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🚨SAVE RYE HOUSE SPEEDWAY - WE NEED YOUR HELP FOR THE APPEAL The Speedway track at Rye House Stadium has been removed and building works carried out without planning permission. East Herts District Council has served an Enforcement Notice and the occupier has appealed against it. The Appeal will be heard on 21-23 October 2026 in the Council Chamber at Wallfields, Pegs Lane, Hertford, SG13 8EQ. Following our application, the nature of part of the Appeal has been changed to an Inquiry and Rye House Action Group is now a Rule 6 Party. That means we can take full part: putting our own evidence to the Inspector, calling witnesses and questioning the other side's case. This is particularly significant because it will allow us to make the case the Local Authority had failed to. This is a very late change and the Appeal is only weeks away. The other parties will have professional representation and we must too. So we have launched a GoFundMe page to raise £40,000 for legal representation and support costs. https://gofund.me/7b9de8c13 We know times are hard for many people and every gift, large or small, makes a difference. If you're not sure what to give, think of the Saturday nights at Rye House you've missed since the racing stopped and what that might mean to you. Every penny raised goes to the Appeal. Any money left over will go to our continuing campaign to bring speedway back to Rye House. Save Coventry Speedway did the same at Brandon in 2023: they took Rule 6 status, funded their case through GoFundMe and saw the developer's appeal dismissed. We want to do it at Rye House too. Please give if you can, and please share this post. The more people who see it, the better our chance of saving Rye House. Donate here: https://gofund.me/7b9de8c13 More at www.ryehouse.racing

Can anyone explain what this means? https://www.thegazette.co.uk/notice/4651908

No it's not. 40pt limit incoming

Vinnie Foord is a Tiger on Friday, no surprise that Hausl's not there. Nick Morris in for Howarth....

I don't really care how we get extra riders just as long as we get them. As I said previously regardless of 1, 2 or 3 leagues, a sport with no competitors is no longer a sport. If Richard Coleman doesn't rock the boat then the boat will sink!

It's gonna be a 38 point limit and possibly 1 or 2 UK riders under 24 / 21

Not bad. Only about 4 or 5 wrong assumptions.😉

Has to be the full seven surely? Top five and two under 21’s at reserve. Coleman all but confirmed the two under 21’s thing didn’t he so seems that one is a goer.

Not followed the U S speedway much but I’m curious of the Visa qualification required to race over here. Is there a National Qualifier to get seedings or is it like Oz where state championships get you a qualification? Just wondering. TIA

It would probably more lies anyway 👍

The ERW is a mad track to watch racing.😂 I don’t know if it’s the same live, but watching on BSN, it doesn’t look like the riders ever go straight; it’s like a big circle. The starts are mad too. It’s like the bikes pull the riders towards the first bend, with gates one or two inevitably hitting the front. Gate four has no chance. Is that just me? This isn’t a criticism; I enjoy meetings at Scunthorpe. Plenty of actions.

A major contributory factor to the current situation is that so many promoters and owners are either ex sponsors of riders, or ex riders... Hence, they come from within the Speedway Bubble... Therefore, they just see the nonsense that pervades as either "perfectly normal" or accept that "there is no other way" as that is all they have been used to... This then becomes custom and practice, and no one then sees the harm it is doing to the sport long term... New ideas, new pairs of eyes, and a new operating model, all coming into the sport, is long, long overdue..

Hope you enjoy the racing, Kevin and Jan are going up. Come on the Pirates. A close safe meeting is what we want.

As it could be "Poland and Sweden and one more", now, maybe home and away twice to give double the matches that Denmark offer?...

Same thoughts .. Although the two U21 riders would now mean at least six in the top tier teams I would think..

Possible idea for next season, Lawson Kennet Cairns Cooper King Slater Landon This is assuming Beau Bailey isn’t heading over and it’s a 40 limit

Well great I look forward to watching Friday nights great racing, unfortunately it'll be via BSN and not live.

I admire your glass-half-full perspective, but IMO, you’re rationalising bad performances. How anyone can defend Hausl, Harris or Flint is beyond me. The track is the same for Harris as it is for every other rider. If 16 year-old Ryan Ingram can pass Leon Flint (a disgrace from our number one) at Scunthorpe, then I expect Harris to be able to do the same.

Prem to have 5 rider teams. Championship to gave 6 or 7 rider sides.

Unfortunately they've gone the other way & allowed foreigners to drop to 3.00.

Plymouth = 228m Scunthorpe = 285m (Poole = 299m)

Think track is prepared for racing and Picko rides the fence more than Bomber does.

The EWR is a racers track with plenty of lines and loads of passing, Poole is not! I await the dirge from Poole supporters😁😁😁

If we do get 8 teams, then how many fixtures will it be. Home and away twice? Home and away once with a "league cup", with two divisions of four each, or just once home and away. I'm asking as over the years, the number of matches has already reduced considerably.

Exactly the sort of mindset Coleman & Lemon are up against…..no idea about how the modern sporting world works & what today’s consumers want. As Coleman said they can all argue about the time line but the current path leads to extinction of the sport.