Chris

I'm no Holder fan, but not sure I would have accepted an apology after being out into the wooden fence with a dangerous move.

Who gives a toss? Any little credibility the sport had in this country completely disappeared when doubling up got out of control & both leagues are virtually the same riders. You could accept one rider doubling up in the top league for experience but it's a mess now. Look at the farcical situation with guests now as well & facilities handed out for riders who haven't even rode this season. If riders can't make one league pay then get a job. The credibility of the sport is more important than any riders income.

Look at the state of the last 3 chairmen of the BSPA and in charge of the sport in this country: Harkess, Chapman and Godfrey. Grim.

So some spotty Herbert with a wankey job title can do away with nearly a hundred years of history. Shouldn't be allowed to happen. The sport really messed up in its heyday in the 70s and 80s by not purchasing or building its own stadiums. Promoters were happy filling a trunk full of cash and putting nothing back into the sport.

That's not true. Wright was riding all sorts of lines in heat 10 with Brennan behind him and was doing it deliberately. It almost caused Brennan to lose 3rd to Hume as he had to go wide at one point to avoid Wright on bends 1/2. It was pretty poor and unnecessary behaviour as there was nothing that Brennan did wrong in heat 3. Wright wouldn't have reacted that way towards a seasoned or harder character either as he would have received something back.

Not a great meeting. Most exciting part was watching Charles Wright racing Tom Brennan all night & have a pop at him after heat 3. Ipswich bottom end was awful. Rew's gating is terrible & Thompson is out of his depth. Hume as a senior reserve with Rew not looking comfortable around Foxhall spells trouble. King didn't help his side though in heat 12 after a surprise 5-1 in heat 11. Belle Vue steady & did what they had to do against a weakened side. Bewley well off the pace again. What's going on with him? Always nice when they close the A12 at 9pm & get imbeciles to put out the diversion signs.

Someone posted the incident on twitter. Clear as day what happened. Cook deliberately stuck his back wheel in Basso front wheel comibg out of turn 2 & had him off. Shocking piece of riding but then Cook doesn't seem right in the head anyway. Complete t0sser.

Another case of the sport not helping itself. An international event where tickets won't potentially be available just 12/13 weeks out from the event. All so the local club can give first dibs to season ticket holders. Wouldn't happen in any credible international tournament in other sports.

Nonsense. It's one of the worst aspects of the sport in this country & why it's not taken seriously. Poland won't go near guests as the league will lose all integrity. One rider missing from the top 5 & it should be R/R. Any missing reseve is replaced by a club junior.

Any idea when these go on sale? Moving into April and nothing...

Absolutely. Have only attended 2 domestic meetings since my club closed in 2018. The poor standard and the nonsense of riders riding for 2 teams of basically the same standard have put me off. Ipswich is 70-odd miles from me so will attend a few matches this season just to see Emil. I wouldn't have bothered otherwise. I do worry about British Speedway messing it up as usual though and demonstrating a lack of professionalism like last night at Peterborough with the floodlights and moving the white line. Riders like Emil and Nicki will just bin it off if that happens along with people like me.

He's the guardian at the moment. I suspect he has no interest or idea how to find P'boro a new home. He won't have the money or the people skills to deal with the council. The club then dies after this season if Chapman asks for silly money and won't sell. Idiot. Look at the state of KL where he runs a dump of a stadium and puts poor sides together year after year

Chapman needs to p1ss off out the club. Didn't he only buy it because the top league needed a certain amount of clubs when he was chairman? He did his job, now go. Tomalin seems to have the passion and money behind him to move the club forward. Chapman is a dinosaur and the club won't last long if he's in charge for much longer. Can you really see Chapman going to the council and fighting for the future of the club and putting ideas for a new stadium in front of them? How a bloke like this was in charge of the sport sums it up I'm afraid.

One of the most stupid posts Ive seen on this forum and that's saying something... It was the way he laid it down haha There is what looks like a floodlight pylon a few feet behind a bag of plastic bottles. The run off area is full of of objects. Incredibly dangerous. Did you not notice him hit a solid fence feet first and hear the impact. The lads lucky he can still walk How that track can be signed off by anyone as safe is crazy.

Russell has always been a bit of a wideboy. I imagine his interest in the sport fizzled out when his cut of Sky money stopped. Doubt he's even interested in reviving Swindon anymore. The worst out of all of this is Rossiter and Kilby. These are supposedly Swindon through and through and have backed the bullsh1t and lies for many years and even had a pop at the fans for questioning GI and the new stadium. Rosco sitting on bikes with plans and telling everyone it will happen was pathetic You could see it wasn't happening from a mile off but Rosco wouldn't have it. He's happy to get front and centre when a trophy is being lifted but he has been very quiet lately.

Some cracking racing second half of the meeting. Nothing wrong with the track and didn't cause any of the injuries. That safety fence doesn't look right at all. Zero give in it and Thomsen's bike flew 30 foot down the straight when it bounced off it. No wonder he ended up with a compound fracture going in feet first.

Diabolical decision to choose 1 and 3 for the final. That decision cost them the gold.

Shocking exclusion

Track to dry to produce any decent racing. The home side chucked away lots of points riding a wide line and kept going backwards.

Just ignore the silly old fool. He wants a rise, don't give it to him

Sounds like it's looking more positive looking on the Rye Facebook page. Fair play to the RHAG for their efforts. Track measurements taking place. Interesting what area they will have to work with as possible junior football pitch in the middle plus it looked as though there was paving over where the track used to be. I'd hope if there is a blank canvas that they contact Chris Morton and get the dimensions for the NSS or the Oak Tree Arena. Obviously, it wouldn't be as big but something that rides the same as those tracks would be ideal.

The crowds were down by way more than half. The average in 2017 must have been around the 1,500 mark as there were some big crowds that year at Rye. On a Monday or Wednesday night they were down to 500 for some of them and remember being at the Leicester meeting in 2018 on a Monday/Wednesday with crap weather and there couldn't have been more than 400 max. Fixed race nights killed the club and those two clowns, Godfrey and Chapman refused to let Rye go back to Saturday nights and preferred to kill the club instead. This is why no one takes the sport seriously in this country. We are killing clubs and using fixed race nights so riders can ride for multiple teams. The two leagues are no different in standard now. I have hardly attended a British meeting since Rye closed as it's mickey mouse with riders riding for two clubs at basically the same level. There can't be any attachment to riders and must look completely insane to outsiders.

Proper speedway, Nige! How the sport should be done. Bewley riding the air fence

Poles in a different league. Thought Kemp and Flint were poor in all honesty and pretty slow. Brennan excellent and needs to get rides in Poland and Sweden next season. Impressed by the young aussie Rew.

Lambert has come across as a bit thick in the GP's. His first and second bend moves have been poor and he has put himself in some awful positions generally on track which have cost him points. His gating is dire as well at the top level. Great talent but a hell of a lot of developing to do.