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you know as do most people who are close to riders do, lets be honest the speedway world is pretty small and tongues wag!

There in lays the whole problem with speedway, this mentality is what's killing our sport to a degree, the promoters just cant afford the demands of these so called top riders.

Riders need to be more realistic in their demands when signing for a club, surely even they must realise that the home crowds they see in front of them week in week out are not paying the bills? The promoters are losing money hand over fist and in the end it will mean that the well will run dry, are todays riders partly to blame for the state of todays speedway downwards spiral?

The riders need to take pay cuts, the people who pay the bills(the promoters) are losing money, any business where the outgoings are bigger than the income is treading water and is only a matter of time before it all goes ** up!

(ps. Just a shame there was so much chit-chat about 'fuel additives' in the away pits!! Can't think who or what they meant?!! Apparantly similar comments at Somerset on Tuesday too!!) Guess you went up to the rider concerned and said as much?

well done to the Pirates who on paper are the champions but the real champions are the Aces. Also full credit to Cook who was by far the most consistant rider over the two legs.

I believe you are correct but whether it gets changed or not is a different scenario!!

he broke the rules and got away with it, he also broke the rules and got away with being foolish, another day and both could of been different outcomes.

this forum will go into meltdown next week if Bomber guests for Poole!

Stick to the conversation and not hyperthetical occurrences, it was heat 15 and the meeting was long done.

Like I said some sad people in the world. Out of interest do you smile a people who have broken down at the side of the road?!

Some strange people if that's what floats their boat, as for a natural reaction?...I can't be natural then! Cheering at someone's misfortune is pretty low in any walk of life.

So you would cheer when someone has an engine failure?... Some sad people in this world.

very disappointed in the reaction by the Poole fans when Bomber crashed, even Middleditch said "fortunately Chris wasn't injured", the cheers went up as soon as he came off and no-one would of known if he was injured or not at that point. I also cant for the life of me understand why people cheer when someone has just blown an engine, quite clearly an expensive one at that when Hans blew his. As a neutral the meeting was over before it even started and imo a very poor advert for the sport. Having two meetings on in one night just doesn't work.

if Josh Bates scores more than a point I will be amazed. Poole to win this in a canter and thus will be a non event.

I disagree as the only people making money out of speedway are the riders and engine tuners. The people who should be making the money(the promoters) aren't.

the biggest problem is the promoters aren't making money out of the game, the promoters need to promote the sport and in turn make money out of the sport, I cant think of many businesses where the employees take home more than what is being raised through income. You can change uprights, laydowns, dirt deflectors etc etc but the real source of the problem is income for the promoters.

great performance by the Aces, it appeared that Swindon had one too many show ponies who didn't turn up when it really mattered!

earnings!..I would imagine most have done their proverbials this season!

The team was poor, very poor before the season even started, Luke quitting was a very small factor in the grand scheme of things!

fully agree and now some of them are posting about dogs, wtf are these people on?..or are they biding time until they are on the Jeremy Kyle show again?!

Ever tried getting a hospital appointment or been unfortunate enough to be in A & E?....our health service cant cope with the numbers already in this Country let alone allowing even more in....the infra structures of this Country are just about at crisis point. Which ever way you look at it, paying parents an allowance so they can afford a child minder is plain wrong, if you cant afford children then don't have them. Also when a family earn more on benefits for doing jack shyte than a family who work for a living then the "system" that now plaques the UK is also wrong. The vast majority of refugees/immigrants who want to come to the UK are not coming to this Country to work they are coming because they now that it is an easy touch.

cant believe Alan the drama queen Rossiter is back on our screens, always good value when things are going against him.

the interviews with Woffinden and Zagar just showed the difference in class between the two of them.

does anybody know how much the SRBF will be donating to the fund?...not a loaded question by the way!