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The usual collapse of the Lions team last night. Having watched this meeting, the start was impressive. To be fair five of the guys did make a fist of it. Howe did his job well. Wells, Wright and the unlucky Robbo certainly made good contributions. Connor Mountain took a well earned point in his reserve ride and possibly would have done even more if he had not bowed out to his more senior partners in heats with Wells and Nicholls. . The two other 'stars' of the Leicester set up are unbelievable poor. They seem to turn up for their wage packets without a thought for the supporters or team . Perhaps they realise that they are both no where near heat leaders anymore and take the soft option in all the teams they turn up to take money from in the uk and abroad. Lastly, the support there last night, seem to take this for granted in a very subdued fashion. Come on Leicester, you're better than serving this up on a weekly basis.youve made so many changes, see where the real problem lies.

Idiot! Cancelled through heave rain and waterlogged track!

Nice to see five ex Bees riders, one current Bees rider and Charles Wright making up a Leicester team. ,you could say two Coventry teams now ride at Baumont Park. Wonder what the stay away Bees fans will make of that!

The last couple of pages show what a load of clowns suggest they are Coventry supporters. The real fans go to Leicester or show with some dignity why they have other views. This forum helps nobody .

With cov v Buxton postponed with an excuse of electrical fault at the stadium or Buxton unable to field a tean, then postponement of the Fours the following week, bells started to ring. Cov v Belle vue went ahead with no show from Mick Horton, now Cov v Stoke postponed through lack of availability of stadium, although this fixture, like the others , has been on the agenda all season. There needs to be more clarity on these regular postponments or maybe more truth in the reasons given by this promotion. They plead for more support then treat the faithful fan base, as small as it may be, with blunt statements.

Time must have arrived for Coventry to look further than Ryan Macdonald. The last few matches must have broken his confidence in this league. The main problem seems to be in his gating ability or rather lack of it. To say he is worse than Bomber Harris says it all. Apart from giving everyone a start from the tapes he shows promise, but I do think Coventry need to try someone else in this current six man team his performance tonight is just not acceptable.

Well Mr Horton, that was not acceptable tonight for a Coventry team even at a stronghold like Perry Barr. It was obvious that your number seven was not competitive from his last outing at Birmingham and for an established rider and captain to boot, to score four points is putting two fingers up to your travelling supporters. There are no excuses for tonight and I'm sure that once again another loss will damage what you are trying to achieve with the Bees. Make changes before it's too late , a winning team is the only answer to your predicament. More thought is needed in what you need to do in bringing more supporters back to support this team.

Historically Bees have always come up short in sorting out replacement cover, things don't change unfortunately. When you're trying to impress the supporters you need to dig deeper to survive.

Good meeting today with more old faces reappearing from the Brandon scene. Nice to meet up with Leon and Jeff from the top bar and of course a pleasure to see Colin Pratt who had travelled over from the Kings Lynn area to enjoy the meeting. Birmingham have assembled a good team for this league and it showed with the number of heat winners. Cov entry's weeknesses showed against one of the leagues top teams and should be addressed to keep the upsurge of fans attending. A free scoring reserve is needed, just look what the opposition had and the difference it makes,,especially on the away tracks. We are too weak here as too in the body of the team where apart from Mountain, we are packed with middle order riders who can raise their game against the lower teams but are found lacking that little bit of experience against the bigger riders. I do hope things improve with the majority of the boys as they do give their all but a little tinkering could prove vital to ensure the fans remain and increase through this important season. Having said all that, well done to both teams for a very entertaining afternoon. Roll on Wednesday!

Listened to WM for this match as away in Denia, Spain. Great win. This is what is needed to bring more fans back on board. roll on Sunday!

Think Sargeant with all his retirements should make it permanent!

Well that was a surprise,. Well done the Warriors and B.B.!,

sorry Barry(Bishop) but I see a comfortable win for the Bees here! Hope to see u at Leicester on Sunday.

Good result for the Bees at Buxton though expected. Pity so few supporters for Coventry were there for reasons well publicised in the past. Buxton is a place at the roots of the sport and even so, have a strong support in the hills of Derbyshire. They lost heavily but the fans will be back I'm sure for the next meeting. It's friendly and unpretentious and a good afternoon out, especially on a sunny day! Now come on you supposedly true Bees fans , get behind this team, it's all you have at the present time. Start turning up at Beaumont Park, you still have a team to support you know.

A few weeks ago Bomber was urging Coventry fans to boycott going to see them ride at Leicester. For the old fans who went to see him last night many would think that he would have trouble getting into the N l Bees team any way! He's been going downhill for more years than most. Perhaps now , after this pathetic performance he will keep his comments to himself. The Bees are fine without him!

As the Bes match yesterday was called off for waterlogged track, what's changed?

Coventry fans would go to Leicester to watch Premiership speedway, but not kids riding round. The names have to mean something to the fans after all these years. The fact that Horton is at the helm also is a big no no to the majority of fans in the know. Let's wait and see what the Save Coventry Committee come up with for next season. The challenge matches of this year were a good start and should continue this next season on a more regular basis, with as before, names that relate to the past Coventry teams being involved I still believe that Brandon will return in the future if everyone involved pulls together and the Council stick to their principals. Until then, Merry Christmas to all friends from Brandon.

Should be a great night with the return of the Bees to Birmingham and appearances from old favourites B.B. And smolinski. Apparently a return is also being made by your old Centre green Presenter , only as a spectator I may add,who will have split support for both teams! Regrettably the old music team are overseas on the night so will miss this special meeting and wish all a good nights racing and wish Tony a very special final night at Perry Barr.

Should be a great evening with the Bees in town and return of BB and Smolinski. I hear on the grapevine that your favourite Centre Green man will be back with the visiting supporters. Sorry that the music presentation team of old will be overseas on the night, but wish all the best for a great evening and send off for Tony.

Great to see the EX BEES doing the business for the Wolves tonight!

A good day out ar Leicester for the travelling Bees fans.Chris Bart Simpson, brother Rich and myself were pleased to meet up with so many old friends from Brandon and for a 'four rider' team we did pretty well in the final reckoning. Pleased to see Kenneth Hansen who had made the trip over to ride for us was enjoying the acknowledgement of the fans on first bend after his final ride. Nice also to see Colin and Peter taking charge once again. Having been to all of the challenge matches this season, it is evident that the belief is with all of the fans that we will be back. Let's hope it's sooner rather than later and with good people who have the best interests of both club and fans at heart.

idiot!

The writing was on the wall at Wolverhampton on Monday night with the inept choice of riders in heat 15. A better choice would I have expected to obtain the two points required to take a league point. Poole seem to have lost the plot in respect of management but hey ho, nice to see the ex Coventry team doing the business tonight. Just like old times!

Absolutely throwing it down in Uttoxeter so good news that it's off tonight. Let's hope that September will bring forth the cancelled challenges at Rye House and Leicester plus others if possible. We need to keep the Bees name prominent in the speedway world and for hopes of a track return of some kind next season

Could be an interesting meeting for travelling Bees fans too with SIX ex Coventry riders on show for the rockets plus Rory for the Wolves.