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Indeed It was clear that us and Eastbourne were forced up by them threatening 6 man teams and a silly points limit in the winter of 2018 , Kent were pretty much forced up too a year later. For various reasons none have worked out well. In case of Brummies and Eagles too big a financial hit too soon to be able to properly compete seems the issue. The NDL by 2018 had become the "Championship lite" many now seek. A bit like soccer EFL to PL is a big jump so is NDL to CL - difference in Soccer is you get north of £100,000,000 to soften the blow, in Speedway you go from being a successful team to a struggling one or have to throw huge sums at it and still no guarantee of success, and have to pay disproprtionately large bonds to BSPL for the pleasure. Admittedly at the other end of the spectrum it did Clubs like Buxton and Stoke no favours and had the same detrimental impact on them, which is very sad. Not sure what the Dugard family hierarchy fixation with "no NDL is" - may be if its re-branded Championship lite - they may re-think. Balls in their Court I guess?

At least Havvy can be in the Pub at 10am

"rain seeped under the covers" - is the cricket explanation possibly

No doubt it will mysteriously and against all predictions piss it down in Poole again then tomorrow at 6pm with hundreds stood outside the Gates. Forecast I'm looking at for Devon looks awful all day - especially this afternoon and evening.

Looks like South West / South are in for a big dollop of rain today and tomorrow but nice and dry and sunny most other places. According to Plymouth website track was perfect yesterday and dry and they have put some covers on parts of the track. Be good for both Teams to get it over and done with and move on.

Good old twitter.

Nothing on the website for 14th - it's all a week old in respect of this match. Poor show to anyone not knowing there is an actual match this Wednesday Even the old format Brummies site says "new date" for our rearranged clash

Barker and Kennett appear to have same average to 2 decimal places according to BSPL website. How many decimal places to they go to in terms of splitting / deciding? At some statistical point can they decide who to use at No 1 if the same average?

Looks like Plymouth have the same Team for the Home leg tomorrow and definitely stronger for the Away Leg than they would have been last week! May be not strong enough though? Will probably need a 15 point lead I think from Home Leg. https://plymouth-speedway.com/latest-news/

Very slow off the mark in Poole about the 2nd Leg of this match on Wednesday. At least Plymouth have confirmed their Teams for both Legs. https://plymouth-speedway.com/latest-news/

100% Watching WTC at Vojens with a few hundred there was awful TV Seeing Cardiff barely 35% full is not good TV Imagine BV with extra capacity up to about 11k FULL to the Brim and comments like (we could have filled the place 3 x over)...it's just a completely different and entirely positive perception that encourages sponsors in, encourages stay aways to think about going back and encourages newcomers about a sport that even if it's for a day "looks vibrant" Marketing is 99% bullcrap and 1% fact....anyway

Things need to be proportionate. The Queen loved some sports and attended many she probably didn't like but out of duty. Maybe a moratorium until midnight on Friday and then carry on as only when Sport is allowed to take place RESPECT be evidenced like it was last night. 12 days is too much, 2 days would be sufficient in my opinion and then let all Sports show their respects in the following week.

They really need to make the full findings public. That answers the questions with facts. They probably won't and that does the Sport no good. Plenty of issues in the past that have either been swept under the carpet and in to the long grass, or penalties reported but no full explanation.

The only proper decision under the circumstances

Once again you make completely unsubstantiated comments. Legal substances taken to excess are not illegal drugs. Legal substances taken to excess is stupid, dangerous and wrong. Hence the ban of way less than 2 years. Where is your evidence that illegal drugs were taken. People in glass houses should not throw stones. That applies to the past and present of riders you are quite happy to support. Riders you are happy to support have done far worse and been accused of far worse. No need to go further on that matter on a public forum. People who know do know, people in the sport do know, people affected do know, no need to name names, let's leave the hypocracy to you.. and you are a complete hypocrite to not see that fact.

BB ban suggests its lower end of the scale. Probably prescription drugs. Serious and foolish but not something involving illegal banned drug use otherwise it would have been 2 years minimum. There others who've done far worse and come back and others accused of far worse who rode on. Up to Plymouth and Ipswich now whether they want to hire him for 2023. Not clear if the RR facility remains.

All this sanctimonious "nasty Plymouth" rubbish from Poole. It's nothing new for Britain's most unpopular Club. In the Ford era. Any Premier / Elite Club of the past 2 decades will testify Neighbours like Swindon and Eastbourne will certainly testifty. Plymouth are just the latest target. It's what Poole do. Pure and simple. Crocodile years, fancy Dan bullies..

Do you think the owner is King Canute? Not easy to stop water tables.

Is there no way of a short term reprieve for Armadale? Could be a lot of planned developments delayed in the next few months due to cost of living crisis, affecting business and also the prospective housing markets, if people can't get or afford mortgages then house building will slow down. 2024 seems a lot more practical than 2023 in terms of new stadium

He hates rain Aggravates his foot in mouth disease

Typical of the bully boy. Scott Nicholls happy to Guest, Richie Worrall, Kyle Howarth, Josh Pickering, so many others b4 Play Off Guest rules came in to place. Lawson and Danny King were too until Poole got "frit" and banned them from Guesting for Plymouth allegedly (from a Poole source that so who knows)!

Shame it's off a great send off for a really underrated rider. Hopefully get it on next week. Wonder if Sedgeman, Starke and Wright or Roynon might be hot footing it down to Poole.

Loyalty is very laudible Blind aliegence is a very dangerous trait.

When you Guest in terms of the composition of the team and eligibility for RR rides etc, you assume the average of the rider you are guesting for.

100% bully!!!