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Danny Bird used to fly up , so maybe he will . In the aftermath of the disappointment of a much anticipated weekend of speedway being washed out we have learned three things . 1 The weather is thankfully meant to start warming up this week 2 In a league of only 11 teams , there's no reason to start the season before the middle of April 3 From certain posters on here apparently only Edinburgh have proper rain offs . Everybody else , especially Glasgow , have an ulterior motive for calling a meeting off lol .

Just caught up with the Wroclaw match which I really enjoyed- massive crowd. Tomorrow we start with the Nice Polska league match on Polsat sport Lublin v Lodz teams https://sportowefakty.wp.pl/zuzel/relacja/84925/speed-car-motor-lublin-orzel-odz start time 1.45 pm UK time, 2nd up is Grudziadz v Czestochowa on N Sport and FREESPORTS IN UK teams https://sportowefakty.wp.pl/zuzel/relacja/84317/gkm-grudziadz-wlokniarz-czestochowa start time N sport 3pm UK time 1st race and FREESPORTS 3.30pm UK time 3rd up is Gorzow v Torun N sport teams https://sportowefakty.wp.pl/zuzel/relacja/84318/cash-broker-stal-gorzow-get-well-torun programme starts 5.30pm UK time 1st race 6pm UK time Lovely warm sunny day forecast for Poland tomorrow 20/21 C http://www.soccer-live.pl/transmisje.php?id=motorsport https://www.meczyki.pl/

His full leg is in plaster cast which tells me it could be a very bad break and may be season ending. If we were to do s straight swap then I would go for Eric Riss, lassie bjerre or Patrick hougaard. But they make us weaker so as cruel as it seems maybe a squad rebuild would be better Stevie drozdz and jye out. Bringing in lassie, Eric and auty Cook L bjerre E Riss Tungate Fricke Auty Bewley

In a meeting with so many positives A fine mild evening fit for Speedway The Scorpions living up to the billing A "good looking crowd Jason Garrity's debut 15pt maximum! A great track surface that Garrity loved ! A 26 point Home win Scorpions Heat winners 14 out 15 races All the Scorpions playing their part. A great after the meeting Q & A session for 20 mins in the Club house that all of the riders bar Stevie & Stefan attended ! Thank you guys. Just one "downer" Stevie Worralls Heat 11 crash that looked nasty chasing Jonas Anderson on the outside going into lap 4; there was just "no give" with Anderson and Stevie ended up pinned up to the air fence and no where to go but right ? ! into the air bag which "blew out alarmingly" as man & machine "went in" at high speed coming to a sudden stop!. It did not look good and there was at least an half hour hold up while they sorted him out in the ambulance on track. We don't know the outcome ? Josh Auty rightly refused to comment when asked about it during Q &As.. But it looked a sickner and may yet prove an immediate blow to both ourselves and Aces if Stevie is now sidelined for a period ? We will have to wait and see where this takes us. Get well soon Stevie who has a big break through season on the domestic; European and World circuits. So lots of positives and we'll take those and the irrepressible Jason Garrity publically promising he and the team were determined "to do the business" for the fans; bodes well indeed. What a character Garrity is. Also Gino seems a real personable club orientated guy keen to do well and get back in to his UK Speedway after two enforced years out. So yes we'll take the positives and go again at Redcar next week. But as good as we are as a 6 minus Stevie; we really must hope that his recovery is full and timely and we are a 7 again just as soon as we can be. Riding a man down already was never a part of the "grand plan" and the sense of "come down" regarding Stevie was like the air coming out of that "exploding air bag!

I think you'll find they need the sales to grasstrack and overseas supporters. Small price to pay for the survival of a magazine that, let's be honest, was dumped by a major publisher (IPC) and had to be rescued by the brave efforts and financial risk of its own editorial staff. With the sport collapsing in Britain they needed to do anything to prop sales up.

Perhaps we could pick one of the talent Brits Poole are bringing through!!!

im not sure how the hell JBA was taking the wide line Stevie had made a fantastic pass on the out side down the home straight then rightly clamped JBA on the kerb[100% fair and clean move],sadly there was a little contact from then on in the unfortunate Stevie was just a passenger and couldnt get off the bike in time you will not find a nicer guy in speedway than Steve and id say he was pished off at JBA nipping him up against the fence on the previous lap,enough to rip Steves inside bike cover off such a shame as it was a super race up to that point,im the impressive Steve giving chase for 3 laps to be fair to JBA, he was straight round to Ste after the race and off the bike checking on him, one other point,i hate to see folk running around to the point where the crash happened and hanging off the fence looking,Stevies young family are present and im sure they dont need running commentary from some un educated clowns hanging off the fence,,,,,,,,,,,ffs,show some respect

Harsh according to most people's description of the incident. That is Stevie just shooting from the hip upset his season has been ruined.

Lovely sunny day in Wroclaw Max Fricke riding as no 8 which presumably means he takes the rides of Drodz at 2

This is one of the very few meeting's I expect us to lose this season. Leicester by 4 or 6

So nothing about the restriction applying to a redeclaration.....

Meetings are called off way to early these days. It seems minimum effort is put in to stage a meeting of there is any threat of rain.

Like some say, cut them a bit of slack, its early days,,,, at least the team will always be trying,,, very

How have half the Poole team ridden more than Martin when your clearly state the track has been 'altered' it will be new for the whole Poole team!

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Certain he stays in Coventry area

Let’s face facts the rain in Berwick was Biblical on Wednesday everywhere is sodden in true reality it would take a week of sunshine and a steady breeze to allow any decent racing to take place. As has already been said on other pages with fewer matches this season the start should have been postponed till the end of April at least.

Floodgates?

Bet your eating your words now Midget , it’s absolutely pee’d it down all day here in Workington and I’m 10mins from the track so the right decision was made , still coming down , damned if you damned if you don’t . Plenty would have been on here whinging had they called it off this afternoon after looking at the forecast

Cook will get it right. He has alot of new machinery. Once he's ironed out his problems he will be fine. Touch wood anyway

Your making things up that are not written, please read my post again and Dump that clutches .. thank you.

kids will always be curious when it comes to crashes.where have you been to a meeting where nobody has gone up to the fence to look.human nature i,m afraid.

Glad I bought the NC+ box and system. Goodbye to all the dropping streams and associated problems of the past...

On reflection I believe they came to the conclusion that it gave the taller riders an unfair advantage as they could reach the ground easier and dig deeper trenches! Personally I would like to see riders settled and up to the tapes BEFORE the two minute time allowance expires, not just being astride their bike at the start and faffing around for several minutes.

Agreed on all counts!

My opinion is based on it being our first meeting of the season. Leicester have already had one meeting at home. add that to the fact that they have a very good looking team more than capable of beating everyone at home and it’s realistic to think they will win on Monday. I am still going up to cheers on the boys and hope we do better than I am expecting but there’s a few places where getting a result will be difficult and this is one of them

Monarchs official site will carry updates as a last resort for you Sue. also no Joel Andersson for Monarchs tonight he hurt his shoulder in his heat 14 crash last night. Hope is he will be back on Friday

whoo hoo, more money saved and not a drop of poison in sight . . so now everybody has to get info from a third party . what about the fans that dont have tech ?

This Scunny side will take a lot of beating at home even without Steve mainly because they could have a different top scorer everyweek not reliant on one rider.Can they do it consistently away?? Auty /Garrity/and Allen are key if those three can up there game away i can see it being a great season for the Scorpions.Also with this year you have a great team a great fair track entertainment second to none and exciting riders in Auty/Allen/Garrity to see ride everyweek hope the club get the crowds they deserve.

There is only light rain forecast and like mentioned above it hasn't rained in workington for the past couple of days. Hasty decision imo, an they wonder why crowds are down. Ian Thomas would never of called a meeting this early with only light showers forecast.

Well that’s my first visit to Arena for quite a while and to be fair nothings changed. It’s still very basic facilities and the track was it’s usual super slick. The racing was generally poor with little genuine overtaking but interest was somewhat maintained because the Panthers managed to stay close until the latter few heats. Morris was very quick out of the starts but even he couldn’t make any impression when outrapped by Ostergaard. I don’t see many teams getting anything out of Lakeside but on the other side I don’t see them getting much on the road either. Nicholls needs to sort his machinery out, his track craft is good but his trapping is awful.

I think if they redeclare then I’d opt for the original lineup.

Rotten luck for Stevie - he has made so much progress the last few years and is irreplaceable on that average. I think the one over 8 rule was only for the starting line-up and because BV have a genuine injury, I would be happy for Kenneth Bjerre to replace him with Smith at reserve to replace Jye. its only fair IMHO in the best interests of speedway.

Worrall was a cert for British Champion this year in my view, our best World Cup rider last year and started in great form. Maybe he won't be out as long as some fear.

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The young dane Fredrik Jakobsen looked decent too.

Crowd wise I thought it was a little dissapointing for our first team event, maybe people are waiting for the league proper to start? The meeting sort of started on time but they didn’t start the junior races until late so the notion of parade at 19:45 was completely off, the meeting had a few re runs but was still completed in a reasonable time. Racing wise the track lacked any grip on the outside of the bends which made for some processional racing although heat thirteen was a belter and what you could certainly call “proper speedway”. One thing which needs improving though is the sound system, its very rough and has too much base, it’s hard to hear what is being said in some interviews and the music is affected by it too but that is nothing that can’t be fixed, the overall presentation is a bit tired too and the music within is same old same old, I thought they were making waves about changing it up a bit? Will give the meeting a score of 6.5 / 10 it wasn’t a bad meeting but there is room for improvement (not the riders)

And promoters choose to hire them knowing they will need to compensate them in some way for the travel costs? If someone wanted me to work for them a nighr a week in a different country id expect my travel costs to be covered, either directly or via the wages i received.

We all know he’s not a no 1 and to be fair he has been put in a difficult situation by the make up of the team/promotion but 3 points even for a no3 should be better, however it’s the first meeting of the season,no practice day got to cut him a bit of slack if he rides to his average there can be no complaints

Wasnt it Phillips that was the Peterborough asset that switched to Scunny

Absolutely gutted. He's started the season in great form. On that average he's irreplaceable home & away. Oh & he's a great ambassador for our club & British speedway as a whole. Get well soon Stevie, hopefully back in Aces (& Scunny) colours as soon as possible.

Worrall has been riding well so a blow for Belle Vue. This is a problem for the premiership clubs, when a rider gets injured riding in the championship. Hope he makes a speedy recovery.

Lambert should be doing better at reserve or has the captain syndrome struck him now

Digiguide report a match every Sunday on Freesports through April, covering all of the first four rounds. Timings are: 8th April Round 1 3.30pm - live 15th April Round 2 10.15 pm - delayed 22nd April Round 3 6.00 pm - presumably the second match live 29th April Round 4 6.00 pm - as above There are several repeat showings as well.

how can you compare rider by rider , when Leicester have had one challenge match, and Poole have had no matches, there's no form to go on, I would worry about why did Ipswich lose at home last night, now run along there's a good chap

I like the red top on the front cover; took me right back to the 60s. Could we have a black and white photo to go with it? Seriously, I do like the new style presentation.

I hope when Swindon visit that the fans don’t bother booing or throwing insults at the Aussie, just ignore him and treat him with the contempt he deserves. Will need to keep close eye on him with regard to sandpaper in his pocket.

You've hit the nail on the head Speedy69. People keep trotting out the line of 'It's 2018, not the 1970's' just because they've read it somewhere. Actually stop, engage your brain. What is happening is minority groups with no interest are dictating what others should or shouldn't be doing and embarking on hate campaigns if companies don't tow along with their views/policies.

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