david_rowe

I was a Director at Birmingham for a brief period as part of the new consortium which took over for the 2022 season, and my involvement was mainly centred around helping ensure they were in a position to run that year, because there was a huge amount of work to be done that winter for them to get to that stage. My resignation was due to a significant change in work circumstances in April 2022 which, in my view, meant there could have been a perceived conflict of interest had I remained directly associated with one club at a Director level, although there was no pressure applied from any direction before I took that decision.

The company is actually Nationwide Windows & Doors of Rugby - but as with several sections of the presentation, factual accuracy was not its strongest point.

Just to clarify this, the policy regarding how postponed fixtures are displayed hasn't changed for many years, although the presentation is slightly different this year since the new website came online prior to the start of the season. I took over responsibility for BSP website editorial a number of years ago now, and one of the things I was keen to bring in was that we would show a separate news item previewing (and subsequently reviewing) every fixture individually. (You may remember that in the very old days, the updates tended to be 2 brief news items per day, and the reason for that was the content was tailored to fit in with the space requirements of Ceefax/Teletext). It's always been the case that if a meeting is postponed, the news item is removed and there's then a separate section on that front page where the fixture is marked as POSTPONED, along with any other relevant info, which would typically be the re-arranged date if available. As mentioned above, it looks slightly different now to the past when it was simply a text box showing results, but that information is still on the front page when a meeting is postponed. The news item previewing the meeting is obviously removed, as to leave it there would cause confusion, and personally I wouldn't want to see separate news items reporting meetings being postponed, especially in a week like this! Individual clubs, of course, would be putting postponement news items on their own websites, but on the BSP site it is reported on the front page down the fixtures/results section on the side, which has always been the case. We've worked over the years to add a huge amount of information to the BSP site - items such as official meeting scorecards, Green Sheets, match-by-match averages, pics from the previous night's meetings rather than standard press day shots, to name a few, but we're always open to suggestions on ways in which it can be improved. We'll look all aspects of output over the winter and happy to receive e-mails to the press office with any feasible suggestions for what you'd like to see in the future.

After seeing this letter we arranged an urgent meeting with Dave Busst, which took place last Monday. He has since clarified his comments to the planning officer. The position remains that the football club do not support the application.

You didn’t enjoy the Pairs? I’d never have guessed!

Because the press office hadn’t been informed of the change.

The meeting was previewed by the BSPA press office this morning but was taken off the website following the postponement. We had received press releases from both clubs. Glasgow had declared Anders Rowe guesting at reserve; Scunthorpe had Cameron Heeps for Jake Allen, and Jack Smith at reserve.

Sorry Simon but you aren’t having a debate with any of my “cohorts” here.

No, I’m not remotely important in the grand scheme of things. And I’d rather be deluded than many of the characteristics exhibited by the postings under both your current and former aliases.

Thanks for that, Simon. Incidentally I’ve been at all but two of the “home” meetings this season. Happy to discuss things personally with you any time. You’ll find me around plenty of tracks.

Again this is totally untrue. The Campain Group have no moles on the Forum. We are happy to post under our own names. Unlike yourself.

Simply untrue. Very happy to meet you in person and explain it, but of course that would mean you revealing your identity.

You’ll be pleased to know that eKantor is an affiliated company... check their website to find out more! Seriously, great effort by everyone there to get the track fit, and to run successfully to such a tight schedule.

Awaiting confirmation at this stage regarding live coverage Rob - we will still be out at the track, having rescheduled flights back for Monday.

The campaign group has no allegiance to anyone, and any evidence of “all the trouble the group has caused” would be welcomed. If I in any way felt that what was being done was not being done in a professional or respectful way I wouldn’t be putting my name to it as one of those involved - especially as I am quite openly involved in various ways across the sport. You’re welcome to come to a campaign group meeting, you might learn something - but I guess then we might also learn your identity, which presumably you don’t want to happen.