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So - it says Team Redcar under your name -- I seriously doubt it !!! Sure you aren't an interloper who is out to cause mischief ??? There will be supporters who don't fully agree with the changes, but since this promotion took over - EVERYTHING has been done with supporters at the forefront of the considerations. It may or may not work out, but top marks for trying . I AM a Redcar fan and I WILL be there to see how we get on. Good Luck to Anders, thanks for 100% effort while in a Bears jacket

No Rider ever broke a Club, it's the stupid promoter who agrees to pay his demands that breaks the Club.

Next Wednesday instead of heading down the road to Wimborne Road we head up north to Birmingham. This could well be a very close and tough encounter. Brum are good around their patch. Hopefully a decent amount of Pirates fans will be making the 3 hour journey north to swell the crowd.

Agree with all of that. You're very lucky if you could hear Rory's interview. Sadly, the tannoy didn't seem to be giving 100% in our section. We even managed to miss the announcement that young Hume was replacing Stefan Neilsen. Given my comments earlier on this thread, I should say Masters was decent. Not before time. There were a couple of blips though. Yet another episode of Sleepy Sam. This week's beneficiary was the good twin. We also had an episode of Fireman Sam, although his hose wasn’t quite long enough to reel in Daniel King. Those two slips put paid to his chances of emulating the great Barry Campbell. The bottom 3 tried but were completely outclassed by their counterparts in a team which has been built properly. Special mention to Danyon Hume. Very impressive. Not the best of meetings for unKempt, although he did improve as the night went on. If he's available, I would still definitely attempt to sign him. Severely doubt he would say yes but no harm in asking. As a team, we've now scored 40 (twice), 41, 42, 43, 44, 46 and 47 in our last 8 meetings. Nowhere near good enough, especially considering half of them were at home. We haven't scored 50 since 16 July. Now I'm a patient chap, and I'm well aware that winning every meeting 46-44 would still deliver trophies but the current formula just isn't working. Chop chop...

Personally I think it is more of a move to-get Lawson on board for next season than making the play-offs.Remember Pedersen has also said this his last season.

The lunatics took over the asylum on the updates site last night , apparently we are signing Dudek at 5k per meeting for just turning up. We’re do you even start with that one , more worryingly someone actually posted that and the rest of the mentalists actually believed it. Comedy gold at it’s finest.

I think that the IOW appeals to the non speedway purist who wants to be entertained over a period of time with a variety of two wheeled action and other distractions. Speedway as many know it and has operated for years cannot survive as you have too few teams and fewer riders who have actually honed their craft and know how to set up a machine for the range of track conditions that the prevailing U.K. weather requires. The sport needs an open policy that allows tracks to remain open and offer entertainment on days/nights that suit. Ignore Europe and with the tracks that are left run fortnightly on Friday, Saturday and Sunday between April and October and most of all go out to provide an evenings entertainment not 15 races with gardening interspersed with tractor time trials and many examples of restarts with the mechanical clowns trying to rectify what they failed to do before the first attempt to run the race. If a race needs to be restarted, the riders need to get back to the start not fart about making adjustments giving an unfair advantage. The sport is old hat and it fails to attract new followers and fails to try something new. It is dictated by riders who expect the unattainable in terms of track conditions and weather capped with promoters/club owners who think what they offer needs no change. These two need to ask themselves why the numbers on the terraces are falling. Sadly they have no interest in the punter or the potential entertainment value that a professionally run sport could offer. The current crop of riders (with few exceptions) and promoters apart from two or three really deserve each other and can be proud that their actions are central to the decline of speedway in this country and fully responsible for where it sits today.

I have bouts of mental health problems, and its only over the past few months that I've "Come Out" to coin a phrase. Some people told me to buck myself up, which is the worst thing to be told. Some people don't understand the situation, and I get that, because they won't if they've gone through it. Some people are very understanding. I'm currently having a great many demons, but have confidence, and obviously hope, that the people helping me with it, will get me out of the other end of the tunnel. I like Craig Cook. I feel for Craig Cook, and I pray he gets the help he needs from this invisible but deadly problem. Please people, whether you like the man or not, show him the respect and love that both he and his family needs at this present time. With the right guidance and love, he'll come out the other end with a smile on his face. Thank You.

Ah Taffy. Taker of my weekly pocket money throughout the 1980s in exchange for finest speedway merchandise. Gone, but never forgotten. Condolences to all his loved ones.

Just officially sign a 3 or 4* option ...... I would suggest Josh Bates and then just use any guest you want

Clueless! you sure Don't know how hard it is to get riders in, even Glasgow with all there money have problems. So because you don't like what the club have done your not going what as happened to support your team through bad and good times. Hope redcar win the league.

Surely there should be room to run Grand Pix and an individual competitions in the same season. Other sports do. I used to think the qualifying rounds in the individual event were great .A rider would have one home meeting and two away and highest scorers went to the final 16.

So its coming down then..? Great news...

Nobody mentioning that Poles -- at least PZM licenced Poles -- aren't allowed in the Championship?

Hume had no Champ team in 2020, he's the one rider who has gained from the "rising star" rule! It's a shame that it took a rule that "forced" Poole into signing a promising Brit over an Aussie for him to get a team spot!

It's up to clubs to pay riders what the clubs can afford, not what the riders are asking for!

Whilst not doing anything wrong, his average has slipped this year. Not quite the year Redcar or he was expecting I'd imagine.

I was involved in a series of posts on here recently concerning the number of world champions each country had produced. The careers of both Tom Farndon and Peter Craven were tragically cut short and we can only speculate how many world titles they could have won representing their country.

Bank Holiday meeting Aces v Leicester a few years back was a cracking meeting. Although Aces hit 60 points the racing was off the charts! Even my mate, who is a Lions fan, went to the NSS for the first time and remarked how much he had enjoyed it despite the score. Any track can have it's duff meetings I guess, wasn't a fan of Kirky Lane altho when Mark Burrows held off Tomasz Gollob for 3 laps there in '98 that's something that I'll never forget.

Charlie Venegas is still racing in the USA, aged 54. He was around a 5 and a half point man last time he raced here a few years back in 97. Surely must have improved with all the extra experience since then Or there's Bart Bast who is the same age. He was only a 5 point man last time he was over in 89...but that's even more years of experience since his last UK spell so possibly an absolute bargain average

And about 70 years old

Pay with card in the glass grandstand. Seats are first come first served. Not sure if you can get a beer. Tea and coffee/burgers etc available.

Yea we are going to start work next May so you can't used the stadium for another season .....''This is great news for the club and we look forward to 2023 season in a brand new Stadium . We would also like to thank Clarke Osborne , Justin Tomlinson and Gaming int for there Outstanding Contribution in turning a dream into reality ''

Wolves are running out of steam. Can't see them challenging for the league.

Danny King has done a lot more then 4 seasons for Ipswich, after that it's a struggle, Rory Schlien might be on his 4th year at Wolves.