That'd make sense. Watt has quite a high average but is a second string.

My point about the goggles though is that it's a simple rule. But how much bother did it cause? And why didn't someone somewhere do something about it?

They are pretty simple. Until promoters ignore them, break them and get special dispensation. For example, how difficult is it to understand the rule that riders should wear goggles?!

The frustrating thing is that Avonmouth would be the perfect place for a speedway track. In Bristol but in industrial Bristol and not residential Bristol so unlikely to ever be effected by houses.

Auty and Starke is stronger TBF.

I suggest you look up inconsistent. If a rider averages 9 but score 12, 6, 9, 8, 10, 12, 6, 10 then I'd say he is inconsistent. But another rider could average 6 and score 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6, 6 and be the model of consistency.

It made no sense to have no meeting some weeks and then rushing meetings in last minute. Surely the dieal time to run the Storm meetings is GP weeks. 10ish GPs, 10ish NL meetings means you should be able to run every week. I thought that was the idea originally.

With bonus points Howarth did average about 6 last season.

He should be a 3 as thats what his average is. Whether he should be in the draft is open to argument.

Thank God for that!

I was illustrating a point rather than being literal. And God only knows why anyone would want to live in Chepstow or Caldicot. Pembrokeshores not cheap either as it where retired Londoners move to. Again, not sure why, miles from anywhere. Yes it nice in the summer but just visit for a holiday!

I believe they start at reserve regardless of average. They then both get averages after 4 meetings and at that point the riding order is determined by average, there is never any choice and there's no difference between numbers 6 and 7. But until we get the rule book, anything could happen!