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I'd be willing to bet Berwick top 60. I think Oxford are carrying to much baggage.

The problem is how do you decide what a good crowd is? many posters within this forum I imagine remember crowds upwards of 10K back in the "Good old day's" but now there is so much to factor in. Fewer top stars in British racing, lower standard racing, Cheaper & more frequent flights, the need to accomodate visiting riders & of course the modern human. I attended a Promotion/Fans get together & someone asked why dont you get a couple of riders with their bikes to attend schools in the area. A good idea in principle & a very good idea in 1975 but as I mentioned above "The modern human" we need to get the youth away from their hand held devices for a 90 minute period. They will come to watch but when a meeting is strung out & 15 races take from 19:30 until 22:00 they get bored & never return but the worst is to come when they put on their social media account how slow & boring speedway was & they will never go again. In short run a slick show start on time pre-meeting presentation 19:15 first race 19:30 at the tapes run to the finish 21:00 (without intervals) victory parade (15 Minutes) second half races until 22:00. If this was sustained maybe we could hold the attention of the youth & the word SPEED in our sport of SPEEDWAY might just mean something again.

I don't like the new site at all. All I want is the information & to be able to find it easily. The old site gave me that. This is not an improvement.

Give the guy a chance. It's his first time & there will be a lot of pressure on this meeting for all involved with the stream.

I don't think he would be allowed to double up as he is a permit rider on an assessed average. I believe it would be against his work permit regulations & not the BSPL rules for a change. I guess you could argue that Basso is in the same position average wise but he is in the second year of his permit & he's riding for teams that wear red.

Jason Edwards (Mildenhall) 8.84 Luke Crag (Berwick) 6.41 Nathan Ablitt (Belle Vue) 6.29 Sam McGurk (Belle Vue) 5.25 George Rothery ( Armadale) 4.92 Ben Trigger (Plymouth) 3.57 Luke Killeen (Oxford) 3.00 Total 38.28 I had a team ready at 35.00 so with a little bit of juggling I managed to find a few more points. Lets hope all the boys stay injury free this year.

I agree the BSPA rule has been increased to 40.00 However we are not racing to their rules in this project. On the first post it states as Usual we are running to a 35.00 limit. & as yet Islander has not sent us an update. I have built a team to the 35.00 limit & don't want to be at a disadvantage so I would like the rule's for this season to be released prior to submitting my lineup. If we are to move to a higher limit so be it. Islander has already said he would organise the game & I am waiting for him to do so.

I have a Question. Post 1 page 1 states that teams are limited to 35.00. So far all teams listed are over 39.00 & I suppose looking at a 40.00 limit. have we changed the rules of this fun game?

I don't think Plymouth would be allowed a facility for Edward Kennett as he has not ridden for the club & withdrew prior to any official team declaration being made

Good man. I'll be looking forward to the rules & then finding out what all the new averages are.

He has worked with Robins for many years when his racing commitments have allowed but now he has a family & like all of us over the last few years has had to look at his life & reevaluate what is most important. if he has been offered a future proof position within the company then he would be foolish not to accept.

I understand what is being stated above & I agree it is a 40 year old idea. But I must point out that when we were 40 years younger it would be the thing that I wanted to collect each week. I think some of us need to take into consideration that we are the same age as old people. Many things have changed over the years, Who buys photos of riders today when you can have a selfie on your own phone, Match programmes are down because you can print a racesheet off of a website & all the news is on the internet. The one issue I have with the whole idea is each release will be a sheet of stickers so at all times everyone will have the same stickers. There will be no doubles so there will be no swaps with your mates. Which is the best bit of collecting the stickers.

It's funny how things change. Not so many years ago riders were only busy if they rode in more than 25 meetings a month all over Europe & back then there was no Easyjet, Ryanair or any other budget airline it had to be from & to a major airport on national airlines & that was if it were a topline star lesser riders would travel by road. I can remember a Czech rider racing at Oxford on Friday night then driving home for a weekend meeting & back for Reading on Monday.

You have a team with strength in depth but no real fire power in the top two. your team works hard to establish a lead you conceed a 5 - 1 in 13 & then again in 15 the result .... A draw. But wait now lets have a super heat or as we fans like to call it Ht 13 & 15 all over again. Why give the fans yet another negative to talk about after a fantastic meeting. Lets bring back Tac-Subs to give those clubs that don't have a Jason Doyle/ Freddie Lindgren to return an 11.00+ average make the points difference 8 & use unlimited T/S after Ht 4, retain the 3 ride minimum so reserves can only miss one race

My research shows that both riders represented the Russian federation (MFR) in last seasons FIM events & were on the SGP site as MFR again for this season. This would indicate that they are Russian & hold a Russian approved FIM licence & therefore would require permission from MFR to race in another countries territory & as the FIM currently doe's not recognise the MFR who would the PZM apply to. As was established earlier this week by Roy Humphrey (ACU President) when he announced that all Russians would be barred from any activity in all disciplines of motorcycle sport on ACU territory it may not be the individuals fault the this invasion is happening but it is not ours either.

I think its fair to say that what ever he said Vladimir Vladmirovich Putin didn't like it.

I wonder if the Russian riders scores & positions will be removed or weather the FIM will allow them to take any medal they might win. I remember in the World Speedway final of 1990 when Per Jonsson won with Shawn Moran second & Todd Wiltshire third Moran was removed from second for (I believe) a drug related offence but Wiltshire was not advanced from third so officially there was no silver medalist

Whilst I believe the FIM have made the correct decision to stop all Russian nationals entering their events this is not aimed at the two named riders but the Russian nation. We have to remember that there are more than a few Russians involved in the Ice racing & the SEC events then there are the qualifying rounds for all the World Championships. I really think that Artem Laguta & Emil Sayfutinov would have withdrawn from this season prior to the start because of the adverse reaction of the public domain against the actions of Mr Putin in Ukraine. I believe them to be good honest sportsmen caught up in a political fight they have no control over.

A very nice man. A great loss to Scottish speedway. I remember him helping son Ross in the pits when he was racing for the Monarchs. Best wishes to family & friends at this sad time

I don't honestly think anyone is blaming the two riders for the events in Ukraine. I believe that the two are held as the standard bearers for Russian speedway. Last season the finished first & third in the SGP but only as representitives of MFR not their nation of birth as the IOC have declared Russia is not to be represented. Whilst this is headlined " Sayfutinov & Laguta " it is more than that it will concern any Russian that would compete in the SGP qualification rounds all the way to the GP challange at Glasgow or the U21 riders & any of the SEC events. We need to look beyond these two. I understand the FIM are having a meeting regarding the Ice Racers which we all know to be dominated by the Russians & after this we may know a lot more

This is going to be a very tough decision for the FIM but even harder for the CCP as the only Russians competeing in any form of motorcycle sport at present are the Ice racers, We have a while longer to make a decision on the Speedway riders but with the IOC forcing the Russian team out of the Paralympics & not even allowing them to stand under the Olympic flag. I think the safest way forward for the FIM is to suspend all Russian nationals from competing outside of the MFR territory at this point.

It most certainly doe's not say anything of the sort within the IOC statement. Post's like yours are the type that cause the arguements. none of the points made in your post appear in the linked statement that was posted by Grachan.

After reading this statement from the IOC I don't think the FIM have any option but to exclude Sayfutinov & Laguta & all other Russians from any of their events. I would also assume they will issue a directive to all member federations to exclude any competitor or official from any events within their territory. I understand this is a tough call on the riders but it is my opinion that we are in a forced position that we must treat all Russian nationals in the same manner. Of course there are good & bad in all aspects of life & I bere no ill will to those mentioned but we must stand united against the actions of Mr Putin.

I do know a little bit about Simon Wigg & the reason he raced on a Dutch licence. Simon at the time was in dispute with the ACU. At the time he was the World Long Track Champion & wanted to race in all the major events in the European calender. THE ACU insisted that Simon must race in the British grasstrack championship for which he would have been happy to do, however as he had missed the previous seasons championship he would need to ride in a minimum of 6 club events then the qualifing round before the British final & if he didn't do this then the ACU would not enter him in the Long track Championship. Simon was not prepared to give up 8 weeks racing as the champion & found a loophole. That loophole was to race under a Dutch licence, Their only stipulation was that he would race for the Dutch speedway team also. Ironicly another rider was also having issues with his own federation at the same time. The Italian Armando Castanga & both riders represented the Dutch national team in a pairs event in Russia.

They are not racing under the Russian flag nor is the Russian anthem being played at any sporting event This is nothing to do with the current situation in Ukraine but issues with drugs over a long period. Emil Sayfutinov & Artum Laguta were representing the Russian federation (MFR) in international events last season & are due to represent them again. My opinion is that The FIM should remove all Russian's from their events whilst the current hostile situation exists. I understand that Emil holds a Polish passport & Like Gleb Chugenov (Russian) & Rune Holta (Norwegian) could possibly represent Poland.