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The first morning is all about closing the current season down with all teams in attendance, and if they are not they will be fined £1000. I remember one meeting in the early 00's in Lanzarote that, due to John Perrin not liking flying, that George Carslake had to fly in from America/Canada where he had a dental business. If you stay after lunch you are deemed to be running the following year.

He'll be used to them by now, BB.

You do have a seat at the table and you are entitled to add ideas and discuss the ideas of others, but a 2 year wait to wait to vote on it seems fair to me. Their good ideas can still be put on the table, commented on and voted on.

You said it was hard to argue with anything in the previous post and I pointed out that it wasn't. Everyone else already in the BSPA has a bond placed, so why not, and don't forget the existing members were responsible for the organisation "worts and all" that the new guy wants to buy into. 2 years yes, against 3 years for me

Try doing a PM to THJ on here. Look in your profile for a link to it. He doesn't bite that much.

Hmmmm. Why would you let anybody in without a bond, and then yourselves be responsible for their inability to cough up. That sounds like a scam promoters winning card.

And they will ride in the Premier League.

All new riders are given an assessed average..

As you no doubt already know, yes I was. I opened up Newcastle in 1997, after investing in it in 1994, only to be told the owner didn't want speedway again at his stadium. His accountant had different ideas and bought it off him, and got in touch with our group to invite us back in. Third in our first season, we went on to sign a young Nicki Pedersen followed by Bjarne Pedersen and Kenneth Bjerre and won the PL title in 2001, and runners up on equal points in 2002. I gave my major share in the club away for free in 2003, and retired from promoting, but continued to work with the promotion and established my own free training school(10 years on now) restarting the Gems team which last season produced the NJL 500cc and 125/150 champions and the 2018 BYC 150cc champion. All riders in the current Gems team had never ridden a speedway bike before riding in the training school, so I run the only home bred team in speedway. What part of my failures do you want to concentrate on while your head is a bit fuzzy ?

Take care, it looks as if it's also affecting your head.

Won the league in 2010, but not the playoffs. Probably did in both in 82 and 76.

2010 and probably 83.

We both know its NOT 'so-called' freebies. You don't go cos you have to pay to get in. You are part of the problem, like it or not.

Could argue that you and mikebv should also follow suit.

Did he not come through at the same time as Barry Campbell ? David.

What a load of crap from the usual suspect. You should try paying to get in sometime.

It probably will, but I seem to remember Edinburgh V Newcastle in 2010 was drawn over 2 legs, and that was decided by Golden Heats(I think the first time they were used)

I think it will be Golden Heats. Might have no chance of both legs anyway.

Perhaps if it was in March it might have some justification.

You really done grasp it do you. As I said we became more selective and now there is a better use of the freebie tickets because of it. It's got nothing too do with odds and size of the larger population. Going to a show, you have the potential new customer in front of you, so it is best to selectively give out the freebies there and then. Do you suggest we tell said customer to look at the website when he/she gets home ? Are you for real. Remember the 4000 crowd after the freebies at Lakeside were given out en masse. Brilliant answer, so they are all allegedly going to bring a friend eh. See previous answer about Lakeside. When I read some of the comments on threads like this, I often wonder if maybe the promoters are still the best to run the sport.

What is the relevance of that observation ? Once again in denial that you said it. I am a very grown up man, and still with full senses, unlike you with your convenient memory lapses. You kid no one.

it's not only childish, but for your part your version is untrue. You never got sick of speedway and stopped going. You, by your own words on here sometime ago, stated that once you stopped doing your notes you were asked to pay to get in like everyone else. You took umbridge with BV, because you are not a freebie any more, and therefore have stayed away rather than pay to get in. Your story has been repeated on many threads you go on, and each time conveniently try to concoct a different angle why you don't go to speedway. But your real reason, you revealed yourself a couple of years and you ave been in denial ever since. Put into a boxing context, you regularly get knocked out and lose, but always try to restart the fight as if nothing had been stated before.

To not believe what you were told, is you showing your lack of knowledge. I attend every show/event that Newcastle puts on around our area, and the 'free' tickets used to regularly turn up at the gate being used by a regular fan. When we talk to a member of the public, and there is a hint of a friend/relative that goes to speedway, the 'free' tickets stay in my pocket and they are not on offer. Even more so if there is a family ticket for 4 people being used for that promotion. Your third line is pure theory, not fact..

You were saying about Aarnio ?

3 actually.