THE DEAN MACHINE

Doesn’t he have to factor in he needs a visa to live here? he has a house in Warrington with his girlfriend/wife, so would of said until he gets citizenship he has no choice but to ride here

Not just a top a rider though, just zmarzlik, he is the exception the others are no more enticing than riders like Vinny foord, speedway for me is about the team not the individual, my team, my club my affiliation and I want to see different teams come to my club not the same team every few weeks, sadly I don’t have a team anymore so I struggle to get motivated to follow the league structure but seeing different teams at least gives me interest but a 5 team league is just not appealing

If I can ride my 1952 jap I’m game 😂

The thing what a lot of people don’t get about polish speedway is you can’t have an off day or even a slightly off day, some clubs worse than others,Pickering would probably had a bollocking for not scoring enough points even though they took him out his ride, it is a different mentality over there than it is in England, over here clubs understand you are human and not everyday you’re at your best but over there you are a machine and if the machine is not a full production they not happy especially if they don’t win but in Poland one thing you don’t do is threaten not to come back next week

Slightly off topic but have you seen the video on polish tv of Pickering spitting his dummy out because he was taken out of a ride,it pretty much shows you why he doesn’t ride for leszno anymore

360 podcast is doing live episode on FB at 8pm on Sunday, Derek ,myself, Simon lambert,Stuart Robson and Ben barker, take part, submit your live questions and comments, what could possibly go wrong with that 😂

And let the doubling up begin,

Because Bartoz Zmarzlik is by quite a long way the most naturally talented exciting speedway rider that has ever to set foot on a speedway bike and soon to become the greatest rider of all time too, he rides the bike like nobody past or present does and that’s where I stand, him being the ONE rider, quite simple really, I am in no way saying any British club should sign him even if the got him cheap ,I shall go to Poland to watch him if I want to see him race, I’m merely making the point he is the one rider who I would happily pay to see race multiple times a season

The one rider who I would pay to see multiple times no matter who he raced for, sadly I can’t ever see a time when he would come back to the uk

Oh well I’m sure we will find out sometime in January (maybe)

I just know 2 riders came to the uk, had a meal with some friends then went to Ipswich where 1 of them was doing a deal, I don’t know who with and I don’t know the outcome either and then they both flew home

I mean to do a deal with Ipswich, I don’t know where Louis is or if he staying on ? I just know 2 riders flew in last week or so to do a deal with Ipswich, well 1 did

The first one

No I will be there, even going to have a skid there soon

It would but it’s not every Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday, Denmark and Sweden seem to be squad systems, some riders only seem to do one meeting or so a season

There was a rider who flew in last week to do a deal with Ipswich and catch up with some friends and he was with another top rider, don’t know if a deal was done for either of them though

Sweden Tuesdays, Denmark Wednesdays and Poland weekends, leaves Monday and Thursday free for uk

Maybe

Good old Laurence giving me a mention on the name change

Or the announcement that Louis is staying on and has already signed some riders

Riders missing away meetings is not acceptable to me either

They can’t afford to stomach it, maintaining last years level isn’t going to be enough, they have lost the tv money, so either a new deal comes along to replace that money or they need to increase the attendance by that amount just to stay the same

And nowhere have I said riders ride in home meetings only, I have a given a reasonable proposal using Dan bewley and belle vue as an example where he would with cooperation from other clubs be available for all belle vue’s matches, as I said it can be done with cooperation by all sides, will it ? No because of selfish attitudes on all sides and a gap bigger than the channel between the promoters from both leagues

Then you are not looking at it properly, you are only seeing a glass half empty approach

It’s not utter fantasy, it just needs cooperation on all sides but that there is the problem, there is no cooperation it’s all self interest