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Well, Bomber wasn't looking where he was going in heat 1! Dougy first bend incident, Lambert dropped it in an instant to miss Lawson who had fallen, Cook seemed to fall on his own and Becker nearly lost it on turn 4 in his first outing, track is super slick

Somebody said similar at Oxford last Thursday and he came out for his next race and finished the night off... fingers crossed

Does anybody know who their Fans’ Voice representative is? All applications should have been made by 5pm on Friday December 1st 2023. We should all be lobbying our reps to tell them that the rigging of the pay offs absolutely stinks! At the very least we should all be emailing our clubs or on their socials asking who our rep is and how to contact them. And before anybody says, yes I know they don't actually exist.

I'm sorry but I just can't understand anybody that can take this competition seriously anymore.

Who cares, it's all rigged anyway

Doesn't Nicholls have child support "issues", meaning he can't/doesn't want to ride every meeting on the calendar

Kingy did appear to shut off a fraction early allowing Edwards to pip him on the line... which is unforgivable really.

No, they only had reports from the 1st leg of the semi from Monmore

How do you make that one out? Surely you've got (another) BV vs Sheffield now and a possible final whereas if it hadn't have been rigged you would have had Leicester and possibly no final

I'm not sure if he tunes them does he? I thought he "serviced" them. Isn't Picko on an AshTec engine that Howarth services?

That's it, they didn't show the Wolves vs Sheffield 1st leg because the BV vs Ippo 1st leg had been rained off the week before and they decided to show that as the 2nd leg.

Didn't they not show both legs of the pay offs live last year? Still doesn't answer the question of why rig/fix the fixtures as they have?

Of course they didn't... it was just Mr Morris trying to justify the unjustifiable. If they'd stuck to the original cut off date and just called it at that point, I think most fans would have accepted it and just thought well that's what you get when you allow KL to do what KL did with all their call offs, also it wouldn't have been the first time that pay off places had been decided with outstanding fixtures to complete (I think). But somebody said no, we're going to switch the league table around and rig BV vs Sheff & Lions vs Ippo... and that is just totally unforgivable! 😠 Like you say if they'd also said at the outset that the top 4 will be decided at the end of the season by the management committee, again I think most fans would have accepted this. But no, we've all been to a load of matches since a team's top 4 place was secured for absolutely no sporting reason whatsoever.

And do they change the rules on the eve of the pay offs?

It's like the practice starts with no helmets on, there are a number of riders that still continue to do it and a lot of them do kind of almost starts, when is a start not a start? If you're not going to enforce these rules get them out of the rule book. I did notice that after his 2nd heat victory Bomber took his lanyard off to remove his goggles but then did put his lanyard back on, so maybe somebody did have a word with him.

Well done to the Stars. 5 wins on the spin with somebody else's side .

I don't follow NFL at all but I suspected as much... he probably got mixed up with wrestling

For commercial reasons they need to get somebody in place that understands commercial reasons

They've got the semi finals they wanted

Commercial reasons

The league table is what the league table is. If you'd bet on the play off fixtures you'd have cause for grievance though... but it's okay, they did it in NFL too How times have changed though, in 1984 when Wiggy (allegedly) got involved in a bit of race fixing it made the back pages of national newspapers... in 2024 on the race fixing's 40th anniversary they fix the pay off fixtures and nobody bats an eyelid!

Bomber removing his cut out lanyard after he wins a race. 04.2.19 Throttle Control and Cut Out Throttle controls must be self-closing when not held by hand. An ignition cut-out, earthed to the diamond or engine, must be fitted either on the front fork triple clamp (i.e. handlebar plate) or on the right-hand side of the handlebar, as close as is practicable to the throttle. It must stop the engine immediately, by the simple action of pulling a lanyard or a non-elastic string, which must be as short as possible, attached to the rider’s right wrist or mechanic’s right wrist at all times whilst the motorcycle is in motion and/or the engine is running.

I don't think Kurtz has done anything wrong, on this occasion, has he? He's just come back from injury for his Polish club. If he were to continue to ride for Rybnik while missing Belle Vue matches I would expect to see action taken, but as nothing has been done to Tungate and Lampart I assume the SCB are just letting anything go now.

It's all okay Mr Morris said NFL have done it... so all good