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On 11/8/2019 at 11:57 AM, geoff100 said:

Interview with ty procter in this weeks "ss" doesnt make pleasant reading about last season, if anything it makes winning 3 trophys more remarkable.

Haven't seen that interview.......but I still even now can see him coming through the pits gate into car park, we nearly collided, and despite all the euphoria of winning a trophy that night he had proper 'face ache'....to the extent that I almost asked what's the prob?...but quickly decided I wasn't gonna risk it.......

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16 minutes ago, singy13 said:

Haven't seen that interview.......but I still even now can see him coming through the pits gate into car park, we nearly collided, and despite all the euphoria of winning a trophy that night he had proper 'face ache'....to the extent that I almost asked what's the prob?...but quickly decided I wasn't gonna risk it.......

Proctor alleges in his Speedway star interview that he and his teammates are still owed money by Workington.

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18 minutes ago, Fromafar said:

Think most Speedway fans would know that.Even fans are still owed money!

I thought that in these instances the bond that the Workington promotion would have paid to the BSPA when they took over the club would take care of these kind of things. You wonder how far down the list outstanding payments to riders actually is.

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4 minutes ago, screm said:

I thought that in these instances the bond that the Workington promotion would have paid to the BSPA when they took over the club would take care of these kind of things. You wonder how far down the list outstanding payments to riders actually is.

Bottom of the pile, usually nothing left after bspa fees have been taken out.

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22 minutes ago, screm said:

I thought that in these instances the bond that the Workington promotion would have paid to the BSPA when they took over the club would take care of these kind of things. You wonder how far down the list outstanding payments to riders actually is.

maybe any bond/assets are frozen by the HMRC  or whoever pulled the plug on the club ..

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I think that speedway might have a chance if fresh management were to take it on board.I was at the last meetings in 2018 and was looking forward to attending in 2019,even brought my 12 month old grandson and he loved it.therefore we can live in hope that it does return

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1 hour ago, Racin Jason 72 said:

Did the fans who purchased season tickets before Workingtons demise get refunded ?

i think your answer is before your post on this thread  . !  it requires reading from the start . there are only two pages to read . the answerIS on this thread ..

oops , now three pages .

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42 minutes ago, Racin Jason 72 said:

Fromafar alludes to it but doesn’t say it’s season ticket money. 

i think the only the people who bought season tickets for the 2019 season will know whats happening about any reimbursement  of any funds oweing to 2019 season ticket holders . they will be going down the correct routes in order to retrieve money . its a patience game .. sorry to say .

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I'm a former season ticket holder but hadn't got round to purchasing a season ticket for 2019 when the sad news we wouldn't be running broke. I personally know four supporters who had purchased season tickets and to date have not been reimbursed. It would be easy to be critical about the financial and business management of the club however, I don't know the full story but I think it fair to say it wasn't financially well managed and the fallout has subsequently detrimentally biased the possibility of somebody else taking it on.

 

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Pretty disgusting that Riders from the best season in History are still waiting to get paid :mad: season ticket holders who bought tickets haven't been re-imbursed I know that for a fact !! That promotion ruined Speedway in Workington , it will never return they've  damaged it that much !!! 

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Season ticket holders are very much at the back of the queue: when Birmingham went bust in 2014, I had a ST, but when the company had been wound up, it turned out that the administrators hung on to most of the cash, so we got nothing.

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52 minutes ago, jamlad said:

Pretty disgusting that Riders from the best season in History are still waiting to get paid :mad: season ticket holders who bought tickets haven't been re-imbursed I know that for a fact !! That promotion ruined Speedway in Workington , it will never return they've  damaged it that much !!! 

They gave us 4 seasons when no one else wanted too we should not forget at what it has cost laura she deserves some respect for that, the people who ruined the comets are the ones who stopped going each sat night !

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  I reckon it was 6 seasons Geoff . I seem to remember that Laura initially took it on for 2 seasons with an option to extend. I think 5 years was the original quoted max . It was the treble winning sixth season that got Laura her just rewards and brought success for the diehard fans, it was just really sad that it was at such a financial cost.

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2 hours ago, jamlad said:

That promotion ruined Speedway in Workington , it will never return they've  damaged it that much !!! 

They gave us the best, most exciting, finish ever to a season.....e.g. The Glasgow all in a day drama, the massive cup recovery v the Monarchs, the Scunthorpe and Lakeside victories - all unforgettable........brilliant speedway.

As said on here earlier it was those Saturday stay-aways who eventually did the major damage.

I think you are correct though in that "it will never return"...I don't envisage the newly laid Derwent Park pitch being ripped up again to accomodate a speedway track...sadly not.

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1 hour ago, geoff100 said:

They gave us 4 seasons when no one else wanted too we should not forget at what it has cost laura she deserves some respect for that, the people who ruined the comets are the ones who stopped going each sat night !

Whatever happened to 'the customer is always right'?

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