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I guess as it's new year, us Bees fans are allowed a small tear remembering the way all the staff and St John Ambulance folk, used to march smartly into the stadium to the sound of Imperial Echoes. Please spare a moment to wish those good folks running the Save Coventry Speedway and Stox campaign, a successful year in bringing back speedway to Brandon.

I think he's a good signing on 7.58. Will at the worst hold his average imho.

I remember the days when all the rakers used march out of the pits on the parade with the riders at the AFA. Back In the "Welcome to sunshine speedway, Saddlebow road, the home of the Kings Lynn Stars" days There must of been 10 or so back then.

Can't agree with you there, I think his average will go up! He can't be too bad as he's qualified for a GP series something Bewley & Lambert haven't done yet!

Edinburgh to walk it and muller the weej in the championship final. Masters is the strongest rider in the league by a distance IMO. Cook has had his day.

Might be FFS Banditos after some away matches

If the British Championship was held over seven rounds at every track in the Premiership, I would suggest Cook would win it by some margin... Had a higher away average than both Lambert and Bewley And a home track he had ridden regularly for less than one season suggests he could improve this in 2020 now more dialled in..

Very interesting, and that's quite the same story that Max Grosskreutz told the press. But it just can't have been so in 1933, because only Hitler's 50th birthday, which was April 20, 1939, was a public holiday. https://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Führergeburtstag

Good job he’s got all 3 then...

I think Ivan Mauger came even closer.

At Peterborough we marched out to the Match of the Day theme tune, led by the starting Marshall (my Dad).

If riders are free agents, how do you hear about a rider being blocked from riding? Say Palovaara at Leicester last season?

9th in Sweden and ahead of some decent riders in Poland- hardly garbage !!!!!

Like Havvy did to us with Matej Kus.

This is precisely the issue that is hurting Speedway across the whole country. Everyone agrees that development is required for the sport to survive and yet it is always considered someone else's problem. Poole were naughty not running the youth round this year but did allow a MSDL side to operate from their track which is still more than many clubs do. The BSPA only wants to promote the youth rounds and imposes some hefty fee's and requirements upon development league teams including the treats of not being able to run if they cannot find their own tracks. Referee's often don't want to officiate dev league meetings or youth rounds after main matches and 22 heats of racing counts as a double header so double the fee for the official. There are obviously some notable exceptions but in reality the future of the sport is being handled by a few unsung and unknown heroes.

Think you will find from this comeing season the scb, and bspa are doing something to sort out the problem with track preparation on saying that some tracks are fine.

Auty's only good around Scunny... seems to be rather disappointing everywhere else

I’m with you on that one,I also despair that they can’t sort the leagues out.

Fair point, but some people make it difficult for themselves! Saying that a team has the strongest top 2/3 in the league, but still having them to finish 11th ( even with "apparently" the 2 weakest reserves) means that they are either on a wind up or have a deep seated dislike of The Bears, I suspect it probably both.

Redcar nearly bottom? Are you mad?

Eastbourne 1st - 3rd Great top two, if Brennan can score like last year, will be a very potent team! Not the strongest at reserve but have plenty of potential there! Glasgow 2nd Best rider in the league, good reserve in Jensen, Bailey has plenty of promise but there's also plenty of question marks in the top 5! Edinburgh 1st - 6th Very strong top two, reserves look very decent, if newcomers perform could challenge for the title, if not scrape into top 6! Poole 3rd / 4th Hard to judge as have two places to fill, but have strongest 3rd heat leader in league! Scunthorpe 4th / 5th Weakest number one in the league, but have a great reserve in Lambert & the most promising 2.00 rider! Leicester 5th / 6th Strongest second strings in the league, but alongside Redcar have the weakest reserves! Somerset 7th / 8th Good top 2, exciting riders behind them, but pretty weak in the bottom three! Kent 7th - 9th Middle of the road side, Gilkes is very promising! Birmingham 8th / 9th A good number one & probably the strongest reserve in the league! Berwick 10th / 11th Very solid, potential in their reserves but weak at the top, home advantage should help! Redcar 10th / 11th Strongest top 2/3 in the league, but also weakest reserves in the league! Newcastle 12th Strong reserves but very weak everywhere else!

It's not about the winning, it's the taking part that counts.

If Newcastle are: Vissing Clegg Smetana Skorja Wethers Wright Mountain Sorry, but that’s like six reserves, so unless they settle immediately, surprise everyone and ride out of their skins, it’s gotta be bottom.

What about Newcastle?

Behave yourself. Anyone would think youve helped fill out Berwicks stadium week in week out Main part of advertising is having the product your advertising bang on and value for money. If not, you could advertise speedway as a 5 quid sport and people still wont come back.