John Leslie

You should try explaining it to yourself. Or at least re-read my posting. Where did I say that every sponsorship was highly successful in increasing sales? No...I didn't. I pointed out that the aim of raising a brand's profile by way of sponsorship was to increase sales. This was in response to your previous comment claiming that sposorship wasn't aimed at increasing sales... which, as i pointed out, made no sense whatsoever.

You do realise that sentence makes absolutely no sense whatsoever. Why do you think they want their brand exposed to a large number of people if not to increase sales?

We cant be far off the "Storm Marketing is KKS" post.

Definitely not Adam Rickett. It was someone with an Eastenders connection. Think Gary Havelock was involved. Maybe Sean Maguire who was in Grange Hill and went on to Eastenders?

I think most club websites these days are perfectly adequate, and considering they're usually administered by a volunteer at little or no cost they're pretty good. However that new Kent Kings one is an absolute shocker!

Presumably the http://www.kentkings.co.uk/ website gives away the new team nickname !

If the lad has a British parent I don't see any problem at all in him seeking out a NL team place. It's only the same as the likes of Nick Morris etc, who quite rightly were able to ride NL. In fact a half-Dutch/half English rider could be considered a better option than a half-Aussie/half English rider, because if he became any good (admittedly unlikely) then he would more likely choose to ride for Britain than the practically non-existent Dutch World Cup squad. What I would totally object to though is a Dutchman coming over on a 2-week adventure holiday and riding in our AJL, MDL or the Northern youth thing. The junior youth development leagues should be for British riders only. It would be absolutely disgraceful if some foreign-based half-British rider came over here for a two week holiday, and a young local Brit was booted out of his Youth league place to allow the foreigner to play at speedway during his 2 week holiday before disappearing back to his foreign home. After the 2 week holiday is over and the foreigner was back home, some British kid would be expected to fill the place. A british kid who should have had the team spot in the first place.

I see Coventry are up to their old tricks again, stealing someone else's copyright identity just as they did when they replaced the famous fighting bee with the stolen comedy hornet. http://www.district112foundation.org/Images/StormTransparent.gif http://www.coventrybees.co/images/newspost_images2/coventry_storm.jpg

I'm surprised the catholic church hasn't objected to the Plymouth nickname too. Maybe a change to the Plymouth Pontifs would be wise? On the subject of the last two signings, you would have a good one IF you landed Gino. I have contacts in US speedway, and I have no doubts whatsoever that Gino has the talent and enthusiasm to do a job in PL. The only thing I would question is whether he could get good enough equipment and a suitable back-up team together in the short space of 3 months. I like the look of the Plymouth team so far, and if the last two signings are good, I can see them more in the top half of the table than the bottom

Tyler Govier signs for Buxton

Kent Bishops? What team is going to admit to wanting to go down to Kent to bash the Bishops?

17.6.4 No Team changes will be allowed after 12th September with the effective date being 15th September, except for Riders returning to the Team after injury.

I would imagine rider No.17 is actually David Holt the Belle Vue rider, and not Dan Holt the referee!!

Considering that he's doing well enough in PL, I'm surprised that Joe Haines is willing to put the extra strain of NL racing on his equipment for the £10 a point that he is getting paid.

you really are posting some nonsense. Crump had to win heat 20 to have a chance of winning the title. He almost hit a back wheel on the second corner, and then gave everything to catch Iversen, even though it was almost certainly going to be impossible task to overhaul Iversen plus one more.....you couldn't see that? You sound like you've never been to a Speedway meeting.

How ridiculous indeed. You contradicted yourself in one line. First you say of course Crump was racing, then you say he wasn't. Pedersen was racing for the same place that Crump was. As a purist I don't like the Joker. But whilst the joker does exist and everyone knows the rules. A tactical joker requires use of tactics and both riders knew what the required tactics were. Crump thought by not racing Pedersen, he had the tactical advantage. Pedersen mugged him.

Don't you be silly. You said Pedersen should be excluded for not racing. But it was Crump who wasn't racing for 4 laps, he was just sitting behind Pedersen, and got mugged on the last corner when Pedersen also decided not to race flat out either. So if we're excluding riders for not racing Crump would have to be excluded too

In that case Crump should also be excluded, because he was clearly on instructions to sit in behind Pedersen, just as Pedersen was on instructions to finish behind Crump

Makes you wonder why he doesn't make the 2nd bike his 1st bike..... then again you don't really want the machine examiner getting too close to it before the meeting...

Saturday's meeting was good, but last night was the best meeting I've seen in a long time. The GB boys seemed really up for it and couldn't have given any more. Australia similarly were giving it everything. There was even good racing from Ales Dryml and the Czechs and Smolinski. Full credit to King's Lynn for a terrific meeting. Anyone who thinks another track could provide a better meeting than that is talking nonsense. Peterborough is good, Poole is average, but King's Lynn is the best. Somerset can rival Lynn for racing, but doesn't have the capacity or facilities. Lets hope the new Belle Vue (based on old Hyde Road and some top Polish tracks) can give us something to match King's Lynn for the 2013 final. Personally, rather than the race-off and final be held at the same track, I'd like to see the race-off at King's Lynn before the big final at Belle Vue. Only downsides to last night were the abysmal referee and the silly joker rule. So onto the race-off. Sadly I don't see GB doing it against Denmark and Poland at Mallila, but if they show the same determination as last night, who knows.

It means they're not eligible to guest in the PL as a 3.00 NL rider.

Why was it called off? Seems a bit silly to close a club mid-meeting. If all the riders had travelled to be there surely it would make sense to let them ride and close the club the next day, rather than disappoint riders who may have travelled a long way to ride.

I think this is a rather silly and negative thread. Of course Robert will be allowed to ride in the NL once he turns 15. He will be eligible to ride in PL once he turns 16 regardless of whether he's British, British on a German licence, A German on a British licence, or whatever. It's only relatively recently that 15 year olds have been allowed to race in a league, but waiting until 16 for competitive racing did Peter Craven, Peter Collins, Malcolm Simmons, Michael Lee, Chris Morton, Gary Havelock, Mark Loram, etc etc no harm. Maybe the Germans are happy to let 14 year old boys race against 30 year old men, but imagine the Health & Safety outcry if there was a serious injury caused in a crash between a fully grown man and a 14 year old boy who is not yet fully physically developed.

I went to Marco Pierre White's London Steakhouse last weekend. Whilst his steak was very tasty, I was disappointed that he wasn't providing any Speedway racing for me to watch between courses. Obviously I didn't raise this issue face-to-face with Marco at the time, I waited a few days until I was a safe distance of around 100 miles away and wrote on his website. Marco replied saying that his main trade was in fine dining and he didn't really feel the need to provide Speedway as there were numerous Speedway promoters in the country already doing this. He had the cheek to suggest that if i used my common sense I could possibly go and watch a speedway match and find a local eatery either before or after the match. I've written back on his website and told him that this isn't good enough as I can get both Speedway and fine dining at Monmore Green stadium, and I won't be returning to Marco Pierre White's until he brings things up to Wolverhampton standards.

Have the NL rules changed this year regarding guests? I know up to last year it was guests only for a missing No.1 How have Stoke been allowed to use a guest for a missing lower order rider?