tellboy Posted April 28, 2018 Author Report Share Posted April 28, 2018 2 hours ago, lynnboy said: Well another good reason to call it off. KingsLynn Football Club will have the play off semi final at home now on Wednesday evening since they won 3-1 today. so a lot of people will be attending this instead of the speedway. So fingers crossed they will call the speedway off aa the weather is looking about as crap as the team assembled for Wednesday. it’s stupid having the two major teams in Lynn playing at home on the same evening It is stupid having two major sporting teams in Lynn at home on the same night,but the speedway fixture was sorted first obviously.So the speedway has to play 2nd fiddle to Poland,Sweden,Denmark and now King's Lynn FC. Personally i think the team assembled for Wednesday night is about on par with what our normal 1-7 would be on current form. Anyway the weather most definitely looks the winner here,so c'mon the Linnets. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lynnboy Posted April 28, 2018 Report Share Posted April 28, 2018 54 minutes ago, tellboy said: It is stupid having two major sporting teams in Lynn at home on the same night,but the speedway fixture was sorted first obviously.So the speedway has to play 2nd fiddle to Poland,Sweden,Denmark and now King's Lynn FC. Personally i think the team assembled for Wednesday night is about on par with what our normal 1-7 would be on current form. Anyway the weather most definitely looks the winner here,so c'mon the Linnets. I know what your saying but the football club get told by the FA when the fixtures take place as if they win Wednesday they have the final at home on bank holiday Monday Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
YerRopes Posted April 28, 2018 Report Share Posted April 28, 2018 I would like the Robins to race against a full strength Stars team.. Rearrange it for that time and when the football has packed up for the summer. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bald Bloke Posted April 28, 2018 Report Share Posted April 28, 2018 40 minutes ago, YerRopes said: I would like the Robins to race against a full strength Stars team.. Rearrange it for that time and when the football has packed up for the summer. So would we. The guests were ok, but there's nothing like a full team. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dontforgetthefueltapsbruv Posted April 28, 2018 Report Share Posted April 28, 2018 On 27/04/2018 at 6:51 PM, g13webb said: What a joke !! The fact that Lynn agreed to this meeting tells me all that we need to be know. We cancel meetings because of the effect the weather would have on the crowd and then arrange to run a meeting when half a team is missing . You couldn't make this up...... Why not switch this fixture to Thursday when all the riders could've rode, or just give Swindon the points without bothering to race, it would save the embarrassment, it cuts-out the financial outlay, it would save hours of work and let the sport be left to die quicker...... You can add me to the list of those not bothering to go ....... . All the riders couldnt ride on Thursday Lakeside at Ipswich so Swindon would be missing 3 instead.... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
g13webb Posted April 29, 2018 Report Share Posted April 29, 2018 For the life of me, I don't understand how the BSPA could contradict the directives from the FIM on our allotted preference race nights. Once the governing body had made a ruling, surely we as a affiliated body take that on board. There should be no discussion or vote on it, these directives were made for the good of the sport, giving control of meeting priority. The BSPA should have excepted ruling as law. The Clubs should have been informed of this ruling and told this league will be running the PL on Mondays and Thursdays, and Championship will run on Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. The only discussion and decision the clubs should have been given was which league and what day they wanted to partake in. If Ipswich, Sheffield or Redcar insisted on running on Thursdays, then fair enough, they should be competing in the PL. If they wanted to stay in the Championship then they would have to change racenights. Its not Rocket science. There is not much difference between the two divisions, illustrated by the number of riders that ride in them both. By giving individual clubs the opportunity to contradict a FIM directives , highlights what a self-righteous shambles the BSPA are. How can other countries take us serious when we make decisions like that . If the BSPA are saying the individual clubs are more important than the FIM , then that would illustrate why our speedway has dropped from being the best in the world to now also rans...... 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tellboy Posted April 29, 2018 Author Report Share Posted April 29, 2018 On 4/27/2018 at 5:12 PM, Star Lady said: Sorry this is nothing but a total farce. I predict a Press Release on Tuesday calling Wednesday's meeting off because of previous heavy rain coupled with poor forecast. Anyone want to bet against it? Could even be Monday looking at the predicted rain expected to fall.Why is it Thursdays always seem to have a better forecasts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dontforgetthefueltapsbruv Posted April 29, 2018 Report Share Posted April 29, 2018 4 minutes ago, tellboy said: Could even be Monday looking at the predicted rain expected to fall.Why is it Thursdays always seem to have a better forecasts. The sun shines on the righteous Up the Withes 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tellboy Posted April 29, 2018 Author Report Share Posted April 29, 2018 1 minute ago, dontforgetthefueltapsbruv said: The sun shines on the righteous Up the Withes Who are yer,who are yer 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Bagpuss Posted April 29, 2018 Report Share Posted April 29, 2018 The guests have been well chosen and one could argue make us a little stronger but that's not the point, people want to see a full team of their own riders. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dontforgetthefueltapsbruv Posted April 29, 2018 Report Share Posted April 29, 2018 2 hours ago, g13webb said: For the life of me, I don't understand how the BSPA could contradict the directives from the FIM on our allotted preference race nights. Once the governing body had made a ruling, surely we as a affiliated body take that on board. There should be no discussion or vote on it, these directives were made for the good of the sport, giving control of meeting priority. The BSPA should have excepted ruling as law. The Clubs should have been informed of this ruling and told this league will be running the PL on Mondays and Thursdays, and Championship will run on Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday and Saturday. The only discussion and decision the clubs should have been given was which league and what day they wanted to partake in. If Ipswich, Sheffield or Redcar insisted on running on Thursdays, then fair enough, they should be competing in the PL. If they wanted to stay in the Championship then they would have to change racenights. Its not Rocket science. There is not much difference between the two divisions, illustrated by the number of riders that ride in them both. By giving individual clubs the opportunity to contradict a FIM directives , highlights what a self-righteous shambles the BSPA are. How can other countries take us serious when we make decisions like that . If the BSPA are saying the individual clubs are more important than the FIM , then that would illustrate why our speedway has dropped from being the best in the world to now also rans...... I agree with you Webby and have posted similar myself before Poole were also for Wedsnesday for the top league so it wasnt just the Thurdsay Championship clubs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
g13webb Posted April 29, 2018 Report Share Posted April 29, 2018 1 minute ago, dontforgetthefueltapsbruv said: I agree with you Webby and have posted similar myself before Poole were also for Wedsnesday for the top league so it wasnt just the Thurdsay Championship clubs I understand that Poole wasn't objecting to the idea of Mondays and Thursdays, but once it was known that the 3 Championships sides wanted to keeps Thursday race nights, Poole went along with-it, knowing that it would enable them to retain their Wednesday race nights... ( as per BSPA philosophy, thinking only of themselves) Had it been agreed to run on Thurs,& Mondays Poole would have run as per charter... It bothers me not which days the sport is run, as long as it is done properly. If all speedway countries run to FIM Directives, then why cant we do the same??. How can 3 second division teams be given the opportunity to overrule FIM idea of country priority for the sake of their own being?? What makes a mockery of it all is that Swindon are allowed to run on a day different to everybody else... ( I understand the reasons why) It seems to me that those who wish, can do what they like, when they like. and then they ask why are fans fed up to their teeth with it all... Piss-Up and Brewery come to mind............ 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Najjer Posted April 29, 2018 Report Share Posted April 29, 2018 I find it staggering that this fixture couldn't of been rearranged in the knowledge nearly half the home side were going to be missing. With the fixed race nights, it surely couldn't of been that difficult? It's even more alarming that Kings Lynn have already acknowledged Iversen will be missing again at some point in the season. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Aces51 Posted April 29, 2018 Report Share Posted April 29, 2018 I may be wrong but my understanding is not that the FIM arbitrarily told the BSPA the fixed nights that would be given to the UK PL. I understood that the BSPA asked for Monday and Thursday and then at the AGM changed to Wednesday when some CL clubs refused to move from their Thursday race nights. As I have said previously, if that is correct, then it would seem that either, the BSPA asked for and agreed Thursday's without first ensuring the affected CL clubs had unequivocally agreed to change their race night or move up to the PL or, some or all of those CL clubs reneged on an agreement. I am in favour of fixed race nights and I understand the dominance of Poland and the GP's but I am concerned that Monday's may have a detrimental affect on crowd numbers for those teams that have had to change their race night to that day. I can't imagine any commercial entertainment business that doesn't have a long and successful history of choosing to open only on a Monday expecting to attract the same number of customers on a Monday as they would on a Friday or Saturday. The previous Belle Vue promotion were desperate to move away from Monday to Friday for those obvious reasons. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trees Posted April 29, 2018 Report Share Posted April 29, 2018 41 minutes ago, Najjer said: I find it staggering that this fixture couldn't of been rearranged in the knowledge nearly half the home side were going to be missing. With the fixed race nights, it surely couldn't of been that difficult? It's even more alarming that Kings Lynn have already acknowledged Iversen will be missing again at some point in the season. As long as we can have a guest, which we can ...... it’s not easy changing fixtures, we nowalready have a handful of fixtures to rearrange at some point Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Najjer Posted April 29, 2018 Report Share Posted April 29, 2018 48 minutes ago, Trees said: As long as we can have a guest, which we can ...... it’s not easy changing fixtures, we nowalready have a handful of fixtures to rearrange at some point Can Kings Lynn ride home meetings on Monday or does the availability of the stadium not allow it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trees Posted April 29, 2018 Report Share Posted April 29, 2018 2 hours ago, Najjer said: Can Kings Lynn ride home meetings on Monday or does the availability of the stadium not allow it? I guess so if necessary..... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Najjer Posted April 29, 2018 Report Share Posted April 29, 2018 20 minutes ago, Trees said: I guess so if necessary..... I find it madness teams would run when they have riders missing when they could ride on a Monday then. The main thing this year was there wouldn't be riders missing. It's one thing having them missing for an away meeting but for a home meeting is financial suicide. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mrss Posted April 29, 2018 Report Share Posted April 29, 2018 With all the water laying about and lots of heavy rain forecast for tomorrow there isn't any hope of speedway at Lynn Wednesday night. Even if Buster gets the track raceable the car park will be flooded. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tellboy Posted April 29, 2018 Author Report Share Posted April 29, 2018 (edited) 6 hours ago, Najjer said: I find it madness teams would run when they have riders missing when they could ride on a Monday then. The main thing this year was there wouldn't be riders missing. It's one thing having them missing for an away meeting but for a home meeting is financial suicide. Believe this or not the only available Monday Lynn could have rode Swindon that i could see was the 16th of April.And then i don't know if there were other fixtures which could have taken some of the riders away. Still keeping my fingers crossed the weather does seem to be improving for Wednesday. Edited April 29, 2018 by tellboy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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