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Maybe they should offer reduced admission on Thursday for fans who attend tomorrow's meeting. Might help fill both matches a bit.
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Swindon - Somerset 17th Aug 17
Grachan replied to A ORLOV's topic in SGB Premiership Speedway League
Not so sure about that. The idea of two matches against Somerset doesn't seem as appealing to me as matches against two different sides. -
They needed a Brit a few years back and chose Tai Woffinden. How did that work out?
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I really like that website, and often browse through it to pass a bit of time. Would love to see location maps added as I often find myself trying to work out where stadiums were.
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One of the first meetings I attended was a double header at Swindon in 1974, with Swindon taking on Hackney first and then Belle Vue. Guesting at no 1 for Hackney was... Bob Kilby. Guesting at no 1 for Belle Vue was... Bob Kilby. Biggest crowd I ever saw at Swindon. Could barely move.
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Jack Holder And The (lack Of A) 9 Month Ban
Grachan replied to SCB's topic in SGB Championship League Speedway
Ah ok, so he missed a league match yesterday. I didn't realise that. That's different. This does put the rider in a difficult situation, but if riders want to ride Polish league on a Sunday instead of riding in lower league matches then they shouldn't be riding in the lower league. -
Jack Holder And The (lack Of A) 9 Month Ban
Grachan replied to SCB's topic in SGB Championship League Speedway
You'll have to explain that one. I don't know about yesterday. -
Jack Holder And The (lack Of A) 9 Month Ban
Grachan replied to SCB's topic in SGB Championship League Speedway
But surely teams should be able to pick whichever four riders they want to for such an event s long as they are using their own riders. If it were a league match then I would see your point, but Peterborough were still able to put out a winning side for this event. -
Jack Holder And The (lack Of A) 9 Month Ban
Grachan replied to SCB's topic in SGB Championship League Speedway
It's common sense for Peterborough to allow Holder to ride in Poland instead of the Fours. It's only four riders per team. It's a Sunday. It's Polish league day and the lads career is at stake. How did Peterborough's scandalously weakened team do in the end, anyway? And can people PLEASE stop claiming a UK visa lets you ride in Poland. Where does this nonsense come from? -
Is the GP really that strong this year? I keep reading this, but I'm not so sure. It's certainly more even, and maybe stronger at the bottom end than some years, but I'm not convinced it's so strong as in the past. Is Doyle better than Crump? Is Janowski better than Gollob? Lindgren better than Rickardsson? Pedersen a few years back was better than any Dane in this year's competition. Woffinden now not quite as strong as Woffinden a couple of years ago. A good, even competition though. If the Danes need a wildcard I'd go for Nicki if fit.
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Yeah. I've seen it now as someone put a link to it. I can never find my way round Twitter though.
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He does kind of have a point though.
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Someone posted this tweet onto a Speedway Facebook page earlier. When I checked Darcy's Twitter I couldn't see it, although I did see a tweet saying he wished he was still at Poole after they got thrashed last night, so I was a bit dubious that it was genuine. Later there was no sign of the post that was on Facebook either so it could have been a hoax?
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Chris Holder Banned From British Speedway
Grachan replied to cinderfella's topic in Speedway News and Discussions
Can't see anything wrong with doing that personally. Didn't King's Lynn do a similar thing with Robert Lambert, who couldn't ride until he was 16. -
The man is a liability. In a year where my team, Swindon, are top of the league and on a brilliant winning streak he has, quite amazingly, still single-handedly managed to make me lose some entusiasm for the season. Genius.
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Time To Crack Down On The Aussies?
Grachan replied to Daniel Smith's topic in Speedway News and Discussions
He is British. He has citizenship. Also, he was due to commit himself to the future as a British rider by riding in a meeting as a British rider but the BSPA refused to allow him to. I can't remember the exact detail, but there was quite a furore at the time. It was only after that that he chose to ride as an Aussie. -
Time To Crack Down On The Aussies?
Grachan replied to Daniel Smith's topic in Speedway News and Discussions
So are you going to say what Nick Morris has done wrong or not? -
You could be right. I've tried looking up a few sites and it doesn't seem totally clear what their situation is on this. It also gets affected by earnings and so on. Personally I hope they are able to come back last year just for the stength of the league.
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The cooling off period was scrapped in 2015 to give employers more flexibility, so as long as they don't over stay they shouldn't have any problems next year. http://www.workpermit.com/news/uk-immigration-changes-including-tier-2-visa-changes-6-april-2015-20150421
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I agree with others that the only real flaw is the way they cut to a close up of the finish line to watch the leader go past regardless of whether or not there is a good race going on behind.
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Have Your Say On How British Speedway Is Run
Grachan replied to Phil The Ace's topic in Speedway News and Discussions
It will just end up as a load of uninformed whining like the rest of Facebook. -
Buster Chapman - Is He Good For The Sport?
Grachan replied to SCB's topic in Speedway News and Discussions
The only thing wrong with that is the lack of a 2 point win for a home win of 6 or less. I think that system worked better. Other than that it's a decent system. -
At the end of the day, what is The Fours? It's little more than an open meeting in reality. And staged on the day of the Polish league. Imagine if the Poles had a Fours meeting on a day when there were British league meetings and demanded that the riders who ride in the UK attend. There would be uproar on here. Holder chose a league match over a meeting of little significance. He made the correct choice, and one would hope the same choices would be made in a reverse situation (such as with Doyle next week apparently due to ride for Swindon instead of in the pairs). Sunday is Poland's day. Everyone knows it.
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The Poles have made it so that their league gets priority. British clubs (although I believe Poole refused) had to sign a contract to say that Polish fixtures get priority if there is a fixture clash.
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Is This Swindon Team The Best Of Recent Times?
Grachan replied to DC2's topic in SGB Premiership Speedway League
The same with all clubs.