PotteringAround
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Has British Speedway now reached the bottom?
PotteringAround replied to Wee Eck's topic in Speedway News and Discussions
Very poorly worded insensitive post. A bit like posting "Happy Birthday to Fred West - For all his faults, he laid a nice patio" -
It's you who missed the point. Yet you so nearly get there, and then completely miss. As you say, the BSP Limited has the right to choose whether to employ a rider or not. If they choose not to employ someone who is riding/has ridden with a rival organisation that's their prerogative. They are breaking no laws. But no one said they did! A rider is completely free to go and ride for whatever alternative organisation the Isle of Wight club might propose to race under. All we are saying is that such a rider would have to be prepared for the BSP Ltd to say, if you're riding for another organisation, you're not riding for us.
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Absolute nonsense. The BSPA choosing not to use the services of a rider who rides for a rival organisation is no different to someone choosing not to buy cosmetics from a company that tests their products on animals, or a vegetarian boycotting McDonalds.
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My Star arrived about 4am this morning! Only problem is that there's no plastic wrap, nor the good old brown envelope, so I'm worried that with the new thinner paper, on a rainy day, I'm just going to have a soggy pulpy mess stuck in the letterbox.
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35.83 ? Quite a bit over the limit?
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Definitely wouldn't be the case. The idea of the turnstile clicks was so that the owners of the Zoological gardens could check that the turnstile operator employees weren't stealing from them. The money handed in had to exactly match the number of turnstile clicks registered.
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Absolutely. I think the vast majority of people on here were gobsmacked when Ledwith was allowed in on a 3.50 average. He immediately doubled his average before settling back to around 6.00 by the end of the year, as was totally predictable, and indeed predicted by a large number of members of this forum. History is about to repeat itself here in an even weaker league. Seems a bit unfair on the novice 15-year-old 3.00 newcomer riders to know they're up against an experienced ex-NL heat leader who is only rated half a point higher.
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He's been out a long time (10 years) so should be reassessed, but he was a 7.20 rider then in a much tougher league. If he has been assessed at anything below 5 in such a weak league as this year's, they've been very, very lucky!
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Odsal??? I'll have a pint of what he's drinking.
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Suggest you buy a new calculator (presume you mean the limit will be 38.00 exactly?)
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Josh Embleton as 3rd heatleader on 4.83
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Belle Vue Aces 2020
PotteringAround replied to Phil The Ace's topic in SGB Premiership Speedway League
Wolves were 3rd in the league standings, Ipswich 4th. (The top 2 - Poole and Swindon - are no longer competing). -
Belle Vue Aces 2020
PotteringAround replied to Phil The Ace's topic in SGB Premiership Speedway League
Yes. After new boys Sheffield, the rest allegedly got to pick in order of the 2019 finl league table, worst to best, so the order of picking was Peterborough, King's Lynn,, Belle Vue, Ipswich, Wolves. (Though that does make you wonder why Drew Kemp wasn't picked earlier) -
Agree. The NSS, when full, is magnificent, and the track provides entertainment second to none. Plymouth Speedway Stadium might not match Arsenal's Emirates football ground, but I'd rather watch Speedway at Plymouth than Football at Arsenal. Having said that, Berwick Speedway is at least as good as Berwick Rangers football stadium. Poole Speedway is much better than Poole Town FC stadium. I'm sure we'd all like to have more state-of-the-art Speedway stadiums, but money talks, and you have to live within your means, and enjoy what you have. After all some people have rich lives and move to Mayfair, while others are stuck in Penge.
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Browsec is a free VPN. Download it to your browser, select USA, and you can watch the live world feed of GPs and SON.
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Poland & Russia still got to give the U-21 an outing. Only GB, Aussie & Denmark have used their U-21
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Trouble is, I don't see any price point that works for streaming. I'd say £12 is way too cheap to make streaming viable. If we go to Wolverhampton, it's £18 each and £7 each for the kids, so a total of £50 (plus programme, travel etc). If the weather was a bit dodgy in the morning, it would be a no brainer to buy the £12 stream rather than risk wasting a lot of money. So the club would lose £38.... It wouldn't take many families to make the same decision to bankrupt the club.
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British final 2020
PotteringAround replied to Nassa10's topic in Speedway Testimonials & Individual and Shared Events
Surely they've got to get Bewley back in now, if he can make the new date? They turned it from a British Final to the British Open by fiddling Crump into the line-up when it was going to be at Ipswich, to boost streaming sales. Surely they need to get Bewley in to further enhance streaming sales now that it's back at Belle Vue. No disrespect to Joe Thompson, but he was an afterthought when they were running out of riders. He's not British Final standard and won't sell any online tickets. -
As I thought. No sense of humour and a foul mouth.
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Having met Dan Bewley on numerous occasions, I've never known him be winging (or even whinging) about anything. He's a laid-back kid with a great attitude. Like all self-employed people in the country I'm sure he's worried about not having any work and an income, but if he's not sharing paranoid hysteria, and is retaining a sense of humour, then good on him. At a time of crisis I'd rather be in it with someone with a sense of humour like Dan, than a humourless moaning sod like DBP.
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Excuse me if I prefer to believe the NHS experts rather than you. p.s. Covid-19 doesn't cause sneezing. Someone coughing and sneezing likely has a common cold (which he could pass on) rather than Covid-19
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Because the virus transmits very poorly outdoors. Even in a 60,000+ crowd at Manchester United or Arsenal, if there was a fan with the virus, the absolute worst he could probably do is infect the two people sat either side of him, but that's far less likely than the chances of infecting the people either side of you in a supermarket bog roll queue. I'll wager the calling off of football is more about protecting the players who have an asset value of billions, than the fear thousands of fans could be infected. I'm guessing "county indoor bowls" isn't an outdoor stadium sport. More a few people in close proximity indoors.
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Belle Vue Aces 2020
PotteringAround replied to Phil The Ace's topic in SGB Premiership Speedway League
So that says there's nothing to stop anyone flying out of Denmark. And whilst people "without a worthy purpose" for entering Denmark can be rejected at the border, it specifies that people who live and work in Denmark are OK to enter. And we can track all the flights coming and going.... So there doesn't seem to be a problem.