
PotteringAround
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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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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. -
Belle Vue Aces 2020
PotteringAround replied to Phil The Ace's topic in SGB Premiership Speedway League
Why do they tell these porkie pies when it's so easy to check the truth? Flight EZY8268/U28268 from Copenhagen to Gatwick landed 9 minutes ago, and you can easily see all the other scheduled flights between the UK and Denmark as they take off and land. -
Premiership Junior League
PotteringAround replied to BuxtonTiger's topic in SGB Premiership Speedway League
Really? Where does it say it's not regionalised? Just says all 7 teams are involved, and they'll race opponents over a 4-man 6-heat format. Doesn't say whether the opponents are every other team in the entire league, or just every other team in the regionalised group. -
Training track Lancashire ????
PotteringAround replied to Eastville Bulldog's topic in Training Tracks / Amateur
Maybe he means he missed out on the great toilet roll hoarding craze? Perhaps that's why he's having to "wind it back in". -
Training track Lancashire ????
PotteringAround replied to Eastville Bulldog's topic in Training Tracks / Amateur
No. You thought it was near Buxton. So "wind your neck back in" (Whatever that's supposed to mean). -
Training track Lancashire ????
PotteringAround replied to Eastville Bulldog's topic in Training Tracks / Amateur
What's Buxton got to do with it? Buxton is in the East Midlands, not a million miles from Stoke (And why we haven't got the Stoke and Buxton promotions working together running a combined team from Buxton, I don't know. But that's a different story). He's talking about a training track for Lancashire. (Lancashire runs from the Lake District down to the north of Manchester). As for not going down well with Belle Vue, I think they'd welcome a facility to train up North West kids, as they seem to be the one Premier League side interested in youngsters. If I were thinking of a training track in Lancs, The first thing I'd do is contact Belle Vue to get their input and help. -
Training track Lancashire ????
PotteringAround replied to Eastville Bulldog's topic in Training Tracks / Amateur
Belle Vue National Stadium run the No Limits training days, but I've always thought the NSS track is too big to learn on. You need to learn to turn a bike somewhere very tight like Buxton, Scunny training track, or the old Sheffield training track. A training track in South Lancashire close to Manchester might prove complementary to the NSS -
Kean's brother?
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Predictions thread
PotteringAround replied to cheekycobra's topic in SGB Championship League Speedway
Erm., No. If you know nothing you can't know something. Knowing nothing and knowing something are complete opposites. -
Peterborough Panthers 2020
PotteringAround replied to bigcatdiary's topic in SGB Premiership Speedway League
He's British, and has never ridden here under a foreign licence, so of course he gets 2.5% discount off his average. -
I haven't seen it, hence my use of the word "apparently". They usually make the rulebook downloadable from the SCB site at the start of the year (it's not there yet) but I assume officials have a copy of the book, and I've been told the idea for handicap racing in the NT isn't in the book, and has been binned. We shall see when it goes online.
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Is it true, the idea of handicap racing in the 2020 National Trophy has now been binned? Apparently not in the new rulebook.
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Freddie Lindgren music video
PotteringAround replied to stevebrum's topic in Speedway News and Discussions
It was a record for the Ben Fund. They called themselves "The Rivals". The record was called "Speedway" with a B-side called "Hoskins Still Rides" It was Bert Harkins, Graeme Stapleton, Peter Collins, Jim McMillan, John Louis, Scott Autrey, Dag Lovaas, Nigel Boocock, Terry Betts, Pete Smith, Martin Ashby, Malcolm Brown, George Hunter -
Decent enough nickname. Royals doesn't sound too silly, and ties in to the Kings name. "Kent Royals" is OK. However if the team had been in Sussex, there might have been some objections from the very top!
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I'm sure you'll always be welcome as a contributing member of the "BFS"
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Newcastle's loss is the National League's gain.
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MSDL Destroyed by BSPA?
PotteringAround replied to Sings4Speedway's topic in Speedway News and Discussions
I'm very sceptical that this proposed new Premiership Development League will even happen, and if it starts I doubt it will see the season out. People underestimate the amount of work voluteers running MDSL teams put in. (e.g. Carmarthen at Stoke the last few years). Organising to get 4 riders around the country, for no money, for every fixture takes considerable dedication, and I can't imagine Premiership promoters being willing to put in that level of work to make it happen. Will Ipswich be able to find 4 young kids to travel up to Belle Vue, for no money, on a Monday night? Will Sheffield be able to find 4 young kids to travel down to Swindon, for no money, on a Thursday night? The Premiership promoters will feel they have enough to worry about with the Belle Vue v Ipswich, and Swindon v Sheffield PL matches, without having to worry about finding riders for a 2nd half junior league. The second half leagues we've had with the MDL and MDSL over the past 10 years or so have produced numerous young British riders. We need these competitions if we are to develop young British talent, but I fear the BSPA "Bull in a China Shop" approach for 2020 is a huge mistake. Their killing of the MDSL will deprive kids of track time. Of course if the new league does succeed, then young British kids attached to the PL teams will have got good track time from 12 matches (6 home, 6 away). But will that happen??? Check back in October. -
Peterborough Panthers 2020
PotteringAround replied to bigcatdiary's topic in SGB Premiership Speedway League
Strange choice of gif image for a contract signing. It's from The Simpsons. A contract signed by Apu and Manjula when they sell their 8 children to Eddie Munster and Zoo owner Larry Kidkill to become acts in a circus freakshow. They have to steal the babies back, and the contract ends up being fulfilled by Homer Simpson riding round on a clown's bike. Prophetic?