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2 minutes ago, woofers said:

One thing you can be sure of, and don’t need Mystic Meg for, is a negative post from the serial hater of all things Eastbourne.

What master baiting!

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4 hours ago, old bob at herne bay said:

All this back slapping and self congratulation   .... " correct call" , ......" Eastbourne's weather forecaster spot on again " :nono:

4 days ago the meeting was called off (Tuesday evening at Kent)

Unless you're party to information that wasn't made public from any source, (doubtful as, by your own admission, you've only been to two speedway meetings in living memory), the scheduled meeting at Arlington tonight wasn't cancelled until Thursday.

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58 minutes ago, SuperSpeed said:

Unless you're party to information that wasn't made public from any source, (doubtful as, by your own admission, you've only been to two speedway meetings in living memory), the scheduled meeting at Arlington tonight wasn't cancelled until Thursday.

Overheard at Kent  on Tuesday evening.  Your new member of the management team at Eastbourne (Lee Kilby  ? ) was chatting to someone I didn't recognise.  Didn't really take a lot of notice until I read the official statement later in the week.

Just for your info, I have only been to 2 meetings  at Kent THIS SEASON . In my "living memory" would take me a lot longer to work out as I first went to a speedway meeting 62 years ago.

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11 hours ago, gazzac said:

I think we had the product a few seasons ago at Eastbourne and clubs like Birmingham  and Kent, with the right balance of good racing and cost, the NL as it was at that time, too successful though for the upper echelon of the BSPA , so they had to put a stop to that. I know this will open up the 'but it's a development league', but it didn't do much harm to for the likes of Brennen, Kemp plus too many to mention.

I've really enjoyed the NDL meetings l've seen this year (live and streamed) and think the relaxation of points which allowed Berwick and Armadale to host NDL teams has proved a huge benefit to the future at these clubs.

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13 hours ago, gazzac said:

I think we had the product a few seasons ago at Eastbourne and clubs like Birmingham  and Kent, with the right balance of good racing and cost, the NL as it was at that time, too successful though for the upper echelon of the BSPA , so they had to put a stop to that. I know this will open up the 'but it's a development league', but it didn't do much harm to for the likes of Brennen, Kemp plus too many to mention.

I don't know why a development league has to be a weak league? As you say lots of riders "developed" into Champ riders when the NL was stronger: Kyle Bickley, Leon Flint, Jack Thomas, Tom Brennan, Drew Kemp, Jason Edwards, Dan Gilkes, Dan Thompson, Joe Thompson, Max Clegg, Connor Mountain, Jack Smith, Alfie Bowtell, Danyon Hume, Anders Rowe, Jordan Jenkins, Jordan Palin, Ryan Kinsley & Luke Ruddick

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12 hours ago, woofers said:

One thing you can be sure of, and don’t need Mystic Meg for, is a negative post from the serial hater of all things Eastbourne.

I don't think its personal, he was the same negative hater of all things Lakeside a few years back and that was his team then!

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No one knew whether the Fixture on Saturday would take place any way because Brummies made no announcement until yesterday about riding one match at a time. 

Who knows what discussion went on between the clubs? 

Hope Brummies get a good turn out on Wednesday again. 

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1 hour ago, cityrebel said:

It will be a three week gap before Redcar arrive at Arlington on the 21st. This meeting clashes with a 5.30pm kick off for Brighton in the Pemier league. Hopefully it won't have an impact on the attendance.

If its not one thing its another !

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10 minutes ago, woofers said:

Wow, some serious allegations about financial issues at Eastbourne being aired on the Speedway Updates Leicester v Eastbourne thread.

If those allegations are even anywhere near true then Eastbourne Speedway are in bother.

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5 minutes ago, Steve Shovlar said:

Oh dear bad news here. Have the crowds at Eastbourne been that poor? They don’t have the same overheads as other clubs as they own the stadium and with it car park, food outlets etc.

The club and the stadium are separate entities now, Eastbourne pay (Eric Dugard, I think) to hire Arlington for meetings.

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20 minutes ago, Steve Shovlar said:

Oh dear bad news here. Have the crowds at Eastbourne been that poor? They don’t have the same overheads as other clubs as they own the stadium and with it car park, food outlets etc.

Do Eastbourne Speedway own the stadium? Are they same same as Glasgow Speedway, does the speedway rent it from the Allied Vehicles Group? Edit typing while others answered about Easbourne.

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