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Does it matter ?

So I hope now that people are not so quick to jump to the wrong conclusions. I commented earlier on the BSF, and stated that the club was under no obligation to tell anybody what had happened, and praised them for not telling people what happened as in many cases it doesn't do any good to the rider concerned in getting another ride in the near future. But some riders try to use occasions to get their story over and get revenge, and in this case it is a great example why everyone should keep their thoughts to themselves and shut their mouths. Because of Joe trying to blacken the name and reputation of the club, due to his own immature action and telling lies, the promotion has correctly had to tell everyone what really happened, and everyone should come to the conclusion that that will not do the reputation of Joe any good in trying to get a ride in future, and may have stopped some from giving him any bookings. If it does happen, well we know it's not Glasgows fault, and Joe might have to learn how to behave in future. One thing is for sure, Kyle Bickley is not involved in this in any way, and I hope he wows the Glasgow crowd and makes some good progress with them. I remember seeing Joe at Northside probably about 7 years ago on his little Janshi 80cc blasting it out with bigger lads and better bikes, and thought he could go far. This instance will not help that progress.

I wonder if Darcy Ward and Leigh Adams could benefit. 4 million could put it off.

Facilities for the juniors at BV are very good. At a lot of tracks, they provide a quiet area for initial unloading, setting up and warming up, then it's a big scramble to get into the seniors pits when they leaving after heat 15.

Plus Ambulance.

And Redcar.

But presumably there has to be contingency plans to cover retirements, and sadly deaths of current workers, as well as people moving on for new employment. Might pay to ask retiring workers to stay on, and save the changeover and retraining costs if new people are being taken on short term.

Well I know a lot of people who were taken in by the same Mr Sandhu in 2010 and onwards. Where is his alternative track at these days ????.

We agree with each other more that we realise Steve.

I liked their little stories, when time and excitement allowed. Good chat in the box during the last test matches.

It's up to the individuals. Some can or can't work, but can still assist in many ways. If someone is offended by that, perhaps Brum can do without him as he sounds like he would try and spread his obsessions. Every track needs every fan, but remember what a bad apple does to the rest eventually.

You couldn't be more wrong, especially in the North where there isn't a NL team. (Belle Vue is Midlands to us.). The southern teams have the combined Sdl/Mdl as well as the NL.

Contenders for that could be John Perrin, Tim Stone, Colin Hill who might have used corporate names but were to my knowledge sole proprietors. Even a possibility of Dingle Brown a few years ago at Mildenhall.

In the case of Workington I think the company quoted will be Laura's own business account with Worky being only one of them included.

So in other words, you implied something that you had no proof of, and now saying you didn't/imply say it.

Plus the riders you would be looking to bring in may have already gone to others in their reshuffles.

The main owners of the SPMP are two brothers, the Gladder brother,s along with CVS, and the brothers and Havvy would not allow Ged into the club on his conditions. It he was going to get into their promotion, surely the ideal time would have been to join them after Kevin Keay had left at the end of last season. scoobydoo It can't be assumed that Colin has put money into Peterborough as it is not a requirement to get a promoters licence.

Max was your captain that year.

Shane was very much a fans favourite at both Newcastle and Glasgow. Always had a wide grin.

Simple. In that Ippy meeting, riders from both sides slid off because of no dirt and the cross ripples of the first bend and collected the dirt that was lying at the base of the air fence skirt.

What a convenient statement to make. We run inside a dog track and our straights are the legal minimum width of 8m to allow for a larger swinging bend. We took the inside line in by 2m in the late 90's to give more room, so your comment about not doing it for home advantage is way out of line. It's called dirt and gives grip and it's there to be ridden. if you want smooth poor passing tracks there are plenty of them but fans complain about dull racing. Nowt to do with poor track prep as we have Jonny Swales who you should know. Lambert learnt to ride it, but Cook has never had problems at Brough and is probably the most accomplished rider over the years and that is shown by his tremendous level of scoring on our track. it is one of his favourite tracks, his words no mine.

Oh no it doesn't sometimes. Like Berwick, the track most times start smooth and then dirt blasted off the surface is mover around during to meeting try and make it consistent. I was there for the Ippy meeting in about August (when Schlein got badly injured) and from the height of the first bend, you could see it was bald all meeting and with dangerous ripple going across the racing line, Try checking your program for that meeting and note how many trips to the fence were had there because it was hard and bald with no grip. Kyle is a nice lad and a good rider, but when he gets to Newcastle, like Nick Morris, he forgets to use his brain and just grabs a handful of power, and can spin off and into the fence usually 2nd or 4th corners. How is it that lesser riders can come away uninjured with a higher score, because the watched how to ride it and used the grip help them, not to make them lose control. I have heard many times that riders like riding at Newcastle for us, because once they can ride it every week, they know the visitors don't have that confidence, and can then get beat. Look at how Ludde used to fly around the outside at incredible speed with full of confidence, Aaron Summers and Robert L:ambert are usually the same. Having had 4 World Champs wasn't by accident. Going to be good to see how Lunna rides and learns this year.

If any of it was true I might be a bit concerned, but as it is not I'll not bother with what you have said. The difficulty is that, unlike Worky and other smooth hard tracks that produce speed and nothing else, Brough is prepared with dirt on and with the tight corners it tests riders, especially if they are of the throttle happy flatout riders such as Richard Hall, Josh Auty, Kyle Howarth, etc. All these sort or riders are spinning on a flat smooth track with no excitement, who never learnt till later how to handle dirt like their more sensible style riders who ride Brough well, like the Worrals, etc. Berwick, Worky fans regularly complain about the quality of racing at their own tracks and it is a regular complaint and might well be a major complaint with the fans that now don't attend. Does or should make you wonder about it, rather that slating other peoples tracks, where there is a regular racing at flat out speeds as well. We can't all be Sheffields and Somersets with good tracks and usually good racing on roughened tracks, but we do are best. I certainly can confirm that any elements lout behaviour in our ranks gets reported, and is seen to pretty prompt, and hasn't been with us for years. Behaviour of away fans has also been tackled, which has tended to put off certain Redcar fans since that problem was tackled. We attend every away meeting with them in great numbers and have no problems or even a reputation for troubles. Unfortunately they feel they can't return that compliment to support us for their away meetings with us.

Too easy to ride.

Why don't you get together and come across to Newcastle on a Sunday night starting at 6.30pm. Plenty of time to get home after the meeting and Half petrol costs should be good.