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Post by admin on Jun 15, 2007 12:58:18 GMT
According to today's Oxford Mail, Aaron Lanney has turned down the opportunity to be part of the new Oxford set-up and will set about rebuilding his life in Norway.
In the excellent When we were kings there's a passage featuring George Plimpton talking about the Muhammad Ali of today. In it he states that the old saying that we destroy the thing we love the most is wrong; more often the thing we love the most destroys us. And there seems little doubt that Aaron Lanney's love of speedway has brought an element of destruction and chaos to his life. Hopefully young Lanney will be able to rebuild his life, although Norway seems a bit extreme.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 15, 2007 22:27:16 GMT
Aaron Lanney has turned down the opportunity to be part of the new Oxford set-up and will set about rebuilding his life in Norway. Is this a sudden decision, or was it planned? One minute someone is running a speedway team, the next they're moving to Norway?  Seems like a decent chap, and perhaps could have been a decent promoter given a bit of luck, but he's unfortunately not the first and unlikely to be the last to have been ruined by speedway. |
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Post by donsking on Jun 15, 2007 22:32:48 GMT
He got suckered didn't he, allowed his heart to rule his head; never a good idea in business.
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Post by schumi on Jun 15, 2007 22:43:19 GMT
Aaron Lanney has turned down the opportunity to be part of the new Oxford set-up and will set about rebuilding his life in Norway. Is this a sudden decision, or was it planned? One minute someone is running a speedway team, the next they're moving to Norway? We all know he reads the BSF and there have been calls for a clean slate. I guess he's seen that and thought it was in the best interests of the club. Call him a martyr if you like. I know others disagree, but I think he had the team's best interests at heart. |
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Post by Deleted on Jun 15, 2007 22:47:40 GMT
He got suckered didn't he, allowed his heart to rule his head; never a good idea in business. It shouldn't even be with hindsight. Even if I had money to throw away, I wouldn't have invested it in an Elite League team anytime in the last five years. The whole set-up and cost structure was/is wrong, and new promoters are always going to be over a barrel at the best of times. |
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Post by admin on Jun 15, 2007 22:53:53 GMT
You have to be able to do it on your terms, just as Avtar Sandhu did and it looks like Stuart Douglas is doing. Both Sandhu and Douglas look to have the resources to stand their ground - certainly the boys club tried to push Sandhu around and he wasn't having any of it. They've realised that now and have accepted Sandhu as an equal. Lanney, seemingly lacking the resources, was always on a hiding to nothing. I suspect he thought he could follow in Matt Ford's footsteps, but Ford always had Golding in the background to share the burden.
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Post by Deleted on Jun 24, 2007 23:10:13 GMT
Both Sandhu and Douglas look to have the resources to stand their ground What happened to Lanney's main business (in publishing?)? |
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Post by admin on Jun 24, 2007 23:17:36 GMT
I could be wrong, but I think Lanney lost his business and his partner while trying to save Oxford.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 8, 2007 20:43:41 GMT
And there seems little doubt that Aaron Lanney's love of speedway has brought an element of destruction and chaos to his life. Hopefully young Lanney will be able to rebuild his life, although Norway seems a bit extreme. Maybe, just maybe Lanney's love of something other than speedway has brought on his defection to Norway.  When most speedway folk at Stansted last year were boarding flights to Poland, he was checking in on the flight to Oslo - it is possible that Oxford Speedway wasn't as high on his list of priorities than some folk believe. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 8, 2007 21:34:13 GMT
He's gone, sadly at a personal cost, but at this moment Oxford have been re-born, a bright future possibly awaits. So quite frankly in response to your comment, who gives a flying fuck??  fog  |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 8, 2007 21:43:08 GMT
He's gone, sadly at a personal cost, but at this moment Oxford have been re-born, a bright future possibly awaits. So quite frankly in response to your comment, who gives a flying fuck?? fog Quite clearly you do fog, or you wouldn't have bothered replying would you?.  |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 8, 2007 22:10:05 GMT
He's gone, sadly at a personal cost, but at this moment Oxford have been re-born, a bright future possibly awaits. So quite frankly in response to your comment, who gives a flying fuck?? fog Quite clearly you do fog, or you wouldn't have bothered replying would you?. I personally like Arron's time at Oxford (pre he who should not be mentioned) and as your implying that he had other interests other than Oxford, I say so what, Oxford has a new man at the helm, Oxford has moved on and so have the fans, this year has seen serious problems at Oxford (and maybe speedway in general) and reminders of that are not needed at this time, there will be a time for that I am sure, but at the moment survival is the name of the game at Oxford  fog |
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Post by admin on Jul 8, 2007 22:23:28 GMT
In fairness, KevH has just joined these boards and should be allowed to have his say.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 8, 2007 22:26:09 GMT
In fairness, KevH has just joined these boards and should be allowed to have his say. I'm fairly confident he will ;D fog |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 8, 2007 22:34:01 GMT
In fairness, KevH has just joined these boards and should be allowed to have his say. I'm fairly confident he will ;D fog You know me so well - so I wonder just who you may be. |
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