Steve0

I see Plymouth have pulled out the league - so Stefan (and others) will be looking for new PL team! Sad news for speedway and I hope the riders get fixed up quickly.

Exactly

...and I'll make sure I get the bumper edition of the Speedway Star before I get there - don't want to feed the paperboy at Poole!

If the weather is good, will look to travel for this one. Pirates will be difficult to beat at home but it should be a good match. Won't be able to see the return at Blunsdon as going away for Easter. Up the Roobins

So it's Max and Richie's fault then?? The blame lies squarely with the promoters who have a very poor track record (excuse the pun) over the last 10 years and as I've said previously I hope it hurts them in their pockets as it did for all those who attended!

How can anyone blame the riders? The promotion are at fault for trying to run a speedway meeting on a track that had never been ridden before - stupid or what? The past few weeks the BV fans were gushing about their promotion and they put up with 10 years of a rubbish team because they were investing in the new stadium. Well I hope it hits the promotion where it hurts - in their pockets! Not really a fitting tribute to Peter Craven!

Another nail in the coffin for the farce that is British Speedway! BV promotion are an absolute joke!

Does it say that in the rule book - if not that loophole will be exploited (by Matt Ford probably)

Can only see a Poole win tonight - mainly down to the reserves and a double figure return from Hansi.

Like I said absolutely disgusting! How can a Polish club dictate who Nick Morris rides for while riding in the UK??? It's wrong!!

Absolutely disgusting that a rider signed to ride for a British team in the UK is allowed to ride for a foreign team riding in the UK on the same night. It is plain wrong and I don't really care about Nick having to keep Wroclaw sweet - what about Swindon and Somerset?? :mad: And I don't care if they are only season starting friendlies!!

Both Newman and Garrity have their strengths and weaknesses. If I was putting a 1-7 together, I would go with Garrity ahead of Newman.

Have to agree about age. Look at the Grin - still at the top of his game at his age!! However, if he does lose form, people will blame it on his age

Glad to see Hansi had a good night

I see the moaning has begun

If they are a student then they are a student no matter what wealth they have or have access to!

That may be the case but they were (allegedly) within the rules so no sanctions. BV on the other hand ...

That'll be Poole then (which we all knew anyway and got a predictable response from a Poole fan)

What 2 British clubs are they? The fixtures are in the UK so that should explain who has first call on his services IMHO - unless you know differently and not just your opinion ?

As you say common sense has prevailed but in the UK they are both contracted to one club - Swindon so I think it does matter that they ride for their UK club. It does seem that someone at Swindon dropped a clanger though as Rosco was thanking KL for their understanding in getting matters resolved.

Details at http://swindonrobins.co/news.php?extend.2632 but doesn't tell you what you want to know

As said on the KL thread why would it depend on what meeting was arranged first - he is a contracted Swindon asset required by this team on that night. When did we give foreign teams priority to use our riders when in the UK? He has to ride for Swindon regardless of when the meetings were arranged.

Eh? Correct me if I'm wrong but both are Swindon riders and should be riding for Swindon irrespective of what was arranged first. The way it usually works is that as both are contracted Swindon assets, they would ride for Swindon. Why on earth would anyone think it was alright for them to ride for other teams instead of Swindon - one of which isn't even a UK team!! Unbelievable!

It doesn't matter IMHO!! If Doyley or Nicj Morris ride at KL on the same night Swindon is at Somerset then that is wrong - plain and simple!

In this country both Nick Morris and Jason Doyle are contracted to ride in Swindon fixtures so I cannot see either riding an international select meeting at KL - so I would expect KL fans to be the disappointed ones.