Byker Biker

In fairness to Sheffield racing on a Thursday does exclude most Scandinavian riders, look at the issues with Ludvig, lasse Bjerre, Mikkel Bech, Magnus Karlsson who have all had to miss meetings in the uk. Maassen is on a 5 by the way, this is the lowest average he can come in on even though he is a junior rider in Germany.

I went to the one at Sheffield it was a great meeting, it said in the programme that the objective was to give riders international experience and to begin to lay the foundations to put test matches back on the Speedway calendar. It also says that it was kept at Premier League level to keep it cost effective. I saw Craig's tweets last week and was a bit disappointed to see he wasn't prepared to do them, how will we ever develop internationally if riders like Craig won't play to help the Newmans, Howarths and Kerr's what chance have we got. At least the Promoters have put something in place and it looks like Craig is snubbing them.

Good to see Andre Compton back and practising after the meeting too although he was out with Robbo and Robbo took off from the start like a rocket, take heart Sheffield fans Andre's really trying to get match fit.

You're right the BSPA should have insisted he rides for the Diamonds instead of letting him go elsewhere.

Maybe they did but Glasgow chose to ignore the protocols usually observed.

Interesting, where did that come from?

The pit gate at Rye House has public access and has always been the late gate when there is no access from the main turnstiles as well as allowing paid access before too.

It is such a shame that this hasn't worked out, so many call for young Brits to be given a chance and are not fully behind them. Good luck Jake.

This is just not acceptable, have I got a lot to learn about Speedway fans, this forum or Leicester in particular? As a relative newby I'm not impressed.

I raised the issue following the way I perceived the tone of the thead having waded through pages. Both you and SK are balanced throughout as with your replies to me, thank you. If both your inputs were removed from the whole thread it leaves a lot of negative comments and doesn't paint the posters in the best light. There is a minority who seem to have personal issues with the promotion and I wouldn't have thought this was the platform to get them resolved hence my conclusion that there is too much whinging. It just seems to breed more negative behaviour.

I've been reading through this thread because it is a Hot topic but far from being interesting probably 80% of it is negative and having a pop at the people who own and run your club. What is the problem are Sheffield fans just whingers or am I misunderstanding something?

I suppose you're right, without the 40 or so (more with guest and double up appearances) loss making meetings PL riders get from a BSPA/SCB/ACU affiliation they probably wouldn't be in a position to agree 6 plum bookings for the MCF. Then on the othe hand if the MCF gives them all vans, mechanics, tyres, insurance, workshops, engines to sign on for 6 meetings, 50 pence a mile and £100 a point then the BSPA could save a fortune and start to make money instead of subsidising the sport to keep it alive. I wonder why the MCF didn't approach the BSPA/SCB/ACU with this great idea, you don't think it's 'cos they wanted to make money do you? Oh no of course not it's to benefit British riders! Yeah right..