uk_martin

There will be a big screen, but until Sky get there, where it will go will be a mystery. Last year it was behind the first and second bends. Whether it goes there again, we will have to wait and see. Top tip - if you can get SkyGo on your mobile phone, then you'll get a better picture and sound on that!

Is it photo http://www.flickr.com/photos/92444687@N04/8401884698/in/photolist-dNrRB1-eitKYW-bb1Zqc-dX2zqE-dzdpcR-dWWDnR-dX3ix7-fKYA6t-fKZUwF-d317YN-fKZKr8-fKYBp4-fKYDon-d2iwES-fKYLDp-fL1mVz-fL14GB-dGdY9r-eUVA9A-fL1xqc-d319QU-fL1cCz-fKZRkx-fL1sui-d2rBF7-d2ru99-d2ikvA-d2raSG-d2ohw9-d2ob5S-9dJNY6-cNmnmd-cNkWqb-cNk3Fs-cNjTBs-cNUUQ5-cNm6PQ-cNjWn1-cNm3V5-cM6DYj-cM9S3s-cNT3DA-cNTZ7q-cNT5cQ-cNTmg3-cNTk4U-cMaDrA-cMaKYj-cG9ZVY-cM6Fod-cNTXXQ that you are referring to? If so, then thats a single offset carb, so the other two photos of the bike would also be the same. The twin carb Weslakes were instantly distinctive as they had air intakes/filters to the upper rear left and right of the engine, under the seats. They were the visible tell-tale signs, the carbs themselves would be obscured by the "air funnels". It would be easier to spot from the centre green, as only the twin carb bikes would have air funnels pointing at someone on that side of the bike.

And on the other side of that coin, and equally stupid, Belle Vue's season is on a 5-6 week sabbatical to allow for the play-off's before they finish their meaningless league programme in mid-October!

Unless the referee stamps out Cook's rolling at the start, he actually poses more of a threat than Daddy Bjerre at Perry Barr. This meeting could come down to the referee's eyesight and how good he is at firstly, spotting rollers, and secondly doing something about them. Prefer "Roller" by Gillan -

That's fair enough...at the time this was the only press article on the subject. It needed to be countermanded, and now it has been. Job done. Thank you! But for as long as there was nothing to the contrary to that Polish article, what else was there for anyone else to go on? Now we all know different, and we can get on to looking ahead to Craig Cook leading the Wolves out on track on Monday...

How do you put someone on ignore? Been looking for that facility and never found it Best translate your information and pass it on to the Poles then... http://translate.goo...gMYFmpObM4PTxmg

Scroll back a couple of pages. KKS posted a link to a Polish web site that states it. SportoweFakty are usually quite accurate with their information.

Thanks Zak.

Who's "hanging" Tai then? The duplicity of standards is what I'm having a go at. Not Tai. Check my posts. I'm wishing him well on a personal level. What get's me is that Poole get castigated for Ford / Middle-Stump bending and breaking the rules to suit Poole Speedway, and yet CVS / Adams can wrap the rule book around their little fingers on behalf of the Wolves and get away with it? Different thing altogether.

Did we climb out of bed the wrong side today David? Talk about promotion being a dying art, the art of gratitude seems to be dead buried and eaten by the worms already, isn't it? There was no compulsion for the gaffers to come up with this gesture. There's nothing in it for them really, and even less in it for the GRA, and yet all that they get is more moaning. As I understand it, the offer was negotiated with no bargaining chips at all. The GRA who control the bar prices were persuaded to offer something up...and they were kind enough to push the boat out to some extent. They didn't have to. There would have been no sanction against them if they hadn't played ball. All in all I think that the promotion's ability to get something for nothing here is to be commended. If the offer's no good for you, there's no obligation for your to accept it. You don't need to come all "attitude" over it. You'd wonder why anyone would want to be a promoter, with a lack of gratitude like this stacked on top of the financial losses that they incur to keep the club running.

GOOD NEWS - £1 per pint off your beer prices in the bar after the meeting. Celebrate your win or drown your sorrows...but enjoy the offer!

Oh dear..."RED ALERT!!!...deflector shields up"!

I'm leaving Tai out of this. He'll do what he's told by his manager - Peter Adams! It's the wheeler-dealing in the murky waters that is what's bothering me. Whether Tai rides on Sunday or not is somewhat irrelevant. It's the dodgy arrangements being made that matter here. The other way of looking at the situation is that Tai's manager has pulled Tai out of the Brummies meeting, but hasn't pulled him out of the SEC! Said manager who also works for CVS is in cahoots with CVS to secure a guest for Tai for Monday, knowing already that Tai won't be fit for then, but miraculously that he will be fit the day before. Said CVS who is on the BSPA Management Committee, because he knows best what's "in the best interests of British Speedway", has engineered the availability of NKI as a guest for Tai who may or may not aggravate an injury in the SEC on Sunday, but probably has a "doctors note" anyway, Would someone NOT on the BSPA MC have been able to find such favours? I'm sure that Gary Patchett, Rosco & Co at Swindon must be wondering how on earth heaven and hell can be moved for Tai in respect of his SEC commitments when all they could do when Hans Andersen was in an SEC qualifier, was employ Lewis Blackbird. Way I see it, it ain't just Matt Ford "playing to the rule book" is it?

Just on an off chance... Does anyone have any photos of the following please? 1. Weslake engined speedway bike fitted with TWIN CARBURETORS - like the one used by Malcolm Simmons 2. Weslake engine with twin spark plugs fitted in the cylinder head? The mid-late 1970's were pioneering days for engine designs - 2 valves, 4 valves, push rods being overtaken by SOHC and DOHC...all those have photos somewhere in a Google search but I can't find the two mutations mentioned above. If anyone can help, I'd be much obliged! Thanks Martin

Therein lies the problem. He could afford to "spash the cash" on his pet projects and favourite hobbies, and in those days, cash was like water and no-one cared too much or had to justify it's spending. Today if you want to get Shell, BP etc on board, you have to make a good business case, show that the benefits outweigh the costs, and...well let's stop there shall we, as our horse would already have fallen at the first hurdle and thrown it's rider clean over the second hurdle...

That's just the problem isn't it? We all know the corrupt way that these things work. CVS and Peter Adams are complicit in this escapade. They're proving themselves to be no more honourable than Fat Maud and Neil Muddleditch. The only difference is that CVS and Adams don't (yet) have hoards of Swindon fans (or Coventry fans, if they hadn't gone into hibernation for the winter) baying for their blood.

Thanks for that. Kind of leaves me wondering. Swindon on 1st May, away at Kings Lynn, were refused any kind of facility for Hans Andersen riding in the SEC qualifiers. Instead Lewis Blackbird had to ride at #1 for them. How can Wolves be granted a facility if Tai is fit enough to ride in the SEC yet too injured to ride in the EL play-off's the following day, bearing in mind that his guest replacement has already been announced? Either he is fit, or he isn't. Either you get "facilites" for SEC absences or you don't. I don't blame him for being ambitious and going for all the titles that he can, whilst he can (life with Ward and Holder back next year will be a lot harder) but there has to be some consistency with how the BSPA treat these things. Still in CVS, Wolves have a promoter and a BSPA member who knows what's "in the best interests of British Speedway", don't we?

Apart from BSF conjecture and gossip, where has it been confirmed in writing that Woffy is riding in Rzeszow on Sunday? Can you post a link to the articles please?

You must be too young to remember the "Gulf Oil British League" then? Apart from the World Final on World of Sport, there was no TV coverage in those days either. One day a thread like this will have 16 pages of ideas from fans on how to make the sport better rather than comments like "someone (else) will come up with an idea...etc" Oh, and yes the one about cutting prices has been done before...it'll need other, more, different and better ideas than that.

For once we have been a little bit lucky. If memory serves me rightly, only Jason Doyle has not missed a meeting because of injury. The 6 other riders have all picked up knocks along the way and we've had our share of guests and R/R, but to their credit, the management have not hit the panic button or made wholesale changes as they may have been tempted to do...so credit to them for that.

Ray Reardon isn't dead. Dracula will never die!

I suspect that one of these may have been used instead of the normal keyboard.

Love the way that the Brummies are getting "bigged up" again, ready for a massive gloat if they slip up. Anyone who's seen Brummies v Wolves fixtures at Perry Barr over the years will know that they are close fought affairs with any result being possible at any time.

Not sure what to make of this. Firstly, I'm delighted that Josh is well enough to be riding and a welcome part of the team he will be. BUT - (slightly off-speedway here) how many times have "suspected broken" bones turned out not be be broken at all this year? (Schlein, Barker and now Auty spring immediately to mind) What's going on with the quality medical diagnoses these days? Are all the medics trained to be over-cautious now, and to hand out worst case scenarios in order to avoid the blame if things are worse than they at first thought?

Did you write Robert Miskowiak's name in all by yourself or have you pirated'n'pasted someone else's mistakes again?