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Why would he? He'd had enough of the sport and sold up, hes not likely to buy back into a sport and work with people he can't stand.

We don't NEED these things. All we need are shale, a fence and lights. The rest can be worked around. It may not be pretty but it'll be speedway and will still not be the worst stadium in the UK by a long way!

Certainly separate from British Speedway. But the Poles will hold on to them just fine. Might not be the worst thing ever. Does Chris Holder really bring in that many people?

Rich Hall COULD ride NL but the issue was over his average.

Maybe because he can't give assurances. All he can do is tell us how things stand. Imagine he told us, "yes, everything is sorted" then it turns out it's not? We'd all him a liar.

Wierdly, just before the 4s final I was saying how disappointed I'd been every time I've seen him. Then he had a smashing meeting that included that ride that I'm sure many of us will remember for a long time. Suggests to me if he can find some consistency then he's not going to be bad.

Erm, 52% of the British public voted against this in June. Why do wpeople care what the EU want/say any more? We're leaving. Sod them!

The issue is that no one fence can be a catch all situation. Glance a fence and you want it to be pretty solid, hit it hard yourself you want it to burst around you. Bike go in first then you need a secondary fence. Whatever fence you go with will have failings in certain situations.

Except you don't. Someone say something, it's well received so you repeat it over and over.

What does Horton have to gain by saying everything is still going ahead and that he's trying to fix thing if he's given up? If he wanted to give up it would be very easy for him. I don't understand the idea of him lying here.

No it's not. Piss off with your ill informed, fantasy views that do not correlate with the situation in hand at all. see, you're not the only one that can, "say it as it is, not how they want me to say it."

Oh no, the one thing that does make sense is this bit!

While I agree on the surface, how much interaction was their in "Speedway Promoter"? It was crap when you think about it but how many spent many hours playing? The trick will be to play fast and loose with the rules. Have a points limit yes but have squads, allow managers to put their top 5 in any order. I made sure of having quite a few doubling up clashes to make guests necessary. I've tried to build something that will simply let me run a season as a team and almost "model" a season (and Ive done that) what I now need to do it add some AI so riders quiting, performing different on tracks as they change, the AI for the computer teams. The first part was quite easy in the scheme of things, it all the AI I now need and it's a PITA!

And I can't be a contestant. I know some of the people who work on the show Sad times!

As someone who defending their silence recently I now agree, we need news. Even if it's just a sentence or two.

The girl in my case would be a bloke but yeah, probably

I think you've misread Neils comments here. Someone commented on silence and hymns so Neil simply posted a hymn about silence as a bit of a joke. I actually feel for Neil and Mick here. Say something and it goes wrong and they look stupid, say nothing and it looks like they don't know what they're doing so must be stupid. I would imagine things right now are very delicate with some of the people involved and to say nothing may just be the best thing. They have stated that as things stand we WILL be running. Until/unless that changes I'm not sure how much more they can say? Can hardly come out and call Sandhu a prick and say that Rugby Council could be doing more as that would be the end wouldn't it?

Such flattery So like going up to a girl in a club at midnight and saying, "If all the good looking girls are gone at 4am when they close I'll take you home love"

"Sam" Ermolenko

I for one thank you. It's always nice to get a more technical background on things from the people who know. Its one part of speedway thats still very much a black art to me!

Paul, at some point over the next few weeks I'll try and dig out as many of my started and parked up/failed projects as possible for you. Most are in C#/VB.net but if you're only looking for algorithms for determining heat results, tape touching, falls etc then the language simply doesn't matter. When I do get the code up over to you, be prepared, it's of a shockingly bad for someone who is paid to write code for a living As for calculating FXs, EFs, Rs, Ts, Fs I just used the speedway-stats.co.uk database and calculated the % of each of them events and simply took a random number from 1-100 and said if ti was less than the % of times the event happened in real life and if it was, the rider FX'd, EF's etc. I've always planned to extend this by working out how often each rider in real life has them events occur. That way, you could give each rider a rating for mechanical, stability,time keeping etc. I'd also do the same for health, form, moral etc. My preferred way of deterring finishing order is for each meeting to take a riders average and give them a "meeting form" up lift of between say 0-3 (so on that day, a 3 pointer could actually have the form of a 6 pointer) and then do the same for each heat, take the riders average+meeting form and add on a heat form of 0-3 so on a very rare occasion and 3 pointer could ride a simple heat like a 9 pointer. It tends to work well as each riders end the season on a similar average to that they started- which is how it should work until you start putting in attributes for things like form /moral as I mentioned and take into account improving riders etc but I've never really got that far. The other issue I have is how to handle the AI for other teams, I can get them to sign 7 random riders up to a point limit but how do you handle dropping and signing new riders? What about riders quitting? I've just rarely got this far and never had a "Eureka" moment. Weirdly, one thing I got spot on was arranging fixtures than stopped clashes with doubling up riders to the point I suggested if the BSPA wanted it, they could ask me about splitting it into an application (probably web based) for them - I had to end up randomising it so riders missed meetings. Another thing Ive never worked out quite how to do is finances. Do players manage entrance fees? Do you include vat? Do players negotiate contracts with riders? How do you determine attendance? randomised? based on clubs league position? based on oppositions league position? based on location of the opposition? Mixture of the above? I just don't know where to draw the line with detail and finances will be hell-ish to handle I think. As for UI, I've rarely got this far! The thing I such at is UIs, I can do functional but for games I'm really struggling here. I tend to just stick a load of standard text boxes, labels and buttons on a screen on the boring grey screen

On a Friday at midday. The time most people will be at work 🙄 Muppets. Make it 7.30 in he evening.

I know you understand it but surely you have to admit that using, "hits" is a poor matrix. Nobody cares about, "hits" as it's an arbitrary figure based on the number of files on your page. Anyone clicking http://www.speedway-stats.co.uk/riders will give me about 180-200 hits. Someone looking at http://speedway-stats.co.uk/RiderForm/10/2016/1 will get me about 10

100,000 hits isn't that impressive. The front page has at least 20 files, so that's possibly only 20,000 views. The real number is number of unique visitors and what he bounce rate (people who click hen leave) is. If that 20k views mentioned if every visitor clicks 5 pages then it's only 4000 visits a week and if people visit on average twice a week it's only 2000 unique visits. My fingers are all made up but they do prove that the headline 100k could very easily be a small number of actual users. Speedway-stats for example sees people look at on average about 13 pages. But the hot hit rate is massive as just looking at the riders page loads 100+ pictures! Pooles 100k is pathetic compared to speedway stats! Maybe I should look for a 10k sponsor 😂

Like others I'm saddened to hear of the death of Bryn. We often disagreed on many thing but there was never any doubting that he had the best interests of the sport at heart. If speedway had a few more Bryn Williams' it would be in a much healthier state. RIP Bryn