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1 hour ago, Cue Ball said:

Although 3 Premier League footballers did nick a taxi the other week in order to get back to their hotel...

Wind yer neck in

Won't wind my neck in cheers, it's a forum to give opinions :)

As for the West Brom players, every book available should have been thrown at them for that.

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Josh just tweeted this:

 

 

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Hi everyone just an update after the operation. It went well and I’ve been able to sit up and stand up (briefly) today. All being well I will go home Monday / Tuesday. Hope to be racing late April. Thank you for all your messages 

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5 minutes ago, Badge said:

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Hi everyone just an update after the operation. It went well and I’ve been able to sit up and stand up (briefly) today. All being well I will go home Monday / Tuesday. Hope to be racing late April. Thank you for all your messages 

Would imaging that Sheffield will be allowed a facility till Josh returns. No re-declaration. 

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1 hour ago, ruffdiamond said:

Exactly Dave,,, that wudda been silly !!!

Not too long ago (about 5 years) I watched a video of a speedway rider riding a bmx down some stairs, in a house...

There was others riders there, all jovial and that,,, not sure which one it was, or if it was before either of them had broke their leg,,, but am sure Diamonds fans know what I mean ;)

Yes, I know who were involved as well. If you remember they had placed a mattress against the facing wall and they certainly needed it.

The same crew got a canoe attached to the back of a Transit and rode around the streets in the West End at night as if it was a sledge. CRAZY.

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1 hour ago, ruffdiamond said:

BTW Dave,,, re. plastic bags...

did you or do you still wear bread bags on your feet in the winter, to keep them warm and dry ???

and were they, 'Mothers Pride' or 'Sunblest' (thick or thin) ;)

Had to be Sunblest and thick. :P

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38 minutes ago, Tsunami said:

Yes, I know who were involved as well. If you remember they had placed a mattress against the facing wall and they certainly needed it.

The same crew got a canoe attached to the back of a Transit and rode around the streets in the West End at night as if it was a sledge. CRAZY.

Tha mental,,, but a suppose they've gotta be, doing what they do, lol

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8 hours ago, geoff100 said:

Surely not its a non speedway injury 

 

8 hours ago, geoff100 said:

Surely not its a non speedway injury 

There is a precedent . Few years ago my own team , Glasgow , had signed Ross Brady . Couple of weeks before the start of the season he broke his collar bone on an indoor ski slope during a team bonding day out . We were allowed to use r/r until he was fit enough to take his place in the side . 

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1 minute ago, Paulco said:

 

There is a precedent . Few years ago my own team , Glasgow , had signed Ross Brady . Couple of weeks before the start of the season he broke his collar bone on an indoor ski slope during a team bonding day out . We were allowed to use r/r until he was fit enough to take his place in the side . 

At the risk of being - for the second time today - uncharacteristically cynical, since when did precedent have anything to do with speedway ? 

I suspect, however, that on this occasion you might - and should - be right.

 

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12 minutes ago, Paulco said:

 

There is a precedent . Few years ago my own team , Glasgow , had signed Ross Brady . Couple of weeks before the start of the season he broke his collar bone on an indoor ski slope during a team bonding day out . We were allowed to use r/r until he was fit enough to take his place in the side . 

So maybe, if Josh was to say he was sledging as say, part of his fitness campaign (instead of jogging, say),,, there may be a case ?

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31 minutes ago, ruffdiamond said:

So maybe, if Josh was to say he was sledging as say, part of his fitness campaign (instead of jogging, say),,, there may be a case ?

 

31 minutes ago, ruffdiamond said:

So maybe, if Josh was to say he was sledging as say, part of his fitness campaign (instead of jogging, say),,, there may be a case ?

The point was that r/r has been used in the past for an injury sustained before the start of the season 

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12 minutes ago, Paulco said:

 

The point was that r/r has been used in the past for an injury sustained before the start of the season 

Yeah, I get that,,, but the point I was making was, that a rider is granted r/r for a non speedway injury (skiing),,, which is probly a bit more dangerous than sledging, so, what is the difference ?,,,yet a rider is being slated for it.I'm not saying that Sheffield should get a facility, but like you say, it has been granted in the past for a non speedway incident.

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25 minutes ago, Paulco said:

 

The point was that r/r has been used in the past for an injury sustained before the start of the season 

Andrew Tully was injured during Newcastle's P&P (also a broken vertebrae) and we were allowed R/R, but, obviously that was a speedway injury.  Something in the back of my mind says Dickie Juul was injured pre-season and it was argued that, because he'd ridden for us the previous season, we could use R/R, but had he been a new signing, we would have had to find a replacement (I am sure someone can confirm this, or correct me!).

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I get he wants to have a laugh with his mates don't we all but sometimes you just have to make that sacrifice and say maybe i best not with season just around corner in case of a freak accident which this is of course.

Main point i would like to make is that if i was a sponsor of his i wouldn't be overly delighted, money available for sponsorship specially for speedway is not exactly big and Josh Bates who quit mid winter will maybe have already put off potential and current sponsors and now this happens where he potentially misses meetings which is not what sponsors sign up for, if injury happens riding speedway then fair enough the sponsors know risk of that as riders do.

Hope his recovery goes well and is soon back on a bike for us !

 

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Does anybody know the circumstances of the accident? Everybody seems to be presuming that he was messing about... there is of course the possibility that he was playing with his kid and it was just a freak accident. I concede it that would be a bit boring and would be a rubbish story, but just maybe people should get the facts before having a go. He may have been mucking about, but just maybe he wasn’t 

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2 hours ago, Cue Ball said:

Does anybody know the circumstances of the accident? Everybody seems to be presuming that he was messing about... there is of course the possibility that he was playing with his kid and it was just a freak accident. I concede it that would be a bit boring and would be a rubbish story, but just maybe people should get the facts before having a go. He may have been mucking about, but just maybe he wasn’t 

don't kn0w circumstances but going by previous antics would put a mortgage on it that it was caused by messing about.

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