uk_martin

Seen in Social Media... "Fans discussing Swindon Speedway's future, then THIS happened..."

And there's a massive potential for fraud. With all but 9 Premier League riders doubling up in the Championship, of course they are all claim that they are coming for their PL teams' fixtures.

Speedway Star reporters aren't there to investigate though are they? They just copy and paste the press releases that the BSPZzz and the club press officers hand out to them. Rocking the boat would be more than their jobs are worth.

I can just imagine the process... Speedway Star Reporter: Hello Mr Hancock, can I ask you some questions please? Bill Hancock: No. Speedway Star Reporter: Oh, OK then...Bye.

I wonder if that's going to make a difference though? Looking at how the next crop of Aussies like Jaimon Lidsey and now Frazer Bowes are choosing to base themselves in Poland or Germany so that they can more easily hop between EU countries and their teams in Germany, Poland, Denmark and Sweden, being based in the UK could actually be a hindrance to them, no matter how easy it is to get to the UK. Having an easy entrance into a dead end street doesn't get you anywhere.

Or at the very least some further investigative reporting by the Speedway Star to find the answers that their readership want to hear???

If you or GWC can sort Speedway fan out an insurance policy for the replacement equipment, I'm sure that the premium can be funded out of another GoFundMe appeal.

With the CCTV and 24 hour security patrols that the adjacent construction site employs, I'm astounded that any vandals would want to be anywhere near Perry Barr right now. It takes their state of mindlessness to another level.

Maybe Iwade/Sittingbourne, Isle of Wight Lydd and Weymouth could come together with some French, Italian and Spanish teams and form the European Super League?

My question exactly.

That'd be interesting to see how that works....how many speedway riders that will be commuting from the continent have been vaccinated? Birmingham's Italian and two Germans, for example? Germany hasn't even started to vaccinate it's under-70's yet. What chance a speedway rider in his 20's?

How would you define a "good" package?

Travel within the EU is a different thing to travelling outside of the EU. Especially to/from countries with their own bespoke virus variants. And here we face another of those anomalies. UK restrictions mean that people can cross borders for "work". HOWEVER, those same regulations also permit "ELITE Sportspeople" to travel too. Not just any old sportsperson, just the elite ones. (thus "work" and "sport" are counted as two different things) So yes, an international footballer will count as an elite sportsperson. But a 2nd division player (of any sport), coming over to do his stuff in front of only a few hundred fans? I don't think that the border authorities will count that as an "Elite" sportsperson. I may be wrong, but I won't be holding my breath.

It's been going up lately as are their intentions to lockdown the country further. Not to mention that they are light years behind us with their vaccinations.

Is that actually an answer to the question that you quoted?

Thanks for that. Didn't know he had Danish commitments. There's still the matter of crossing the borders to get to and from Germany (home matches for Wittstock) and Poland (Wittstock's away matches), and those two countries are starting their third wave with the virus, so let's wait and see how that pans out.

Exactly... According to https://www.speedwaygp.com/news/article/8778/riss-blow-for-kings-lynn Riss will be riding in the Polish league for his German team (Wittstock) as well as in Sweden for Rospiggarna. Add in the UK, and if no other borders are crossed on his travels, then that's 4 country's worth of rules and regulations to contend with in respect of quarantine / travel restrictions. If the situation doesn't improve and if the rules don't ease up, then this young chap is going to spend a lot of time in quarantine. Any word from the BSPZzz about what "facilities" are available for riders missing meetings because of Covid-related travel restrictions / delays? Any advance on being stuck with a 3-point NL reserve?

Double Trouble now?

Not really. Where would Cradley go? All the others have some sort of stadium in some state of repair / disrepair, but still in existence, that form the basis of their hopes for the future. Cradley have had 10 years of trying, begging and pleading not only to their own local authority but neighbouring ones as well, and nobody wants to allow them to have a home. Sad but true. So, no, I'm not counting them in, quite deliberately. The same as I'm not counting all the other ghost teams that used to exist pretending to belong to Exeter, Milton Keynes etc etc.

Hopefully those people advocating a return to racing of Bradford, Somerset, Oxford, Swindon (& even Coventry) will have read this thread, and seen the difficulty that they would face in finding another 28, or even 35 riders needed for the "returning" teams to compete.

I have it on no authority at all that it was repossessed by IKEA and taken back to Sweden.

Didn't Weslake have a DOHC engine out in the 1980's? It never really caught on did it? From what I remember riders always thought that the SOHC was a step up in complexity from the pushrod 2-valve JAWA's and didn't want to take another quantum leap forward in complexity (& consequent cost) . I wonder how it will pan out this time.

Yes and no. When you see all the patents taken out by Apple, Samsung, Motorola etc it makes you realise that even the slightest changes CAN be patentable if they result new or significantly improved performance, or something different to what's gone on before. One mobile phone isn't significantly different from any other mobile phone, BUT one tiny aspect of the latest mobile phone can be significantly different from the others, just like one aspect of the 2021 GM motor could be significantly different to the 2020 (or the 2015 or the 2010 GM motor) and that's what could be re-patented. Finding, explaining the and acquiring the patents on those differences is where patent lawyers make their money. Unless of course GM don't want to pay...

Which year? So what does that say about Ray C's Swindon Advertiser article then? How can looking "same as it did in September 2019" be made to appear as looking "pretty good" other than it still looks like there's a stadium there as opposed to no stadium?

Exactly this. If there is a patent infringement, let the patent lawyers sort it out. If there is no patent on the GM designs and products, then more fool GM. OK so patents cost money, but if you don't have one you can be copied. Look at the computer mouse...nobody bothered patenting these, and now anyone can produce them. The price you pay for not paying the price.