BWitcher

Have you ever played the board game Speedway Scene 2? It's what Flying Shale was based on. Each rider is graded from A+ down to N I think from memory. It was a simple die roll system, where you would roll 2 dice and check the chart of your riders grade to see the result.. The higher the grade of rider, the more spaces they would advance.. some of the numbers would result in some form of problem being encountered such as a fall, engine failure etc. You could use a similar system, but then tailor it a little further per rider, making some better gaters, some more able to overtake on the inside/outside etc... then add a formula in to adjust that result dependant upon the particular track etc. Somewhere back at home I've actually got a very developed system doing just that that accounted for riders ability, the staging track, weather conditions etc that could be quite easily adapted into a computer game.. When I was about 13/14 I would spend hours working on it to get it as realistic as possible! I know a small (very small now) amount of programming and have produced a very very basic simulation of a race using some of those formulas but that's it. I don't have a clue how to take it further and incorporate all the other features of a management game.

What on earth are you talking about? That venue for the 'Chilli Bowl' is the Tulsa Expo Center. It's not even a stadium, but an exhibition hall in which they put up some temporary stands. Will hold less than 10,000. Yet you are seriously suggesting it is a better venue than Cardiff??? It would be like us staging the British GP at the NEC... not the arena at the NEC, but one of the exhibition halls.

Which of course opens up the question.. why do they support him, what's in it for them? Things get a lot murkier then... There was an outcry... the outcry was that the BSPA had taken the cheap option, instead of confronting and punishing Poole for their cheating, they chose that option as a 'way' of punishing them but without punishing them. They almost grew some balls that year... Far from it. These type of events only serve to alienate a few more fans each time.

Sun is shining nicely thankyou. Following Monday night and Pooles demolition of Wolves I actually found myself in a position I haven't been in for quite some time. I was very impressed by Poole, their commitment, team riding, it was a first class performance and for once there was nothing untoward about it all. I had nothing but praise for Poole. Only for them to go and ruin it all once again!

Keep telling yourself that. The state of the sport tells a very different story. It's already been proven, it's happened. It is FACT. It doesn't matter what tracks you go to, whose arse you lick, who your mates are, if you condone the constant breaking and changing of rules you are no fan of the sport as a whole.

Surely any rule change should result in an amendment to the rules and regulations listed on the SCB website, which as far as I can see hasn't happened. All we have is some wording added at the bottom of the greensheets. So have the SCB even been involved in this so called 'rule change'? Wrong, the only thing to comment on is why rules are being changed three quarters of the way through a season. And that pretty much sums it up. You are no speedway fan, simply a glory hunting supporter who is only concerned if his team wins, regardless of how they go about doing it. It doesn't concern you that fans are abandoning the sport in their droves. It doesn't concern you that teams are going out of business. It doesn't concern you that despite cost cutting every year clubs are losing money as long as Poole are winning. I wonder if it will concern you when riders like Ward will no longer be plying their trade in this country as there aren't any teams left for Poole to race against? Maybe they'll just become part of the Premier League, or one bigger league, and then proceed to alienate another fan base and begin the whole process again.

Anybody got a list of the NL averages for this season? Not Green Sheet, but actual in season averages?

We're forgetting the format is so much different too now. Previously, make poor starts and it would be pretty easy to pick off one or two of your opponents in a number of your races before you'd even hit turn 3. Now, you don't race reserves and not often the second strings. Poor start can leave you 4th in a race with 3 other heat leaders in... that has a big effect.

He's been having bike issues all season long it seems and can't seem to get it right. I'm not too concerned. A winter off I'm confident he would come back refreshed and be at least a 7.5 rider next year.

I did find it amusing when Pearson eulogised about a 'host' of Birmingham fans, then the camera cut to them and there were about 8.

Being not interested you'd just cruise along at the back, not be involved in wheel to wheel races.

How many more times.... That is for guests. It has nothing at all to do with a redeclaration of the team.

He isn't, he is higher. No doubt teams will just roll over and accept it again though.

Cook!! He's got no history of rolling over for Poole has he!

Are you allowed to add a % onto the average of a rider when you are replacing them like you can do when booking a guest? It's not a question of 'why' it should be different. It IS different.

Blimey, how quickly folk turn after one bad meeting from PK.

When guesting. Feel free to show us the rule regarding redeclaring your fast track rider.

Quite the opposite actually. He was lured into another one of his inane comments. If he was speculating that Poole may be looking at cheating (but not actually doing it) then that's fishing. He isn't. The team he is manager of has cheated. Simple.

To quote Neil Middleditch who has posted on social media regarding this situation.. "Never let a rule get in the way of building a good team". There we have it. The bloke has no regard for rules and doesn't even put up a defence.

Clarified where? There are a set of rules that are documented and clear. So it's now acceptable to make up new ones as the season progressed? Very convenient that.

No, he was sick against Belle Vue. He didn't ride in the next meeting. Then last night he wasn't gating, battled hard and had some bad luck. Of course he should be doing better, but lack of effort last night wasn't the reason for is score.

My thoughts too, considering recent results I thought it would be some patchy terraces, it looked pretty full all the way to the right hand side (as we look from the tv) which is rare these days.

Nor would he be scoring double figures now if the format hadn't changed!

I'm talking about this meeting only. Of course he has under performed over the season in the UK, but in last nights meeting he was unlucky.

Now you're changing the subject completely. You were talking about last nights meeting.