Post by Deleted on Jul 27, 2009 10:07:27 GMT
Bolloxs!!! 
Taken from Swindon website
SWINDON SPEEDWAY regrets to announce that the Four Team Tournament, due to take place this Thursday at Blunsdon, has been postponed.
Co-Promoter Gary Patchett commented:
‘We have become the victim of a series of unfortunate events. Firstly, we lost Adam Shields to a collar-bone injury during the World Cup.
Adam was one of only two riders’ with a genuine connection, through his uncle Dave, to the former Cradley team. That, in itself, was not an insurmountable problem, however, over the weekend through no fault of their own Lee Richardson, Charlie Gjedde, Neils Kristian Iversen, Davey Watt and Paul Fry have all been forced to withdraw.
A re-arranged meeting in Poland put paid to both Lee and Davey as they will be riding for Czestochowa and Wroclaw respectively whilst Niels has been called into the Latvian GP as a consequence of the injury Nicki Pedersen sustained in the WTC.
Charlie won’t ride again this season as a result of his shoulder injury and is awaiting an operation and Paul was scheduled, at the last moment to ride for Poole at Ipswich but also has an illness to a close relative to contend with.
Davy had been drafted in as the replacement for Adam Shields but was forced to withdraw before we could announce him taking part!
From the outset it has been our intention to stage the meeting, not only at an Elite League level, but with as much past connection to the respective teams taking part.
The riders absolutely had to have as much relevance to the teams they were due to represent otherwise the interest would be severely diminished. I think that the original teams we had put together did just that and clearly there were not replacements available that maintained the same links.
I sincerely regret having to take this decision but do so at the earliest opportunity in order to minimise the effect to the travelling supporters.
It is our intention to re-stage this meeting at a later date in the season, to be announced shortly, when the international fixture list is less congested.
Taken from Swindon website
SWINDON SPEEDWAY regrets to announce that the Four Team Tournament, due to take place this Thursday at Blunsdon, has been postponed.
Co-Promoter Gary Patchett commented:
‘We have become the victim of a series of unfortunate events. Firstly, we lost Adam Shields to a collar-bone injury during the World Cup.
Adam was one of only two riders’ with a genuine connection, through his uncle Dave, to the former Cradley team. That, in itself, was not an insurmountable problem, however, over the weekend through no fault of their own Lee Richardson, Charlie Gjedde, Neils Kristian Iversen, Davey Watt and Paul Fry have all been forced to withdraw.
A re-arranged meeting in Poland put paid to both Lee and Davey as they will be riding for Czestochowa and Wroclaw respectively whilst Niels has been called into the Latvian GP as a consequence of the injury Nicki Pedersen sustained in the WTC.
Charlie won’t ride again this season as a result of his shoulder injury and is awaiting an operation and Paul was scheduled, at the last moment to ride for Poole at Ipswich but also has an illness to a close relative to contend with.
Davy had been drafted in as the replacement for Adam Shields but was forced to withdraw before we could announce him taking part!
From the outset it has been our intention to stage the meeting, not only at an Elite League level, but with as much past connection to the respective teams taking part.
The riders absolutely had to have as much relevance to the teams they were due to represent otherwise the interest would be severely diminished. I think that the original teams we had put together did just that and clearly there were not replacements available that maintained the same links.
I sincerely regret having to take this decision but do so at the earliest opportunity in order to minimise the effect to the travelling supporters.
It is our intention to re-stage this meeting at a later date in the season, to be announced shortly, when the international fixture list is less congested.
Grachan, he was riding for Oxford the night we won 56-21 AT SWINDON.