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sure thing and even if they couldn't get more it's good news to have a potential new track anyway , I dont see why they think speedway should be moved to weekdays though , those of us who have lads in the NL understand well enough that getting time off for midweek meetings is already hard enough , without adding another midweek team if it's not necessary , of course theres always some who will think that because they can get off work at 4.30 and make it to 1 meeting a week ,that its easy for young lads and their dads/ mechanics to keep taking days off work .

surely any potential investor would be looking to eventually step up into at least premier league , 14 meetings a year would prevent that . also weekday racing in the NL?? . it's much easier to build a NL team with weekend racing from a work point of view and I would think to most riders /mechanics preferable

This is not speedway .so post in the the short track section , and then those of us who think short track is complete cack will not be duped into reading it

how many times has Coventry opened and closed again a few months later ?, it has never been successful as a dog racing venue despite the primary sport for the stadium having to arrange it's race program to suit dog racing . and how long will the dog racing doors stay open this time ?

I think any rider who has had a fee paid for them who then chooses not to ride in the uk . should be made to reimburse the promotion the fee or not be allowed to ride anywhere . any rider who has been brought up to standard by a single club who makes the same choice should have his value estimated by the BSPA and be made to pay that amount before riding elsewhere.

so Gronigen Holland is in the midlands now is it .?

I do . but I'm sure there are some on this thread who don't and would be interested to know .

There are more than enough riders to fill the spaces In both the MDL and NL Iris . no problem at all .there are loads of lads at Nl standard who dont have team places and are Pissed off about the fact , so trying to get team places for Dutch riders in our training leagues will only have the effect of making more genuine british prospects become disillusioned and walk away from speedway . . Phil Morris brings them on with his under 15 training program and then when they should be ready to step up theres nowhere for them to step up to !! he most definitely will . pick one from the list I posted earlier . and that was only some of them .

I think Iris 123 has had the final say on this one , surely being the Dutch national champion in 2006 and riding in that championship every year as well as in international meetings in Belgium and Germany as a Dutchman should mean he is not eligible to claim he is brtiish and ride in the MDL or NL .

I know exactly what I am talking about and so do you , having had many conversations with you over the years about the best way to promote British riders for British speedway , to be honest I find your opening post both offensive and hurtful for a number of reasons . but it's not worth arguing the toss , there have been so many instances of the kind of behaviour you are promoting that the national league is now full of plastic brits while the real british kids drift away to other sports or just leave speedway disenchanted by the lack of opportunities . so the MDL which started with so much promise has now become Europes training scheme . just like all the other initiatives that have been put in place to further the future of British speedway riders winds up being used for the benefit of foreigners .

further to this heres a list of some riders who are teamless , Chris Widman , James Cockle , Liam Rumsey , Liam Carr , Richard Andrews , Matt Bates , Michael Neale , Steve Jones , Benji Compton , Ryan Blacklock , Ross Walter , Ryan Terry- Daley , Danny Phillips Tommy Fenwick . the list goes on , this is without mentioning the kids In the MDL and AJL who are waiting to step up and take their chance ....

yes good luck to the lad . maybe when there are a few more like James Whyte - Williams and a very long list of other genuine british kids who have given up speedway through frustration at lack of opportunity . the MDL and NL can offer opportunities to anyone who has even the most tentative link to a british passport . I dont personally hold anything against Pascal he will like everybody else take what chances he can get . what really annoys me is the co-ordinator of the mdl which is supposed to be the breeding ground for a new generation of british talent using his influence to promote yet more bloody foreigners to take whatever opportunities they can from the mouths of those he is supposed to be championing , these people have influence at the very core of British speedway and seek to take away opportunities from the very people they should be breaking their necks to help , no wonder British speedway is in such a sorry state .

If you agree that the MDL co-ordinators should be actively seeking to take opportunities from real british lads then you have some sort of problem . I dont know if there is any appropriate action that the BSPA can take but if there is I hope they do . . no wonder theres no british kids coming through when you have people involved in the lowest tier of speedway taking it upon themselves to promote foreigners in preference to genuine british kids ,and people like you encouraging them .

You should be ashamed of yourself . genuine british Kids are on the sidelines because there are no places left and you want to fill spaces in the national league with fake Brits I hope the BSPA are watching you bending the rules and openly advertising the fact .and take appropriate action .

I thought the support had dwindled so much that matt ford pulled the plug not sure kids have the relative presentation skills to be standing in front of their peers trying to extol the virtue of something that is not football. I agree with most of your other points though . so many people tell how neighbours and work colleagues don't know that speedway still exists .

Half the NL riders would have to ask for time off school to visit a school

no he's got a 1 year old so not a baby .

Enduro Cross . Just like all the other stuff that leech off speedway . nothing but a bloody nuisance .

never too late mate

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I would say Van straaten and Cook were co-conspirators and puppeteers in their own right .

are you serious , Harkness handled the Coventry _ Peterborough crisis with Dignity and no Puppetry . LMFAO

why ? So you have seen Conor Dwyer wheelie an MX bike 300 yards one handed, and win races the first time he ever sat on a speedway bike .? well lets get him signed up straight away another Richie Worrall if ever I saw one . speedibee Gem . and you are right

I cant see it ever being allowed during the main match . Just like to add to the poor relation train of thought . I have traveled a 260 mile round trip to have a main team rider waste the remaining time before curfew "testing" Doing wheelies and generally pissing about , and the last time we rode at Coventry witnessed another main team rider harassing the clerk of the course to cancel the last 2 MDL races or hold them up so that he could go out on track to try something , on both occasions the riders who caused or tried to cause the cancellations by their selfishness were of Course arrogant Australians .