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The athletes aren't based in Perry Barr, they're being bussed in from Birmingham and Warwick unis and a hotel at the NEC. This is due to the fact the Athlete's village wouldn't be finished in time.

He's a latter day Richard Greer.

Oops I always get those two teams mixed up!

Think that was another one. We were up against it from day one that year, then the injury to Big Al made things a whole lot worse. We were allocated Jiri Stancl but he refused to join us and went to Cov instead. At least we didn't finish bottom of the league though, somehow we finished above Swindon.

There was that plus guests, rider replacement, double rider replacement, rider replacement for Bob Valentine who was still riding, oh yes and more guests.

It's like Brummies 1976 all over again!

You need to understand the demographic of the city. Not enough people are interested in speedway. It's as simple as that. The world promoting champion would struggle. Honestly.

Brum v Poole on July 27th

Wasn't there plans for a national speedway museum on the site too, Brian? Incidentally, I went there about 4 years ago for a stox meeting and it hadn't changed a bit since the speedway closed in 86.

TBF, it's normally the test rider who'll get the ride as part of his contract.

Well I pay my £6.99 per month for Disco+ and for that I get Eurosport's excellent coverage of British and World Superbikes, SGP (hit and miss I know) and this nonsense. I think an air fence would make darts more interesting, BTW

Birmingham has fallen out of love with speedway before, in the days when the sport was immeasurably more popular than it is now and at times when there were hardly any other attractions to spend your money on. The demographic of the city is vastly different to how it was 60, 50, 40 years ago. It's no surprise it's struggling now. Unfortunately.

There were two number ones, Smart and Price.

Fair play to him for taking the sport seriously I suppose.

And there was me thinking Blose fans knew everything about the Vile. Oh well https://www.avfc.co.uk/news/2022/may/03/season-tickets-for-2022-23-coming-soon/ https://www.worldfootball.net/attendance/eng-premier-league-2021-2022/1/

Ha ha, brilliant. I officially apologise on Villa's behalf for only being to fit 41,000 fans in for a home game with 20,000 fans on the season ticket waiting list.

Loving the "Oi, come back with my bike!" mural.

Checks thread title. Yep, definitely says Birmingham Brummies 2022.

That's the key, one swallow doesn't make a summer after all. Hopefully he'll improve his average at least.

Probably because the work's behind schedule and the clock's ticking down. More workers coming in, price goes up.

Blimey, take a bow, Brummies.

I get that, but loyalty wears thin when the team isn't quite as attractive as you first thought or were lead to believe. Speedway isn't a charity and times are bloody hard for a lot of people. And times for the club have just been made even harder.

Definitely.

Speedway is lucky it has some people left who put up with all the shenanigans.

For anyone interested, ITV journalist, Nina Nannar has written a book about the history of the ambulance. It's a great read by all accounts.