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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🙂

And so the biggest issue British Speedway is summed up, the league matches do not matter to the fans and sometimes not to the riders, the play offs do matter to the clubs who see it as possibly a break even pay day, but for whatever reason not all the riders are equally invested and some fans are smart to that, so if league matches don’t draw and the play offs by design or accident don’t draw, what is the point? I don’t have the answer, I think we will lose more clubs as the sport in the country will become a very small league setup with maybe only seven or eight home fixtures a season plus a koc match or two, or become similar to what Isle of Wight do or what grass track does, a few meetings a season. (That won’t be viable though if speedway is the only sport in said stadium)

Could be a problem with the weather today. Fingers crossed the meeting will go ahead ok as a postponement to Sunday will disrupt the Polish play-offs scheduled.

Duh, of course he does.

Pickering has the 2nd leg of the 2. Ekstraliga final this Sunday.

Riders and mechanics were abused as they were going on to the track and as they were leaving the track this was clearly visible on bsn that said time to move on it's all about bit boring now.

Except for Fricke & J Holder in the GP it doesn't seem like any of the riders involved in this semi final have any meetings on the continent this weekend, although there is a meeting in Krakow Saturday which I can't find a full line up for, I think it's a pairs event. Rasmus Jensen & David Rempała, Oliver Berntzon & Vadim Tarasenko and Jakub Jamróg & Szymon Bandur are the only confirmed riders but it's not inconceivable that Pickering, Douglas or Becker could be involved.

Football is more expensive, but there are a lot more football fans and subsequently more demand in the first place. Even then, I'd argue £30 is on the high side for L1 and I've seen others saying the same. The Stock Car World Championship is an annual event, I don't think you can realistically compare that with a run of the mill league meeting. I personally think the £20-25 range you've listed for standard stock car meetings would be a fair price for Premiership speedway. Closer to £20 for normal league meetings and then bump it up a little when the POs come around. As has been said above though, the price is what people are willing to pay for it. Look at the GP section of this forum, it's full of people decrying the price of tickets for the GP at Belle Vue and yet there was 5,500 people there. Yes, it's only an annual event the same as the Stock Car World Final, but the cheapest ticket was £69 for one meeting and people still paid it.