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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.

Greater Manchester has a population of 3m on the doorstep of the National Speedway Stadium but couldn't attract a crowd for a POSF... no doubt there'd be some novelty to the opening of a new track but inevitably crowds would eventually drop off.

Tbh abuse is shouted at riders at most tracks I attend, not saying it's right but as Josh Pickering said ignore and move on. Do agree it is getting tedious,

Ok thanks for the money advice. I have a PO travel money card so will take that but still have a little cash just in case. There is conflicting advice on gov.uk for Poland as to whether you need an International Driving Permit to hire a car - I've gone with 'GoldCar' for the rental so will have to try and contact them.

Northampton, a mere 5 miles away has a population of 240,000+.

Some of the riders with certain attitudes are a cancer in our sport and like all cancers they need removing. To have riders minds (and often bodies) elsewhere is not what the fans pay to watch. There's no buy in from many of the riders and if they don't buy in why should the fans? Come and support your team... but your Captain is really only interested in another competition, your number 1 earns more money on a Sunday in another country so won't be riding on the Saturday night... and there's far too many examples to continue to list on here, we all know what goes on. I DO NOT blame the riders, they have to do what is right for themselves as self employed participants but in effect they are competing businesses! But are there any other team sports that operate with self employed participants? Like I said in an earlier post, riders should be salaried employees it's the only way to get buy in. I know it will never happen and for that reason team Speedway will probably die a lingering death.

In the hundreds from each? As that is what I imagine Northampton would need from each of Coventry, Peterborough and Birmingham as their natural catchment area is not that highly populated.

So that was the worst meeting I've seen at Foxhall this year. Smooth slick tracks do nothing for entertainment. Brennan was fast, his race times much quicker than anyone else, hope that continues to the SON! Kurtz has ridden worse at Foxhall this year so don't think he wasn't trying but was just very bad out of the start. Bewley looked good when he popped out for a win but when behind didn't try the outside line once. Blodorn, Zischke and Mulford did all they could, it was the top two stars who let the Aces down. Heading into the GP, Doyle will be feeling more confident than Bewley and Kurtz. Emil was just awful. I'm hoping for Leicester to make the final as I don't really like any of the Sheffield riders🙂