The White Knight

Read these Posts and despair for the future of our Sport. If the 'old' Brigade are getting fed up - then Speedway, as we know it, is FINISHED. :sad:

Yes - you do. MAD!!! Great to watch them in action though - they ALL have my admiration.

Yes - I actually like BOTH of the Commentary Teams that you mention.

Hi Mike Just spotted it. Will reply tomorrow. All the best mate. Ian

I would like to associate myself with both of these Posts. It is great the way we 'Mackems' have been received by the Newcastle Supporters - we have made a lot of friends in our little corner. Ladies who serve me Bovril each week were great too. A special mention for Joan English who was always welcoming when we arrived and the guy whose hand I shake and I don't even know his name. Graeme and Mathew on the 'Live' Updates and the Posters - great craic. I do love it. But next year - ?????????????????????????? I just don't know. :sad:

Do you not think that they (SKY) have bu****ed Speedway up enough as it is? :mad:

What's the point HT - whilst I agree with you - at Speedway nobody listens or even worse seems to care. :sad:

Tsunami did me - for a lot less. :sad:

Fair comment.

But is the Elite League a good enough Product to actually sell. I somehow doubt it. :sad:

Sorry mate - they are as far as I am concerned. Frankly I couldn't care less about the rest of the Play Offs - it means nothing to me.

NO!!! :mad: Only Somerset deserve to be called League Champions. Why? BECAUSE THEY ARE!! :approve:

You cynic you. :rofl:

............................ and Premier League Riders.

Premier League - Newcastle. Positives: The Racing, the friendliness of the Supporters, the Chat and Banter. :approve: Negatives: (Which will come as no surprise to anyone) Tactical Ride, Play Offs. :mad:

Correct. :approve:

Do you mean 'Stitch Up? :shock:

GREAT Post!! I totally agree. :approve:

For goodness sake - if I get a Ban - so be it. YOU ARE A GOON!!! You are also, I think the word is - Trolling.

Because you are a SUPPORTER. The two times my Teams have been on the Television - I have still gone to the Meeting and recorded the Televised version. That is what you do if you are a SUPPORTER. What is the point of your Team getting the bonus of a Television Meeting and not going - you are then costing your Team money and making their Television Bonus money that much less. Perhaps if these so called 'SUPPORTERS' had actually attended the Meetings, SKY may have been ready to renew their Contract.

Who ME!! Arson? :shock: :mad:

What on earth are you talking about orion? I was trying to answer Philip's question - or - do you have a problem with that. I went because I like watching Speedway (if I have to justify myself to you). I finally decide that watching the Speedway was not worth me getting upset over stupid bloody Rules that are turning people off the Sport. Yes I got annoyed about the old Tactical Substitute Rides BUT crucially not half as angry as I do over Double Points. I could just about live with the Tactical Substitute even though I think it is intrinsically wrong - I cannot live with Double Points. I have explained this to you before and yet you choose to Post the same old thing time after time. Once and for all BOTH the Tactical Substitute Ride AND the Tactical Ride are wrong in my book - OK. Now I have given you an anawer to your question - PLEASE don't ask me again, you are becoming a nuisance.

SURELY the fact that Somerset are Champions should change that. OR Do they get nothing at all for winning the League (Championship). :mad:

The Double Points Rule in the Newcastle v. Somerset Meeting Philip. I have no complaints about Somerset beating us over the two Legs. My problem was that because we never got so far behind Somerset at their place, we could not use the Tactical Ride. They then come to Brough Park with TWO chances of using it, which they did once. They were right to do so, it was in the Rules and THAT is the crux of my argument. Somerset were GIVEN an UNFAIR advantage over a Team that had a mountain to climb anyway. How can that be right? I can no longer continue supporting a Sport that I can't believe in. The various stupid Rules are slowly killing our beloved Sport - I know some on here agree with me and I know of others who have left because of the Rules. Those who deny this on here are, in my opinion, simply deluded. Speedway should be encouraging people to attend Meetings in greater numbers. Tell me Philip - how can they do that when the very Sport itself has lost it's credibility. Play Offs, Double Points etc. are WRONG as far as I am concerned - I get angry and upset every time Double Points is used whether it be against my Team - or that of the opposition. Sorry to go through this again - but - you did ask.

It is the ONLY mistake that COST a Team a place in the dreaded 'Play Offs'. Another example of absolutely NO consistency. :sad: Any other Meeting would have been 'Rained Off' - why not this one? I could make a half decent guess.