SteveLyric2

You can have a guest for a 2nd string if both are missing due to doubling-up/down duties elsewhere. One can be a guest whilst the other has to be r/r

Only partially tongue-in-cheek!!! There were still considerable outstanding financial/contractual matters to be sorted before the start of this season!!

and he's probably still waiting to be paid for those!!!!!?

....and still with a lot of Poole sponsors, wherever he rides!!!!

Reading Mick Bratley's comments - most of his promotional actions (which are to be applauded) were involved in attempting to attract newcomers and lapsed fans by offering some sort of incentive to attend by way of special offers of some sort. Very little was based upon the actual product that fans were being asked to experience. However good the 2006 final was, or indeed any other individual meeting for that matter, there seemed little in the overall 'value for money/ entertainment' offer that might keep punters coming back, on the basis that they were unlikely to witness such a meeting every week!!. The racing - for the purist - is often enough to keep people attending at least semi-regularly but in this day and age people want to be consistently entertained in facilities that they can get elsewhere and which is provided at a sensible price. For me, you can and should get great team racing with 4 reasonably equal standard riders on cheaper standardised machines - ideally some of those riders are locally-based and media accessible. Good publicity and promotion can make stars of local riders in their local media if done properly. Personalities and 'grudges' between rival riders of whatever standard can be worked up?! What the clubs save by not paying out huge rider salaries to the GP-level riders can then be spent on better marketing and additional attractions to give greater added value. There is also a clear demand from many to see the 'top' riders and there is nothing to stop a domestic 'GP-style- competition, paying bigger bucks to those riders and charging more - say once a month - for fans to attend. If there is not enough fan interest then knock it on the head and try something else.

Is that when fans were still coming....???

The problem with 'stepping down temporarily' in order to get himself ok again (and replacing him with another) , is whether the averages will suit later on to get him back in - assuming thats what the club might want?!

I wish the BBC and the Met Office would give us some sort of similar forecast!!

If he isn't, he'll be seeing the air fence quite a lot!!

Unless the reserve in question is good enough to hold their own ???!! Starke, like Ellis is a Tier 2 EDR which points to why the rule should only apply to Tier 1 EDRs as was originally proposed.

The council have said that any development must have a minimum of 2 sports. The other factor about PTFC moving away from their Tatnum base is that they would have to pay back substantial loans that they have received to improve their current facilities!! Stadia UK would only be interested if greyhounds were still part of it, but the dogs aren't that successful/popular any more either publicly or politically, so imo it would need someone (a developer??) to buy out the remaining years of the Stadia UK lease in order for any development including flats, hotel, restaurant(s) casino, nightclub whatever plus the specific sports, to be approved. Matt has also stated that if speedway is to be included then he would insist on continuity ie not missing a single season, but I'm not sure if that would be feasible, depending on the complicity of any scheme.

Leicester v Poole moved to Monday 9th May from Saturday 7th to avoid Leicester City on Sky (at Leicester's request) and the GP qualifier at Kings Lynn (which would suit Poole) Good sensible co-operation between promotions..

No.

More to the point is what will Poole Council be thinking about it all if and when the time comes?! Back to the theme of the thread - the point of the article and title of the thread 'Matt Ford - No sympathy' is that MF has no sympathy for other promoters who voted in the current rules, allowing Poole in particular to put together a team which on paper at least looks a lot stronger than most but on the downside has already lost both its away meetings!!

As has already been stated and explained, its nothing to do with when fixtures are published (they are made available to clubs and riders before anyway!) - Torun have Holder under continuous contract for longer than Poole (Holder missed some months in 2014) so their fixture got preference for Holder's services. The facility in such circumstances allows for r/r or a guest. Just reading back all the posts from last night as I was out, Well done to the Bees on a great win for them but a couple of things could have made it so different - e/f and puncture - but that's speedway.. At least it may stop some from saying that Poole are unfairly stronger than every other team - that's both away meetings Poole have lost so far!!!!! I wonder what difference there might be against Wolves with Kurtz at reserve?!

To be fair, Coventry were doing alright on Wednesday until KK and Bomber both crashed out - it went downhill from there, but shouldn't happen at Brandon!!

Ok thanks for the reply. Just thought I should ask. What about the 2nd part of the question - are there restrictions on the days that speedway can be held in the new stadium once the Aces start to play catch-up? I thought I'd read something along those lines somewhere....?!

Steady on CSC, Speedibee will not like posts or opinions like that - especially 14 pages in......

Only when he was a rider asking for sponsorship...............!!

Based on this year's proposals for team building, for 2017 there is likely to be a heat leader's list; a 2nd string list and an EDR list that all (or most by majority) promoters will agree to. Maybe they will be 'graded'?

Not sure who you think I am, but clearly you've got it wrong?! Why does that not surprise me? I am well aware of some of the 'bit' that you have done and am equally glad that others have assumed the mantel much more successfully - but that's only an opinion too!! Don't go there Starman - leave him in blissful ignorance. He seems comfortable there!

I came on the thread to see if there was any truth in the title claim that Woffy is returning to the EL?! It appears there isn't. No need to quote my post 3 times - I thought you weren't interested in my opinion?!

Its in the MF interview in the B'mth Echo today and is already on facebook. 2 clubs have approached in the past week to move their home fixtures - presumably BV and Leicester - Not sure if MF is going to agree with the Leicester postponement, even though Poole will be without Kurtz and Andersen, who are both due to be at Kings Lynn for the WC qualifier (just to keep it relevant to Kings Lynn)!!

Excellent performance by the Robins. So pleased for Rosco who had taken an unfair amount of stick!!

Hee hee, had to chuckle about the 'children's entertainers' suggestion for Baz and Brock!! ;-) Mrs Baz and Mrs Brock would be chuckling too!! Love it. Many more fans used to travel away and stay overnight when there were things such as Northern/Southern tours - great days - often staying in the same hostelry as the riders, although that wasn't always a good thing...........!! nudge nudge, wink wink, say no more. :-)