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In many ways this will be a real test for the riders and management of the Tigers. They need to perform for their fans, and show some fight. The trophy is gone, but they need to win the meeting to restore some pride. Will they?

Team looks much more competitive now. Just got to find a way for Starke to stop breaking down, and Stefan to stop falling off. I won't hold my breath on those happening though.

To be fair, he hates every track that isn't Belle Vue.

Both racing the following day up in Glasgow for the teams they captain. I imagine they both want to be prepared for that rather than getting home at 3 am cleaning bikes at 8 am before setting off on the trip to Glasgow. I'm sure both Glasgow and Redcar fans will be pleased they aren't doing the booking and risk being ill prepared let alone hurt. So I can understand why Barker is available when the others are not.

On a Friday night at Scunthorpe against the Oxford top three. I'd say most riders would turn it down unless you're offering stupid money guarantees.

The double standards are breath-taking

I suspect you already know the answer to that one. Although to be fair there are some different rules for NDL attendance over the other leagues. though I'm not up to speed with all of them in their current form

Any rider who withdraws from a meeting with illness/ non speedway injury, is already banned for 7 days, been the rule for some time

It's been the rule for a little while now that a non speedway injury/illness results in a 7 day suspension

BSPL Events do have separate pay rates for sure, and usually they are pretty pitiful. Last years Prem Pairs events had some reasonable prize money. I know the winners of each event got £4K split between the three of them in whatever proportion they agreed between themselves. I don't know exactly how it reduced down for 2nd. 3rd etc but it would be reasonable to suggest it halves as a pot for each rung down the ladder. I don't know the prize pot for this years event, but certainly last year, if you didn't finish in the top 2 and make the final, the event was costing you money big time.

No, did a few laps at Leicester on Saturday, apart from that, no.

Troy lives in the UK and has a UK passport, so no visa requirements. The move was not in motion prior to Stewart Dickson taking over, yes he will be available Wednesday

Yeah I think he's edited it, it definitely said had blurred vision twice when I first read it. Someone should have told him you need to edit the German section as well, translation software is very handy. No sneaking anything past you Lisa

personally I find Erik's description of his symptoms and situation very disturbing. He's confessing to racing with blurred vision! Then thinking about whether to do it again. At what point, should he have to pass some sort of fitness test, before riding again. Not sure I'd want to be one of the other three lining up along side him when he admits his vision is blurred!

Not sure Pickering is the answer. Sure you’ll get 100% all action effort but in 12 months he’s gone from #1 to reserve.

TJ will be happy. Just got a bonus point he didn’t deserve

FIM sign on is usually 10am on the day of the meeting so often it’s a case of the rider could fly in in time for the meeting to start but they need to actually be there at 10 am and can’t get a flight that gets them there in time for that

Absolutely, they should be suspicious, I just think If integrity and not being lied to is that important to people they are going to spend much of their lives disappointed.

If the biggest problem on here is Buster's Gate and whether you're being lied to, then I think we're all in trouble. When you consider that pretty much everything to come out of the mouths of all politicians, and the media about mundane unimportant things like Covid, Climate change, the economy. I know which ones I'd rather have integrity, transparency, and honesty from. If Kings Lynn need to cancel a fixture and run it another time because of whatever circumstances, is it really that big a deal?

To be fair, there are plenty of mickey mouse things that go on in the GPs and Poland, despite how professional their public face is. It's just we are not as close to it over here so see and hear less. Most things when you look under the mat end up disappointing you. It's the main reason they always say never meet your heroes.

I think the biggest problem at Berwick at the moment isn't what they charge to get in, it's the track provides little or no entertainment. It really has been pretty awful stuff served up so far this year

Do words just mean something completely different to you? Neither of those are examples of where a club forced a rider to drop the UK

Yet strangely more forgiving than some of the people on this forum Please don't believe everything you read on the internet or indeed anything that TTT has written. His Polish team are concerned about his start to the year for the simple reason he has been poor everywhere. They cannot make him drop the UK.

Exactly that. People see what they want to see. Professional moaners will find reasons to moan, and there's quite a few on here. Richie having a moan, is just Richie trying to be relevant. He always prefers more challenging conditions, because he goes well in them, that suits him more. Sure last night the track didn't offer as much out wide as usual. It also happened to be a very windy day. That dries out the track so the dirt out wide doesn't bind as well and offers less grip. The track looked smooth and predictable and in all honesty caught out the home riders more later in the meeting when they went wide hoping for more grip than was there. Richie knows that, he was trying to be "controversial". It clearly worked for him as people are talking about him.