bigcatdiary

Fixed race nights for the Premiership with the Championship on any of the other 5 is a must after the problems of this year. As for doubling up the riders must give priority to the UK, if ruled out through sickness and unable to ride then they abide by the med certificate and not allowed to come back early. I agree with others that any attempt to round up averages usually means one or two teams gain an immediate advantage over the rest. I also agree that riders should automatically have an average (actual or calculated) for all leagues and these should be applicable for one month I see no great reason for ALL official matches to be counted (League, Play Offs and KOC) the more matches that count the harder it is to manipulate it. I have never liked Tactical Rides and these should have be dumped years ago, if promoters cannot afford to pay tac rides then just run a season without them and see how that pans out, I doubt it would make to much difference, as for matches I think the format used is good and works well but all aggregate matches should be golden heats if teams are tied after 30 heats.

I have heard that Wednesdays are not the problem they once were, Denmark are increasingly using Fridays

Indeed they would mr ruff diamond indeed they would

It will be interesting to see what Mr Peasley thinks of the latest SCB statement, I seem to recall you had a lot to say about Ged Rathbone.

Well to be fair Jonathan thats a given, now what member of the BSPA MC doesnt like the content of the statement. Maybe the SCB now will make its own rules and enforce them correctly and properly instead of letting the BSPA walk all over them. Getting rid of the BSPA members on the SCB would be good starting point.

And a complete waste of time, because it’s now been copied and pasted elsewhere.

Yep

Well the ball is firmly in the hands of the SCB/ACU, I dare say they will issue a statement in due course.

Comes under 15.3 as a starting offence.

Interesting that someone actually thinks Gary Havelock motivates people.

Matt specialises on signing riders with false starting averages, Vaculik would surely be assessed to high.

BJERRE has lived in the UK for years what’s stopping him taking out a UK licence, NKI is another who lives over here and has for years.

Certainly doesnt look good at present

I can only agree, I would like to see regular point of view articles as a lot of this needs to be said.

Certainly didn’t say anything about it Friday and I spoke to him for about 20 minutes, in fact other than Baldy I haven’t heard anyone mention it (all season) and like I said I think I would have known if their was any substance to it. Brad was talking on the mike for a while and he mentioned a lot of the crap he had read on the forums and it was just that crap.

One wonders why you raised it then, surely not sour grapes for Thursday.

Football, it’s full of players that play for the club that owns their contract, then get loaned out to another club for experience. At semi pro level it’s even worse.

To be fair you are right but I do know that this sort of talk is damaging to clubs from previous experience. I am sure if this had any substance I would have heard but I can honestly say it’s generally the opposite, Ged’s got a very good name for paying his riders spot on when it’s due.

Bomber wasn’t there on Friday

Bradley made it clear on Friday when he spoke on the mike that he has been ill, he mentioned the forums and all the crap about him going back to Australia and holiday in Mexico and it was just that utter crap.He spoke to me afterwards and said he still wasnt 100% when he rode the second leg of the cup final at Ipswich but he wanted to give it a go.

I spent a fair amount of time talking to BWD on Friday, perfectly happy at Peterborough this year and was helped enormously this year with machinery and engines. You are talking absolute bollox.

I thought so, I am afraid it sounds like you are just making it up.

Can you state that any particular rider is owed money, who and what.?

Crap like this doesn’t help any club let alone one that that’s got an excellent reputation for paying its riders promptly.

No Sheffield are the champions, Panthers are the KO Cup Winners