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Just spoken to bomber and said Someone had posted on twitter he wasnt riding and it was r/r. He said whoever said that was a w@nker.

I think a little perspective needs to be had with a few fans and about our current promotion. Last season, one of the best for many years as a Sheffield fan. The promotion put together a superb team, drafted in a superb guy in Simon Stead to be team manager, and really gave us fans a season not to forget. This season, unfortunately, has not gone to plan. They obviously had a line up in mind and thought they had Lawson, until he changed his mind and went to Lakeside. Maybe Lasse coming in wasn't the only change they had to make once Lawson decided otherwise? The issue with Josh Bates they obviously got wrong, and I'm sure will hold there hands up too. Gravesen coming in seemed a sensible decision, and he deserved another chance after his great performances last season. Again, unfortunately it didn't work out. Team changes made again and bringing in Broc and Georgie, I thought was a good move. Broc has done ok so far, but unfortunately Georgie struggled. The issue with Bjerre I think has been on the cards for a while! A great rider, but not the easiest guy to manage by the sound of things (I have never met or spoke to the guy so that's just an opinion from the outside looking in). Our performances this past month have not been good enough, and I'm sure the riders & promotion will fully understand the fans frustration. The promotion no doubt will know they have made a fair few mistakes this season, but I have enough faith in these guys that next season they will do what's needed and put together another good side. We have no chance of reaching the play offs, so making team changes is not a bad idea at all. Anderson may surprise a few, who knows, but its worth a shot to see what him and Connor can do now till the end of the season. If they can't show what the promotion are looking for, then they can access that and decide for next season. We do not have squad systems or training etc like most other sports, so the only way to see how a rider is, is the sign him and give him a go in your team! I will be at all meetings for the rest of the season, bar Edinburgh away, and I will once again be there next season no matter what riders we have. I am a Sheffield supporter, not a glory supporter. I will support my club through the good and bad times! Frustrated fans I understand, but fickle fans who cannot accept bad times within a season, are what really grind my gears!

You could ask him why he was a disgrace in the after meeting thingy maybe ?

Can only image what the Poole mafia would be saying if those 4 heats were at Swindon. No passing. Bumpy as F. Massive bias in gates 1 and 3. No one can ride it wide in turn 4. Sure its not like that every week though.

£1293.31 on website. Well done to Berwick and Edinburgh fans.

Looks like the old policy has been chucked in the bin then?

Just hope his Dad is not his mechanic this time.

Oh well a couple of Buds and watch Somerset beat Poole would be the next best thing tonight i suppose.

If this is not true the mods should ban you off here for life.

I always enjoy speedway, and a big part of it for me is having a night out with friends and family. I think the only people that have things worked out in British Speedway are the riders, they seem to be the only ones that make any money out of it: and they really do have it worked out to a fine art!!! If the sport can't survive through gate receipts alone, then I think it is perfectly sensible to put an initiative in place for "superfans" as they are called in other sectors. A lot of other entertainment businesses survive only because of this network, and as it is completely open to personal choice should never be seen in a negative light. It is certainly far from unusual, and it is great to see that Edinburgh and Glasgow are so strongly supported in this way. I think we should also realise that Berwick have an unsung support too who quietly give up a lot of their time to help the club survive. Just look at the number of bodies who put down, then lift, track covers. That is a massive job, and has provided a massive benefit to all of the paying public as well as the club; and that is only one example. I doubt British speedway will ever flourish, though, whilst groups across the country constantly engage in battles with promotions. It seems to be one of the constants in the sport that survives with clubs above and beyond multiple changes of ownership and promotion.

Which is what is killing speedway no entertainment sad but so very true.

Personally, I'd invite the rider to some sort of meeting and discuss the matter. It'd seem the most professional way and also keep options open for the future. A phone call could go down as acceptable depending on how it comes across but a simple text message or publicising it before the rider is even informed is definitely the worst way

I'm sure that was Harris riding tonight, might be mistaken

Because Berge had already replaced Riss, so he couldn't come back in. Its a risk you take making reserve switches.

Belle vue have imploded since they sacked Jye they had the chance to replace Worrall and drozdz but chose to sack jye and keep drozdz, then sack drozdz for berge when they could of got rid off him earlier and kept jye , then the reserves would have been a lot stronger. The issue with Worrall he is not fit and should have been replaced early on for consistency within the team. Then comes the team manager surely his job is on the line now with his stupid decisions. Well done to nikolaj b jackobsen in his performance tonight he really flattened belle vue hopes of playoffs. Bye bye belle vue

Poole win whilst carrying 2 riders and go top of the league. Happy day's. The track was better during the last few weeks but unfortunately the amount of rain we've had looks like it has affected it somewhat.

Nah. Just covering yourself Steve

Why is the track so bumpy surely it would be better safer racing if it was smoother.

Keep Bewley. Get rid of the rest. No point building yet another team around Cook, Fricke and Worrall because it has failed for years now.

Klindt passed someone!!! Track must be ok after all.

This really makes me SO annoyed, Followed Bomber from when he was a Bee, Was seriously considering going to Poole tonight to see him, then some w!!!er posts he’s not riding, so we are on our way to Cradley, Hope the mods take action

I was there. 1980 grand prix final at Wimbledon. Those were the days!.

Thanks your are right . Apologies misread your post

The League Cup was a good competition in my opinion also...except some teams used it to manipulate their averages before the league campaign started. Oxford headed the League Cup table in 1987 but suffered once the league started...and I agree, why was final held during October? Oxford missed out on a clean sweep of trophies during 1986 because they ran out of dates and the weather closed in...although they morally won in my view having done the hard work at Cradley having drawn and won in the KO Cup and League Cup first legs!

No, there have been quite a few incidents with aggressive pit crews, eg Sayfutdinov, Holder, Masters to just three. If riders want some handbags, then let them get on with it, but third parties have no right to get involved. Do that in any other sport and you are in hot water, and rightly so. An idiot pumped up on steroids is never going to make a wise decision is he ...

Why were fixed gate positions brought in? With the TS and choice of gates if you were 6 points behind teams had better options.

The league cup was a decent season opener, and was probably brought in due to the number of clubs in the top flight reducing. I remember one year they went as far as effectively having two league campaigns - with all the clubs meeting each other in the league cup and then again in the league - and then having a final for the league cup at the end of the year. This was taking things too far really. I don't see how increasing from 13 to 15 heats is a negative, although when they first did it they added a second reserve race. The format now is better, although the protected heats format was the worst. The nominated riders heats at the end is a good addition. Bonus points in the KO Cup? I don't remember that. Terrible idea. As was the TR and the Golden Double. The TR was the most stupid introduction of all. They should never have got rid of the old tac subs really, as this was a major tactical discussion point throughout the meeting. When they did that, they effectively changed the entire sport and what it's all about. But, if they brought it back now, people would probably be outraged at how unfair it is to the winning side.

Oh Dear, I cannot believe anyone out there still takes anything that Jenga serious.

It's time these pit crew thugs started getting bans for their attacks/attempted attacks on riders...

Round 13 Preliminary line-ups: All meetings are planned to start at 19.00 Swedish time. Lejonen (36) - Dackarna (54) #televised Lejonen Jaroslaw Hampel Rohan Tungate Piotr Pawlicki Chris Holder Maksym Drabik Timo Lahti Kenny Wennerstam Dackarna Greg Hancock Pawel Przedpelski Patryk Dudek Oliver Berntzon Maciej Janowski Joel Kling Hans Andersen Vetlanda (35) - Rospiggarna (54) Vetlanda Artem Laguta Brady Kurtz Leon Madsen Tomas H Jonasson Bartosz Zmarzlik Magnus Karlsson Ricky Kling Rospiggarna Jason Doyle Robert Lambert Andreas Jonsson Jacob Thorssell Max Fricke Samuel Masters Tero Aarnio Eskilstuna Smederna (55) - Kumla Indianerna (35) Eskilstuna Smederna Fredrik Lindgren Mikkel Michelsen Michael Jepsen Jensen Pontus Aspgren Niels Kristian Iversen Krzysztof Buczkowski Linus Eklöf Kumla Indianerna Tai Woffinden Kacper Gomolski Piotr Protasiewicz Anders Thomsen Vaclav Milik Jonatan Grahn Victor Palovaara Västervik - Masarna Västervik Nicki Pedersen Bartosz Smektala Martin Vaculik Peter Kildemand Peter Ljung Mikkel Bech Anton Karlsson Masarna Kim Nilsson Artur Czaja Antonio Lindbäck Joel Andersson Linus Sundström Emil Millberg Jesper Persson Weather forecasts looks really bad for Vetlanda and Västervik tracks, allot of rain expected on both tracks. Gislaved (Lejonen) is expected to get some rain during the day but it should stop before the meeting. Eskilstuna is expected to have overcast but no rain. With 2 rounds to go the standings are: Dackarna 22 points and 1.2085 quota points. (won points divided by lost points) Smederna 20 points - 1.1906 Rospiggarna 19 points - 1.1580 Vetlanda 18 points - 1.0710 Indianerna 11 points - 0.8625 Lejonen 10 points - 0.9411 Västervik 10 points - 0.8588 Masarna 3 points 0.7893 Final round Masarna-Vetlanda Indianerna-Västervik Dackarna-Eskilstuna Smederna Rospiggarna-Lejonen No word on tv-meeting but Dackarna-Smederna could be a very good meeting but so could Indianerna-Västervik be. Line-ups courtesy of www.svemo.se/sv/Grenar/Speedway/Elitserien2018/ Live streaming (pay per view) at: https://www.speedwayplay.com/elitspeedway Live results as always at http://www.svemo.se/sv/Grenar/Speedway/ http://www.elitspeedway.com/liveresultat/ https://sportowefakty.wp.pl/live/zuzel/elitserien Elitserien can also be followed at https://sverigesradio.se/sida/gruppsida.aspx?programid=179&grupp=7514 (web radio in Swedish) Heat schedule: http://www.svemo.se/ImageVaultFiles/id_14025/cf_44/K-rschema_2-15.PDF

Its a joke that his 4+ average is available for a replacement for Clegg having come in on a 3 and scored less that that in just a handful of meetings

No points no surprise, I predicted we wouldn't get another away point a couple of weeks ago, what is a surprise is the margin of defeat. Not replacing Stevie who was never going to come back fully from 3 months out after a nasty injury has come back to bite us on the backside, I would never have had Cook back this season, the GP was always going to have a negative impact as hes way out of his depth, always talks a good game pre season though, this might wake up the owners as they have lost out on the most lucrative meetings of the season. The difficult decisions should have been made rather than any misplaced loyalty. having said that lets not take anything away from Leicester, well done to them.

Good to see a Berwick rider helping a team destroy a team who decided to drop a Berwick rider.

I know that

Thought they had got rid of the bumps this season as looks the same as normal?.

Bomber looks as though he could have the same effect Musilek had on our season last year. Could be a title winning move to get him in.

Yellow card for Summers there

Briggo mentioned it in an interview he gave in 'Backtrack' some years ago.

Class rider but it'll be a shame to watch, even if he does well, given what he could have become.

If that's true that will be another 2 meeting missed this season,i'll be lucky if i have seen half the meetings this season.One big league please and meetings every week next season will be fine by me

I was sat in my local café this lunchtime reading one of the daily national morning papers and I usually start at the back page and move forward. Surprised to see a good half page about Moto GP from Austria the day before (Sunday), but then there was a much smaller report re Saturdays speedway GP in Malilla, sadly it started about the TW NP spat. Results were given, also a bit about British Superbikes from Thruxton and British Touring Car championship from Rockingham. The a list of speedway fixtures for tonights speedway. Its a long time since I seen so much about motor sport in general (apart from F1 at Silverstone) and was genuinely surprised. Speedway was still "a little bit", but hey - its a start.

Supposedly to stop the top riders dominating, but possibly another cost cutting measures as fixed gates tended to reduce the scoring opportunities for the top riders who'd presumably on higher points money.

generalisation or fact in regards to Saturdays so called physical situation?

Brian, when is the plaque being affixed? I'm an experienced Genealogist so if there's time I'm more than happy to see if I can find any living relatives, although I probably wont be able to come up with their current addresses. I know that Hugh had three younger brothers.

Think a few more Sheffield supporters will make the short journey up the M18 and M180 to watch more entertaining racing at the EWR.

I thought Swindon swapped Magic for Doyle before Magic rode for Poole?

Yes paid 8 from 4 rides

Pederen did nothing wrong. Tough but never touched Woffy

Will it be a car, if so cannot wait

thats why the glory boys n girls pulled an awful lot of friday fixtures off . looks like it didnt work when wanting a good guest . bspa = shambolic