Big Al

You may well ask, Weatherwatcher. People having trouble getting refunds, riders owed several weeks money, matches being put back to later dates.(the Kings Lynn one is just re-arranging of the postponed one). It all adds up to what's commonly known as "cash flow problems", something I have on occasions experienced myself, and possibly you too. If it's gone a stage further than that, we are then talking about Insolvency, and that really does impose severe restrictions of course. I suspect efforts are going on to resolve the cash flow problems, probably of a short term nature to try and ensure the season is completed. And if that's the case, BSPA would certainly be involved to some extent. They would not want a team unable to fulfil it's remaining fixtures at this stage of the season, that would entail results having to be expunged and create all sorts of mess. So i doubt if you will know exactly what's going on, but it's a fair guess I'd say.

Sounds like you're more of a Norman Storer fan

That was Phil Herne.Jensen was more 000, next match 3033

I think they probably do have a good understanding of it. Highly useful, to help them prevent customers from being too knowledgeable. A few days ago i saw a report somewhere, that the LE4 postcode area is the country's highest for people being victims of scams. I just couldn't help thinking about the possible reasons or sources!!

Watch out Buster Chapman, sounds like Mads is getting mad

I bet there is now

Why?

This postponement has shown up the weaknesses of the Elite league in glorious technicolor.As a business model it isn't viable. There is way too much risk exposure, having huge vulnerability to the laws of Sod and Murphy. Have a high concentration of matches in April, when those brave enough to attend have to spend an evening having their nollocks frozen off, and compete for customers and media attention with football with attendances and income reduced accordingly.Then,in the height of summer, have a scarcity of fixtures,with additional risk if one of them is postponed (or gets mucked about due to a clash with something on the telly) of limiting the lifeblood of income at a time when income should be maximised. It's bonkers, completely crackers. If I went to a bank to ask for finance to start up a business with this model, they ought to send me packing!! So it's hardly surprising if Leicester took people's money if they decided to cross the threshold. They also had riders money for two away matches to cough up. From the postings on here of Kevin and Glyn, (the guys who know the track best) there was a fair chance of it going ahead, given more time. It's a shame it sounds like the Leicester promoters dealt with it a bit ham-fistedly.

I'm guessing that club owners don't need to be licensed/approved by the BSPA as they don't have the responsibilities of promoters (and being licensed and governed by BSPA/ACU rules) in terms of running a meeting and maybe don't deal with the BSPA/ACU. So whilst Leicester still has two licensed promoters, DH can still call the shots and at the same time sidestep any other aspects of the suspension which would apply to him were he still a promoter. I guess it also depends on how happy the promoters are, to let him carry on calling the shots and where the line is drawn between the three of them.

And you can be sure that if customers and staff don't turn up, the Hemsleys will be blaming everyone else except themselves

Such a patronising tone to the message! "We are planning to keep the bar area open so fans can watch the football match on the television if they wish". Sounds like a bl**dy public school Headmaster. Your customers ain't underling pupils, David, they're grownups. How about: "We'll have a TV set up in the bar, and supporters will be welcome to come in and watch the football after the end of our match."

Think the Mercury may get a letter from DH's solicitors for mis-quoting him! And the BSPA could slap another fine on him for making another fraudulent comment

In his Leicester Mercury piece today Mr Hemsley says Sky cameras will the there at Beaumont Park on Monday.

Add it to the long list of fraudulent statements !

Not having any personal experience of course in SCB/ACU disciplinary processes, but from my laymans viewpoint I'm surprised that DH seems to be attempting to turn the process into an investigation into the competency of officials and, by implication, a wider issue about competency of the SCB/ACU in the training and on-going professional development of officials. However, the disciplinary hearing and subsequent fine and other sanctions was brought about due to DH's own personal CONDUCT in relation to the rules which he as a promoter, was subject to abiding by. Surely the appeal needs to likewise focus on those areas, e.g. whether or not the comments made by DH (whatever they were), really were "fraudulent"? If he has issues with the official and his conduct and competency (including the competency of the SCB/ACU, and they may welll be valid concerns), shouldn't they be raised by DH separately. It does look as if he is trying to turn this around into putting SCB/ACU on trial, including the claim for damages, but is this the right way to be going about it?

There isn't such a thing as a third heat leader now, and in some cases no such thing as a second heat leader, just a revolving door of riders who happen to have the no.3 and no.5 positions in a team at any given time, who may even come up from and then return back to no.6 or 7. May as well just go to 15 heats of nominated riders and have done with it.

Well.........what do you think??

Ha! If he was up before the beak for the likes of those, they'd struggle to finish the hearing within a week!

Does anyone know about the two "fraudulent comments" Mr Hemsley was judged to be guilty of making - what he said and when/where/how they were made?

He entertains a fantasy of being some kind of heroic renegade, stirring up the established order and emerging triumphant. This usually ends up in either of two outcomes: 1. Go down in history as a hero 2. Go down in history a a complete prat

It needs two divisons of 10 teams each, with 2 or 3 up and 2 or 3 down promotion/relegation. Low team points limits. Scrap the FDR system, maybe have 6-man teams. Top 5 in each dvision have playoffs. Bottom 5 in Division 1 have relegation playoffs. Bottom 5 in Div 2 have playoffs for one-off playoff v winners of NL, with possible promotion/relegation at stake.

I think someone on here has said the fine could be taken from the bond, if it remained unpaid. Whether thats true or not I dont know, or what the timescale would be. Maybe if that were to happen, would trigger his promoters license being revoked. Clearly theres been far more going on over the past couple of years than just the recent incident.

So the SCB take the opportunity to do something they may have been awaiting the chance of, for some time. Whilst the promoters license has been suspended, D.Hemsley as proprietor/director continues to control the company that runs speedway at Beaumont Park, but he can no longer represent the club at the governing body level. Unless he wants to blow his entire bond money, he's unlikely to relinquish that role and I doubt if the SCB has the power to strip him of it, either. Whether his conduct now makes him unfit to be a company director, could be another matter! So Leicester is left with Darcy and Machin as the BSPA/SCB approved promoters, but at local level Hemsley is effectively still their boss. That must now put Darcy and Machin in potentially a difficult situation. Would they want to continue, because if not, that would really cause a problem wouldn't it?

Case of muddle along till the season finishes, revolving door of riders at full tilt, then hope that some new and competent promotion & management come along (and it would involve DH being realistic about the selling price - if it's not gone bust by then, in which case somebody could buy it cheap). Then it would need to sport's admin and governing bodies, and the promoters in general, to come up with something better and suitable as far as the leagues is concerned. Leicester to make a sound decision on where to be within that structure. And finish the track re-vamp. If all that happens, there might be hope.

I've read the article in the Lakeside match programme headed "Lioness" (or something like that), it has a picture of somebody who I guess is Mrs Hemsley, so its fair to presume that she "wrote" it. There were obviously concerns over falling crowd levels. Well, maybe they have improved in the two meetings since it was written, I don't know. But what an utter load of whingeing tripe. Blaming everything and everyone. OK there was some substance, such as the LCFC factor, but anything about what's being done to try and negate those effects? No, presumably because the answer to that one would be "nothing". So were those words really those of Mrs or of Mr Hemsley? Or a joint effort? Not that it makes any difference I suppose. The way it appears, is that DH has abdicated, exited stage left, legged it from the scene of the crime like a drunk driver getting away from the accident he's caused, leaving his Mrs and others to try to clear up the mess and provide the alibis. Among those who have decided to turn their backs, are probably people who now realise the truth,that they have been fed a complete heap of bull, garbage about top riders apparently keen to sign for Leicester. When people realize they've been duped, they go away. It isn't just Leicester that's the problem of course. The Elite league is a sham because it's propped up by the so-called inferior leagues, so it's a wider problem. But the decision to join that league was based around personal ego rather than business sense and, like other key mistakes, involved the ignoring of good advice.