speedibee

Bspa shared eventd are doled out to whoever is flavour of the month , rather than any proper criteria .

I think you are right , and of course they wont want to get whitewash all over their new stadium

thurs 7 th July Swindon Vs Wolverhampton. Swindon is 40 miles from Bristol along the M4

If you are staying in Bristol . theres this http://www.wookey.co.uk/ cheddar gorge, glastonbury tor , friday day in Weston super-mare , somerset speedway is about 5 minutes from Weston , Saturday all day will be occupied with the speedway . Bands in the street, collectors fairs and round the town centre pubs ,(there really is no speedway event like it anywhere else in the world) and if you dont intend too much drinking ,you drive to the outskirts of cardiff and park and ride into the city . Sunday either over the bridge into Wales . or down the M5 to the coastal areas of Devon , should keep you busy for a few days .

The covered stand has been there since at least 1967 ,when I joined the back straight Mob ,

Drury Isn't famed for waving a chequebook around even if it is someone elses

Of course ben is at a loose end having been dropped from IOW , and raiders tail end is seriously long , is it possible that within a few weeks both Branford and Hopwwod would fit , Not much good with averages TBH , but Hopwood has nothing to lose and this could be part of a longterm plan ??

If branflake hasn't made it over yet , I would think it's not too wild a conspiracy , when you consider he has a girlfriend and child to provide for . he probably signed thinking he was getting a premier league teamplace somewhere as well , and he hasnt as far as i know , would be a major struggle to live off NL pay alone .

students are not the future supporters of speedway , although a few might come because its what they did with their parents at home ,most of them will leave university and head off to far flung places SCB excepted of course , approaching mr Sandhu (spit ) will achieve nothing , he is and never really was ,interested in speedway flourishing ,in fact quite the opposite ,it suits his greedy purposes if the speedway flounders because there will be less opposition to his bulldozers that way

Those other sports in Coventry have sponsors paying the bills ,and all are operating in council owned stadia at discount rates , , so letting a few bend the rules and get in cheap doesn't really affect them , On the other hand Speedway has all the cost and none of the help . plus if you took out all the amateur photographers and other assorted hangers on who run around in hi-viz vests with Bspa tags round their necks most places would be half empty .

wouldnt be at all surprised to see sky pull out of this ,they have cancelled 2 so far because of the chance of rain , cancel this one because of the chance of a whitewash

I think main difference is that more people have the time to travel on Saturdays and no need to rush to get home for work the next day , going to lakeside from Coventry area on a Friday means leaving at lunchtime , back in the days before BSI and a few riders heading for the big bucks , quite a few teams ran on Saturdays with no problem . Oh and leicester can't run on fridays .thats Coventry's priority night at the moment until they close this year

Well thats put you straight Gemini , and a few others, me included , there we were happily deluded , that me knowing loads of Leicester and Ex leicester fans and you being married to one , we had any idea about what they actually wanted from their speedway and what their opinion of the track and the promoter was , And Along comes 1 valve and puts us all to shame with a single post . Elite league is more or less premier league . padded out with some over the hill Poles and Swedes and dancing to the tune of BSI and Polish leagues

elite league is top flight in name only . premier and national league speedway is actually better

THJ is a bit of a loose cannon , and with the current manager being slightly volatile I wouldn't imagine he would last long ,

As a Bees fan for many years .I would be happy enough with a track in field rather than a pie in the sky . but even a track in a field In these days of rampant nimbyism and development mania , is virtually impossible to achieve . Just the logistical Nightmare of finding 2 acres of land without a nimby within a radius of 1.5 miles is a Herculean task , add to that the reputation of Motorcycles and the people who enjoy seeing them used , and planning officers who largely need to be sweetened by someone with deeper pockets than most speedway promoters and opening a new track needs some sort of miracle to achieve , Speedway fans in general need to learn to fight to keep what they already have using anything they have in their arsenal , because theres a greedy money grabber Like Sandhu watching every single track for an opportunity to feed their greed , cherish what you have, and make use of it , because when it's gone it's gone and there will be no replacement

riding like this it will be a short one . no chance of playoffs so finished in August

Oh wounded , whatever will I do without you to tell me what I should think , and of course which is the correct side of any argument , hopefully in the future people will quote your posts ,that way at least Ill have an idea of what opinion I should be posting . I hope somebody quotes this so you can see how gutted I am that you have blocked me .Ill probably not sleep tonight knowing that i have fell foul of your greatness

it all looked to be going swimmingly well until you mentioned Sandhu, he is the cause of the problem, not the solution . he owns the current stadium and if he was interested in the bees or their supporters he wouldn't be selling it ,

Is it like Hyde road in shape and size ?

Well the weather looks good in most of leicestershire today , so the track should be in top nick and a good test of the alterations . I would put my money on lakeside , since their home track Is quite similar and the same team managed to hand out a good Hammering (Pun Intended) last night , a win here for lakeside will add a bit of spice to the restaged local derby and basement battle .

Now Listen very carefully I sahll say this only once . I blocked you way back when leicester opened , IMHO you are a complete and utter arsehole ,who frequents these forums to cause trouble and find excuses to hurl abuse , now I think I have been reasonbly fair by telling you this ,so save yourself from looking even more stupid and stop posting replies on anything I post , I'm not interested in anything you say ,or any abuse you may wish to post ,

And of course .you have posted that . so thats the definitive word on the subject . close the thread quickly. Dave the mic has spoken no more to be said here . no more need for anyone to disagree with the holy trinity . and of course a mark of respect to talk and mess about while the anthem of the country you claim (Only inPublic of course ) to be yours is being sung , and have to be told by greg hancock to show some respect for !! If Woffinden has learned Polish thats because it has some benefit for him ,and no other reason , probably going to try for Polich citizenship so he can ride for them in the World Cup , they pay well I hear .

Anybody going who will be streaming a feqw heats on Periscope , Shovlar was going to pop up and do a few but he's not got time now because he didn't get Matts car cleaned in time to leave

Of course you can't . the boy was dipping his toe into the pond of sarcasm . but Im the master of that so it was ineffective , he was rather succesful in another ploy though, so well done for that, that was gaining sympathy when there really wasn't any cause for it , and you and several others walked right into it ,