IainB

1 point each and move on...

I'm partial to a jokey post myself now and again and I could quite happily scroll on by and not interact with any posts from any individual user I didn't want to interact with... but, when you have a single user quite clearly using different accounts @Whitelinehugger @rearingtogo @TapesRup @Youhave2minutes and they're replying to their own posts and literally flooding every damn topic on the forum! That is something quite different. There are clear forum guidelines and this fellow is in breach of them: "Trolls A troll is a contributor whose sole intent in posting is to be a disturbance to the community. Trolls may post excessively inflammatory or offensive messages with the intention of upsetting people, "flame" or insult, crash an appreciation thread to attack the subject being appreciated, or post the same message repeatedly on multiple boards to take up space and disrupt the forums. Posters engaging in this type of behaviour lose their rights of membership and will be removed." Sadly there is no moderator to enforce these forum rules. I've "ignored" all of those accounts now, which is a shame as occasionally they did post something worthy of discussion.

That's exactly how it should be, I'm not a fan of performances last season determining places for the following season, other than finishing in the top whatever in the GP qualifiers.

And Klindt still at Number 5... You have to wonder about Chris Adams, the apple seems to have fallen from the tree and rolled off down the road and into a different county 🤔

NORTHAMPTON: Jaimon Lidsey, Troy Batchelor, Jonas Jeppesen, Niels-Kristian Iversen, Nicolai Klindt, Kye Thomson, Sam Hagon. LEICESTER: Ryan Douglas, Lewis Kerr, Nick Morris, Kyle Howarth, Sam Masters, Drew Kemp, Dan Gilkes.

This one might deserve a topic of its own 🤔

The fence is guesting for Northampton and needs to rest up in a hotel (car park) the night before... it's all quite normal, just ask the Northamptoningham skipper 👍

Who the hell is David Rodwell? Seems also to be a director of R&J Services London. Who, if you do a Google search comes up with the header "British Off Road Driving Association"... but then you get this: https://randjservices.co.uk/ Can we look forward to new bogs at Scunny? 😂 It's all very very strange!

It absolutely hammered it down at 6pm last Thursday... If you ask them nicely they may provide the phone number of their weather forecaster ☎️😂

In a Mickey Mouse sports entertainment business it doesn't make a jot of difference, it is maybe beneficial... but in a professional competitive sport wanting to attract TV coverage and the betting industry it really does (should) matter. If people want to hide their identity in a public environment it's usually for a reason, I don't think it's too much to wonder what that reason is 🤔 Anything wrong with the owner and director of Northampton being the team manager and CEO of Belle Vue where he is not an owner or director?

From GB Speedway Team's own website: "In addition to its senior team, Great Britain have now implemented a solid foundation with the launch of the GB Academy, embracing young athletes from the age of 15 and steering them through their development and into the Under 21 squad, there is now a very clear pathway for British Speedway athletes to reach the very top." https://www.gbspeedwayteam.com/about 👍

You couldn't make it up BSPL seemingly working against the people they've appointed to generate the next generation of talent 🤷‍♂️

I wonder if anybody will see fit to organise a benefit meeting for the lad... it sounds like a long road to recovery for him and his family and I can't believe how under the radar his accident and injuries seem to have gone.

That was last year though... we've not had this year's. Last years got you a GP wild card. If they'd got their fingers out they could have held the 2026 British Final as a qualifier before this.

Is that fact or supposition? Either way it doesn't seem right.

I thought he (Bomber) retired from GB Team Speedway? So it seems strange that he'd be nominated for international competition by... who?

Just another pay day, why wouldn't you?

Same here, I don't ever block anybody, I just choose to ignore and/or not to reply to certain individuals, but when this person started replying to their own posts I drew the line... a shame really.

I think we say "mental health issues" these days 😂

If you look at races from the late 70's riders seemed to be reaching the maximum speed of their machines towards the end of the straight if you look at them today they look as though they'd just keep on accelerating way beyond that.

I actually did volunteer a while back, as is the Speedway way... I was just ignored 😂

There are no mods, other than @Phil who only ever seems to check in once in a while to see if there are any problems.

DTTV - The Cost of Speedway

It'd be a shorter topic to name the ones that weren't 🤔

No need for an explanation, I just didn't expect to see your name on there... as a sports journalist though... what's going on at Northampton Speedway with their "owners" and why the big cover up with people sworn to secrecy?