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1 hour ago, TotallyHonestJohn said:

Lawson is sorted I am led to believe!!! and it ain't Glasgow

Maybe Cami Brown will now go after Claus Vissing; you know; after saying how much he loved him and how wonderful he was and how he was badly done to by Newcastle in that Speedway Star article...

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THJ

Is it Kent? Matches Poole's top 3 if it is!

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20 minutes ago, lisa-colette said:

Poole would only lose 1 point.

Now isn't that just typical of Poole...?

They lose just one point whilst others lose up to seven....

How do they manage to get away with it?....

One rule for them,  one rule for the rest....

Etc etc etc    :D;)

 

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39 minutes ago, mikebv said:

Now isn't that just typical of Poole...?

They lose just one point whilst others lose up to seven....

How do they manage to get away with it?....

One rule for them,  one rule for the rest....

Etc etc etc    :D;)

 

That's because they have only raced them once at eastbourne, we were due to face them in the ko cup, so will probably get a bye, i surpose that's one rule for one and one rule for others as well :party:

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31 minutes ago, Arthur54 said:

That's because they have only raced them once at eastbourne, we were due to face them in the ko cup, so will probably get a bye, i surpose that's one rule for one and one rule for others as well :party:

That's more of a problem than the points lost I would say (due to clubs struggling).

Poole have an extra away match to pay due to getting no home match against Eastbourne. On the other hand Redcar have had a home match and don't have an away meeting to pay.

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12 minutes ago, Fromafar said:

Berwick only need another 5 teams to drop out of the League to guarantee aTop 6 finish.:D;)

Should have gone into the Premiership...

Same riders to watch and would only need one team to pull out.. :D

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Eastbourne can now be added to the list of teams we have lost since the turn of the Century, just over twenty years ago. How many teams will come to the tapes for 2022

Coventry

Hull

Oxford

Newport

Swindon

Lakeside

Exeter

Stoke

Workington

Reading

Rye House

St Austell

Buxton

 

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2 minutes ago, screm said:

Eastbourne can now be added to the list of teams we have lost since the turn of the Century, just over twenty years ago. How many teams will come to the tapes for 2022

Coventry

Hull

Oxford

Newport

Swindon

Lakeside

Exeter

Stoke

Workington

Reading

Rye House

St Austell

Buxton

 

Isle of Wight

Somerset

Trelawny

 

 

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1 minute ago, screm said:

Eastbourne can now be added to the list of teams we have lost since the turn of the Century, just over twenty years ago. How many teams will come to the tapes for 2022

Coventry

Hull

Oxford

Newport

Swindon

Lakeside

Exeter

Stoke

Workington

Reading

Rye House

St Austell

Buxton

 

And you would have added the Aces to this list as well if it wasnt for Messrs Gordon and Morton..

Who truly pulled out something quite extraordinary to get the NSS funded and built by Mcr Council..

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1 minute ago, mikebv said:

And you would have added the Aces to this list as well if it wasnt for Messrs Gordon and Morton..

Who truly pulled out something quite extraordinary to get the NSS funded and built by Mcr Council..

And even more extraordinary nearly closed the club the next year 

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Surely there has to come a time when Promoters take a step back, put their own egos away, and realise that what they are doing simply doesnt work?

Its clear that "Championship Lite/NDL Plus" is the (maximum) level for so many..

Not "Premiership Lite"..

If your crowd is less than 1000 why would you be paying Premiership Heat Leaders? 

Premiership Heat Leaders dont forget whose very presence has delivered that less than 1000 crowd!!

The sport is now down to the die hards, with the vast majority of whom willing to watch anything served up and packaged as "Team Speedway" (as is proved by their regular attendance even after well over a decade of contrived output), therefore why spend hundreds of thousands in delivering it?.

For me, the sport (all sports), need a standard bearer to aspire to, so maybe you could get 8 teams to be the pinnacle with 5 man teams. Meaning the best 40 riders ride in that league.. 

The rest then race in an 11 team "Championship Lite/NDL Plus" level, with the best riders providing injury cover to the top league by being affiliated to the teams there..

Meaning no guests in the top league!!

Grade the top 40 riders, A to E and set a mean average based on their total points divided by 40. This will then ensure no team with money can get the best rider from every grade..

Put simply, your crowd level should deliver the level you race at, not the ego of the Promoter..

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17 minutes ago, orion said:

And even more extraordinary nearly closed the club the next year 

Was never going to happen..

The council were not going to close down a multi million pound tax payer funded facility that they had just opened.. 

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8 minutes ago, mikebv said:

Surely there has to come a time when Promoters take a step back, put their own egos away, and realise that what they are doing simply doesnt work?

That should have happened a decade or so ago, will that really happen now? Perhaps there's a number of clubs they have to get down to first, maybe single figures before it happens?

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