Workington 2027

[Woke23]

Cookie is a fantastic rider. Flies out the gate and will be phenomenal for Edinurgh. He's also 20kg lighter than last season.

Whats annoying is he couldnt be bothered travelling 15 minutes down the bypass to Workington. I understand Workington are bad payers but that cant be used as an excuse when you've went missing for previous clubs

 

[lewy]

7 minutes ago, Woke23 said:

Cookie is a fantastic rider. Flies out the gate and will be phenomenal for Edinurgh. He's also 20kg lighter than last season.

Whats annoying is he couldnt be bothered travelling 15 minutes down the bypass to Workington. I understand Workington are bad payers but that cant be used as an excuse when you've went missing for previous clubs

 

I think cookie has had mental health issues with previous clubs but as you say if you're not being paid surely it's going to effect your mindset especially if you're a little fragile,I know I won't work for bad payers and I would imagine cookie is no different. 

[Neila]

Comets at the speedway show 🔵⚪️🏁😀

[H20]

11 hours ago, Fromafar said:

There’s “stuff” going on with him every season though.🤔👎Edinburgh do look after their riders though.

Edinburgh were actually one of the clubs he has left in trouble previously. The thing i can not understand is where the fella gets his money from as he has hardly riden speedway the last few year

[Neila]

27 minutes ago, H20 said:

Edinburgh were actually one of the clubs he has left in trouble previously. The thing i can not understand is where the fella gets his money from as he has hardly riden speedway the last few year

That's a totally different subject 😜😜. But like many Speedway riders they must get paid well in the season ,as a lot of the young riders are off to Australia for winter, a holiday and speedway, where's the money coming from ??

[Neila]

Just been on socials that the 1st signing is to be announced today 🤔🤔🔵⚪🏁

[Spiderman1]

1 minute ago, Neila said:

That's a totally different subject 😜😜. But like many Speedway riders they must get paid well in the season ,as a lot of the young riders are off to Australia for winter, a holiday and speedway, where's the money coming from ??

Cook has good fuel sponser and yes any money they make is well earned and deserved, big risk especially at some rough tracks in

[geoff100]

1 hour ago, lewy said:

I think cookie has had mental health issues with previous clubs but as you say if you're not being paid surely it's going to effect your mindset especially if you're a little fragile,I know I won't work for bad payers and I would imagine cookie is no different. 

You dont pay someone if they dont turn up for work,we hear the same every year from craig  ,berwick, workington glasgow  and others all have all fell for it.

[H20]

6 minutes ago, Neila said:

That's a totally different subject 😜😜. But like many Speedway riders they must get paid well in the season ,as a lot of the young riders are off to Australia for winter, a holiday and speedway, where's the money coming from ??

I have always thought that and im no knocking the riders as you get as much as you can out of riding but lol yeah but the sport can not sustain this on current crowds and money in speedway, its really an amateur sport especially st championship level but run as a professional sport. Riders used to have jobs and then ride speedway but the vast majority now treat speedway as a full time job. 

[foreverblue]

31 minutes ago, Neila said:

That's a totally different subject 😜😜. But like many Speedway riders they must get paid well in the season ,as a lot of the young riders are off to Australia for winter, a holiday and speedway, where's the money coming from ??

So he's not going to Poole then. Phew!!!

[Neila]

14 minutes ago, foreverblue said:

So he's not going to Poole then. Phew!!!

You probably won't see him against Edinburgh as he may have gone AWOL by then 😜🤣

[phillwhitewasmad]

49 minutes ago, Neila said:

That's a totally different subject 😜😜. But like many Speedway riders they must get paid well in the season ,as a lot of the young riders are off to Australia for winter, a holiday and speedway, where's the money coming from ??

From his out of speedway job you know the thing that 99% of supporters want riders to have .

[Neila]

14 minutes ago, foreverblue said:

So he's not going to Poole then. Phew!!!

You probably won't see him against Edinburgh as he may have gone AWOL by then 😜🤣

[TigerIain]

1 hour ago, geoff100 said:

You dont pay someone if they dont turn up for work,we hear the same every year from craig  ,berwick, workington glasgow  and others all have all fell for it.

Your wrong to mention Glasgow in that.

There was never an issue with Cook at Glasgow, he never walked out mid season.

The current Glasgow promotion are known for paying riders in full and on time, every time.

[crescent girl]

1 hour ago, Neila said:

That's a totally different subject 😜😜. But like many Speedway riders they must get paid well in the season ,as a lot of the young riders are off to Australia for winter, a holiday and speedway, where's the money coming from ??

Everything's relative.   

A Championship rider could buy a return ticket to Australia by having one good league meeting here.

[geoff100]

Find it ironic craig says he contacted edinburgh wonder if anyother clubs contacted him?

[Neila]

1 hour ago, phillwhitewasmad said:

From his out of speedway job you know the thing that 99% of supporters want riders to have .

Not a bad job if you can have a lot of time off to ride Speedway in summer and take 6 weeks or more off in winter 😜 when I worked I only had 4 weeks holidays all year 

Not knocking your lad or anyone else just an opinion of how much time off is required 

Edited 1 hour ago by Neila

[Fromafar]

To be fair all the Clubs he let down never make an issue of his behaviour.

[phillwhitewasmad]

1 hour ago, Neila said:

Not a bad job if you can have a lot of time off to ride Speedway in summer and take 6 weeks or more off in winter 😜 when I worked I only had 4 weeks holidays all year 

Not knocking your lad or anyone else just an opinion of how much time off is required 

His boss is a living legend 🤣

[YeOldPitGate]

3 hours ago, H20 said:

Edinburgh were actually one of the clubs he has left in trouble previously. The thing i can not understand is where the fella gets his money from as he has hardly riden speedway the last few year

I seem to remember a few years back when he was possibly in the gp's he had or was going to get a really good sponsor and with the numbers quoted for with the greatest respect a rider of his level you could see how the top 20-30 riders must be earning really good money.

I don't begrudge them a penny of it given how dangerous the sport is but the numbers in Speedway terms for Cookie for one company were impressive if true.