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Until next season...Batch prob back at Swindon and Chris could be back at Poole (not sure if Chris and Matt have made up yet!)

I have no problem with them being sacked, it's the stopping them from 'earning a living' that I don't agree with. We didn't do that with KK!

maybe they should have thought about who pays their wages before doing what they did .

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This whole episode has been handled badly by everyone - riders and promoter - and I think it's very sad that neither Noddy or Batch can ride again this season. If a promoter chooses to sack a rider then so be it but to do so when they can't sign anywhere else is a very poor reflection on the promoter and British speedway. I do hope we see them both back next year - obviously not riding for KL. I also now do not want KL to get in to the playoffs - which is highly likely given the changes they have made.

 

A sad day for British speedway!!

Buster should have sacked them both the minute they got banned. Not drag it out so nobody else could sign them.

im a Poole fan and i totally agree with what Buster has done

Im not saying Buster is wrong, its the way it was handled.

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Buster should have sacked them both the minute they got banned. Not drag it out so nobody else could sign them.

Im not saying Buster is wrong, its the way it was handled.

Buster has only done what they did to him and that was screw him and the KL fans over

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I am obviously one of the few who disagree with this. The manner in the the way Buster has handled this should concern everybody.

As a club Kings Lynn are just about on their backside, people used to look upto how they conducted things on and off track and now people are walking away, quitting or getting sacked and the tracks been way below what is expected.

 

Troy was a pratt for guesting for Swindon and made buster look one by doing so, Holder is never going to risk an injury after his record of bad knocks and like it or not he will never be the Chris holder of 2012 again. Darcy's crash has but a certain point to where holder will go and what he will race on and to be quite honest I can't blame him. If the track had been prepared for a top level uk meeting then we wouldn't be here debating this. Facts are that that the track was awful, dangerous and wasn't upto scratch, who's Door does that fall at?

 

Buster has changed and who I once thought would do ok for British speedway now makes me very concerned. If this is how he does his business and puts 3 riders out of work and 2 for the season then I am saddened. This team is designed to cut costs for the rest of the season as no way can they compete with Wolves, Swindon, Belle Vue and now Rye House.

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Buster has only done what they did to him and that was screw him and the KL fans over

And tell me how they have exactly done that ?

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I am obviously one of the few who disagree with this. The manner in the the way Buster has handled this should concern everybody.

As a club Kings Lynn are just about on their backside, people used to look upto how they conducted things on and off track and now people are walking away, quitting or getting sacked and the tracks been way below what is expected.

 

 

 

 

Quite right.

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by walking out on a meeting would have thought that was quite obvious

So your a rider are you ?

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the whole episode has made Speedway in this country look like the shambles it is maybe this will be the kick up the arse thats needed although i wont hold my breath

You never anwered my question.

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Hang on min, that is going too far. I love a good Rooboy rant on twitter, they're brilliant :D

all he ever does is slate everything about British speedway! Even when he broke his back (unfortunately) he slated our doctors and NHS! I read it somewhere can't remember wher though Edited by hair
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So your a rider are you ?

Back in the 80's i did a few laps around Kingsmead i agree bikes now are different to what i used to ride but its the paying fans that pay the wages treat them like dog muck they wont come back and then nobody has a income

 

i am also the first to admit my riding standard wasnt to the level of Holder and Batch

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Thankful to read one or two more balanced posts on here after some of the earlier ones spitting venom in the riders' direction. It's appalling by Chapman. Holder has given endless entertainment to speedway fans, Batchelor has been a King's Lynn rider since 2005, and yet they can be treated like dirt and put out of work?

 

You don't need to support their actions in that awful KL meeting with Poole to think that they have been badly treated, and when it is the Chairman of the BSPA who has done it then it is truly a very black day for British speedway.

 

Not only does E I Addio have the best name on the BSF he has also written one of the best posts. Coventry_Bee also (the post not the name).

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Once someone is suspended from work there is usually a review taking place during that period. Thats what happened to Chris Holder resulting in his being dismissed.

 

Troy batchelor was so stupid to ride the night after being declared unfit to ride (wrist injury), not only riding, but seemingly without any affects of his injured wrist ie he scored well.

 

 

Remember 18 months ago when top riders refused to ride at the Belle Vue opening meeting. There was bound to be consequences following that fiasco.......... it just happened. Perhaps referees need to get more involed as to a meeting being called off, or a track not suitable to race.

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Back in the 80's i did a few laps around Kingsmead i agree bikes now are different to what i used to ride but its the paying fans that pay the wages treat them like dog muck they wont come back and then nobody has a income

 

i am also the first to admit my riding standard wasnt to the level of Holder and Batch

No im not supprised either. Knowhere near i would say..

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No im not supprised either. Knowhere near i would say..

Yep your correct but i guess selling a few papers makes you a expert as well ! anyway way off topic now the point is Buster has only done to them what they did to him

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Yep your correct but i guess selling a few papers makes you a expert as well ! anyway way off topic now the point is Buster has only done to them what they did to him

You have a problem with me selling the Stars ?

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you had a problem with me or did i get that wrong if i have i will apologise im big enough to hold my hands up when i am

You got it wrong. Ive been a poole fan sinse 1970. you ?

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