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Only one I’d be unsure of is Clegg personally he doesn’t really go well on big tracks but with his experience should be scoring highly everywhere he goes in this league.

Hmm I got that one but can’t even remember seeing it haha my mistake.

Who was on the front cover? I can’t recall seeing them.

Do you know where you can find the actual meeting result and scores for everyone riding in these meetings please? The speedway star don’t make any mention of them at all.

Dick Barry.

I guess we’ll never know. Hopefully it’s just a case of Ben Barker and he’s just been overloading on painkillers to recover from injuries.

If speedway is his only income then you’d think he’d be extra careful not to jeopardize his career, if he has been taking something he shouldn’t (which is all speculation and we may never fully find out the truth) and he knew he might fail said test if he got asked to do one surely he would’ve been better off saying he was ill miss 7 days racing than potentially throw your whole career away.

Don’t think he should retire like but he’s clearly not fully fit, seemed to back off a bit coming out of the second bend in heat 7, clearly still not right imo he’s not even scoring great in the championship either.

The meeting at monmore looks erm interesting

I don’t think he’s been helped by a couple of his teammates dropping nearly 6 points off there average between them either in fairness.

Don’t know who he is that’s before my time lol.

Quite a win for Leicester and I think that is the tie over, can’t see Thompson doing as bad at home as he did today and with Boughen flying and a strong reserve should see them through. A bit of pressure on the worky heatleaders when your reserves aren’t scoring much because of the poor form of others it’s perhaps pushed Harrison into the main body a bit earlier than he should be especially after injury. Just going by the updates racing seems like it was decent again though and another self made track which is only good for the sport… wish the comets all the best for this season and years to come.

Ah makes sense then. He kind of strikes me in the mould of one of those brilliant reserves and decent second strings hopefully he can improve further though he seems a good guy.

I quite liked the idea of Swindon a few years ago when they had home and away kevlars quite unique for speedway. Can anyone remember what year the old EL had the team suits but they were skin tight like Lycra they were awful!

Don’t get me wrong Poole are probably the best run speedway team and most successful they always seem to have good crowds and get really good sponsorship every season and since they’ve dropped down have assembled really strong teams I think more teams should aspire to be like them and I get a winning team makes fans etc confident there’s nothing wrong with that but sometimes you and others do go ott.

It’s like the Freemasons with CL sticking up for chapman they all continue to do nothing to change the state of the sport but watch it get weaker and more unprofessional by the year but continue to back each other. They’ve both been involved in speedway for years they are part of why the sports in this mess by continually chugging out the same tripe season after season.

I get that but you know yourself when riders ride against there former clubs they’ll try that little bit extra to show what they are missing even if they say otherwise. Nowak was a risk when he’s seeing some away tracks for the first time, I think they obviously banked on him being great at home but he hasn’t been as good as he was last time imo.

He and a few others on here are part of the reason why people don’t want to see Poole do well. The way they go on is laughable.

Probably trying to show the Glasgow promotion that they should’ve signed him this year, he seems a canny bloke and everything but personally don’t know if he’ll ever be more than a second string every time I watch him he seems to lock the bike up and kill his momentum so much.

Why such negativity? On a sub 8 average I think it’s a no brainer. If he is committed as he says he is he’ll easily add to that average and it strengthens the team.

In this weeks speedway star Steve Boxall is on the comeback trail, wonder where he will end up? Didn’t he stop riding due to failing a drugs test? I personally used to like him and thought he was very talented but pretty much in the same boat as Lewis Bridger just wasted the talent they had.

Anyone know if craig cook is holidaying at Poole? heard he likes digging holes…

What about the grand canyon on bend 1? No mention of that.

Maybe so but they go hand in hand with there actually being a sport to follow. Speedway in this country is just not a popular option anymore and we have to accept that. Football especially is the main attraction in this country and the biggest draw for people and then cricket and rugby. There are too many things for people to spend there money on now and with the cost of living speedway is a low low priority, some people are struggling to put food on the table there not going to want to waste the money they do have on a 3rd rate sport which has no credibility imo. We the fans constantly get the pee taken out of us and a total lack of regard for us in the way they manage and inform us, they can’t treat us with any kind of respect so how on earth are they going to get new people through the door.

But why should two different people pay different prices for exactly the same thing? Like going to Tesco getting a ham sandwich I’m paying £1.50 but you pay £4 for exactly the same sandwich it doesn’t make sense. I totally get trying to get new customers but you also need to keep the current ones happy because the speed they are walking away from the sport is alarming, you might give out say 200 flyers and could get 20 new people coming regularly but if you have 30 current customers leaving because they know speedway inside out and they’ve had enough then what do you do? This sport constantly shoots itself in the foot time and time again because the promoters are so self centered they don’t care about if there’s a league next year or the year after they just want to what’s best for there club, the way half of them are going they won’t have any clubs to race against in 5 years time.