SteveLyric2

Also awaiting average clarification from BSPA on a new rider - but who goes???

It will be by the time Melbourne 2015 comes around!!

Leaving a space for the World Champion again!!

I know I'm a Poole/Darcy fan but where in any of the recent statements does it infer that BSI are attempting to influence any decision by FIM?. All they've said is that a decision on the wildcard for Melbourne will be made nearer the time!!

Only 4 days late with the news then. Thanks Echo!!

Someone should tell Darcy and Motorcycle Australia pretty quickly too!!

Well he's not been announced in the rider list of the Aussie Championships - because of the provisional international suspension - so there goes any hope of getting the SGP Wildcard for the Aussie GP in October, unless the Aussie authorities and/or BSI have a rethink!! I would call that a significant punishment.

Great news for all speedway fans - well done Messrs Morton and Gordon.

Prefer coffee on race nights personally!! But Ippo do look to have a very decent team on paper.

So if Holder has to be dropped,(on a PL 7.0) what average would he have going straight into the EL?

Big enough to keep you posting on anything Poole-related though!!!!

Interesting! That's another week later than Poole fans were told at their awards night!!

Does that give Chris Harris a better chance in the 2015 SGP series now??

Maybe there was confusion at the AGM as to who owned Jack Holder and whether the 7 point PL average or the 5point EL average would apply??!!

Aside from the Holder issue, where has the 'reduced reserve averages' come from? Did I miss that in the AGM statement?

I'm sure that Darcy has been advised not to say anything specific about the case before the FIM hearing. Other than comments at Poole meetings/functions like 'its been the worst time of his life!' or similar, he has not been drawn on anything else, other than in private conversations with his sponsors, promoters and selected others. In fact other than on this forum, its hardly being 'discussed' anywhere else - including the FIM it would seem!! .

He's going to concentrate on his boxing; get his Security licence and sort his personal life out!! If that gives him back the 'hunger' for speedway then we shall see him again!! You never know, he might also achieve his dream of racing for Poole!! (as per article in Speedway Star!)

That depends on your definition of 'harsh'?! I would say not giving him a hearing or reaching a decision for almost 5 months is fairly 'harsh'!! Just an opinion which is no more right or wrong than yours or Sydney's!!

Steady on Philip, I thought you were trying to increase circulation??!!!!!!

That's not what Sidney said at all!! He said he should be punished!!! Most Poole fans - even the most ardent ones - agree he should be punished (see my signature), based on the full facts of the 'crime'. Of course he can come back from a ban - its the ludicrous amount of time its taking the FIM to get their act together that is frustrating most Poole/Torun and Piraterna fans!!

I suppose it could always be a contract for Paco Castagna!!?

I thought the standard suspension was up to 2 years, with discretion if it was his first FIM offence - which it was. Whatever the final punishment - it will be what it will be! But what is wrong, very wrong, is the delay in dealing with the case and stopping all his clubs from making any plans for 2015, when the offence occurred only at one GP!

I think someone suggested that 138 pages ago!! (ps random tests are carried out in EL racing - and I presume other leagues too - and presumably everyone has passed otherwise we would have heard about it) (pps. Darcy has passed when selected at random!)

Fricke has a contract with Torun, in Poland but not sure if they intend to use him due to the number of foreigners allowed - they already have Holder, Doyle and Laguta!!

But he's signed a Torun contract now!! Darcy will be available - subject to the length of any ban.