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It's not.

What the heck. May as well give Kennett a go on tonight's showing.

Heat 5 and heat 6 are well out of balance with this format. Can't they even them up a bit.

And due to have a road named after him in Blunsdon in the near future.

It was the lack of points from our top 2 that cost us this match. With Dakota North doing so well this was a match we should have won, but the heatleaders didn't win the heats.

When have I said I want to bring a whole tribe of Filipinos to the UK? You've clearly made incorrect assumptions there. I'm not trying to bring anyone here. So, unlike Ryan Fisher, I'm not hard done by at all, and neither am I whining about it. No, really. I'm not. Honest. I have no desire at all to bring my immigrant wife's family here (Heaven forbid!! Why would I want to do that?). And even if I did want to I wouldn't be able to. You're just showing your ignorance there. So who are the real blind fools here? If I have an issue with the immigration rules it is that they stop other British people less fortunate with myself from being with their family. They are not stopping me because I'm lucky enough to earn enough money to be considered suitable. My initial post on this topic wasn't intended to be serious anyway. It was a follow on from posts others made in a similar vein. But I think you knew that really. Anyway, enough from me on here. I'm sure people don't want to see a personal spat between myself and the singer of Black Sabbath. That sort of thing should probably stay in General Discussions where it belongs. I just thought I'd respond because of your personal but inaccurate accusations.

I'm fine with your opinions. They always give me a giggle.

I guess the phrase 'no recourse to public funds' is a bit too complicated for you to understand, so I'll forgive you for saying that.

That wouldn't be the right thing to do at all. If people give money to help with something specific then that is how the money should be used.

I believe UKIP are setting up a trust fund on our behalf so send it via them :-)

So far i've paid 4 grand on visas to get my family in the uk. Still got 2 more to go in the next few years. All donations gratefully received. Thanks in advance.

Yay! Easy easy easy. Never in doubt. Wooohooo. Right then. What's on the telly? Flipping Henry CR!! Are you never happy?

Well done Stevie Worrall. We're guaranteed a draw now providing we get a finisher..

Oh gosh, I'm having flashbacks about Coventry comebacks in the past now!

Any manager who says to let a rider past in order to get a TR is an idiot. Even more so if you're then putting your second heatleader on the TR out against the opposing number one.

Apparently there is some sort of divine intervention occurring in Brandon tonight. God be praised.

Having had a whinge about the music at Lakeside recently while watching online, I thought I'd comment that I'm finding Birmingham's use of music in the presentation quite interesting.

See, this is why people should use punctuation. He could be saying "unavailable my ass, been sacked over 2 weeks ago" Or, he could be saying "unavailable, my ass been sacked over 2 weeks ago" I think he means the first interpretation, but I prefer the second one.

I agree. I've been to meetings in the past where the parade has been cancelled due to the weather and they've got on with the racing. It was only light rain early on, but it was enough to make us wait in the car park until 7.30 before going in. There was always a risk of it getting worse and there was no break in the cloud. I think it would have made sense to just get straight into it.

Not. Sure what the situation is with readmission as it was only a tenner to get in in the first place. It was a shame about the rain because it started off pretty good. Back in Newbury now and it hasn't rained at all all evening.

Before I get jumped on for having lack of understanding or lack of sympathy - I have close family experience of depression and suicide, so I'm not shallow minded on this. For me, the word "depression" gets bandied about far too much. I was shocked to find out a few years ago that an awful lot of people I knew were taking pills for depression. It seems to me that a lot of people seem to have few problems, feel a bit down about them, so they go to the doctor, get diagnosed and start taking pills. I don't know the whole story in the case being discussed here, so it's a more general comment, but, to be honest, I feel that a lot of people in theses situations would actually to better were they to come to terms with their own problems themselves rather than just put themselves on medication. And if that puts me in the heartless category of telling people to "pull themselves together" then so be it. Also, from what I have witnessed about genuine depression, it involves a very deep, dark state of mind. And if someone is generally in that state of mind then I would tend to agree with what was put earlier that they shouldn't be riding a speedway bike. Unfortunately the whole world and its wife seems to be depressed nowadays. I would even go as far as to say referring to it as an "illness" is a bit of a cop out. In fact, it quite offends me. To me it's a state of mind, and one that needs to be sorted out if someone is out racing motorbikes because, from what I have seen, a genuinely depressed person would not be safe doing that. So there you go. One more attention seeker on here. Sorry about that.

Ha ha. So you are! I usually get in trouble on any topic involving immigrants. I try not to join in but I just can't help myself.

Maybe he was trying to cheer himself up.

Really? I think they've got that wrong. It should be on seeding ranking.

Does it have to be someone below Smart? Surely it has to be someone at or below their original pick option for second reserve.