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Ooooohhhh, the anticipation

Please restrict your postings to the Newcastle link , you are boring myself & everybody else on this link

Think that's Cookie as well, mind you I mistook Schroek for Riss the other week, so not sure I can be trusted!

I have been around speedway for over 50 years @ many levels, including connections to a few world champions. I truly be leave that Dan has the talent to be world champion. Would do himself a big favor to improve his gating skills otherwise the final goal will be that much harder but possible - Mark Loram! Good luck Dan for 2020 & beyond.

I'm afraid not, the riders are free to work for whom and where they like, granted there may be argy bargy because the club that holds the registration wants to offer a team place and some newby promoter has made an illegal approach offering the rider brewsters to go elsewhere. The BSPA has an appeal process which runs all the way to the ACU but ultimately the rider will ride where he chooses and in my example the club owning the registration gets a loan fee and the club making an illegal approach gets a fine. If club A says you can have him on a transfer only basis then it goes to appeal. The process has been taken to Barristers by certainly one rider I know as well as the BSPA and has been acknowledged as legal and definately not a Bosman.

Photos good , wording is good, but not keen on the angular font. ( it might be funky, but not the clearest to see). Driving past a poster people would probably not take in day, or time- apart from that, a good effort Dan.

Carl is his own man and certainly isn’t clueless

No it didn't. We just all celebrated it a year too early.

I always find comments like this particularly stupid. Of course the paying customer in a sport has a right to know the rules by which the team he supports are competing. And indeed the Speedway regulations are in the public domain, as are all the averages, and the competition rules. It was even a fair question to ask what the mechanism for loan fees was. If teams could negotiate their own loan fee levels it could lead to an unfair competitive advantage. And this question was answered. There was a set loan fee scale which makes things fair. But to demand the intimate costings of a private limited company is just ridiculous. No business operates like that. When you bought your Christmas turkey at Tesco, they will have told you the price they wanted for it. They'd have told you it's weight and any information you needed to know to be able to gauge what you were getting for your money. But you really expect Tesco to tell you how much they paid for the turkey, or how much their rent and utilities bills are? That's just ridiculous.

I am sure that Dan Bewley, like many other riders, is always aiming to be the best he can be. I think the point being made is that it will be a big step for him to become a number 1 next year. Not impossible, considering the steps he has already made and the courage and determination he showed in coming back so quickly from serious injury but realistically, more likely to take him at least 2 more years.

The real trick is to have enough money to sustain your learning period, how ever long that might be. The entry costs are astronomical and your earnings potential minuscule in those formative years.

Poole meeting was removed from the fixture list. Wolverhampton was cancelled due to rain and at the late stage of the season a new date could not be arranged.

I knew what was meant and only made fun of it when the original mistake was brought to everyones notice.

Most as in all except Poole.

Valeri is still actively involved with the sport as the head coach of the Balakovo club...or at least he was last season. I presume he's continuing for 2020.

Definitely Cookie, I can tell by the way he walks and his shoulders

Productive text is alive and well!

I went to the test between England and USSR on the 27/07/ 74 at Swindon Steve .Vladimir scoring 13pts spoiling Ashby's 18 pt maximum and Valeri scoring 0 England won 66/41 Kuzmin 10pts and the talented Khlinovsky 11 pts also rode.In 1976 the fixture you spoke of the Robins won 47/31 Khlinovsky again scoring 8 pts Victor Trofimov scoring only four pts from reserve they were great events .

I think you're supposed to use end of season averages!

At the end of last season, he also said it was no good having riders who fly at the AFA and can't score away. What do they do, sign them again for 2020 and add Ty Proctor . The mind boggles, well mine does anyway

Give me some time and I'll ask my friend for a scan.....

Who’s Friday?

I take it from the completed team that Cris Widman may have retired...But as yet no confirmation of that..What ever the future holds for him I wish him all the best.....

I think your team would probably come out on top but this one from the mid 60's onwards would give them a run for their money: 1. Sverre Harrfeldt 2. Dave Jessup 3. Gote Nordin 4. Edward Jancartz 5.Tommy Jansson 6.Olle Nygren 7. Reg Luckhurst/Trevor Hedge

Soz realised I was running late for work and had no time to finish the post i thought I had deleted it lol.What I was going to post was. We all want Dan and Robert to reach world class but the down side of our wants the way things are today is that if they do there's more than a good chance they will drop the British league.So wishing them success means I could miss out on the pleasure of watching Dan ride live every week and Robert when his team comes to the NSS.To me watching them on TV is just not the same. I am already gutted through his own success at missing Max blasting round the boards this year after watching him progress over the last few years. As British fans these days their success is our and British speedways major loss making our league weaker and weaker sad sad days.

Certainly potential for Brum to make top 6 but unfortunately i fear there as many pro's as there are con's with this side and my gut says 7-8th missing the pay offs but providing plenty of home entertainment along the way.

Think for Birmingham to be in the top 6 they will need to sort the track out and have a lot more dirt on it.

Only enough to win television quizzes.

Poole have only ever been concerned about the success of the club from one season to the next and never about the progress of riders generally and British riders in particular.

This is The Championship and the League in which the majority of the brightest young prospects born bred and nurtured in the UK are racing and learning their craft. Surely Poole could and should have invested in some young emerging UK talent?

Eureka!

I can assure you that in most cases both sides are happy with the arrangement ,I am not privy to the sums involved( most teams want riders to be riding ) but it will be rider's terms that make or break deals !

What do we think guys? For promotional use of cause

Years Gone By; August 26, 2008; Un-official World Finals; Page 1. Sadly, I do not know the time.

If it’s any help,my transaction was done by TICKETS COM,MILTON KEYNES.

If that team beat the 64.84 team average above, they either improved an awful lot throughout the season or someone's abacus needs new batteries.

actually if this was taken to law it would collapse like a pack of cards - riders are actually self employed contractors and the asset system is a load of bollox.

Might be FFS Banditos after some away matches

Likewise. Booked tickets and printed at Home,no problems .E mail conformation was instant.Hope you manage to resolve the problem.Done mine of SON website.

1 - No 2 - The loan fee is paid to the British Club that holds the rider’s registration, it is not connected to their nationality. 3 - Loan fees are indeed based on the rider’s average

So where do we expect to see the Brummies at the end of the season ? My prediction is 6th mid table but in the play offs fairly comfortably. Keeping the 1-7 injury free will be key . THJ is the key he could be a real steal on his average .

I remember watching Charles Wright when he was a reserve at Glasgow many years ago he was woeful and never got any better for a good few years He really struggled then he just clicked a few years ago and look at him now nobody would believe you 2 years ago if you said he would be British riders champion speedway is a sport that fxxks your head and once you get it into your head that you can beat anybody you will then go from strength to strength so I would never right anybody off these days

Seems odd to think that he would be 109 years old now....yet still remembered with reverence

Was there a little falling out with Danyon after being released, ???? also the two you named have also got quite alot wrong in there tenor so far.But i wish the Brummies well going back to Jack if he does not have the NL to fall back on and especially if he is at number 6 it is going to be a tough season.Even with youngsters making the reserves look weaker for other sides there are some real talent out there (i.e.) Palin,Thompson (2) Flint, Bickley, Bailey.Connor Mountain a fine little rider a good example was hindered by not getting extra ride's elsewhere saying that he still did very well.

Who do you think you are? Doctor Who? It is still 2019! .................. later

Championship team, premiership prices.

Other 15 year olds for 2020 include Mickie Simpson, Alex Goldsborough, Archie Freeman, Gregor Millar all of a standard for a proper development league were more competitive track time would benefit them all. 2021 will be a fairly sparse year with only a few present riders turning 15 with the outstanding talent being Sam Mcgurk 2019 was an exceptional year for the number of young riders coming through and the numbers probably won’t be matched until 2022 as there’s a good crop of 12 year old riders who will turn 15 then so let’s hope we have a development league for them to ride in .

Tbf i think many speedway fans plan thier annual leave around speedway fixtures. I have done for years.

Thanks Dave Need to decide when I go on holiday... And yes, some people might think I'm sad for arranging my holidays around who the Diamonds are against... But they're my team and I support them, don't want to miss a meeting, although that happens far too often Plenty of football fans are like that, but as soon as a speedway fan is, they're shot down and called sad... No wonder we're dying, we're all pessimistic and miserable

Oh look you disagree so you retaliate by being offensive . Just accept people have different views and opinions .