RobMcCaffery

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Well, they kept asking me to do it and gave me my own studio show and gave me loads of other sports to do so I must have been cheap doing something right.

Either way, the instructions for his medication must be in Cantonese.......... I can see an unprecedented support for Wroclaw tomorrow. No wonder Zielona Gora's emblem is Mickey Mouse.

It's just part of his sad paranoia about Britain oppressing the poor old Poles via their agents, BSI.

Every time I'm able to go they're not running.....

I have faith that this is only the start of your work and while I wanted to explain where you are now I didn't want to suggest that you weren't going to develop further. It is tricky to generate original video content though but I wish you well. I've done a fair bit myself over the years, although not for a while now.

No reason at all why they can't get all 15 heats in a one hour slot. We did it every week 30 years ago!

Actually, when you had to complete the meeting to get a result we did normally complete the season - and that was in a 36-40 match season. It's rather sad that the discussion is still about whether Coventry wanted the match off because they were losing, thus dragging a much bigger issue down to the usual puerile 'my dad's bigger than your dad", sorry "my team's better than your team" drivel. It seems even supporters don't give a damn about supporters being cheated.....

Polish TV carries the Sky programme complete with English commentary, but with Polish commentary talking over over the top of it. The You Tube clip is obviously from Polish TV. The Poles tend to put matches on You Tube far more than British users. All the Kodi Speedway add-on is doing currently is acting as a very useful index for You Tube speedway clips.

I remember a meeting at Rye House way, way back in the late 70s which was raced in a mud bath. Riders were covered from head to foot in wet shale , yards apart, just able to keep upright. I remember seeing the late Ashley Pullen, as determined and gutsy a rider as you could ever watch battling to see, all tear-offs used, goggles removed and shaking his head as the muck covered his face. The supporters were crowded under what little cover there was at Rye House in those days. A result was achieved, one less match to stage and all gate monies kept. It wasn't speedway though. At least we were only paying a fraction, in real terms as well as absolute, of what those poor disregarded supporters did at Brandon. We were still ripped-off.......

As a footnote to the above, back in the days when I foolishly allowed myself to get far too involved in the sport I once saw an FIM report on a major meeting held over here. I remember reading the introduction. Did it assess the quality of the meeting? Did it assess the safety and satisfaction of the riders? Did it assess whether it was a good product for the public who'd paid to watch? Of course not. It reported that the FIM 'dignitaries' had been properly looked-after and given 'due' respect. I learned a great deal about how highly the customer was regarded that day. Anyway, most of them have long gone now, the public that is..... Gambo, if the sport had the brains it was born with and a few principles we wouldn't need to use hindsight, would we? ;-)

If I were one of the poor souls who paid good money to watch that part-meeting I'd feel that my interests had been totally ignored, except for Coventry being punished for not providing riders for heat 10. The reasons why they didn't are a separate matter. Coventry are punished for bringing the match to a halt, but who is punished for making this excuse for a meeting go ahead? (I would use the term farce but as someone pointed out over Warsaw, it ain't funny). I do remember times when riders would ride in far worse conditions. Note I said ride, not race, but that was in the day when a meeting's admission cost about £7-8 in today's terms after a few decades of inflation, and spectators can't accept such low standards now. The sport makes a gesture and carries on, wondering why the fans stop coming. Every meeting like this, with its stupid, twisted priority to achieve a result, no matter how contrived and with any cost to the sport disregarded, damages and when just the most obvious and easy action is taken (as in you can find a rule to hit the Coventry promotion over the head with) you just despair. Apart from the bare bones of the SCB statement I do hope that due consideration was given to ALL of the unacceptable aspects of that match. I hope but do not expect. There is a desperate lack of integrity and sense of responsibility to the customer and the customer has been getting wise for some time. The strain of trying to keep the BEL running against the overwhelming demands of BSI, One Sport and the Polish and Swedish leagues seems to just suck more and more spirit out of the sport. It seems to me on the night the priority was to get a result for Sky in order to avoid having to refund them their expenses since the meeting had passed the 48 hour 'free' cancellation threshhold. The safety of the riders and rights of the paying customers were held in contempt. Contempt works both ways. A bad day for speedway and they're beginning to mount up now. (If anyone thinks that the only point of all this is that Poole were winning and Coventry were losing I suggest they take a long, hard look at themselves). It used to be so much fun to follow speedway.

BWitcher, You're talking to yourself. Find someone else who's prepared to play your sad mind games.

You as usual see what you need to see to score petty points rather than further the discussion. Denigrating comments were made against BL2/PL - that isn't in my head, it's on record in this thread. You really do scrape the barrel in trying to find something to row over. Getting lonely in the sun? As for superiority it is the mentality of some EL fans that they have some kind of automatic superiority over supporters from lower leagues. Personally, I'm glad I grew up on the Essex coast, thus discovering speedway through the Rayleigh Rockets, rather than in a hell-hole like Wolverhampton. I was referring to supporters, not promotions, teams or riders. Obviously it's difficult for you being so remote from British Speedway out there but do try at least to read what's being said. Nice try but a dismal failure. Anyway, I'll leave you to find someone else to play with. Life's far too short to discuss matters with a compulsive arguer like you. (Yes it is a forum - but that doesn't give people like you licence to continually browbeat and bore others).

It's usually after they've found out that falling off a bike hurts, or they find a good woman ;-). Has he had any significant injuries of late? I won't ask about his love life.

I don't really care what label you put on those who rode in it but BL2/NL gave me a huge amount of pleasure over the years. That's all that matters, not attempts by compulsive arguers to make out they have some superiority just because their team raced in a higher league. Going back to Darcy, albeit tangentially, it's a little ironic that while the man child was riding practically unopposed to his opening four wins the only racing of any interest on Monday was coming from the two fit Fast Track reserves, Charles Wright and Kyle Newman. Still, some people like names, others prefer racing, each to their own.........

Do you also believe in fairies and Father Christmas? I read the Mail once but the obnoxious right wing politics were so crudely put I raced back to my Independent. Don't you think that this has been looked into professionally and with lawyers? I'll leave you to your Beano.

Fly-posting is illegal, social media is legal. The days have moved on since Len Silver got away with covering east London with posters.

The OP asked "are things really that bad?". It's early July, peak season and Lakeside have three home meetings left. I think that answers the question.

It was never perfectly okay and was always seen as a symbol of white supremacy over the black population in the US, especially the southern states. Why do you think the psycho was so fond of the flag? It was the symbol of his racist hatred. Some people in here really need to stick to speedway. In Britain the confederate flag is seen differently; as some kind of 'cool' sign of the rebel and its deeply offensive nature to many just isn't seen here, as reflected in some of the complacent and idiotic posts in this thread. It's obvious that when the 'Rebel' identity was introduced to British Speedway back in 1972 at Oxford nobody realised how offensive it was in America, and to be honest it wasn't that relevant in a non-American sport. When South Carolina lowered the flag last week it was a deeply significant moment for the local black population as they finally had that potent symbol of racist supremacy finally removed. So, it may be a trivial matter here but it isn't elsewhere. Somerset keeping the image won't cause a diplomatic incident but it would be intelligent and sensitive to consider a change for next year, but then speedway doesn't 'do' 'intelligent' does it?

While there clearly was incompetence shown by many in this case it does highlight how twisted the Speedway Regulations have become when referees and team managers can't apply them.....

I was working in the finance department of a major soft drink producer recently. The sums being paid to promote their products in social media were quite eye-watering. Formal ads are just the tip of the iceberg. Comments being made saying how wonderful products on facebook or twitter (or even forums) aren't quite as innocent or accidental as many would think. There's a lot of professional PR people out there passing their comments off as genuine. It all works on the basis that if you get people talking about a product the sale is on its way.