Daniel Smith

I didn't know that so thanks. In a roundabout way he's admitting Coventry's dead & buried? Not an ideal way to confirm it

With you on that & that's why I think King's Lynn are taking their time over the No7 position. Whoever it is will have done their job if they can maintain or add ½ a point on their average. Think it will be the same for the majority of the teams that if they wish to change a No7 rider they'll end up having to replace 2 riders to do that.

Correct, but at the same time you could have signed Sedgmen, finished up at reserve & Bellego ended up as heatleader elsewhere & knock you out the Play-Off's. Far to many if's & but's to worry about. Last seasons Wolves team is a good example of that, at the start of the season not many predicted them to make the Play-Off let alone win the League.

I don't disagree with most of that, except the knowledge of the sport part as a requirement. Someone who's never been very easily pick up the basics i.e. 7 per team, 4 riders per heat, 15 heats etc etc. Would the man in the middle hold a crowd at King's Lynn v Belle Vue and starts blabbering on about Glasgow's history? Or standing there reciting the rule book etc? For me, what's important is the man in the middle does basic research on a meeting by meeting basis, talk to & about the both teams current riders rather than what that team did in 1973. If what happened in 1973 with King's Lynn or the away side is important, well I couldn't tell you but a couple of taps into Google and you'd believe I have a vast knowledge. Knowledge is unimportant, research is important, they're not the same thing.

Absolutely, a riders form in Australia should be taken with a pinch of salt. Bellego does deserve a chance to prove himself before he gets battered. He may just end up being the Robins rider of the year, 2nd Heatleader or No7. Nobody knows.

That just about covers it. There just isn't no right or wrong way to answer this question. Take as an example home riders from each track, i.e. King's Lynn - Lakeside, just because one track is big & the other is small not all the home riders run identical set-up's. There's just to many differences from rider to rider

That is an excellent piece Ash and sure to be fully appreciated by everybody, thank you for that Just a couple of questions regarding your service costs as highlighted in your post. The BSPA GTR's are open to all riders to purchase but really their market is to try and entice the riders that don't earn the high end bucks because of it's (supposed) longevity before service. Are your engines tuned / serviced / priced differently compared to the standard of the rider? Would the engines of a National League rider run longer than a rider chasing the special faster parts etc? Or regardless of service / parts costs the longevity of the GM is the same?

See what you did there, take a small snippet of my post to suit your argument. Do you need knowledge of the sport to be a Speedway presenter? NO If you'd copied my whole post you would have seen "A good modern sense of humour is also a requirement and being able to hold a crowd." The guy that Buster brought in as a replacement failed on those points rather than a lack of knowledge. He just got on everybody's t!ts with his shouting & every week dragged the same 2 supporters on the track for score predictions. I don't think there's one presenter out tnere who doesn't get riders names wrong. Speedway experts on the TV fluff that up quite regularly.

I don't think knowledge of the sport is all that important at all. Knowledge about the here & now of King's Lynn's current set up is all that's required. A good modern sense of humour is also a requirement and being able to hold a crowd. Thing is, as good as micman was half the time he couldn't be heard because of the tractors & or failing sound system. personally it's something I'd love to have a go at myself but I think I'd just panic & freeze standing out there in the middle

I need to start thinking of how I can get some of that money for nothing. In fact, a 5th of that money would have been better spend on the Brandon Stadium than a nothing project that has no long term benefit at all. Thankfully the government have put a stop to it due to the outcry.

Which one? Official or unofficial, fans group etc?

Your views are very important Gordon. You and your consortium may have been the best option but others see different. When the others get put in place and if Belle Vue go right up the s#!+er people will ask "why wasn't someone like Pairman who understands how to work within this sport not given a shot?". Speedway is different from many other sports in that the fans have an interest in every other team. Mainly because it's a minority sport and we all feel connected in some way. A failing at any club has such a huge knock on affect everywhere else.

I think Robert Lambert should be "The Ruthless Binman". The rubbish is always out front first but he's quick to collect them all up

Just so you're aware, Manchester City Council are still the owners of Manchester City FC's Etihad Stadium I believe but if not they were up to 2013. So they should know a thing or two about running stadiums and Belle Vue may be a good overflow alternative to any Manchester City FC business.

And once again because it's Steve Shovlar people go mad. He's done something honest in not knowing his left from right and actually went out of his way to check out the stadium for himself. All he'd done is said what he'd seen. The only people not adding to the thread are the posters reacting wrongly (yet again) to Shovlar's visual update.

Nang bruv Datz sick blud foshizzle

Buster has already answered that question. At the AGM Rob Lyon and Buster wanted the double points scrapped for the Tactical Substitute but wasn't agreed by the majority of promoters.

7 hours a week is more than plenty to have an academy running. Today's Speedway is about more than just track time. Like the Poultec training there's engineering & maintenance, rules & regulations, health & safety, nutrition & fitness. 2 hours track time 3x per week Plus the Aces & Colts meetings will take up 1 day every week, occasionally 2

To right that makes no sense. Can only imagine what Brandon could have been like if Sandhu hadn't sold up and spent the £2.8m on the existing stadium Just had a thought, some seem to think Sandhu is involved with Brandon Estates. Is it possible that part of the Brandon agreement of sale is Sandhu gets a percentage from the properties sold if planning permission is ever granted? £2.2m seems cheap for the size of the land available?

Feel for all people involved with Coventry Speedway and those fans that will be lost to the sport forever.

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Should have called it the Ford thread to get it going, or state the opinion that Wolves, Coventry, Poole, Swindon will not make the Play-Offs. Those teams cover the worst culprits

No, he'll have an average of 4.26

The times posted are pretty irrelevant as an individual number, but looking over the meetings Bailey was faster than pretty much any visiting rider in each meeting and as a No'1 double figured most meetings. 9.58 home average is not to be sniffed at and from what I can see 61.05 was his quickest time.

People are being a little to sensitive. People react more to the Poster than the post written and this can be said with regards to Shovlar's original post. Nothing wrong with what he'd posted. People need to learn how to breath, walk away, re-read before hitting the Reply - Post buttons