4thbender

Adam a decent rider? ... he's the British champ!

There are no rules that I know of which might prevent Sheffield from signing up the six riders named, plus a seventh rider whose average takes the total team averages up to whatever points limit is agreed. Perhaps some of the mathematicians on this forum might do the sums to tell us who that seventh rider might be.

How’s this for a principle: if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. The present riders (with a single exception) served us well in 2021. Why not keep that team together? There is only one rider who consistently let us down who needs to be replaced. The other six I would be very pleased to see retained. Remember – Sheffield is the only team that could go the eventual champions and beat them by 12 points. TB scored 7 + 1 on that occasion; replace him with a rider that can do that on a regular basis and we’d have a team that could threaten all comers. My team would therefore be: Jack Holder Adam Ellis AN Other Josh Pickering Kyle Howarth Stefan Nielsen Danyon Hume

Let's face it, there's only one rider we need to lose, and if we can replace him with a genuine seven-pointer we'll be a winning team again.

Ten points was exactly the same margin that Peterborough managed to beat us by at Owlerton a few weeks back.... but four days later we beat them by 12 on their own turf. It ain't over till the fat lady sings.

Tend to agree. However doing away with play-offs would leave a big black hole, with the season finishing for most teams in August. How about introducing an end-of-season trophy competition with all teams taking part on a knock-out basis for a big sponsored trophy (e.g. the Eurosport National Speedway Trophy)? All six teams go into hat to decide their opponents in the first round and race off home and away. The three winners then go into a pool and race off against each other home and away to decide the winner. I reckon this beats the play-off charade, whereby the team finishing fourth out of six can end up being crowned league champs. What's more, I can't see any reason why Eurosport wouldn't be willing sponsors. Other team sports seem to exist quite well with side-by-side league and cup competitions, why not speedway?

This conspiracy theory is on the same scale as COVID being caused by Chinese people eating bats. The fact is, however the track is prepared, both teams have to race on it. The team that adapts best to the surface (i.e. Sheffield) has the best chance of victory. If the Peterborough plan for becoming champions involves "sabotaging" the track, (your word, not mine), or getting opponents to "throw" meetings (your words, not mine), then you don't deserve to be there.

Sorry to burst your balloon. You'll be choosing Sheffield in the semi-finals will you?

In heat 8 Batchelor was well-placed after the first two corners but appeared to ease up on the third bend to let Pedersen through and then allowed Andersen all the space on the fourth to follow his partner for a 5 - 1.It just strikes me Batchelor doesn't have a fight in him; he just invites opponents to pass him. Two points from a rider who started the season as the league's no.1 is beyond pathetic. He looks like a man who's given up.

Batchelor scores 16 for Kent against the Brummies, including wins against Chris Harris in heats 13 and 15 - the same rider who trampled all over him in the Peterborough home defeat. Does this mark a resurgence in Batchelor's form, or is he just taking the pi55 in Sheffield colours?

Oh no, no! Not BB! Anyone but him! Kyle Howarth and BB in the same team would be a tinderbox.

Predictably, Peterborough were the best team on the night and duly bagged the points. From a Tigers perspective, we could all see this coming due to only half the team performing. I'll miss the next home match due to holidays, so won't see any more speedway for five weeks. I hope by that time significant team changes will have been made or we can say goodbye to any hope of a top four place.

Permanent changes absolutely necessary (starting with a reliable no.1), but the cupboard of able replacements looks pretty bare.

Announcement of team for this Thursday's match is later than usual. I wonder if changes are afoot.

Paid for my ticket online last Friday - still waiting for my ticket to arrive. Have I been conned?

I have lost my brother, but it doesn't change my view one iota that the criminals who have imposed this curse upon us need to face the courts. But it won't happen until their evil is exposed and, sadly, the mask-wearing, jab-receiving supporters of lockdown are the one who will prevent that from happening.

I've never doubted the existence of some sort of virus that makes people ill to some degree. However I have always challenged suggestions that this is a pandemic, or that it has any greater overall impact than regular flu. On 29 September 2020, the worldwide coronavirus death toll topped one million, but the estimates of the worldwide death toll of Spanish flu range between 17 and 50 million. Either way, that was a REAL pandemic. The World Health Organisation estimates that between 290,000 and 650,000 people die worldwide every year from influenza-related causes, but numbers "spike" periodically when we have a bad flu year. A million deaths worldwide would certainly place Covid in that category, but not even a drop in the ocean in real pandemic terms. If you were to ask me, I can tell you chapter and verse on where and how Covid originated (and it wasn't Wuhan, or even China!) and the evidence is overwhelming that it was a deliberate strategy by agencies acting on behalf of "Big-pharma" to create a worldwide "hoax pandemic" to meet their nefarious goals.

I've had it - and survived (without hospitalisation).

Yes, absolutely - it's global (which makes it all the more sinister). But nevertheless, the government has quietly extended coronavirus lockdown laws, without recourse to any parliamentary debate (i.e. it's illegal), to give local councils the power to close pubs, restaurants, shops and public spaces until July 17. Prime Minister Boris Johnson is reported as saying the government could not consider easing lockdown restrictions with infection rates at their current high levels, and until it is confident the vaccination programme is working. Does anyone actually believe this will be the last "extension"? Bet you believe in Father Christmas and the Tooth Fairy too. Check it out for yourself: https://bit.ly/3p8zwwC

My post was placed in response to Moranboys query as to whether there is a realistic chance of seeing racing again this year, so it is only polite to tell him what I know. As to my submission being an "idiotic conspiracy theory," the only thing I got wrong was the timeframe. I said that the new and deadlier virus would be announced in March, but that was before I'd read yesterday's newspaper, which contains the headline "UK's mutant strain is 40% more deadly." In a linked article on the same page headed "...And SA variant may make jab 50% less effective," the article warns "allowing the variant first detected in South Africa to become the dominant strain could send the country back to square one." (Daily Mail, Jan 23rd, page 12) They're preparing us for a further year-long lockdown, just as I predicted. This puppet Prime Minister and his psychopathic henchmen are circumventing parliamentary democracy to systematically remove our freedoms. Placing 65 million people under house-arrest for 10 months, implementing a 3-tier system, giving police obscene powers to enter your home without a warrant and beat peaceful protesters with batons, forcing us all to wear masks to dehumanize the population, forcing the closure of hundreds of thousands of businesses with the permanent loss of millions of jobs, instructing GPs to refuse care and medication to tens of thousands of care-home residents (causing 18,000 avoidable deaths), authorising hospitals to abandon the treatment of millions of seriously ill patients: ALL MEASURES TAKEN WITHOUT A SINGLE VOTE IN PARLIAMENT! This is not democracy, it's DICTATORSHIP.... and it's aided and abetted by idiots who want to dismiss it all as a "conspiracy theory." You should tell that to the thousands of business owners that have invested their toil and money to build businesses over decades to see them shut down in a stroke of Matt Hancock's pen... or the millions of people who have seen their jobs and careers destroyed, never to return... or the millions of young people who have seen their education flushed down the pan. The truth deniers who want to dismiss real events as a "conspiracy theory" are a disgrace and are really just collaborating with the enemy. But put your mask on and take the jab.... Good luck with that.

Coming from Sunderland, I expect you're familiar with the technique of playing the man and not the ball. So, given that I'm a bell end, let's get back to playing the ball. Which bit of my contribution do you disagree with and why?

Not a chance. What we are witnessing is the systematic obliteration of national cultures in favour of a globalist totalitarian regime. Anyone who still believes that the hardships of the last twelve months are in any way connected to a "pandemic" is deluding himself. "Three weeks to flatten the sombrero" has turned into nearly 12 months with still no visible way out of the strait-jacket. As I've said before in this and other forums, there is no intention that we will EVER return to life pre-2020.The present government regime is no longer a democracy: Boris and co. have built a "government of occupation," ruling by ministerial edict, having completely circumvented the democratic parliamentary process. The whole charade of wearing masks, having to stay indoors, not meeting with family and giving up jobs and businesses has nothing whatever to do with a killer virus: it is a strategy driven by the government's behavioural psychologists to break the human spirit, de-construct the British sense of community and make us entirely reliant upon the state for our livelihoods. Mark my words: in March or April (just when the population believes the lockdown is about to be eased and Speedway can resume), bumbling Boris and his psychopathic chum Matt Hancock will announce the arrival of a new and deadlier strain of the virus from China and the whole process will start again.

Keep your money in your pocket.

The lockdown of March 2020 created a precedent in English Common Law which allows for the imposition of “lockdowns” and the suspension of Human Rights at any time the government believes there is a pandemic. Conveniently, the World Health Organisation (WHO) revised the definition of “pandemic” in 2018. Whereas previously only a disease causing vast numbers of deaths could be declared a pandemic, the new definition allows for the word to be applied to virtually any disease that might be suspected to be contagious. Therefore a bad head-cold or “sickness bug” with the capacity to spread can be declared a pandemic, allowing the UK government to impose lockdowns at will. Debate that.

Promoters shouldn't concern themselves with signing up riders. The announcement of a new strain of the virus is scheduled for April, leading to another lockdown and abandonment of season 21. All part of the Plandemic. Unless/until there is a people's revolution, we are stuck with this until The Great Reset. Google it.