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Witches v Aces Play off Semi Final 1st leg 29/9/22


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What looks worse. 
 

us picking a guest for that certain track 

 

or

 

having a permanent rider who’s the same calibre of fricke. 
 

Because now if we go wolves in final we go with Harris or if we go Sheffield probably go with Klindt. 
 

sounds mad that we can cherry pick riders for a certain track. 
 

can we choose a guest from a team that’s not made the final??

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We all know that regulations can be bent for certain individuals/ tracks that are “in the interests of speedway”. Having a Grand Prix rider possibly replacing another GP rider for a max of two meetings does not appear to be one of them. Whenever will the clowns who run our once great sport ever learn?. Robert Lambert seems to agree.

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19 minutes ago, PhilTheAce said:

What looks worse. 
 

us picking a guest for that certain track 

 

or

 

having a permanent rider who’s the same calibre of fricke. 
 

Because now if we go wolves in final we go with Harris or if we go Sheffield probably go with Klindt. 
 

sounds mad that we can cherry pick riders for a certain track. 
 

can we choose a guest from a team that’s not made the final??

Exactly :party::rofl:

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36 minutes ago, PhilTheAce said:

What looks worse. 
 

us picking a guest for that certain track 

 

or

 

having a permanent rider who’s the same calibre of fricke. 
 

Because now if we go wolves in final we go with Harris or if we go Sheffield probably go with Klindt. 
 

sounds mad that we can cherry pick riders for a certain track. 
 

can we choose a guest from a team that’s not made the final??

Of course it makes more sense to potentially have four different riders riding in the play offs for the Aces, all from other teams in the same league, rather than making a signing to ride for them in all the matches...

More sense to those who run the sport (appallingly), obviously....

They spend all season borrowing each others riders so I suppose four more times wont make much difference to how the sport is seen and judged...

And whoever wins the league will get hardly a ripple of publicity anyway..

Just a shame an opportunity to being in another 'World Star' wasnt taken..

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Can see both sides of this. Would have been great to have Robert here for four play off meetings but @NeilWatson has stated its against the regs and if so then for once the berks who run British Speedway have stuck to the rulebook and resisted special dispensation.

Would also suggest that Lambert's annoyance about his flights should be towards BV if they advised him to book them without permission to ride.

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53 minutes ago, Bagpuss said:

Can see both sides of this. Would have been great to have Robert here for four play off meetings but @NeilWatson has stated its against the regs and if so then for once the berks who run British Speedway have stuck to the rulebook and resisted special dispensation.

Would also suggest that Lambert's annoyance about his flights should be towards BV if they advised him to book them without permission to ride.

Agree. Also, I can't decide if both parties have been really naive with regards to knowing the rules or really arrogant in thinking that they could do what they wanted regardless of the rules... 

Why would you book flights, make transport arrangements for mechanics and have kevlars made unless you had proper confirmation? 

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1 hour ago, Bagpuss said:

Can see both sides of this. Would have been great to have Robert here for four play off meetings but @NeilWatson has stated its against the regs and if so then for once the berks who run British Speedway have stuck to the rulebook and resisted special dispensation.

Would also suggest that Lambert's annoyance about his flights should be towards BV if they advised him to book them without permission to ride.

Or just maybe there is more to the story.  Just maybe the BSPL did give permission to change thier mind. 

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22 minutes ago, The Dog said:

Agree. Also, I can't decide if both parties have been really naive with regards to knowing the rules or really arrogant in thinking that they could do what they wanted regardless of the rules... 

Why would you book flights, make transport arrangements for mechanics and have kevlars made unless you had proper confirmation? 

Yep wonder why you would do that?

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3 hours ago, one of clubs said:

We all know that regulations can be bent for certain individuals/ tracks that are “in the interests of speedway”. Having a Grand Prix rider possibly replacing another GP rider for a max of two meetings does not appear to be one of them. Whenever will the clowns who run our once great sport ever learn?. Robert Lambert seems to agree.

It’s not a new regulation though and hasn’t been bent in the past. We lost Freddy and Jacob Thorssell to injury in the 2017 semi-final (against BV) and had to make do with Chris Harris and RR for both legs of the final against Swindon. Why should Belle Vue be treated any differently?

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