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We all know how ruthless M F is when it comes to choosing who rides for his Poole team. If as you say "He has a 100K deal sorted for Dudek. I promise it’s not money." Then why would he choose a none GP rider,over the world No 2 who would put more bums on seats for his No 1 rider.

My first memory of Vaclav, was seeing him take on the concrete safety wall at Romford, and win!. A real tough rider who entertained us with his all action style. RIP Vaclav.

With far fewer fixtures this year, I was hoping there wouldn't be any racing until April, it'll be the same at the end of the season, with clubs struggling to complete things in October. Very disappointing!

Always up against it once the start time was changed - the one thing to be learned from this is if s club can’t start the meeting at 2 pm the meeting goes to another club who can this meeting should never have been allocated to Pboro in the first place .

It's no wonder the sport is hemorrhaging supporters on a yearly basis with calamity cases like this. First the time change now cancelling 5 days before the event. I get it's a risk for the promotion by losing money however for those who have booked accommodation and no refund policy?? As usual it's the supporters that get treated like 2nd class citizens. Long term forecast is poor, I get that too. And what If forecast improves later in week?? I'm struggling to get excited about our great sport these days as it's obvious each year is going to be another one that alienates supporters further. We should all be excited about the start of a new season with some great line ups for individual meetings but I can't see many taking place whilst promoters won't take any risk running a meeting these days. I'll be saving my money for something that I know won't waste my money. Disappointing and predictable outcome.

Interesting new rule. 15.8.1 If the Referee stops a heat, following an incident or accident, where the rider causing the stoppage and his team partner were in third and fourth place and a re-run is called with one of those riders excluded, the Referee has the sole discretion to order that the remaining team partner will start on a 15 metre handicap in gate position c or d (the opposing team does not change positions). I guess this is an effort to stop riders staying down to get a rerun & gain an extra chance in the rerun.

First meeting on BT is Belle Vue v Swindon May 14th going by Nigel Pearsons tweet.

and who was going to get the 100k that was in place for dudek then . pie in the sky me think

Most speedway riders are soft touches and knowing Kim, as much as a decent lad he is, he would probably be one of the biggest soft touches. Time for riders to put their foot down. F$$k being owed that much for a job so dangerous. Absolute farce, Lakeside Speedway should be ashamed of themselves.

I think it's called going elsewhere for a while in order to manipulate a more attractive average

just how long can it last tho ? all those paying customers will soon get p1$$ed off and stop coming until the freebies are done away with . ..... in years to come , it will be a lose , lose situation .

You say you know the long term forecast is poor, but still moan it's called off early. Had it not been called off until 10.00am Sunday, you would have moaned that they knew all week what the weather was likely to be like. Just no pleasing some. P.S. I know there are some who have been inconvenienced, but hundreds of others haven't.

Have Stadia UK screwed up or is this all part of their stalling tactics? If planning permission is refused, this allows Stadia UK to dramatically throw their hands in the air and proclaim "we tried our best". If permission does get granted, what's the betting development gets tied up in "legal wranglings" between Stadia UK and the housing developers.

Don’t think you understand how sponsors work.

sunny will probably be o.k until either garrity or auty wipe each other out in ht15!!

Just 1 week to go guys and gals

That one boils down to riders staying down, hoping to seek an advantage in a re-run after his team mate was in third.

But fair play to Tim he was always there.

Being a tad mentally challenged, I had booked a totally inappropriate seat for this meeting - I can't get my bent and twisted body up steps. I contacted the ticket office at Belle Vue to see if they could sort out my self-inflicted mess. I can say without any hesitation that Christine and the staff are SUPERSTARS. My ticket problem was sorted out in flash and the level of customer service was superb. So, thank you Belle Vue and it is such a refreshing change for the humble customer to be treated with dignity and understanding rather than as at some alternative venues where you feel that you are tolerated rather than appreciated. Can't wait!

I cannot believe some of the theories I read on here. Not having club race suites is a no brainer and a massive backward step in my opinion. Whatever the rights and wrongs of this idea, the only reason we are having this discussion it because Matt Ford wants to make a point. If he was doing his job properly he would find a sponsor to meet the cost and provide an ideal way of advertising for that company. But what Matt Ford wants , is what Matt Ford gets......... No, Having no Race suites is a massive backward step...... Going back in time when, Michael Lee was the only rider in the Stars team to have a sponsored covered leathers , all the rest were in black. It was thought then to be wrong, now Ford is suggesting we go back to then days.......... Yeah Right...........

Team suits all day long for me Not having them now would be a big backward step Cost is a red herring too - each suit is the equivalent of a routine service for an engine

Guests should now be a lot less with the fixture list being sorted and anybody missing should be replaced with R/R. The idea of black bottoms a few years ago was much better and team shirts are used to keep them in keeping if guests are used. How hard can it be??

IF it is Lakeside that owe the money, they should be forced to clear their debts before they are allowed to run in 2018. Its disgusting ...

You can add Newcastle to that list as well. He helped others like local lad Mike Watkin, and a lot of the riders we signed had the same nationality or were friends of Ivan. Still very fond of Newcastle and every time he came into the country he made a beeline to visit our track, and just used to appear without being announced, have a chat with the Kiwis and disappear before the end of the meeting, and go and see a local family that he was associated with from his time with us. Having a Geordie mechanic, Gordon Stobbs, I asked him if he could get Ivan to come along to my training school on the Sunday afternoon. He had about 4 other events to go to, but sure enough halfway through our session in walked Ivan, and he proceeded to give a lesson in riding and how to train a rider. Never forgot his roots and the young riders, including Liam Carr, will always remember being tutored by Ivan. Pictures of Ivan and the young riders are on the Newcastle Training group Facebook account.

And maybe Peterborough knew the rules were illegal.