AFCB Wildcat

I must admit I've had an issue with Bournemouth players not celebrating goals scored against their former clubs.When you pull on the shirt you play for the badge and that's where your loyalty lies in my opinion. Kyle fist pumped the Swindon fans so nothing wrong with showing you care about the team you are representing and the fans who are supporting you surely? If he had fist pumped Poole fans it would have been disrespectful but that's not the case here so he did nothing wrong.

Exactly, he is making himself sound rather silly.Sorry but I'm really not seeing an issue here. BWD has been carrying this injury a while so of course Rosco had to make a decision a week in advance to make sure he was covered if his rider was unfit. What did people expect him to do? Wait till the morning of the most important meeting of the year so far to see if BWD came through the Peterborough meeting without aggravating his injury (which he likely did) before sourcing an under prepared replacement? It was his duty as a manager to ensure he tracked the best team he could based on the circumstances at the time. Anything less would have been incompetence and Middlo or any other manager worth their salt would have done the same. If Poole didn't want Kyle to be riding against them then maybe they shouldn't have sacked him.

I'm about 4 miles away and it's been raining heavily on and off between sunny spells with a lot of standing water around. Sun's out now but lots of threatened clouds around.

Would you really like Kyle to throw races out of some misguided loyalty to Poole?I'm afraid Speedway lost credibility as a team sport at the top level in this country years ago so this is no different from anything we've seen countless times before. He must give 100% Swindon tonight, anything less would be dragging the sport even further through the mud.

It was Nicklas Porsing but he didn't have a good night.

Ah I see, sorry.You want this one then 😀 http://www.lyricsmode.com/lyrics/b/billy_connolly/divorce.html

I think Dolly Parton's was a cover. Tammy Wynette did it first.

I'm surprised it's as much as that tbh.The capacity was probably close to Starmans figure before the terraced stand along the back straight was demolished to make way for the new one that has no spectator capacity, just a dogs betting area and restaurant with a couple of steps outside. I've only been a couple of times since it's demise as I've no wish to arrive 3 hours before start time in order to find a place between the spread out tartan blankets on a back breaking bench in that old main stand or stand at track level on a bend.

Might pay to check again.As I said mine was coming out at £376 last week for prepay no amends and now it's showing £264 at a flexible rate for same 3 nights. I've booked mine which I can cancel up till the day of arrival if I find anything better.

We have been staying at the same Premier inn for some years now and normally it's been full of Speedway fans with the restaurant full on Friday and Saturday nights.This year was very quiet in comparison. I don't know if it was full but the carpark was half empty and the pub very quiet throughout the weekend so I thought perhaps people had been put off by prices. Obviously Premier inn don't agree as we paid £245 for 3 nights this year but have just checked for 2018 and the same 3 nights are £376 and that's a pay up front no amends or refund. Ouch!

Strangely enough I totally agree with you. Would solve a lot of problems!

I did say MANY people not ANY. I don't disagree that there's always some who will moan about anything. I love an atmosphere a beer and a laugh as much as anyone but having paid a substantial amount of money I would reasonably expect to be at least able to see what I'd paid for.

I don't think many people object to anyone having a few drinks, being noisy or waving a few flags but it's not nice having your night trashed by people who can't respect those around them. Bombers epic victory in 2007 was ruined for me as it was before my children had grown up and we had the misfortune to be surrounded by Poles with nowhere to move. The ones in front just stood up all the time so the kids couldn't see at all while the ones behind just spilt beer all over us and draped a large Polish flag over our faces during the races. Stewards didn't want to know and when I asked them to stop I was threatened with violence and told they would be waiting for me outside after the event and it was not over so I have sympathy with anyone else who has experienced this and wonder if the people that trivialise their complaints as whinging about a bit of flag waving would like their families subjected to this? Since then I pay a lot more for my tickets to sit in a block that I know will be half empty so I can move away from such situations if necessary. Don't get me wrong, I'm not having a go at Polish fans in general. All the ones around us this year were great and without them the atmosphere would not be half a good but there are a minority of idiots who I hope the people who say others are complaining about a bit of flag waving are never subjected too!

My fault with Emil I'm afraid as I picked him for my once a year bet which is ultimately the kiss of death!With Emil to win and an each way on Kildeman who I fancied could shake things up I was feeling quite smug at the semis but as usual it went badly wrong 😒

To be fair, most of the responses have been objective rather than the usual rudeness and ridicule dished out to anyone suggesting an alternative to something that is flawed and clearly isn't working!Personally I love the world cup format and although maybe not practical for the league format for the reasons stated I would like to see it used for the playoffs. Loss of team riding? As said, it's more or less gone and you see more riders hindering their partners than helping them these days. At present most playoff teams are filled with guests due to unavailable riders or decided by who has managed to manipulate a quality second string into a reserve birth as a ringer so to me a 4 team 4 man format would be a much better option which could produce a much better quality field and with the nominated heats certainly make the managers work for their money too. After all we spend a whole season just to eliminate 4 teams so why not shake it up for the finals?

Received ours today too.

I only ordered mine online last week but I've just received an update email to say that they were despatched today so I'll let you know if they arrive.

I would have thought that GTR getting it's first GP win so soon after it's inception was quite a big deal but it seems to have been played down. When was the last time a GP was won by anything other than GM? When Kelvin mentioned it in Saturday's commentary it seemed to be met by an embarrassing silence from Nigel and the subject was dropped. Scott touched on it in the studio but I felt it warranted a bit more praise for such an achievement.

But you've said it means "exactly that" then quoted something it doesn't say I.e. "he can't ride for the rest of the season"If that was the case it would say "ineligible to compete in further rounds for the remainder of the season" What it does say is ineligible for the FIM world championship for the remainder of the season and Bewitcher is absolutely correct in saying that this makes you ineligible to be world champion and that can't be argued. The "remainder of the season" aspect would mean that the punishment ends at the end of the season and he would be legible for next season's competition. If whoever wrote the rule did not mean it this way then it is badly worded but otherwise as far as I'm concerned it's quite clear.

But I suppose you could argue that "remainder of the season" is intended to mean that the ineligibility is only till the end of the current season and they would be eligible for the next season subject to qualification I.e. not a permanent ban from the series.I agree with you're last paragraph. I think it's badly worded and I guess only the person that wrote it knows what they meant regardless of what it literally says.

Agreed that the clutch lever and release mechanism are only used for the start but without the plates to transmit drive to the back wheel you won't be going anywhere.

I think there might be a bit of a problem if you took the clutch plates out! :0

[quote name="PHILIPRISING" post="2869400" timestamp="147740 Hancock has come up with a plausible explanation and one that a court of law might find hard to discount. Only he knows whether or not his bike suffered a mechanical failure. No one can definitively prove one way or another. Guilty beyond all reasonable doubt? Has he come up with a plausible explanation though? The explanations I've seen allegedly from Greg say firstly a lever attached to the handlebars then a lower bracket assembly on the clutch arm coming loose. I don't see how either would cause a slipping clutch which is what he described. The only reason I can see for the clutch slipping would be failure of the friction plates or springs. The problems described could only fail to release the clutch which would not be a hazard while riding and after the race he would only need to pull the kill cord after slowing the bike down or stall the engine so to me it doesn't make sense unless someone can explain otherwise?

I only just seen this thread but yes I noticed it too. When Buczkowski went through the tapes in heat 3 Tungates back wheel was spinning the whole time and he was creeping forward long before either Buczkowski or Cook moved. I was surprised nothing was said at the time with all the replays.

That is correct but ‘Boscombe’ was only retained as a connection to their former name of Boscombe FC when they played in the Bournemouth district league before representing the town at national level. Boscome is a district within the borough of Bournemouth not a town in its own right so Steve is correct in that both AFCB & Poole Speedway represent the whole of the Bournemouth, Poole, Christchurch conurbation and the attendances at both venues are a mix of residents of all of these towns and the surrounding smaller rural towns & villages. Back to the topic though, I’ve seen a few threads over the years with posters urging promoters to ‘wake up’ & ‘get out and promote’ without receiving the abuse that RP has on this thread just because she defends Matt Ford so that seems unfair. I have the utmost respect for all promoters as it’s basically a hiding to nothing & without them there would be no Speedway but it has to be said that Matt Ford has raised the bar. He is passionate about Speedway & has taken on Speedway as his full time business & livelihood and how many of his critics would be brave enough to do that when historically Speedway has been run as a hobby or sideline to the promoters main business? He knows what his customers want and is hardnosed in going about achieving it but that’s business. I find it laughable when I see ignorant posts on here suggesting that it’s somehow easier to promote speedway in Poole. You reap what you sow & there are major roundabouts across the conurbation sponsored by Poole Speedway. Go to Bournemouth sea front & there are advertisements on the promenade railings. I was in Poole today and in the main shopping centre there is a unit with a large screen TV in the window showing Speedway action, a bike on display and trophies in the window. All the things I’ve seen posters urging promoters to do over the years on here he has done but then gets ritually slaughtered as the ruination of the Elite league.