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But his name is part of his reputation and it was allegedly being misused. In that case surely any sensible person would put a stop to it. There's as much chance of that as seeing me in Blackpool

Correct it's not but as it was quite widely publicised he must have known his name was being put forward. Now if publicity was going about that I was going to be belly dancing in my local town centre when I knew that I would be in Blackpool (both scenarios extremely unlikely ) I would tweet/send press release to say I was not available and would not be appearing as soon as possible. He didn't have to give reasons if he didn't want to but at least fans would not be looking forward to seeing him. It would also allow fans to attempt to question those "in charge" as to why. There is obviously much more to this than meets the eye. Wouldn't it be nice if someone actually had the balls to stand up and tell the paying customers. In fairness I think Scott Nicholls has done his best and I look forward to reading his autobiography when he eventually hangs up his leathers

Probably not But why were the British fans treated with contempt? Been on social media etc all week and longer that Cook and Woffy were representing GB. All Woffy had to do was issue a statement before today. Let's face it, it took him about 30 mins from his first tweet moaning about the fans moaning before he issued one. Common courtesy IMO to the British fans. No doubt the BSPA etc are far from blame free, but they are well known for treating fans with contempt.

So where is his loyalty to Rosco who pushed for GB to compete in this comp? Sorry money over pride in your country doesn't cut it for me.

Think he rides on an ACU licence.

Posted this weeks ago, you cannot be a Brit just when it suits you. No matter what his excuse for not riding in the Best Pairs it's obvious he has no pride in being a Brit so this Brit says sod off back to Oz .

It does if you value truth and trust and as Haza says respect.

Strange that the official twitter and the website says off due to waterlogged track and the unofficial one says dangerous conditions and high winds. Doesn't do much for credibility does it? Don't believe the former but totally agree with the latter, dangerous for both riders and fans. EDIT The website has now been changed but surely an official site should get it correct from the start. or did too many local folk ask when it rained

Apparently it's off due to water logged track. Must have been a few very localised cloudbursts right above the stadium

You called lol. 2 miles from track and only seen about a dozen spots of rain all day. Probably more chane of a blow off than a rain off!! Wind is ferocious.

Posssibly the result of a few well placed size 9s

Trees I can remember several trips to Poole when the home riders used to practice in the afternoon, you could hear them while walking round the town and the track was a damn site better then than it is nowadays so you could well have hit the nail on the head Semion I did go occasionally in Mike Bennetts latter days - get your facts right lol. I always take my own drink so have no need of an interval;)

No but I would enjoy my away matches more Quite a few changes would have to happen before I'd think about going to Saddlebow every week. Less grading appears to have been sorted. A decent announcer and guaranteed no longer than 10 minute intervals next and who knows lol.

It's not just the frustration tho. Bjerre's lack of scoring puts extra pressure on the remaining members of the team. Porsing is having his own problems scoring at present and Ashley Morris has been thrown into the EL cauldron and needs as much support as he can get, It cannot help either of them when Bjerre comes off the track scoring 0 and they go out thinking they have to score to make up for it. Neither need the extra pressure. Heat leaders have to take pressure as part of their role. Whilst we have the bloody silly play offs, as long as we win home matches and pick up a few away points we will make the top 4. Let's face it Bjerre's record in the play offs is not great so I would change sooner rather than later when his average has dropped like a stone which will limit the options. If he comes back with another club fine it will only be one match (2 if it's the play offs but I've already covered that). Mads tries his guts out and I'd take him over Bjerre any day.

I'm told by someone who buys a programme that apart from changing the name of the opposition, Busters prog column is the same every week. So maybe more than you would appreciate his take! I understand a guy is employed now to do media/prog stuff maybe he needs to up his game Say what you like about Jonathan, and he had his faults, he had passion and it shone thro. Lynn it seems to me is missing that passion nowadays. I bet Jonathan would have saturated the media about it being Lynn's 50th year whereas it's almost the worlds best kept secret.

True, but I guess the majority of both would prefer to see racing as opposed to processions just to get a result. Apart from the winning team who actually benefits from declaring a result as early as heat 10?

But Sky watchers are paying customers as well.

I don't think fans have accepted it. Sky, Pearson and those that make the most noise and get heard unfortunately have. Paying customers just aren't in the equation any more

Hyperthetically would Woffy and Mads fit instead of Bjerre and Porsing. Exactly and Pearson going on and on about getting a result. Does nobody give a flying fart for the paying customer anymore?

Obviously using the Poole book of team managing

Says it all about the state of British speedway when Pearson says "if they can just get round for another 2 races we get a result". The fans paid for a full meeting. Poor sods ain't getting any racing let them at least see a full compliment of processions.

Post of the week !!

T That race was no better than heat 15 of P/Boro vs Plymouth a couple of weeks ago.

Who said I was jesting? Didn't necessarily mean formal semaphore but coloured lollipops on sticks were used for years in speedway and as say hand signals are widely used, even to landing planes/helicopters on ships

Figures aren't everything however low (or high) they are. It's the manner of the pointless rides that really bothers me. To a lesser extent that also applies to Porsing.