Isle Of Wight V Birmingham Tues 13th June

[marko]

I don't know about jealousy but I have always felt the bspa is something of a old boys club and newer members are never taken seriously if they get accepted into the lodge in the first place.

Posters are quite right in saying the laws should be enforced consistently across the board, not one rule for one and another rule for others.

[Leicester Hunter]

 

 

It might be me, but I can't but help think that the shabby way that IOW have been treated is at least in part down to the almost universal credit and praise they have received from fans since they opened at the beginning of last season, the sheer unbridled enthusiasm of Barry Bishop and Martin Widman and the efforts they have made to make their club a success by treating paying customers as paying customers.

 

As we all know only too well, there is an awful lot of vicious jealousy and spite within the ranks of the BSPA and newcomers showing everyone else precisely how to do it will not be viewed with warmth or pleasure.

Nailed it in one. If all the bouquets going IoW's way had come from just home fans, I would have been sceptical and thought it was the locals 'bigging up' the club. But it isn't. The positive reviews have been universal, which just shows this Promotion really cares about it's product, what it is marketing and presenting. That means listening to the customers, and acting in a proactive manner. They don't want people to just go once, they want them to return time and again. Sadly, it looks like the usual suspects in the 'We know best' brigade don't view this favourably, as all their inadequacies are being shown up in glorious technicolor.

 

 

Completely agree

 

They have been shafted, big time. First with Cook not being allowed a reduction and then with Greaves being allowed to sign for another club with the same race night (something which Rob Godfrey had said could not happen).

 

Then we have the ridiculous, totally unexplained and totally unaccountable decisions to allow Paul Hurry to have a much reduced figure (despite the decision on Cook) and to permit Adam Roynon to come in on his PL average when regulations clearly state that his existing (and higher) NL average takes precedence (despite the Richard Hall decision last season).

 

Speedway's ability to make inconsistent, illegal and crooked decisions to suit some promotions but not others has always been in evidence. It seems to me, though, that this season they have exceeded themselves.

With all that's happened in the last three weeks or so, it appears the powers that be have given up any pretense of evenhandedness or being impartial.

 

In all honesty, hypocrisy doesn't even come close....

[uk_martin]

Was a time when the BSPA's beligerence towards speedway in other countries meant those on the other side of the English Channel / North Sea. Now it seems that the Solent counts as enough of a separation between England and those who the BSPA treat with contempt.

 

We've seen it before, not least at Birmingham. Anyone not prepared to play along with the "our way or no way" mantra of the speedway establishment will at some point reap the whirlwind.