SpeedyOne

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Becker and Etheridge will strengthen up the Poole reserve berths. R/R could do better than Richie Worrall on one of his worst tracks. The Poole horse-for-courses select could spring a surprise here.

What on earth are you going on about? No one said anything about Beta Blockers. Howarth has said he took Night Nurse. Before doing a drugs screening test at the track the rider is asked if they have taken any medication. Since he's said he took NIght Nurse, (and we have no evidence of anything else) we can only assume that NIght Nurse is the reason the screening test threw up what they call a "non-negative", which needs to be tested. With a "non-negative" in the screening test, the rider is disqualified from the meeting, and the sample has to undergo a drugs test at a laboratory. Of course if any rider's drugs test comes back positive for a banned substance they deserve to be banned for a long time. But if what Howarth says is true, then the drugs test will identify Night Nurse, and he'll be free to continue riding because Night Nurse doesn't contain anything on the WADA banned list. (There are many websites you can google yourself where you can easily see the IOC's list of what medications are on the WADA banned list).

Please, not even in jest! The league currently has a coordinator who might take you seriously on this. Don't give him silly ideas. If I were the events organiser for the NL Fours and Pairs, the first second* thing I would do is tell the BSPA I need priority granting for these fixtures the same as the NLRC, so that I don't end up looking stupid if other clubs come bumbling in, 2 weeks before the event, taking away riders. (*obviously the first thing I'd do is order a personally monogrammed anorak).

What would be the point of track covers, if as you say "it's fine here" at the moment? (assuming the "here" you refer to is Gorton?) If the latest weather forecast is correct that it's now 80%+ going to pee down at 7pm and 8pm, again what would be the point of track covers? Do you think they can race on top of track covers? In view of forecast heavy rain from 7pm and 8pm onwards, and a depleted Mildenhall team, I'd suspect it works out for the best to postpone and restage with a full team on a nice dry day.

Dry all day with a 50% chance of a light shower at 6pm? Wouldn't have thought that would bother the BV track.

Are we perhaps not looking at this from the right perspective? Speedway these days is not a big sport, and doesn't give many people an income. In fact most people investing time and money in the sport do so knowing they're going to get very little back, and probably not even cover their costs. Say for instance you ran the track spares van at Leicester. It's hardly a money-spinner. Or say you had the burger van concession at Leicester. Probably not going to make you a millionaire. So how would you react if someone rocked up at Leicester selling fuel and oil etc and taking away the official spares man's meagre earnings? How would you react if someone parked a burger van outside the Leicester car park, taking the business of the guy who had paid for an official concession? Why should the Leicester official track photographer be any different? As far as I understand it, all of the official track photographers across the country usually provide all the pictures to the clubs free of charge. in return they might get a few quid back to cover their expenses by flogging pics to outside media outlets or the track shop for supporters to buy. Now an enthusiastic 17-year-old might not be any real threat to professional photographers, but if we give carte-blanche to people to just turn up at any track taking snaps, how long before the professional photographers decide it's no longer worth the cost of fuel to cover speedway? And the sport loses out? It might just be enthusiasm, but it does sound like this 17-year-old has encroached on the work of official photographers at half a dozen tracks. Perhaps the answer is for him to concentrate on his own local track and learn the trade there, with a view to becoming that track's official photographer? (N.B. I only used Leicester as an example in the above. I don't know who the photographer, spares man, or burger seller is at Leicester, but you can change Leicester for any other track name. The point is the same).

The major shareholder and director of Pinegen Ltd who publish "Speedway Star".

Well, it depends which club you are. When Belle Vue (under a previous promotion) fabricated a burst water pipe because Zagar had missed his flight, they got hauled over the coals, hit with a massive fine, and weren't allowed to call another meeting off for 2 years without SCB permission. Now that Birmingham have done the same and fabricated a "electrical fault" because Adam Ellis was missing, will they suffer the same punishment from the SCB? (Although there is a precedent that when Poole did the same thing they got away scot-free.) But not sure why this thread is titled "F.A.O. Phil Rising", surely it should be "F.A.O. Neil Vatcher"? He's the one you should all be addressing your concerns to.

Apart from all the "apparentlys", you only have to look back at all the other "facts" in all his previous posts which turned out to be pure fiction, to see he's just a troll with a downer on Belle Vue. Must be awful to be that bitter. But at least his made up stories give us a laugh.

This is wrong. Head to heads don't matter with 3 or more tied teams. It is total bonus points that matter. This is correct.

So for the cost of MikeBV taking his son to Kent to watch an NL meeting, he could instead have 2 adults and 8 kids attend Belle Vue, and still get £3 back? Racing must be incredible at Kent.

And the forecast was right. Raining late afternoon... raining at start time... still raining at what would have been finishing time. And the temperature never rose above 4 degrees. Even if riding had been somehow possible with the superb NSS drainage (it wasn't), no one would have wanted to stand/sit out in that weather for 2 hours. Only an idiot would think the promotion didn't make the right call. (cue the forum idiot).

Nicki took Pawlicki wide. Didn't leave him much room at all, and Pawlicki bailed. I'd agree with an exclusion for Pedersen as he ran him up just that bit too much. But nothing to comment on beyond an everyday run-of-the-mill exclusion. As for Ward, well I hate to see him the way he is now. I'd love to have him fit and well and back on a bike racing. I don't want to see any rider suffering the effects of serious injury. But as a person, he was an obnoxious pillock before his accident, and he's still an obnoxious pillock now.

1. Belle Vue 2. Kent 3. Stoke 4. Cradley 5. Leicester 6. Isle of Wight 7. Plymouth 8. MIldenhall

Once a Pirate, always a Pirate, but since moving to Glossop I get to see more of the NSS, Buxton (RIP), and Owlerton, than dear old Wimborne Road. Although, to be fair, there are people living on the Isle of Wight who know more about Belle Vue than you do.

Ooops. Got it wrong again. Crowds have actually gone up. Although they want to get them to go up an awful lot more yet. Try sticking to just posting your daft opinions. No one can dispute that they are just your opinions (however daft). When you post things that are factually incorrect (as you have been doing), you're only going to look a fool.

Ah. That explains a lot. That's why nothing he posts actually agrees with the facts. A bitter and twisted ex-fan Quite the opposite. He walks the terraces talking to and listening to fans. And not just at BV. I saw him at Wolves last year in discussion with fans He admits he'd never seen the sport until he joined BV, and I've never seen him tell a fan he knows more about the history of the sport than them. Although in actual fact he's learnt a lot in a few years and is now quite knowledgeable. Probably far less clueless than you. Ooops got it wrong again. He's got a strong business background, and had worked for Belle Vue's multi-millionaire owners for a long time before. (They are major players in telecomms and aerospace. Both been directors of British Aerospace, and one the current CEO of Airbus!). Here's your chance to give us your business credentials Speedytiger. (Make something up, we can't check up on you. Something glamorous... Lorry driver? Roadsweeper? Go for it!) Maybe check you're doing it right. I've never had a problem emailing him or finding him at the track to talk to, or even leaving a message with someone else for him. Keeping the volunteers out? More unfathomable nonsense. Can you list all the BV matches that were cancelled because the start marshal, clerk of the course, machine examiner, announcer, first aiders, programme sellers, etc etc were locked outside by Adrian Smith? He's also doing a very poor job of keeping ex-riders out, as there are always plenty of them at matches... Unless you're talking about one particluar bitter stubborn ex-rider who doesn't come to BV since falling out with John Perrin? A silly stubborn man who refused the invites of the Mole/Thomas promotion to come back, then refused the invites of the Gordon/Morton promotion to come back...and guess what? Adrian Smith tried to get him to come back, but he remains bitter and twisted. (You might get on with him).

One would think so. It seems voting will be open from the interval (after heat 10) via twitter. You don't have to be at the meeting to vote (so everyone in the country can nominate Poole's 2 lowest scorers for heat 14), then the team manager nominates for heat 15, choosing from everyone except those who were in heat 14.

The heat format hasn't changed, and is the same across all 3 leagues. The only different heat format needed is for the new Supporters Cup competition, which is the old 13 heat format plus a heat 14 nominated by the supporters via a twitter vote, and heat 15 nominated by the team managers.

Enthusiast: Well that's the last time I stop an old man in Penge High Street and ask for information. I think he must have dementia. He doesn't realise that Birmingham Bulls race at Birmingham, Isle of Wight Wizards race on the Isle of Wight, and Plymouth race at Plymouth. I'm glad I didn't ask him about Mason Wear or any of the teams in Football League 1.

These would have been good contributions if the title of the thread had been "The Name's Not the Same"

So from claiming to have all the facts, it's now gone to having zero facts, and it's descended to nothing more than one of those Speedway Star letters... "I've been a fan for 40 years, so my own odd opinion is more valid than everyone else's..." and "I have some good mates"

You're not surprised what recorded figures are true??? You have no access to any recorded figures for crowds or for "average rider costs" do you? First you misread a balance sheet as a Profit & Loss account, now you're claiming to have recorded crowd and rider cost figures that you simply don't have. Basically you're just making stuff up based on your own opinions and guesses which are anything but accurate

No it doesn't. What you are (mis)reading there is the total at the bottom of an abbreviated balance sheet, not a Profit & Loss account. As with all small companies they only have to file micro accounts. They only need to file an abbreviated balance sheet and do not have to file the profit and loss account. So you will not be able to see what profit or loss was made. They may have had to spend £250,000 buying all kinds of intangibles to take over the club, and only lost £20k running the season. On the other hand the owners could have injected £1M into the project and acually lost £1.25M running the season. There's no way of knowing without the information.