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There you go again…..how in God’s name do you know he’d prefer the Workington track? He’s been a master at Armadale for years. You just open your mouth and let it flow, don’t you?

How about waiting until the actual 1-7 is announced before making predictions on the coming 2024 season?

Craig Cook would make an ideal number one for Workington. He is local, a solid rider, certainly at Championship level, and would certainly prefer the Workington track to the tight turns of Edinburgh. Good luck to him if he chooses to continue his career in the sport.

If it's correct It's a 38 point team, the league is achieving exactly what they want by diluting the championship down. The window on Poland has been all but closed. I know by responding to your nonsense it'll be classed as "biting" but the reality is that every team in this league is going to be far weaker for 2024.

If Ace could take the bulk Lee needs to lose, the two would both be set fair.

Quite a lot of riders have good sponsors large and small all add up, these are used to cover machinery costs, travel money is paid by the promotion home and away, so points money is the riders pay, if you are the better rider scoring 8 - 10 points they could have a pay packet well of over £1000 a meeting, twice a week 25 meetings is 25k or more in just over 6 months, I have to work 40 hours a week 52 weeks a year for that figure. Yes the young riders have to start at the bottom on less money, but how many are full time speedway riders ?? Not having a go at the riders, it's a dangerous sport but they have to be reasonable when talking to clubs, just because this is in the comets section it applies to all speedway clubs. Thoughts anyone ?

Shovlar standing in judgment of Glasgow, good job some people don't judge him by his s.h.p.o or he would have no friends. Who would want him as a mate.

Well I do normally get to be aware of signings soon after they happen. But in confidence means that I certainly wouldn’t post what I hear/know on this forum. If I did, I certainly wouldn’t be told anything. And I would assume the same goes for others on here from other clubs.

No its not , if this does happen to be the 2024 side it looks like having an all British team makes it easier to arrange and rearrange fixtures without having to worry about losing riders to any fixtures abroad same as what has happened in the past .

I’m beginning to think you are not a wind up merchant after all and that you actually BELIEVE the absolute rubbish you spout. Dearie me!

Christ no, don't want that lot with us again.

Expert on Glasgow finances now.What next.!!!

A little help from Dan engine wise will get him up to speed

I don't think they are. Consider Ellis's last 2 years' form around the NSS. League & Play offs. 0,3,1,2 =6 0.1',0,1 =2+1 2,2,0,3,1 =8 0,0,0,2 =2 0,2,2,1',0,1' = 6+2 NSS AVERAGE = 4.17

Stefan Kwoczala was Polish champion in 1959 and seventh in the World Final the following year. He rode for Leicester that year but was only allowed one season of racing in Britain and returned to ride in the Polish domestic league in 1961. Sadly, he suffered serious head injuries in a track crash in May of that year which effectively ended his career. Who knows what he might otherwise have achieved.

As i say parody of a know it all.

So you’re not as much in the know as you’ve always made out then……….just a blabber mouth full of self importance?

He is not a wind up merchant he is a parody of a wind up merchant. And not even a good parody.

That's it we should all take our opinion from Steve shovlar . Let's hope rumour you're off to "save the prem" are true

The latest rumour. And just a rumour may I add. Is that Poole are moving up

Thankfully for us he knows absolutely nothing and I mean nothing.

It’s probably down to finances. Glasgow 2023 cost an absolute fortune and with not very large crowds probably cost Faccena a small fortune. Bringing in Tarasenko would have cost an arm and a leg and perhaps now Faccena has won a title he is going to cut his cloth to fit the clubs income. That 2024 team would cost way less than 2023.

Ace looking to get a 5 are u serious ... I'll have some of what ur smoking

Riders can "demand" what they want, but the promoters don't have to pay it, if they feel that the "demand" is excessive.

How many years do you need to get Starkey on good machinery.

Tbh, I don't think that's relevant. Fans need to decide if they think the price is value for money. If they don't think it is & stop attending, it won't matter if the promotion knows more than the fans i.e how much it costs to put meetings on. I'll use Justin Sedgmen as an example, I've seen interviews, where he explains how expensive Speedway is, with tuning, travel expenses etc as a reason for riders deserving more money. But that's not how a business works - a promotion can only pay out, what comes in (unless they are willing to lose money). If clubs only get 500 attending matches, the riders wages should be based on this income (plus sponsorship), riders can't just demand more money to pay for the very best equipment!

Wish Craig all the best wherever he goes.

And Chris Harris (E/F)?

Ridiculous over 5 minutes. Both lots of fans were chanting F VAR! The linesman got it spot on, then VAR drew lines skew whiff to make it look like Rodriguez was onside!

If only we had the Internet back then...

Don't Lee and Ace get a discount?

The Speedy Star used to have a column penned by Angus Kix, who was actually Eric Linden. Is it some reference to this?

He certainly looked a fine prospect. In the closing weeks of the 1960 season his UK scores in consecutive meetings (four at Leicester, four away) were 14 (from 5 rides), 15 (5), 14 (5), 14 (5), 14+1 (6), 13+2 (6), 15 (5), 15 (5). CMA 10.86.

Great idea.

You always come across as knowing everything about Poole (well, everything about everything really) so you should know if it’s true or not……..surely?

Haha they're your problem now mate lol

Just have to have business acumen. Facenna is a successful businessman and successful businessmen don’t throw good money after bad. Like any businessman he will cut his cloth to the relative income of the club. Now he has won his title it’s clear that is happening, if the muted team is the actual team. Harris and Worrall are British based and affordable. Flint, Starke won’t be on big wages. Complin, Pearson and Pijper will be on the usual rates for reserves. No paying for flights as all UK based. No big signing on fees, no paying for hotels/accomodation. Pretty much a shoestring side, and will be pretty difficult to find one put together that will be as cheap to finance. This isn’t a dig at Glasgow at all. Some other teams might also be this weak.

At least they have the money to lose.Unlike Workington who won everything at great expense to the riders and everybody else they owed money too when they went down the tubes.

What do you mean in relation to Poole threw the title away?. In general the context of this regards to the owners investing in the club is not entirely true, they have invested a lot in the community which falls under the banner of the club. They are local business men and very successful and always said it wasn’t just the Speedway club but the community they wanted to give something back to. Bit misleading in the context you quote.

Watching him trying to get round Oxford would be good for a laugh if nothing else. If you pay him per point he'll be pretty cheap

This 100% Blaming the riders for asking for too much and then being paid it, is like blaming McDonald's for why you are fat

Never said that,what you smoking.!!

Myself and the misses both said early June/July ish that he was scoring himself out of a ride for 2024, he's gone and done a Kemp, (2023) his high average was built riding at 6 and only dropped slightly at 2. With regards to the quote in the paper, I'm calling that a little bit of nonsense. With team building reduced to 38 your number 3 is going to be around a 6 average is Anders at heat leader level yet? Bet he's glad all those times that Richie Lawson let him pass when they were on a 5-1, 3-3 during league meetings cause its just cost him his job.

Spot on Cheese .. The thing that makes me laugh or cry .. Who has ever heard of someone putting you out of business and making your asset virtually worthless but then setting up a company the next day with the same people . its just insane . Swindon Fans don't want Osboune or Russell running the club or the ones looking or not looking in there case for a new site . Russell needs the Licence taken off him with immediate effect .

No wonder him and Kemp put there eggs in the polish u24 basket nobody wanted either of them until injuries occurred they both improve there average and could perhaps be unemployable crazy really.

Don’t you think his dad has tried this ? It’s not like a Vauxhall Astra car you know ! It’s a very high spec Mercedes AB race van with a high security locking system to stop people breaking in. Maybe give him a call if you think it’s easy ? They are speaking directly to Mercedes and locksmith’s to solve the issue. They are having the whole electronic key system replaced today at a considerable expense so hopefully they will be able to race at the weekend. The only other option is to cut the doors off. I don’t know why people like yourself like having little digs at a 16 year old lad ? When you obviously don’t know what extremes they are going to, to get it fixed I just wish people like you would speak to his dad (very nice guy) instead of putting crap on here you know nothing about.

I think it would be fair to say that the riders have far too much influence.

I'm thinking he would have been okay with Multiple 'thread' tributes?

Yet another Bell En*

No, Monarchs have seniority over everyone else for Friday nights, and to be correct its North Lincolnshire, with Lincolnshire being an entirely different county and Boston Barracudas long gone.