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think same can be said for Littler & Humphries 😉

IMO Doyle needs to look carefully at his future in speedway. He's has a good crack athe GP's ... at the veteran stage now for a speedway rider. Does he really still think he can win the SGP ? Mr N Pedersen showed that you can carry on for one season too many and hurt yourself.

Well if he can still gate nobody is coming past him no matter how slow he is these days, I remember a couple of years back when he destroyed part of Birminghams fence with the track grader, must of thought someone was trying to get by him and turned right 😂

He has! In the championship 2 seasons ago.

The first Cardiff GP the attendance was around 40,000 up from the previous year at Brandon Coventry which was around 12,000 and stayed around 40,000 for about 10 years,why ? Because there was a buzz about it, it had a sense of occasion, it was the new kid on the block and we all know not one person there went for the racing as more often than not it was crap and the track was more often than not awful but it didn’t matter and every year we saw people who hadn’t been to speedway for years turning up and it was the same for the Toruń and Prague GP, the place was buzzing with Brits of which many hadn’t been to speedway for years but had heard of the great time British fans were having through mates and went over there, BV is fantastic we all know that and they were the best GPs for racing but as I said at the start of all this it didn’t attract me to go because it felt like just another meeting and not the bombastic all guns blazing social event that it should be and Cardiff for the first 10 years was, which when imo the circus should of moved to a new town but it didn’t and became stale, a new city venue would give a boost to the GP which I think it needs but if discovery think BV every British GP then the sport is done for because this tiny bubble that BV has inflated will burst, there is no easy answer but whatever that answer is BV in its current guise ain’t it

Boughen dropped by Glasgow today, would be a good rider to get to Workington

Seems to be 6 matches this season so that is what Lambert's average should be. Victor Palovaara has a 4-2 split. Sure Peter Kildemand had the same.

If that's true Blobby, that Glasgow have a bottomless well of money that they are throwing at riders, then why did Glasgow not meet Peter Kildemand's financial demands last year and sign Ivacic instead? And why didn't they then drop Ivacic when it was obvious that he wasn't scoring as expected/ hoped for?

I too have not seen King getting stick. He seems to have settled into the role he's expected to fulfil - as part of the engine room supporting Sayfutdinov and Doyle. Racing against KL, King, Brennan, and Ellis are pretty much matched directly with the likes of Klindt, Iversen, Harris, or Lawson - so they are all capable of beating each other (depending on lots of variables). As I always say - race the same match with the same riders another night, and you'll get a different result. if Iversen had been on form, KL might have got the BP! If Ellis had been a few points better, it would have been closer.

Yeah and a month ago when Scunny were at Poole they interviewed him on the stream and he gave reasons for it. Would be interesting to see if he would go for it if offered though.

Think we both know speedway isn't likely to move forward, as you put it. That's probably why I'm happy to watch a decent meeting, despite a very amateurish presentation.

No thanks, wouldn't want him near BP again.

Edinburgh look.a much stronger team now Fancy them to win at Oxford

Worrall’s Championship average is less than Becker’s Premiership average…nah. Dickson seems to have no issue with binning riders and bringing them back. I wonder if he’s made contact with Nick Morris. He may have not raced for a while but his ban does not stop him from practicing and there are plenty of opportunities for that at Leicester.

Yes not all home though

I was at Le Mans last week so didn’t see either GP but just watched Bewleys rides when it mattered on Friday night, just brilliant.

You make a lot of sensible points, I'm not sure about the 20,000 thing though, there's probably at least double that who still take an interest in Speedway and will be attracted by a major Speedway event in a major city, Cardiff has proven this, add to that foreign visitors and "the curious" being attracted with proper promotion and I think you could easily be looking at 30,000+. One thing I did notice attending Cardiff down the years was that the demographic was quite different of that at all "normal" Speedway meeting. They also need to get ticket pricing right, I can't ever remember paying more than £29 to attend Cardiff and only £23 in the final year, which quite frankly was ridiculous, for the cheapest ticket to then be more than double that at a league track in the suburbs of Manchester is equally ridiculous imo.With respect, although Manchester is a city, I can't imagine it's on many people's bucket list of cities to visit, shown by them just about managing to sell out the Saturday night and being quite short of doing so on the Friday. Parken, Copenhagen attracted around 30,000... Vojens 10-15,000, that's the big city effect. The London Stadium is the obvious choice, 30,000 at £50 a pop minimum (which is still quite cheap for a major event in the UK and cheaper than the cheapest ticket available in Manchester) brings in £1.5m in gate receipts (minimum) alone, if you can't turn a profit on that, something is seriously wrong with your business (and tbf, at the moment we know there is) Having said all of that, things will not change for the better while WBD run the series. What Laura Manciet (FIM Speedway World Championships director) and Jean-Baptiste Ley (Motorsport Series Leader at WBD Sports Europe) know about Speedway you could probably write on the back of a fag packet.

Well 'raring to go' at least.....!!

Well said. What a strange thing to try and blame Oxford. His last four meetings riding at number 3 for Oxford before the crash on 15/9 were as follows… Away vs Scunthorpe (13/9) - 0,2*,2,0 - 4+1 Away vs Glasgow (8/9) - X,3,3,3,3,1* - 13+1 Away vs Redcar (6/9) - 3,3,3,3,3 - 15 Home vs Redcar (4/9) - 2,2*,3,3 - 10+1 He scored 42+3 from a possible 57 points.

You should see then late at night, all sorts of bits of flesh hanging out 😗

Nigel has given him a bell....

You have zero chance of making a London GP pay.. You will be talking circa half a million for rental of the stadium, and the riders, mechanics, and FIM "top brass" hotel costs.. The sport in the UK gets barely 20,000 a week if every track ran a meeting.. Wembley was over forty years ago with several tracks in London, and there were well over 150,000 a week attending speedway nationally back then.. London was also a very different place to live, ethnicity wise... Who is the Albanian and Somalian No 1? And, if some baulked at the Cardiff hotel prices, London's will be, at best, the same.. The sport in the UK, (without radical change), is beyond saving, given the constant erosion of support over the past two decades, and the constant increases in admission which bust inflation.. A London GP, even if successful, (it has no chance of being so) will make zero positive difference number wise, to the 20,000, and dropping, that attend each week... Anyone got half a million to spend on a London GP? If so, send me the money and I will do the rest...

Maybe looking to make a come back, can remember meeting him in the cradley bar back in the day when the worky boys were on a bank weekend tour 😀

Yes he was Peter. And Andy Grahame 😉

He was doing fine at number 3 for Oxford and was in great form before his crash in the championship riders championship, the wheels seem to come off after that. I think he had a bit off a falling out at the end of the season at Oxford and he did'nt ride the the under 18 championship meeting at Cowley.