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Now that Lawrence Rogers has stepped down, will all those on here, who wanted him replaced, do likewise from this forum if results don't instantly improve?
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Ok, I apologise...it's 8pm not 7pm. So you can still park any time after 4pm, stay for 4 hours and then take advantage of unrestricted time. Anyone planning on arriving before 4pm will obviously be affected. As to just who you expect to need to park up more than 2 hours before the stadium opens, and therefore what impact that will have, I'll leave it to you to explain.
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Why not? The 4-hour parking restriction ends at 7pm, After that it's unrestricted. It says so, not exactly in black and white, but definitely in dark blue and white on one of many notices posted around the One Stop Shopping Centre. So, the way I see it, you can arrive any time after 3pm, use up your 4 free hours and then you free to stay after that in unrestricted time.
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I don't think confused covers it. In what other sport can you declare a team that doesn't stand a chance of taking to the track? In particular Nielsen. Nielsen was dropped. Now his name is being taken in vain, in order to get a facility. That's pulling the wool over the fans' eyes. And the rules allow for it. How does all this crap work? What's in it for Nielsen? As soon as Thompson is fit, he'll be out again, and at risk of being unemployed if Thompson rides to his potential. And how do the BSPZzz allow for a rider who is medically unfit be introduced as part of a redeclared team? Surely one of the rules that HAS to be looked at, is that only riders fit and able to ride should be part of a redeclared team. And the sooner the better, Well done Laurence Rogers for exposing yet another set of rules that makes a mockery out of the sport.
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Last I saw, R/R and Guests come under the heading of "facilities". To be eligible for a facility, you need to have ridden for the team. So, no facility (R/R or otherwise) for Thompson. The second qualifier for a facility is that you have to be medically unfit. We are now 2 weeks past the point when Wright was declared FIT to ride, and was fit enough to score 4 points. So that's him out of that facility reckoning. The third qualifier is that a rider withholds his services, incurring a 28-day ban. What you are suggesting is that the Brummies sink to Poole's level (which we are unanimously in awe of, aren't we?) and essentially cheat. You are suggesting that LR bends or breaks the truth, or persuades Wright to either feign an injury / reaction to injury, or to enter into a dispute that will lead to him walking out on the club, just to fiddle a facility for the sake of not losing by as many as we are going to lose by at Glasgow anyway. Well, if that's the way forward, then don't expect to retain any fans with any sense of dignity on the terraces. But as you have said that you are not attending for as long as LR is team manager, you won't notice the difference, will you?
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If hardened fans get into a lather about what's going on, how do you explain it to a newcomer to the sport? Or more importantly, how do you expect a newcomer to take it seriously? And you wonder why the likes of Deano, myself and many others who have been long time fans of the sport are fed up with it now? Anyway, my understanding is - James Wright - he was passed fit 2 weeks ago. Not being "on the pace" is no reason to have a guest or RR for him. Not seen or heard anything to suggest that he's been given another doctors note to say he's unfit again. You either ride him in your team or you sack him and replace him with someone else. As for Dan Thompson, he's not ridden for the team yet, so no facility should apply for him. EXCEPT that there is a "facility-lite" for when "proper" facilities don't apply, so that's a guest up to 75% of his average. But this being speedway of course, the rules are made up as we go along, so basically anything can (and probably will) happen.
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Belle Vue -V- Wolves day/night
uk_martin replied to Phil The Ace's topic in SGB Premiership Speedway League
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This is Speedway, so surely in the absence of a regular stream, a streaming facility can be granted, be it either a guest stream, or streaming replacement.
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When did Birmingham last track a 7-man team on ANY day of the week?
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Congratulations to the Brummies on the launch of their new TikTok channel. At long last, something to appeal to the youth, whose support they really need. Good luck with that. How it all contrasts to a few years ago when social media was controlled with an iron fist from BSPZzz headquarters, with legal threats and withdrawal demands on dubious copyright grounds. Speedway teams were banned from having Social Media channels back then, either in the form of Facebook, Twitter, Flickr let alone TicTok (had it existed at the time) and fans ran the risk of getting into trouble if they took their own photos and videos and posted them online. Thank goodness those days are over. I just hope that the ground that speedway has lost to other sports and attractions over the years can be caught up again before it's too late.
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BRUMMIES V EDINBURGH Wed 17th May CL
uk_martin replied to Brummies_Ste's topic in SGB Championship League Speedway
Yeah, but LR is the person who is in a "professional position" and who it's made a point of, that he doesn't get paid. Like the contrast is being made to every other professional team manager where there is an expectation that they do get paid, that LR is some kind of hero for donating his time for free...maybe? I mean, why else was that fact made public? So, does not being paid make him an amateur? -
BRUMMIES V EDINBURGH Wed 17th May CL
uk_martin replied to Brummies_Ste's topic in SGB Championship League Speedway
What's interesting is that LR never become one of the partners / directors in the consortium that runs the club. He assembled a group of people prepared to invest their kids inheritances in the club, but financially, he's kept at arms length from either the risk or reward. It'd be cheeky beyond belief to ask for a salary when he hasn't made a financial commitment, and the people who have invested in the club probably aren't getting paid either, and stand to lose their investments if the venture goes belly-up. -
BRUMMIES V EDINBURGH Wed 17th May CL
uk_martin replied to Brummies_Ste's topic in SGB Championship League Speedway
In my last post, I did refer to BSPZzzz rules and regulations. There's the clue. The very organisation who makes up rules with the sole aim of driving a bulldozer through them sometimes. Overlooking the promoters license rule for Belle Vue was obviously deemed to be "in the best interests of British Speedway" or something. Bet your bottom dollar it wouldn't be allowed at Birmingham though. -
BRUMMIES V EDINBURGH Wed 17th May CL
uk_martin replied to Brummies_Ste's topic in SGB Championship League Speedway
The point is that LR is the only person at Birmingham with a promoters license. Birmingham's "actual" promoters, as yet, are unlicensed, so if you get rid of LR, the club would need someone else with a promoters license in order to continue, according to BSPZzzz rules & regulations. -
Wright was injured on 4th April. His 28-day doctors note expired over a week ago. And the "facility" expired with it. Yes we were told he was fit and will be riding tomorrow (Wednesday) So why isn't he racing today? If it's known about some days ago that he's fit to go, then he'll be no less fit today than he will be tomorrow. So why isn't he going to turn up? And nobody is telling the fans anything. Something isn't right. And it's the fans who are being made fools of.
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And you wonder why the sport is going to pot? The people who make the rules, bend the rules, ignore the bending of the rules, or just go AWOL when they are needed to enforce the rules...except of course when it's in the best interests of British Speedway. Nothing wrong with it. Never said there was. But it's potentially career threatening if it's the case. How can anyone be trusted to race properly again if they have an anxiety attack going into the first bend? In any case, it's just speculation. All we know is that his original 28-day doctors note has run out...he was declared fit and we were told by one of the co-directors on this forum that he'll be racing this Wednesday (tomorrow). And now he isn't. Now on another thread, Heathen52 and Arnieg combined to conclude that after 28-days, a "facility" runs out, and in the absence of a facility a guest of no more than 75% of Wright's CMA can be used. (sort of a "facility lite") but is Paco's average really only 75% that of Wright? It wasn't the last time I looked. Or are the people who make and enforce the rules on holiday again?
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What's on James Wright's new sick note? "Anxiety"? Presumably at the prospect of visiting the track where he got himself injured at the start of the season? The fans were assured that he was fit and would be racing again tomorrow, but instead, we have Paco in as a guest. Nothing against Paco, per se, but just how do these "facility" rules work for a rider who has not ridden a race for the club this year or even featured in a team photo yet?
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An "unexpected" guest for James Wright again on the team sheet for the match at Plymouth tomorrow, makes that an interesting question.
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Birmingham has had "Kids for a Quid" offers off and on since 2007. If cheap admission for youngsters worked, there'd be terraces full of young people now. Admission for 12-16yo's is currently £3. That's less than a Big Mac at McDonalds. For Students (17-22) admission is £5. Hardly deal breaking. And yet the terraces are still not flooded out with youngsters. The problem isn't price, it's value for money. You're trying to sell a product that looks 20 years older than Windows 95, to the Windows 11 generation. The product/experience needs to be brought into the modern age. There speaks someone not from Birmingham, I suspect, someone with no attachment to the city, its nickname, and its heritage. And what good did a name change do at Reading?
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I wish you more luck in presenting the case to the management than I had. Going back to the early days, all I got was a "meh" reaction when I pointed out the existence of the Motorsports Engineering Faculty at Birmingham City University that's only 2 miles away. But hey, who needs them? What do these professors and students know? They could have had some work experience at the Brummies and then buggered off to McLaren F1 and all the effort would have been in vain. OR they could have looked at how speedway engines were designed and tuned, and maybe found cost savings in how things were done...but that would have been a threat to the established way of doing things, and you can't have that, can you?
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Where has that been announced?
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I notice that nobody is filling in gaps with the "James Wright / Tactical Guest" option. Judging by last year, for as long as the current team manager remains in place, so does the Tactical Guest. The BSPZzz allowed the Brummies to field guests all season long for Josh Auty, so by those standards, as long as James Wright keeps feeling less than 100% (or is persuaded to feel less than 100%) I suspect that the tactical guests will keep on getting booked. So, the big question will be, not whether or not there will be changes to the team, but with or without changes, whether there will ever be a 7-man team photo taken this year.
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Birmingham v Redcar bsn Wednesday
uk_martin replied to Petecc's topic in SGB Championship League Speedway
It gets better... The update on Facebook, supposedly promoting this meeting shows a photo of the two Brummies being trounced by opponents. And I bet someone from the Brummies hierarchy will be on here bemoaning that I'm the one with the negative outlook on the team... -
The future of British Speedway after the 2023 season
uk_martin replied to TTT's topic in SGB Premiership Speedway League
Nah, with their heads buried in the same sand as they were in back in the 1970's, the BSPZzzz will simply reduce the points limit to 35, pretend nothing's happening, "move along please, nothing to see here" and carry on in a state of perennial denial.