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Well least stopped the hundreds of Leicester fans from making a wasted journey for this important cup final...

I don't mind Poole hosting a meaningless end of season challenge. But to even suggest that this match is the final of a tournament held in 2022 is an absolute joke. In reality it is a one off meeting featuring the current Poole team racing against a bunch of riders willing to take a guest booking whilst wearing a Leicester racejacket.

Nonsense. As clear an exclusion as you'll see. Ref bottled it. Poole tinted specs as usual

It was no fluke and at Coventry I thought he would be lucky to walk again. He isnt the rider he was but I thought he did a good job for Sheffield overall.

Don't forget folks !!!

1. Danny King 2. Jason Edwards 3. Connor Mountain/Drew Kemp 4. Leon Flint 5. Charles Wright 6. Jake Mulford 7. Luke Harrison Erik Riss (to Edinburgh?), Connor Bailey (to Workington?), Danyon Hume (???) Out Leon Flint, Connor Mountain and Luke Harrison In Keeps the main core of last years pretty successful team together but... 1. Replacing the unreliable (last year anyway, understandably) Riss with Flint, who needs a change from Berwick imo 2. Replacing Connor Bailey with Connor Mountain/Drew Kemp... Pretty like for like tbh, but I can see Bailey leaving for Workington 3. Bringing in Luke Harrison (which I think is pretty nailed on) for Danyon Hume, who I just can't see back at Redcar next year for some reason... Hopefully Charles is fit in time for the new season... Another option for that number 3 position would be Kyle Newman or Jonas Knudsen... All similar riders, depends on who's available/lowest price etc... Can't see Tom Brennan at Redcar

Some Glasgow fans also forget 50% of the league/Cup racing happens at tracks where passing can sometimes be at a premium, Poole,Armadump,Plymouth, Berwick....... So having a rider that can consistently get out the traps faster than the other three riders is of a great benefit.

We need to be in a realisation that with the drop to 38 and the reassessing of the Polish riders we won't be having riders of the Class of Basso, Taresenko and others round Ashfield in 2024. I'm pretty sure Bomber will be back at one and hopefully Lee too so at least we'll have some fence scraping to witness.

So let me get this right, Speedway in Swindon is unviable but Speedway in Poole is viable both Stadiums owned by Stadia UK, the present scenario is Stadia UK closed the Greyhound racing in Poole to move the televised Greyhounds to Swindon thus making Poole Speedway the only source of income at Poole except for a bit of income from Car Parking and a Car Boot, this then made Swindon more profitable but gave the Speedway less dates to race on, Speedway IS viable at Swindon but not so viable as building houses on the Car Parking area used for Swindon Speedway patrons. https://www.swindonadvertiser.co.uk/sport/23849178.clarke-osbourne-reveals-swindon-speedway-leave-stadium/ Osbourne is not telling the whole truth in this article, and the new company is just window dressing and everyone knows it.

Former Trump Chief of Staff Mark Meadows has been given an immunity deal from Special Counsel Jack Smith in exchange for his testimony, and flipped on Trump. Meadows has told the Special Counsel’s office that there was never any evidence of widespread fraud in the 2020 election and that he personally warned Trump and Rudy Giuliani about their false election fraud claims. This is a massive blow to Trump and his criminal case. Perhaps when Meadows gives his evidence that'll finally be the Big Day Bluey has been promising us.

Trouble is gaters aren’t the most exciting riders to watch,but at the end of the day they all finish up with decent averages and win their Teams matches on a regular basis.Passing is at a premium in speedway nowadays with the slick tracks and rocket machine equipment.Riders beaten to the 1st bend ,only a few percentage pass a decent rider that gates.

I think the 'pile on' has far more to do with how you and one or two others conduct yourselves on Poole threads, you really can't be surprised at getting a load back when Poole cock it up. You've been winding folk up on here for many years after all

28 March 2024!!

Lot of sad losers having a night at home.

Its off

Agree…..but not in the same board scraping manner as Bomber and Basso. These two will be hard to emulate.

Why don't they SCB/BSPL take the speedway licence back from 'on ice' and allow another Promoter to take it on?

Thanks for the reply Halifaxtiger. As a Midlander I have no real affiliation to any one team, but have had a soft spot for Trinity dating back to the Don Fox final in 1968, when apparently I cried my eyes out when they lost. In more recent times my Dad became friends with Danny Kirmond's dad out in Malta, which, added to my penchant for supporting the underdog meant Trinity were my team. I've got fond memories of watching RL on the box with my Dad - particularly Floodlit Rugby League in the 70's. Only ever seen a couple of games in the flesh, but was lucky enough to be working at Wembley the year Joe Lydon scored 2 amazing tries for the Chemics to beat Wigan in the Challenge Cup Final. Hopefully, the new TV deal works for the sport. It is often seen as a poorer relation to Union, but looking at the financial woes of so many of the top domestic teams in the 15 man code maybe RL isn't doing so bad.

Am thinking we may need to have Bastian or Lasse at #6 if we are to have a 2.00 pointer at #7

Riss would be a great number 3, agreed. Best in the league, potentially. I mistakenly took Clegg’s average from his time only with us this season!

Certain councils in Britain are not interested in saving what they see as British 'legacy culture' which is why every sport except football is being allowed to die (rugby League, speedway etc). The cultural landscape is being reshapeed purposefully to better suit the newer cultures who have no real interest in the old ones. I know what i am saying may be controversial but go take a glance around your local speedway stadium next time you're there and look at the demographics of the spectators and you will see what i am alluding to, especially if you also understand the demographics of Poland and then factor in their country's relationship to speedway and how well it is doing there. In many cities there are no new generations who are being brought up like we were or even being raised in the same cultural environment. I've been saying this for the past few years and everybody looks at me like i've fallen from Mars but speedway won't exist in Britain within the next 30 years when the indigenous cultures are all but gone no matter how much it bids to appeal to the newer ones. Enjoy British speedway whilst it lasts as it certainly won't be around forever.

What I find surprising in her case is that negative news stories 'topped the list'. I would have thought they were the list.

You hold yourself alot i reckon.

I don't have detailed facts at my disposal so can only put forward a guess to explain why so much time has elapsed - is it possible that Leicester and Oxford had to await other fixtures (probably including ones involving themselves) to be completed before they were the confirmed finalists? Add in the inevitable postponement or two, and you get to this situation. More a general lack of urgency perhaps?

Isn't it the case that GI as a business buy and run stadiums until they have the opportunity of selling the land the stadium is situated on for housing or similar building development. During the intervening years they charge rent to users i.e. speedway/ Greyhound racing / football clubs and in some cases even play a part in promoting a particular sport. This latter involvement provides some sort of credence to them being interested in finding a new stadium where the displaced sport(s) can move to. But of course, this never happens because when condensed down, GI business plan is to buy sites that in time will be ripe for development - Period. Put simply, once GI get hold of a stadium, the closure clock has started to tick.