RobMcCaffery

Post removed due to unacceptable behaviour on another thread Why should I try to help people here given what you get in return?. Sorry folks but I won't be pushed around. Totally disillusioned with this forum where the idiots are protected.

As ever the voice of reason Paulco. Damn - I was planning to visit Armadale in May - thank goodness only a couple of Monarchs know me these days ;-) It would have been so very different if King's Lynn hadn't moved in the opposite direction - and you don't have Hackney to embarrass these days ;-) Surely you could have a good row with Rye House....

Thousands of supporters enjoy PL racing every year. It takes more than names to make a race.

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Fair and reasoned points but In disagree regarding jealousy - that's just a lame 'cover all' excuse by the irritations. Of course any success attracts a some jealousy but, like the other points covered it is a matter of degree. Yes, all of the criticisms of Poole could be levied against other promotions through the years but never to this degree. The events at Swindon and Belle Vue blatantly defrauded the public and it incenses me to see people make mealy-mouthed excuses for both, or resorting to the thuggish defence of 'prove it'. The quoted examples of manipulation were minor compared to multiple 'engine failures'. We all have seen 4-2s turn into 3-3s to prevent the opposition using a tactical in the next race for example. It's a heck of a difference between that and riders repeatedly pulling out of races due to 'engine failures'. If I'd been at the Abbey that night I'd have demanded a refund - and not from the home promotion. Belle Vue had no control of that league meeting - they had lost that by their own lame attempt at manipulation earlier in the season in calling the original match off. I find it beyond credibility that the disgrace at Belle Vue would have happened had Poole not needed their three points. Whether Poole were directly involved or not the way in which that farce was prolonged just long enough for them to get what they wanted was deplorable. People paid good money to watch that meeting. What about the paying public? I'd have said a call to Trading Standards wasn't far short of the mark. I have never seen such a concentration of questionable behaviour at one track/promotion. Of course little can be proved, even if people were brave enough to want to, given the backlash it could create for the sport as a whole, but the 'aroma' is pretty pervasive. Yes we've always had questionable situations but never such a concentration. To have these idiots gloating as if they're some kind of superior form of life is disgusting. I despise sneering and I despise gloating. Now, respecting the fact that this is a Somerset thread I am dismayed to see one of the irritants stupidly spreading this malaise into the Premier League which while having had its share of skullduggery and unpleasantness over the years has always managed to rise above it. I don't like to see it spreading to a league which in its various forms since I first met it as British League Division II on 1971 has given me such joy over the years. We don't need it and a decent set-up like Somerset certainly doesn't. It's a shame that certain Poole elements have attached themselves to it. I expect it will only be while the Rebels are winning however.

Given Starman's normal level of postings it's very unlikely. As for the 'water off a duck's back' cliche (couldn't they come up with something original just for once?), where there's no sense you don't expect sensitivity.... It's a bit much expecting them to understand, to be honest. It's just sad the poison's being spread to a lovely set-up like Somerset.

The discussion's obviously been way over your head. Shame really. Here's the deal - you keep screaming and the rest of us 'anoraks' will do the thinking.

Over the years I have seen many teams rise to dominance in the sport, Belle Vue, Ipswich, Coventry, Cradley Heath, and others. I have never known such dislike shown to them as that shown to Poole. It's notv about the winning - someone has to, but it's the way in which that success ha\s been achieved. I'm not jealous of a team involved in the farcical match at Swindon when Poole blatantly threw races to keep their averages down. I'm certainly not jealous of a team involved in the disgrace at Belle Vue last year. I'm not jealous of the constant manipulation and constant protestations of innocence. I'm not jealous of a team whose previous good name is regularly dragged through the mud by the stupidity of two of its supporters. I'm certainly not jealous of idiots who jeer and snipe at others about how successful they are and how everybody hates them because they're jealous. No the word isn't jealousy, it's pity, It's such a shame that one is now importing his ignorance into the Premier League and poisoning a rather enjoyable level of speedway. Hopefully if the wins disappear so will he. It really isn't fair on a great club like Somerset that this individual should attach himself to it.

He's just made a major investment in his coach fleet so obviously things have changed.

The fact that with less than two weeks to go before the first meeting of the season the formula still hasn't been released suggests one of two things: 1 - They don't think it's important enough. 2 - It's a mess and they hope by the time people realise that it's too late. All along I've tried to explain the problems caused by the 'screening' system which of course is essential given the introduction of riders well below the standard of the rest in the EL and initially I wasn't too bothered about the timing, just looking forward to being reassured that a good, workable formula had been created - all in good time. The delays now do suggest that this hasn't happened although I do still live in hope, but after watching 43 years of speedway lord knows why...,

The fact that it hasn't been released with less than four weeks to go before the season does rather suggest that there IS a problem, eh? It has all the hallmarks of a BSPA bodge - let the public find out when it's too late for them to point out the faults and hope they'll be too happy that the new season's arrived to bother.

Sad to see they're still deluding themselves down there with the 'sour grapes' garbage. It's a bit like an obnoxious guy claiming everyone hates him because he's too handsome...Still, little things please little minds.

We haven't had an empire for half a century. We do however still run far more speedway meetings a year than any country on Earth. Sorry to interrupt your rant with a fact, but there you go.

No, no, NO! The concerns are not over the timing of release of the format but the problems associated with creating the format and concerns that if the BSPA get it wrong it could ruin the 2014 season! The only genuine concern about it not being released yet is whether it's proving unworkable and we're going to seed a botched compromise. We are now just four weeks away from the first team match. Yes people want change, but preferably positive change that works!

Sadly Jamie was carrying a head injury from his time at Ipswich, the effects of which weren't recognised until quite some time after. So many careers have been halted not just by the injury itself but by the after-effects, physical and mental. After making a packet buying and selling cars he's now into professionally photographing gorgeous women. "Oh where did it all go wrong Mr.Luckhurst??"

Most reasonably intelligent people, if interested in finding books on Ipswich Speedway would look on a bookseller's website - there's a really good one called Amazon. Alternatively they would look on Google. Instead you lazily asked others to do the work for you. Are you surprised at the reaction? Now, clearly you're not 'special needs', just another lazy, foul-mouthed idiot. I'm afraid we've already got our quota filled so you'll haver to apply elsewhere.

There are in fact two types of people: 1-Those who divide people into two types 2-Those who don't.

Well, I'm quite fond of Europe, especially the pointy bits.

Didn't say SA was excluded from the Commonwealth for being a republic - it was for being an oppressive rogue state practising institutionalised racism.... Where would you prefer it to be?

I have no problem with Europeans Ian - had less problems over the years than with Aussies to be honest. Europe's a big place and a lot of people. I need to know a few million more before I can get a representative sample to make a proper judgement though. I do prefer to judge people as individuals, even those from Dorset. Can we stick to speedway please? There's nothing more likely to poison a good discussion than politics (and religion - but let's not drag Rayleigh Rockets into the conversation....)

No, reserves might be paired with their own second strings or fellow reserve but would still face opposition heat-leaders. Someone earlier posted that this was an easy solution. It isn't. Using the current formula but applying this 'simple' switch and assuming the third heat-leader moves from 5 to 4, reserves would be up against opposition heat-leaders in heats 6, 7, 9, 11 and 14 - scarcely protecting reserves from heat-leaders, eh? It's going to take a bit more effort than one riding position switch.

Only when wearing a skull and crossbones ;-)

Re-admitted after the fall of the white minority government and apartheid.

She'll notice if the NL riders are consistently trailing in nearly a lap behind the heat-leaders because they've got the format wrong....

They'll be wearing numbers and helmet colours if that's a help.....