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Zach been up and down as well until last month or so.

He’s probably thinking Lublin though!

It kind of goes against the pre meeting rallying cries about giving it a big effort. Don't talk about giving it the big 100% effort to get to the final if your actions on the night indicate otherwise. Each fan can make their own mind up, I've seen Brady trap and beat Emil / Jason at Ipswich a few times so he can and does do it. Given the track i would have expected him to put the big effort into gating and getting in front. He diodnt seem to be able to gate - nor did Emil for that matter. Anyway good that the Witches had no complacency and we got the result we sort of all expected anyway - who will they meet in the final!!

Does it make any difference!!!!! Let's not turn this into 10page debate about nothing ffs.

Then that’s unacceptable if he didn’t try but I don’t know what he scored as I don’t follow Swedish speedway

No. Poole stream.

BSN! Was the the match on BSN.?

Not sure he would consider advice from Poole haters. But choices were between Poole and Oxford last i heard anyway. Poole stream rather than BSN.

Inconsistent

As a fan without a team I’m glory hunting this year, come on the witches

Looking at previous visits to Ipswich this season, it was an expected easy win for the Witches - which they deserved as they were the best team over the 2 legs - even with Emil being below par. I like both Dan and Brady but you could see they weren’t interested last night (which I understand), but if I was a BV fan I would have been very annoyed that they didn’t give 100% to at least try and get my team to the finals. The wet surface didn’t help but it was the same for everyone. You could say it was very poor scheduling to have this leg a few days before the biggest meeting for both Brady and Dan - surely it would have been better to have the first leg of the other semi last night and then we would have seen the best of Brady and Dan - as we usually do! TV schedules and SGPs are obviously more important than the dwindling fan base in the UK and that is why British Speedway is going through a slow, lingering death.

and @THE DEAN MACHINE watched Zmarzlik do very little with no effort in sweden on his own track just before the GP

Tedious, but I suspect it will rumble on until we can fight it out on the track.

What's wrong with Etheridge?

Reminded me of Ashton Boughen!

my pennies worth first of all massive congrats to Ipswich, won easily and deservedly so, wont blame the track as it was the same for both teams emil 5 points, bewley 4 points yet its all Brady this, Brady that, wasnt good enough from any of the riders that have more important meetings coming up, sadly british speedway is what it is, the lowest standard league in the world, i dont blame any 3 for being to cautious, but also emil wasnt gating, brady wasnt gating, dan wasnt gating, and if you wasnt gating you wasnt doing anything. we have been bad all year at ipswich with kurtz and dan being poor then so not sure why the shock now tbh. again well done ipswich, belle vue need wholesome changes next year which i think we will get

The obvious solution for me is we have take step back towards basics and rebuild with riders who’s main commitment is to GB speedway. Doesn’t matter their potential ,riders like Nagel Bowes,Klint and others are not really helping the situation .Its obvious there intentions are to breakthrough abroad( I’m not blaming them,it just the way the sport is run in GB that we put up with it). Don’t know what outcome will be for next season but we need a radical shake up.

I don’t care if a rider has a bad night and doesn’t score or gets 1or 2 points as long as he gives it his best and that didn’t happen with Kurtz last night, in his first 2 rides he was shutting off down the straights, it wasn’t till his last ride he actually looked like the rider he can be, in my book that’s unacceptable, we paid over £120 with petrol to watch 14 riders give their best and Kurtz and to a point sayfutinow didn’t give it, zischie was had a poor night but at least you could see he was trying and pretty much riding to his ability,I feel sorry for any BV fans that made the trip last night, you were short changed, also considering the size of the crowd and it was big the atmosphere felt flat

Great post, said how it actually is. British Speedway can be such of an embarrassment at times. A dying sport in this country I’m afraid

Very well said.

The West Midlands can support more than one team. However dense urbanisation means a lack of suitable sites. Berwick and King's Lynn have both survived for over 50 years. The problem for Northampton is not population based, it is that there is no history of speedway in Northampton [just 1929-30 in town, and 54/5 & 66/7 @ Brafield - all at a fairly rudimentary level]

I do think there are solutions but nobody brave enough to implement them

the riders are a big reason the sport in this country is the state its in. cant make it pay without doing two leagues, everyone doubling up, its all a big mess at this point with basically no solution.

I would love to have seen how the armchair experts would have fared off Gates 3 & 4 in their opening rides. Delighted that Brady came through the meeting unscathed and look forward to him being back in 2026 to lead the Aces into battle, hopefully as World Champion.

So less than 10% of the population of the West Midlands (3,039,203) that cannot support a team. Even though Cricket and Football both have a footprint in Northampton it is basically a rugby town. I hope I'm proved wrong but I am fearful for the success at this venue. It will be one I attend as its an Uber away from a late night train back to London.