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Wasn't there tonight but was at football last week. Was rumours doing the rounds that the floodlights were being fed from that area as a couple of floodlights failed. Possibly a temporary measure until the lights problem is fixed?

Far better meeting than I expected. Congrats to all 6 or maybe 7 qualifiers, and to Dave Goddard and commentary team for good coverage. A pleasant change from Kelvin and his parrot. The downside of the system of knockout comps that lead to the Challenge is that better riders can left behind due to injury/incidents/mechanicals (or in stronger countries lack of initial qualifying allocations) and thus enable a weak field and lower standard of qualifiers as has happened this year. Thomsen missed his qualifier due to injury, Piotr Pawlicki had only two rides in his, and Jan Kvech three in his. They are far better riders than many that made it here tonite. And for example Lidsey, Becker, and Rohan who all had blinders (for them) in the qualifiers continually prove that they cannot perform consistently at the top level. To my mind a better system to determine the top 15/16 riders for GP's would be use the seasons top riders from the league comps as the starting point for qualification. No rider under a 2.0 point heat average in the leagues (maybe 1.8 in Polish extraligue) is going to be competitive for a GP season.

Another very entertaining meeting with some great Speedway, well done to both teams for that. The difference today was Monarchs reserve Jordy Loftus who scored more points than the total accumulated by Batch, Vinnie, Niklas and Max for the Comets. Huge thanks to guest Nicolai Klindt who was quite simply different class today, he tried single handedly to get us over the line but as a collective we were not up to the task. If Jonas had been riding today I believe we would have suffered our 4th defeat at home in the league from 6 meetings. There is still time to make team changes and I wouldn't blame the management for going down this avenue. We scrapped well to salvage a point with the 5-1 in heat 15 so well done Nicolai and Drew Kemp for that because it would have been harsh to get nothing from the meeting and was at least some consolation for the home fans.

Happens every year an absolute shocker of a rider makes it through 🤣 It's the reason I'll repeat again. The Speedway Grand Prix Series should be a closed shop. The best rider's in the world should be hand picked. The top 12 automatically qualify & the best 4 rider's with the highest amalgamation of averages from at least 2 leagues from:- •Ekstraliga •Elitserien •Speedway Ligaen •Premiership

Well after a dodgy start we preserved our home record but nowhere near getting the bonus point,Nick and Peter doing the business when it mattered,on a side note no power on back straight tea bar and toilets closed I was informed reliability that was the doing of the football club not a good sign, reminds of there's a rumour going round a fuse is going to blow,10 cc rubber bullets

Utopia is eight teams in the top league and all have two World Class riders... The reality is though that laying out circa £14k per two riders, per team, for two meetings, currently, simply isn't justifiable... Especially without any TV contract, and also being reliant on Sponsors who may not always afford to keep underwriting the costs. A Speedway team should only be paying out that kind of money if they are also spending several thousand a week in "non Speedway Bubble" advertising and have a (at least), three times per week online presence on the various digital platforms.. I have just watched a YT content done by a lad who owns a sandwich shop in Yorkshire.. In it, he shares his costs to highlight why a sandwich isn't "a quid" to buy... During the content he talks about how over the past four years his shop has evolved.. About 12 months ago he went "viral" using his personality and quality of food, now the day to day running is done by his staff, as he is the "face" of the business... Meaning he spends his time less "hands on" at the shop, but more releasing content and, very importantly as he mentions, monetizing the content as it is bringing in some big money.. Big money from people travelling in from far and wide who have seen him on the various platforms, plus what the considerable amount the gigital platforms are paying him.. As he says, if you don't have major online presence nowadays, you won't be successful... Who are the online "faces" of the Speedway teams in the UK? Who are the ones getting paid to keep the team in the digital public eye and generating likes, subscribers, and ultimately, more customers?.. The World Class riders, sadly, don't seem to bring 1000 extra so, in this modern world, why not invest in someone who could?... Richard Coleman isn't looking at the sport like a fan, or as an ex rider, (which the other promoters were/are), therefore, hopefully he will keep that cold analytical approach and start to influence better use of what is, given the size of the sport, a huge outlay each season to the riders.. Upon reflection. Maybe "utopia" could be one World Class rider per team, with a costed plan to increase their numbers as and when income streams justify it?.. However. With no aggressive digital platform presence, it will all be irrelevant anyway..

It’s nothing to do with liking it or not. Speak to your recently acquired Poole friends and they’ll tell you what you’ve just spotted has been going on for years so your doom and gloom about the future of the stadium and surrounding area isn’t news. As I said, your attempts at bringing down the team and the stadium say everything about you and nothing about Poole.

You should worry more about your own team, if they can't win at home, nobody will bother to turn up.

Lebedevs isn't finishing top 7 unless he has a stellar Riga and his form improves elsewhere. Hasn't been as good this year.

Agreed! Im sure they mean well!!

Tungate getting in means Doyle & Fricke won't get a wildcard. Bewley, Holder will....suspect Lindgren over Dudek. Although after winning a GP maybe Thomsen rather than Lindgren. Bewley & Holder will be in.

I’ll cut him some slack when he performs like the heat leader he’s supposed to be. This is part of the problem no wonder we’ll be picking up the wooden spoon. Loser’s mentality.

Yes bur Loftus rode like heatleader

Batch had a bad night but u can see in the pits he was working on 2 bikes and heard him say he has ordered a new engine,and ofcourse he turns up week after week,give him a bit of slack.

Are we saying that the 2027 SGP series could be Zmarzlik, Kurtz, Lambert, MJJ, Woryna, Madsen, Lebedevs, Tungate, Nilsson, Jakobsen, Harris, The European Champion and 3 wildcards from: Bewley, Holder, Lindgren, Fricke, Dudek, Thomsen, Doyle; Kubera, Kvech etc Probably not that much worse than the 2026 series tbh 😃 They definitely need to rethink the GP Challenge

Credit for what? A decade in, the place is still derelict. They are absolutely deluded IT IS NOT VIABLE.

Just be glad there wasn't a run-off for 8th - otherwise we could have 10 rounds of Paco!

Tungate and Nilsson - how enthralling!

Tungate a GP rider Jesus Christ.

When Woffy was at Wroclaw back in 2012 I know that part of his deal was to engage with fans before the start of the meeting to promote the club etc.(could be the same for many riders in Poland)Having selfies,signing photos and any other merchandise was the norm.😉That's how I met him as I knew his Father.His first question to myself was "was my Dad any good as a speedway rider?"

Yeah I was shocked at that. Tbf good job we had klindt in as well!

Like it or not the observation walking back to my hotel was shocking, the state of disrepair the builds are in, and as said I hope the Fords have a back up plan for a new stadium,

We’re did he go?

I know Tungate has earned his place but honestly do you really think he’s gonna be competitive in the GP’s.

Bears could start by making you the team manager 😄