oldtimer Posted January 2, 2014 Report Share Posted January 2, 2014 With the FIM calendar now published for 2014 giving the dates for the GP qualifiers, the World Cup dates, the World Under 21 Championship, and the World Under 21 Team Championship, would it be possible to arrange that League matches do not clash with these dates for clubs who have riders taking part. I know it will take more time and involve more work but anything must be better than the current system of someone blind folded picking names and dates out of a hat. Fans are fed up of riders missing matches for other commitments. Also can the KOC and PT be completed by mid season when the weather is hopefully better rather than all finals being arranged for cold and wet October nights. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oldtimer Posted January 17, 2014 Author Report Share Posted January 17, 2014 Looks like they didn't listen! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SCB Posted January 17, 2014 Report Share Posted January 17, 2014 Are you surprised? It amazes me that EL clubs for a start dont run on GP weekends when they know now that 1 or maybe 3 riders will be missing but will happily arrange meetings for GP qualifier weekends when you sometimes have 6 or 7 riders missing from a meeting Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Pedaler Posted January 17, 2014 Report Share Posted January 17, 2014 The BSPA considers its leagues to be the most important competitions in the world. Why on earth should they consider cow-towing down to foreigners who want to get in the way of the BRITISH Elite & Premier League? As long as league matches are played, who in the BSPA gives a flying fig about Mickey Mouse competitions run by foreign governing bodies who give the BSPA nothing back for "using their riders" (as the BSPA would think of them)? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
arthur cross Posted January 17, 2014 Report Share Posted January 17, 2014 (edited) Every autumn, once the next year's FIM calendar is published, every club in the Elite & Premier League is invited as part of the fixture-scheduling process to request any dates it wants to avoid in the new season's fixtures to avoid FIM-clashes bearing in mind any riders it has already signed-up or the rest of its team-building plans. Such requests can be either to completely avoid any meeting being scheduled on that club's usual home night to clash with an awkward FIM-date or asking not to be given an away meeting on a particularly awkward day for that team's FIM-expectations. Clubs can make other scheduling requests, most notably heading into 2014 to avoid clashing with England's group games and possible last-16 matches in the football World Cup once they'd seen the draw made in Brazil just over a month ago. Some clubs are very good at scanning the FIM-calendar and then making a few sensible requests ... other clubs are usually only very good at moaning when their own fixture-list comes out full of clashes they hadn't bothered to request avoiding when they had the chance ... one club only began complaining about clashing with an England World Cup game in 2010 just a few weeks before the actual clash but several months after that particular World Cup draw !! But I suspect King's Lynn and Newcastle will be jointly frustrated that they've both been given away fixtures on the same night on two separate occasions when they must have requested careful joint-scheduling to cope with both Lewis Kerr and Lewis Rose being included in both sides' signings very early in the team-building process (a fair request just for all their away trips given their respective home fixtures aren't a problem as no Premier League side races on Wednesdays and no Elite League side races on Sundays). Admittedly, King's Lynn's 27th June trip to Coventry is listed by the Stars as "to be confirmed" while Newcastle go to Scunthorpe the same night ... but on 18th April, both Birmingham v King's Lynn and Scunthorpe v Newcastle appear to be rock-solid fixtures to cash in on the Good Friday bank holiday. Edited January 17, 2014 by arthur cross 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
The Pedaler Posted January 18, 2014 Report Share Posted January 18, 2014 You have to remember that in this country the guy who does the EL fixtures cares not a jot about the FIM calendar. So much so that he programmed his own team to have a home fixture on the "training day" of an FIM event that 3 of his own riders were involved in, a year or two ago. Not sure if it's simply incompetence or arrogance that nothing other than EL matters, or what... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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