John Leslie

Oh, so the Fast Track Draft System doesn't save money, and the Fast Track Draft System does save money. Yep, that makes sense.... :drink: p.s. Just out of interest, does the Fast Track Draft System save money?

That was a quick change of mind!

They'll probably tell us who gets drafted to which club as it happens, but won't tell us which riders are on which list, or the actual rules for the draft. Remember last year? They used twitter to tell us which riders had gone to which club, but never explained why King's Lynn were seemingly able to protect 2 assets or why the picks seemed to be being made in a different order to what we were told it would be.

It doesn't.

I'm sure I read somewhere that MPs from the group had been advising about the work permit issues? Also as there seem to be 3 Coventry MPs in the group, i would hope that they would be working with the Coventry fans to save Coventry stadium and help block any planning permission applications.

Higher! Higher!

How many riders are going to be in this "Category 1"? If there's only 8 riders, then the team who pick last will be left with "like it of lump it" even if there's a category 2 rider they'd prefer. If there's more than 8 riders in Category 1, then some riders who agreed to the draft will be frozen out. Surely it's better to just have one long list like last year?

Actually Steve Worrall started a year before Richie Worrall!

It's all relative. When you're terminally confused and 250 years old you think the Beverley Sisters were formed a short space of time ago.

"I've got a good mind to go out and join a club and beat him over the head with it"

You're so right. Another annoying thing about farcebook is this teenies "quantity over quality" thing. On the rare occasions I log into farcebook I spend the first 10 minutes unjoining myself from silly groups like this where other people have been able to add me to groups against my will.

How very altruistic of them.

Bless him. It seems he actually thinks that I want to be bugged by Farcebook's 25 gazillion invites to candy crushing farmers cafe, youtube videos of skateboarding cats, and potential Nigerian brides with facebook viruses.

Where this forum falls down is that when I log on here I don't get 25 gazillion invites to play Candy crushing farmers cafe, a pageful of youtube cat videos or halfwits falling off skateboards, or love letters from Nigerians with dodgy facebook viruses. All i can find on BSF is Speedway discussion.

But it's only at a Friday track that a knock or machine problems are less than 24 hours before a Rye House home match. If he has a problem at a Monday track he has 5 days to get himself sorted or for Uncle Len to get a replacement. If he has a problem at a Friday track Uncle Len has less than 24 hours to sort things.

Pretty sure NL clubs pay their riders in full for away matches. There are no exchange rates like in the EL and PL.

Story I heard was that Garrity (and/or Rye House) weren't keen on him riding for a Friday track the day before Rye House matches in case he gets a knock or machinery problems. They'd prefer he rides for Rye on Saturday and then does his EL afterwards on a Monday. Although Wolverhampton wasn't the track I heard mentioned.

So when it says "from" it doesn't mean "from" at all.... It just means "These are the riders, but in the wrong order because we're sad cases ike that"?

Why does the lineup say "From" but then only list the actual 7 riders? "From" means a squad is being named, and the actual starting line-up with be chosen "from" those squad members. This applies in football not speedway - we don't have squads to pick from. I'm told from facebook that Ben Morley is guesting at No.1 for Cradley. So the line-ups actually are Lambert (guest for O Greenwood), Priest, Nielsen, D Greenwood, Sarjeant, Terry-Daley, Knuckey Morley (guest for Worrall), Greaves, Clegg, Perry, Starke, Williamson, Phillips.

I'd say it did work out. At the end of 1995 Glasgow closed down (like Birmingham) and Edinburgh lost the use of their stadium (like Cradley), so in 1996 a joint "Scottish Monarchs" team ran at Shawfield. By 1997 Edinburgh had a new base at Armadale and a Glasgow team was revived at Shawfield, so the joint venture helped keep both clubs alive.

In view of recent developments with Wolverhampton, I wonder if Tony Mole is just declaring himself out of running a Birmingham team in order to clear the way for a "Cradley and Birmingham" team? If I were a promoter looking to go into Birmingham, this is what I would do. To reopen a Birmingham team with a limited Birmingham crowd-base would be a gamble. But if there was some way to harness the Birmingham fan-base and the Cradley fan-base, then you've got something looking far more like a viable business plan. I know there's no love lost between Birmingham fans and Cradley fans, but now that Mole has pulled out of reviving Birmingham we've got a Cradley team and fan-base with nowhere to ride, Birmingham fans with no team, and an available stadium....surely however much the fans dislike each other, pulling all these items together into a viable club must be the best option?

He has a lower thingy-whats-it? Mine are both at roughly the same height.

Don't know why people think it will be close. It will be a walk in the park for the Hole Pirates.

Borrow Darcy Ward. Apparently he's often like a newt.

Melbourne is 11 hours ahead of GMT.