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IainB

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  1. Jake Mulford is the obvious stand out but also Vinnie Foord. JT's better score at home last night can (partly) be attributed to him riding an engine of his brothers.
  2. ... and Workington... and Scunny who had doubts surrounding their return... and Edinburgh who seemed set to lose their stadium a couple of years back (and who knows whether that one has well and truly gone away). And if you count going quite well, a league of just 9 teams and having lost Somerset, Newcastle, Rye House, Birmingham, Stoke, Sheffield, Leicester, King's Lynn & Ipswich over the years as "doing quite well" that's a very strange measurement. Poole & Glasgow are "going quite well", I'd say the rest are clinging on by their finger tips! Mr Morris also engaged with the fans, I personally spoke with him on the phone after the play off semi debacle a couple of years back. He set up the fans forum with fan representatives and I know of others who he has reached out to when they have been ignored by individual clubs. You may reply "what actual good did that do?" but as @mikebv said he picked and addressed all of the low hanging fruit, anything more radical he was never going to be allowed to do with no stake in the sport financially.
  3. Bewley different class tonight... but then he is, he's not going to have much competition in the British League this season.
  4. The foam fences do seem a lot less forgiving than the air fences though... I've always thought that a solid deformable barrier should be placed in front of the air bags, made from thin aluminium or something
  5. Agent Brennan, job done! He can guest against us anytime 👍🏻 😁
  6. Didn't he leave Leicester in an ambulance last time he was here? Brave stuff!
  7. The good news is... you've not missed anything 😁
  8. Why has the start been delayed,? I've just walked by the turnstiles and there is literally nobody queuing! Sun? 😎
  9. This one? Mencel somebody or other https://www.instagram.com/reel/DWtcIOHgHRs/?igsh=MWp0ZGU4dmJucWV1bA==
  10. Do we know yet how Thomson sustained these horrific injuries? Saw a Polish rider go under the fence on Instagram yesterday, I don't think he walked away from it!
  11. They looked poor on paper and so it has proved on track. Why they went for JT as a replacement for Gilkes I'm not sure, they turn to the same old riders every time 🤷‍♂️
  12. Pointed this out a number of times at Leicester last season!
  13. Looks like we'll be concentrating on the league... next year's league 😁
  14. Tonight's match being covered by Lions TV apparently due to "travel issues" for BSN... I assume it's still being covered through BSN.
  15. I've got to say what a massive improvement it is now the inter-race interviews and pit coverage is being shown on the big screen and piped through the pa system... credit where it's due 👍🏻
  16. We certainly don't help ourselves at times do we 🤷‍♂️
  17. So even if he did provide a sick note he still gets a ban? That is ridiculous! I can understand a rule being in place for a rider wanting to give a meeting a miss because he doesn't fancy it but surely we as a sport shouldn't be doubting sick notes, don't know if I'm being naive there 🤷‍♂️
  18. Yes he did a lot to improve things in the sport, especially the race night experience and the appearance of the sport on TV. He was never going to be allowed to make it into a proper sport as the powers that be just aren't interested in doing that. I think he may have had a hand in introducing some new riders to the UK. He did make the massive bottom burp of interfering with the play offs the season before last though but he did fess up to that understood it was wrong and owned it. Couldn't see him staying on as soon as the TV cleared off.
  19. I think the UK may have aligned to other sports in this country though rather than any FIM dictat... either way it's not a good look (as we know) when riders are seen to be riding in other countries and not over here
  20. If Blodorn was riding in Germany then surely he's fit to ride? Maybe an alignment of rules is needed. And why aren't sick notes required for illness like they are for injury? If "sick note" had provided a sick note last Monday for a genuine illness then surely he shouldn't receive any ban ruling him out of riding in this country.
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