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None of those will have a Witches race jacket/suit on though so I’ll save my money to watch the team I support

Just tell the truth. Issue a statement saying they are not prepared to take a financial hit with Ellis not riding. It's not hard is it.

It's an absolute joke that Sweden get priority over cup matches. It's still an official meeting. And one that I should imagine most fans and promoters will want to win. (Who doesnt want a trophy) They say they only get priority for cup matches but come on.... that's where it starts. You know ho the rest will go.

I don't want to ignore him. I think his inane, bitter rambling, and ability to get everything completely wrong, is hilarious. And that's a FACT (probably). Anyway, I'm off to hand in my resignation at work. Once I have no money coming in, and the mortgage, council tax, gas, electric, etc start to build up into thousands, that will mean I have money to burn. FACT. (I assume). p.s. Isn't this thread supposed to be about "Craig Cook ; What next?" The poor sod's been left out of every Premiership team in the country and forgotten, now he's being left out and forgotten from his own thread!

Sorry that makes zero sense to me. It doesn’t matter who the riders are, where they come from or their nationality. The current seven riders that are wearing Witches kevlars are representing my home town team, the team I support so of course they’re my team. If a rider or two are missing for whatever reason, whoever comes in for one meeting only and wears a Witches race jacket, will also be representing “my team”. We’ll agree to disagree.

My guess as to what'll happen...

Think that was a tongue in cheek comment I don’t think any of us really think we’re going to win the title this year. All most of us wanted in our first season back in the top flight was to see some good racing, and to be competitive and so far we’ve succeeded on both counts.

The HUGE difference is of course that he doesn't ride for three teams in the SAME league... Like British Speedway allows... In fact they allow riders to ride for EVERY team in the same league.. And Chris Harris, Scott Nicholls and Rory Schlein in particular seem to do their level best every year to achieve this feat. . Riders should be allowed to ride for as many teams globally and domestically as they want and can, if that is the only way they can make a living, however, it should simply be for ONE team only in each League.. Otherwise it means the Leagues themselves have no integrity, no credibility and ultimately therefore no relevance.. And if the Leagues have no relevance, why bother to attend? Poland and Sweden allows riders to domestically ride for more than one club but never in the same League. . Meaning their Leagues do have integrity, credibility and relevance.. They also have decent National media coverage, National companies sponsoring their clubs, and very decent fan bases.. (I wonder if those things are linked?) I would suggest that if they ran the British Speedway operating model they would have none of the three positive attributes above.. In fact, just like British Speedway... It's 2019, we live in a 24 hours non stop media age... What you could get away even 20 years ago, never mind 50, you now can't... Time to do it properly or not bother at all I would say, it's current operating model isn't fit for purpose now, and definitely isn't fit for the future...

Ignore this guy he’s an ex freeloader who is peed off he can’t get in for nowt anymore so spends his time spreading lies. I stopped listening to him as I struggled to hear him anyway over the sound of him grinding his axe.

Come on now.... It wouldn't be Speedway (in Britain), without some made up septet improved by bringing ringers in would it? You can get away with in British Speedway what you cannot do in my lads U16 Sunday Football League as they all need photo profiles to show they are registered players on the league website, which the ref checks before the game.. British Speedway.... Tee Hee... I wonder if they have ever considered doing 'fixed nights' for all the main European leagues to avoid such clashes? Seriously, if you are going to have clashes, like happens every year, and you end up running loads of contrived nonsense meetings, like happens every year, then you might as well do it at weekends when crowds would be bigger.. Especially now the Football season is virtually finished.. The SoN at BV showed what a Saturday night crowd was like versus running the same meeting on a Monday or a Thursday... You wouldn't have had a full house on either evening.. It's OK now for it all to be 'made up', the fans that are left expect nothing else, so do it when most of them can/will attend.. It doesn't really matter who wins..

Save for how long? This year? Two? For years now every time the premiership gets into trouble they con teams from the Championship into moving up, they then get into trouble and move back down again or go bust. They try the same thing over and again and hope for a different outcome each time. This time no one was stupid enough to move up so Chapman did what he did to buy the league another year or two. Whilst I'm pleased that things are going well for Ipswich at the moment, I still think this will end badly... And I never thought I'd see the day when I'd be feeling sorry for Peterborough fans

Top class performance, Barker back , all contributed, Bacon excellent 6+1 , 2 wins for Greaves , Charles excellent again

I would rather be in championship,,, but it currently looks like the prem will be easier for us to win

I've attended many meetings at Wolves over many years. It can provide good racing. Passing on the outside does happen but the overwhelming number of passes occur on the inside coming out of bends 2 and 4. The track is prepared to provide extra grip coming out of those bends. Understandably, the home riders become more familiar with the track and can often be seen taking advantage of those lines, whereas away riders can often be seen taking too wide a line or drifting too wide. Obviously, there are track specialists who don't ride for Wolves, who know exactly how to ride the track and top riders who can quickly adapt to most tracks. However, many riders today have relatively little consistent experience of racing on tight technical tracks and 2 or 3 visits to Wolves each year doesn't give them sufficient opportunity to master it. Time and time again I have watched decent riders lose out to Wolves riders taking advantage of the grip coming out of the bends but seemingly unable to adapt to take advantage of it themselves. To be clear, there's nothing wrong with the track or the way it is prepared. Every team tries to create a track that gives home advantage but it is less apparent and advantageous for those tracks that are within the more usual parameters for size and shape. Wolverhampton has always been a track I enjoy visiting because of the racing but I concur with others, that it is no longer prepared as it was in the Doc Bridgett days and that the level of entertainment has suffered as a consequence.

Yeah Lindgren struggled from the back clocking up 10+ home averages whilst missing the gate in half his races. You couldn't have chosen a worse example.

No he isn't on his own, but he is an improvement on what a couple of the current riders are doing with the track you now have. If you want a magic button that's going to instantly make Panthers title contenders, why don't you trot off down the bottom of the garden, go shake the magic money tree and make everything better. Easy to stand there and tell everyone what's needed but someone has to pay for it, and it's clear the present owner isn't willing to. It's easy for Neil to say how everything would have been affordable under Ged but the fact is he DID sell the club yet Neil seems to tell us he didn't need to , everything was affordable and it would have been a bumper season. What like the last few where the begging bowl constantly came out. Panthers have a number of problems, from the top to the bottom. But it does seem to me that a number of Panthers fans seem to think they are entitled to a successful season and that the somehow throwing their toys out the pram will make it all better.

As usual you have missed the point. If the crowds are poor, which they are and BV are losing hundreds of thousands of pounds every season, which they are, then they must have tons of cash to burn. FACT.

I thought the deal was that Monday’s and Thurs were protected as Top flight ( I know, dont laugh) Speedway in the UK. So that’s all gone by the wayside. Who negotiated that deal, Teresa May ?

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So unofficial,,, must be a practice,,, so free to get in then

Shows how often I go there. Last time it was poolepirates.co they should have an automatic re-direct on that domain name.

Typical buster track thinking fast times is the B all, who really gives a stuff about track records, thinking the track must be good if the track record is broken, not giving any thoughts to entertainment and that's what any sport is about ENTERTAINMENT.

Loads of tracks have pulled fast ones over the years and got away with it. I know Belle Vue got punished for the hose pipe fiasco, but that is an exception to the rule. You had Eastbourne with the 'stolen' generators and last season Mildenhall refusing to turn up for an away match. Most of these incidents are swept under the carpet and quickly forgotten. The long suffering fans just get used to it.

Lets face it Ipswich fans have been waiting such along time to be champions again, im sure a few more months wont bother them if and its a big if it actually happens.

Looks like British Speedway do have some very clear, sensible rules around starting a race.. However, like so many of their clear, sensible rules, they do seem to be paid little more than lip service at times.. it does appear that the same riders seem to know that over here there is a greater tolerance towards their bending of the rules, even though the rules look more stringent! Anyhow. Keep up the efforts W9 Lion, you never know, one day it might all come together and each heat will become one seamless transition from one to the next, as seems to happen in Poland..

No idea sorry, says details to follow

You can't get us a cheap 18 holes then

No badge,, we having a house party round one of the massif,, unless a deal on the offering

I'd agree with that general summing up, although it wasn't decent from a Panthers perspective. As I said before, there's not actually too much wrong that a couple of decent riders wouldn't put right.

Yeah - or just lie to your paying public. Whatever floats your boat I suppose.

Nope.

I find it tiresome when people keep referring to Poland as the model to aspire to. Thirty plus years ago they had nowhere near the number of supposed high class foreigners in their leagues as they do now but still got huge crowds, suggesting that fans there support the sport, not the perceived level of rider. Germany can also get sizeable attendances. The reasons for this are not simply down to the racing on offer but encompass many other factors including other leisure-time options and historical support levels. However, I'm not over there I'm here and will continue to support British speedway and team speedway in general. I've watched several Polish meetings, they are just as varied as ours in terms of the racing itself and because I have no affinity with the teams I find it quite dull. I can also take or leave the GPs, because I don't support any particular rider in the series so couldn't really care less who wins.

Ha ha ha ha.

Personally as there are fans that go to support the team of 7 riders ( whoever they are) no matter what the rules and regulations are the real issue. Too many go as what is the other option ? No speedway? Speedway is not a professional sport. It's a boys club run by rich businessmen. It needs an individual to take it out of the gutter and have a plan for the future. No self interest between different clubs, where some rules help a certain team. A 'you stratch my back scenario .....' People might not like what Buster Chapman is doing but if he were in control of all the toys in the pram then the sport would imo go forward. Maybe not today but certainly in the future. What's the harm in trying? His 3 teams this year, in matching suits and bike covers look awesome and wouldn't look out of place in Poland. Get all the teams kitted out the same... if a rider says no then bye bye.... Ipswich probably get 1000 on a bad day.... thats enough lemmings to keep the club in business. And why they try and do more when there's no need to make an effort? But look at bank holiday Monday.. there was 3500+ there. That's what clubs should be aiming at more regularly but why were they there? They wouldn't come back if they knew the real rules of a joke sport that is speedway. They were there as a one off... Red and Blue VS White and Yellow. But once they got into it and found out that riders weren't attached to clubs they would laugh and walk away. Any newbie watching BT 1st match was told that Brady Kurtz rode for his team on Easter monday but then rode for a different club at night.... wow.. that's ermmmm weird! But why ? Well it's speedway... it happens here..... Oh well rant over....

Sorry have to disagree, when prepared right there is plenty of opportunities to pass at Monmore with several lines to explore, it might not have been that way in the past few seasons but often that way when Doc was preparing the track. Monmore favours the technical rider who often will be able to pass on those favoured lines.

Tight git they do normally have some English in the programmes- what you going to fill the results in on- a fag packet Normally i would have also said forget practice- i have fallen asleep at more than one !!! however this new flying lap qualifying could be interesting and if i was there i think i would take a look.

BSF at it’s finest.

Many of those like myself in this case are not posting as they want to be negative - quite the opposite. Its because we care and want to see it turn around When someone is critical of a team or rider performance or even management decisions it actually shows their passion in most cases (even if the way it comes across isnt always the best)

And you can apply the exact same statement to League racing in this country, which has already been tainted by riders riding for multiple clubs, thus potentially hindering their own contracted team later in the season. The penny is finally dropping for the handful of people still watching the sport over here. Save your money and take a couple of trips to Poland a year and do a couple of GPs. Much better for your health and sanity.

There are some out there who would like to have you believe it is still a great product regardless . Those with eyes last night could tell you it wasn't

Aye Steve thats a combination of bad eyesight and predictive text for ya... correcting what it thought was poor spelling... Doh... my bad... I missed it... but everyone knew what I meant as you are famed for talking crepe... (that was my genuine edit for decency not a spelling mistake or a predictive text change you plum)... Regards THJ

Where is Charles Wright or perhaps you don't think he's done enough to retain his place .

Wolves as Favoured the gater, nope, watched speedway at Wolves from 1968, far from a trap & go in general!

To be fair, given the dust bowl that is Wimborne Road I would have thought most Poole fans have to go on Twitter to see the result....

Why do they need to ask questions?As Bagpuss said he isn't making the starts consistently in any league this season.What i've seen of him this season he is his usual self and always full of effort even when missing the gate.Can't believe how fickle fans can be,especially ones that don't watch the effort being put in and go solely on scores that said riders have amounted.

Northerner isn't he, ? He"s not Scottish, Welsh, a Midlander or a Southerner!

Of course he is, he says, or someone does on his behalf, all the right things on social media, he encouraged fans to get behind him last year, put their names all over his van and kevlars etc etc He's also a local up Manchester way and I thought did all the right things by the club. He's been honest about his problems which goes a long way with fans too.

THERE is no doubt that he is also very popular with fans, as witnessed by the support he received at BV on Saturday.

Scunthorpe shouldn’t have brought him across the world to ride for them if he wasn’t ready to do so. Seems a common theme with assessed riders who aren’t up to scratch these days to justify it by saying they were thrown in at the deep end.