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arnieg

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  1. His obsession with private equity as a solution seems rather odd, given their modus operandi is generally to buy up businesses and strip out costs (and assets, transferring them to the ownership of related companies). The end result is generally very good for property developers and not so good for the businesses. The care home sector has been particularly crippled by these vultures.
  2. Plus 5% for home guests making 7.44. That means King, Ellis, Schlein and Batchelor can guest at Alwalton but not away.
  3. Very little weight will be given to objections with no connection from the area, unless it is a matter of factual expertise or you can introduce a local connection (e.g. visiting Hoddesdon and spending money in local economy), and I think most councillors would be sceptical of the latter if they were aware of how speedway operated. You are right about councillors attitude to retrospective applications, but most still get passed.
  4. A league table with quarter points. Very odd. Even odder the DMU site shows a different table. Having popped the DMU regs through auto translate I think you have the correct standings and not the DMU! (The DMU have scored the cup semi finals and final (!!) as 3-2-1-0 match points)
  5. That was the most sensible piece of TV direction all night. Done because someone prepared ALL the captions from left to right instead of right to left.
  6. A rare outing for the old 24 rider knockout format as previously used in the GPs. And featuring well known German Fraser Bowes.
  7. Same here I had Oxford, Bristol (running when I applied), Poole (Southampton uni), Coventry (Warwick uni) and Exeter on my UCCA form.
  8. Most of the handful of ex-Racers supporters that regularly went to Blunsdon would probably find it easier to support Oxford, whereas most of us went to Swindon to support the visitors.
  9. I assume there will be no Ed Kennett following his absence last night [10.5 (h)]
  10. In the UK: California, Norwich, Southampton, Ellesmere Port and Castleford Abroad: San Bernadino (original track), Vladivostock, Sydney Showground, Vastervik, Torun
  11. Leicester Lions onezies appeared last night!
  12. Ian Jordan on Facebook a few minutes ago: "A statement will be made regarding some issues identified ... in the next day or so"
  13. You what? You must have been on pretty strong medication that night!
  14. Discussed recently in the context of Harris and Nicholls at Peterborough. Jorgensen is listed above Aarnio, so either: 1) going to 3rd/4th decimal place Jorgensen is above Aarnio, or 2) their averages are identical, in which case the previous month's GSAs apply and Jorgensen is ranked ahead of Aarnio because of their July averages (6.91 v 6.85). Either way, the conclusion is that Ellis doesn't get an R/R ride.
  15. And next up heat 10 sponsored by Bobbins dry cleaners
  16. Any tweak to these rules would have a minor impact in practice, but would add a few more paragraphs to the rulebook, but create further opportunities for confusion. The key is to consider how the rules are structured to ensure an exit strategy which allows riders continued progression. This was the major failing of past schemes and is a notable absentee from the current regulations.
  17. Pontus is currently averaging over 9 in the Elitserien (compared with 6.6 for Berntzon), higher than Freddie Lindgren, Lambert, Janowski, Fricke
  18. But it does substantially reduce their options. For example Benjamin Basso and other rising Danish stars would appear to be ruled out.
  19. In one respect it should be easier this season as rearranging fixtures will be less problematic because fewer riders have commitments in other leagues, which normally make it so difficult to find new dates. For example only three riders appear regularly in GB and the Elitserien (Becker, Ellis and Kurtz) Only Adam Ellis rides in the Championship and Elitserien Bar a single appearance by Leon Flint no rider active in GB has ridden in the Alsvenskan this season
  20. I thought you were being a tad melodramatic, until I read it. It basically translates as "man who disagreed with me died" Do I detect the hand of the notoriously thin-skinned Mr Godfrey?
  21. Fajfer is currently 10th in Elitserien averages, above Janowski and Fricke.
  22. Plenty of us at the match were discussing this during the interval. The other option would have been Woodhull in ht 13 leaving Coles for heat 14
  23. The track was pretty shocking, the last 8 heats were largely won by the riders who missed the holes.
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