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I’m sticking my neck out, James Wright

His average would be to high wouldn’t it ? I don’t know

Can’t be Tony, he must be 60 by now???😉

So you think it’s funny do you, parents spending £1000/s of pounds from when there kids are 8/9 years of age to maybe make a good fist of it around the age of 15, and a slim chance of getting a team spot, then after maybe 6/7/8 years of those parents losing money travelling everywhere to say a NJL fixture and the club says sorry curfew is happened or something else not tonight guys, and you still stick at it and then you get overlooked by clubs who bring in riders who just fancy coming over here and trying their luck and who as you say will turn up?(bit difficult not when you are 12,000 miles from home) ahead of you it’s no surprise when the cupboard is increasingly empty. I’m telling you that not one parent of the youth section believes that they are entitled to anything, what they want is a fair crack at it for the countless hours they have done keeping their kids racing when the easiest thing was to pack up, and without doubt attitudes like yours more parents will gradually do the latter.

It’s a absolute disgrace that Edinburgh has a bspa member in control of the club and has always ran a youth meeting but see fit to unveil a development team that has 5 members that are lets be honest not British youth riders and never have been, are they really saying that this is the best way forward to developing British speedway in the long term, if so god help us or have they just been just taking the micky out of every parent who’s spending hard earned money to try and get their kids through the system, they ain’t the only ones but this many is scandalous

Imho Jody and his team have thought about this sensible, he’s been racing for a couple of years and needs to properly adapt and grow his skills, developing, that’s why they started the league, some riders are made for it some do and in coming days riders return and should not be allowed but don’t please single out individuals, that is not what it’s about

Imho Jody and his team have thought about this sensible, he’s been racing for a couple of years and needs to properly adapt and grow his skills, developing, that’s why they started the league, some riders are made for it some do and in coming days riders return and should not be allowed but don’t please single out individuals, that is not what it’s about

Exactly what people are missing here, most Australians have family here with them, kids in school etc and they need a English visa so have to work here, apparently visa is not easy to get in Poland and school would not be English I imagine for the kids!

Max now lives in northwich, not far from Manchester airport

They won’t get a visa to enter the country in the first place unless they have a British team, therefore they will have to Poland or Sweden where they might struggle with their families for English language schools, it’s really that simple, nobody’s saying that they will not ride in Poland but lots of the Australian lads have families too consider

Personally I think that’s exactly correct, speedway season last approximately 6/7 months, April can be busy or quiet, September can be the same, so that’s 4/5 months probably busy, however, riders class themselves as professional self employed, I’m professional self employed building worker, now I’m not having a pop at any rider but I’m working all year round and have to so what is wrong with these guys having a 2nd job? Yes some weeks they might have a few meetings on, take holidays from other job, etc, most have a guy who is on the spanners being full time or near as, stop that and have him on a meeting basis, and do the bikes when you can, because that’s the only way this is going to work, years ago riders did it, roads were certainly not as good to travel on so riders spent longer getting there and back but still got up for work , it’s about wanting it or not and only they can decide, but working 5/6 months and trying to earn enough for 12 ain’t possible

Because they don’t want to lose money on additional meetings helping bringing British youngsters through unless those youngsters are prepared to pay for everything from racing here or abroad and then if the odd one suceeds they claim them and shower them with affection until they blow up and walk away and deny they ever existed! And that’s where the story ends

Crazy if you say that is true, we excepted what was offered because track time and team place was and is more important than trying to make money at this level, imho

Maybe not for established riders but believe me at the lower levels there is definitely a rate and most junior riders except those for gaining track time imho.

Riders at NDL level are given the points money and travelling expenses by the club, and it’s not very much at all, it’s about gaining track time on the first level of racing, believe me I personally don’t know of any rider making demands, unless they are extremely sought after for guesting, otherwise its a standard rate