Fortythirtyeight

Katie Gordon has been riding in the NJL at Redcar for the last two seasons is very competent and improving , possibly the only female riding on a regular basis. Rachael Holliwell didn’t compete at the IOW and only appears on track now and again but was of a similar standard a while back. The rest of the field are an unknown quantity as their names rarely appear at anywhere other than the IOW it seems, perhaps at Iwade ? There’s certainly not enough to make a stand alone meeting of them hence the idea of fielding them in amongst the BYC meetings.

Try reading a dictionary.

You don’t seem to know much about how this works do you ? Riders travel long distances, refs travel long distances, some fans travel long distances. What’s the issue calling a meeting off 24 hours in advance if it is clearly obvious it has no chance of taking place ?

Very common in riders these days it seems.

That’s the reason Buster sold it on quickly to the Bates, he wanted to run stock cars but was told that would never be allowed so moved it on .

Perhaps, but just because it’s ‘ declared ‘ doesn’t mean it’s accurate, this is speedway after all.

So your usual unreliable source. The lad has improved this year . He got shat on last season when first starting off so I don’t know why you have a downer on him. He won’t struggle for a team place anywhere if can score points and stay out of hospital whilst riding at Mildenhall.

Strange that as he rides at Redcar most weeks, was booked in to ride at their amateur meeting on Saturday but ‘ slept in ‘ , the report says , and rode two races on the trot last night, so what injury do you think he’s struggling with ?

Get your facts right before making inaccurate comments. A rider is not ‘ dodging it ‘ if he was never asked to compete in it until 48 hours before it actually occurs and cannot get time off work to take part at such short notice. Attendance in the NDL is not mandatory at any meeting, that’s why it’s an ‘ NDL ‘.

I guess you’ll be apologising now ?

We can but hope…

Whilst I wouldn’t argue with most of your points if you went to a Cardiff GP speedway meeting and booked into a ‘ quiet zone ‘ I’m not sure you attended the right sport.

With five out of nine teams riding and one team made up of ‘guests’ getting a suitable replacement neigh on impossible now Birmingham have made up a fixture.

It costs pennies for a kit, the cost is the one/ two individuals doing the tests.

“ appear to be “ is the correct phrase. It clearly isn’t as a suspected user was ‘randomly selected ‘ in all his teams 5 checks in one season and when the testers were asked how the ‘ random selecting’ was done no response was given, even when asked to test all 14 riders present to make it ‘ fair ‘ but the request was turned down. The individual passed every test.

So when your told your being sacked , but please ride in the next match and be happy about it. Really ?

It doesn’t meet SCB standards so no chance of FIM approving it as it is.

But they haven't all said no, that’s how they have come up with this team. Poole only have so many dates for home matches available and so would be keen to get the fixture completed. You will have noticed Redcar couldn’t come with a guest for their fixture at Scunthorpe ? Because those that may have been available are already booked to guest elsewhere? but with the over complicated, but bendy, rulebook that exists it’s neigh on impossible to give this sport any credibility.

Wasn’t difficult, just looked on the appropriate site and ‘bingo’ , as it seems a lot of others did (see above ) but then that’s what a smart arse would do rather than put an appeal out on here for someone else to do the work for them.

Both teams have announced their lineups .

He was never asked to pay a ‘ VAT bill’ and he can’t sponsor a meeting at Newcastle because someone closed it down. As far holidays I have no doubt he had to pay for them too and I’ve no doubt the money will come out of his bank account which would have been a little healthier once he sold his part share of the Diamonds. But you obviously think differently ?

Results 22 April Redcar    23- 13 Teesside 29 April Teesside 12- 24 Redcar 13 May Teeside 18-18 Berwick 20 May Armadale 5-29 Redcar 21 May Berwick 18-18 Redcar 1 July  West Lothian 20-15 Berwick 2 July Berwick 26-10 Teesside 8 July Armadale 16-20 Teesside 8 July Redcar 23-12 Berwick 22 July Armadale 7-26 Berwick Pl W D L F A Pts Redcar Erimus Insurance 5 4 1 0 117 60 9 Berwick Speedway Academy 6 2 2 2 115 96 6 Teesside FIP Consulting Tigers 5 1 1 3 73 107 3 West Lothian 1 1 0 0 20 15 2 Armadale Angels 3 0 0 3 28 75 0

Did better than the last bloke

Some decisions were open to debate and certainly caused comment amongst the competitors in the bar.

As he has been for most of the season only this time he was co- sponsor of the meeting and there in official capacity as part of the SCB, and no, he had nothing to do with the deal.