mikebv

He is pretty good this Bartek lad isn't he?_ Bloody throttle jockey....

The difference being that those seats are not camping chairs...

Dan T missed Monday after a long absence, but felt ready to race just four days later.. The right call for him... You have to trust the riders, they know their capability levels when injured, and how certain tracks can aggravate their particular injury... They judge the risk v the reward of riding depending on the size of the prize...

Excellent summation..

If he lasts a full season....

A chance for Poole to get one nearer to BV's record Div One victories....

A couple of decades of zero leadership and clear vision.... There was only ever going to be one outcome... An amazing inevitability that those in charge couldn't see... Yet dozens on here, incredibly, did..... As soon as Covid came and went and not one radical change was implemented to a sport that had plenty of followers just waiting to watch Speedway again, it was "Donald Ducked"

In pain.... Well done Brady.... You trojan....

Not at all, I don't attend the qualifiers because it is like visiting a morgue most meetings. At least the play offs have some away fans, a sense of jeopardy and consequence, and you feel like you are attending a bona fide sporting event.. Even if Robert suddenly turns up... Or Bomber changes teams, neither of which he is contracted to .. I can collude with the best of them... Come on Wroclaw ...

Teams come up and bank the cash... No point spending several million to be last... Bank the money and help put together a good 2nd tier team the following year to come back up again.. Good crowds guaranteed to watch even a losing team at Rybnik...

Buxton will be back... BZ and Artem signing for them... Edit. Dean is going to be the RS.

No! No! No! If you ask everyone again.. That you have already spoken to before the season started... Who flatly turned you down.... Or wanted "stupid money"... Hence you ended up with the riders you did... Then, I am sure they will now say yes... (But. Very much on their terms now they know how desperate you are..!)..

BK winning a World Championship would get him a few hundred thousand extra in signing on fees, and major sponsorship in Poland... He might even get a nice watch manufacture sponsoring him... Leading the Aces to the title, and being rider of the year, over here, (like he did last year)... Wouldn't get him a free fish supper every week from "Bob and Elsie's Chip Shop" in Gorton..

There will always be team Speedway in the UK... They might need to make up teams on an adhoc basis... Borrowing riders from each other on any given night to cobble teams together... Hoping fans can collude with the promoters that what they are watching has some resonance, value or kudos... Oh, Hang On, just realised... That is the current operating model.... As you were, its working well.... "Give us yer 20 odd quid, and shut up"....

The major stumbling blocks to one league (which is the obvious option given the nunbers next season), are the TV money going far more ways, and the riders not being able to double up... The guestfests too that will happen, if the GP/Polish Top League riders remain, (I cannot however see how they can given the TV money drop), on Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday evenings, also won't do the sport any favours, given these lads could have conrtacts across Sweden, Denmark and Poland... It will very much be a "Championship Lite" level of competition, which, personally should have happened well over a decade ago when Poland took over, and the Sky money stopped, and pretty much all the "top riders" all elected to clear off... However, instead of ploughing their own furrow and being in charge of then own destiny, they restricted their own businesses by working around other countries, especially Poland.. Worked well didn't it?

I remember being in a 25,000 crowd when PC won one year, (it said so in the programme the week after).. I used to go with my Gran and she got the tickets in March each year, the very day they first went on sale.... "Otherwise we wouldn't get our seats Michael".... E block... Had a wall with a ledge in front of it to rest your programme on, no one sat in front of you, above one of the tunnels to the bars.. The queue at the ticket office on the first day was in the hundreds and constant for several hours.. The nights were electric and, as a kid, I was literally sick with nerves, wanting PC to win... And when he did, I cried like a baby!!!

The promoters will also have a lot more time on their hands to do something else, and money to do it with... A "super" win/win for everyone...

Hamilton Accies?

They will bring their Polish Jet Ski's...

Don't give up.... Keep positive... (Mike will just sign Robert again if he needs to)...

Keep that track soaked....

1993..... One point. .. I can still see the lady's face in the "Megastore/Tent with a wallpaper paste table with a cloth on it", when I asked her if she had any "Wolves Champions '93" car stickers I could buy, as we left... There must have been around four boxes!!!! Happy days. . Great racing, great atmosphere, great rivalries.. Where did it all go wrong?...

Fell off a motorbike a couple of times and got home both times... Hardly felt a thing... Ended up in bed for 3 days on the first occasion as did my ligaments in my left ankle and couldn't walk the next day... The body is very unforgiving when you cause trauma to it...

"Polish Speed" as Jason Crump used to describe it...

These lads race over here because it is much less pressured and they can earn a decent few quid most nights, riding against lesser opponents... No full on, 20,000 fans in the stadium, demanding success... No chairman paying them hundreds of thousands demanding success, with clear consequence if they fail.. No national media showing your work and publicising your performances, with a magazine programme put together specifically to do just that.. Why bother with league racing at all? Over here? A good question, as it certainly hasn't been working for a couple of decades at least has it?