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Some people seem to be so hard to please, I think Nigel Pearson and Kelvin Tatum do a great job, as does Natalie Quirk. How luck we are to get any kind of speedway coverage especially domestically.

and the prize for the person who was waiting for it goes to?????

Hopefully you can read the words in bold that the loss of Howarth COULD GO EITHER WAY!! So a guy who at best would get 4-5 points..................has scored 6,3,7,7 and 10 on his last 5 visits..............and you say i know nothing about speedway...try finding out factual information before posting because you make yourself look stupid when you post tripe....... If R/R gets 7 or 8 then yes Wolves will be stronger in this meeting.......ive actually said the riders at r/r could score more..but somehow you choose to ignore that fact Try reading my post and then what you type might have some substance....

1 falling off and staying down preventing the other 3 doing what you suggest.....

So going by Homer's post I should have paid a £5 at Sheffield on Sunday. Berwick representative was in Heats 1,8,12,16,20. Rest of the heats basically meant nothing to me.

Honestly Two passes the whole meeting against Newcastle Heat 07: Bjerre passed Etheridge on the back straight of Lap 1 and Heat 09: Jorgensen pulled a hard move to go under Jonasson on Bend 4 of Lap 1. Then the event that was nearly Heat 10: The first running of the race saw Jonasson fall on Bend 3 Lap 2 when in third. Bjerre allegedly fell at the same time when chasing (he said he laid his bike down). Both were excluded from the rerun, however up to this point Wethers and Jonasson has passed and re-passed on the first lap and a half. The race when rerun with Gappmaier and Wethers was a gate and go affair unfortunately and as much as Wethers tried he got nowhere and then went wide into the thick stuff on the last bend and came down hard and was withdrawn from the meeting. The other 12 heats were all from the gate and done and dusted on the exit of the second bend of the first lap, the meeting was awful as a spectacle. Sorry... Regards THJ

Chakka Khan, Chakka Khan

Think I remember seeing one at Brandon. Last rider was Chris Manchester, who decided to pull a wheelie all the way down the back straight, and was promptly excluded for not racing properly. The referee was Frank Edbon surprisingly

Boring? Come on, man! Except for Leszno dominating at the top, the Ekstraliga this year was tremendously exciting. Who would have thought that Gorzow and Torun finish the season in the relegaton zone. All meetings were generally excellent throughout the season, and attracted big crowds, and that even with live tv coverage for the first time of EVERY meeting.

Checking my Hackney book I see he won it in 75. I was only 6 at the time so I don't really remember, although I'm sure I was there. I remember the Superama was held when the Hawks were away at fellow Friday nighters Wolverhampton and it was always a fantastic line-up. I often wondered what the Wolves management thought about it because it probably affected their gate, although I don't think we had a large away support because we lost a lot on the road!

Can I place on record my thanks to the Birmingham promoters for their quick and positive response.

As somebody who watched the sport during its healthy times, and keeping track with what it has become, I'd be grateful for any coverage right now. Fans often lambasted SKY for its coverage, or because they didn't screen a certain match, or its commentators... When SKY decided to ditch us, the same supporters called them "rubbish" anyway, and BT was the best. But because BT air occasional live matches, they're the villains. Speedway 2019 should be thankful for the amount of live action that hits the screens. It is still laughable that hardcore supporters feel it deserves better.

Yeah, you are. Why don’t you just sod off

Not so , it's a local dust up . If it were Berwick v Glasgow followed by Berwick against Eastbourne or Birmingham , I could see your point . But on this occasion everybody in attendance will have a team to support in both matches.

Which thanks to Krister Gardell rushing the meeting through and a fast taxi driver, I didn't need!

Lets hope that the track once and for all cannot be blamed for a Witches defeat. Slick and a gaters paradise and the fat lady will be singing by 8.15pm A track deep on the outside that favours the brave and the Witches will have a chance.....

The Steve Shovlar of Ipswich?

I wouldn’t be unhappy if Ipswich win this - as I think Swindon could beat Poole, Ipswich and BV over 2 legs in the play-offs. Wolves - I’m not so sure about.

I put Lublin in error instead of Rybnik and have since edited it.

Somerset is a good track, usually provides good racing and in the summer the surroundings are nice. I just wish they provided more food / drink outlets and toilets for those fans who stand on the back straight. Two portaloos just don't cut it. Redcar did a far better job with the Fours last season. That said, still looking forward to the meeting this year.

another rider aggravating an injury before a Peterborough meeting, seems to be a theme going on

Terry it was the Kestrels from 1984/90? they will always be the Hawks to me i loved my odd don't be late Friday at 8 visit do you remember Ashby winning the Superama.?

Preben Eriksen also had issues with him during his early career. Basically riders who could stand up to Olsen and not be dominated by him grew to distrust him. Olsen enjoyed his dominance as the leading Dane and when Nielsen came along and began to beat him on a regular basis Olsen took a dislike to him...especially as Hans was very much his own man and didn't want to be dominated by Olsen's overbearing presense (Nielsen touches upon the subject in his autobiography "The Main Dane") Steve Bastable was another who didn't get on with him whilst team mates at Coventry..

Torun relegated as you say. The winners of Rybnik v Ostrow Nice Polska play-offs are promoted to the Extraleague.(that will be Rybnik) Gorzow meet the losers in the relegation/ promotion play- off(Gorzow) the winners of Bydgoszcz v Poznan Div 2 play-offs are promoted into the Nice Polska league (Bydgoszcz)and the losers meet Lodz in the promotion/ relegation play- off.(Lodz) i cannot make it any simpler than that ! No automatic relegation from Nice Polska as only 7 teams in it in 2019.

Ole was my favourite rider as a nipper. I've still got the rosette of him I wore at the 78 world final. Although I did go off him when he purposely put Bo Petersen into the fence at the Wick a few years later..I remember an incensed Bo running the length of the track to get to him. It was only Bo and Hans Nielsen that didn't worship the ground Olsen walked on. The other Danes seemed in awe of him!

Back to the main topic and hoping for a safe meeting for all riders and a Scorpion win.

I don't think i'd bother going if we dropped down...the NL does nothing for me !? I've loved our first season in the Championship regardless of our league position!

Matches I have attended this season suggest crowd levels are still falling at a number of clubs,but don’t think moving down a league will solve anything.NL standard will maybe cut losses but it will not improve attendances or attract new fans.IMO.

Sorry, I only saw the tweet as being about the CLRC and did not read the last bit. But after you posted that people were still saying the Newcastle match was on other dates so I was hoping to confirm the correct date. Just trying to help. I will stop making that mistake here!

Redcar vs Eastbourne Semi is this Fri & Sat (weather permitting!)

I would go with Riss I know he didn't score many last time he guested but he is in form.

silly me for responding to someone quoting me.... i logged in and had a notification so i answered it.....

All that chemical smog has eaten away at his/her brain

I once presented him with a bottle of bubbly at the last meeting at Cowley. Came across as a shy person.

Michanek had a good record at Wolves with Ole

Can see the track prep being grouse for this and the witches giving doyleys lads a good hiding,12 plus to ipswich

And that is after Redcar Bears putting out a plea for £1000 for new shale for the play offs,which was not met.

Very rarely made an appearance at Cowley (especially during the last year of "The Rebels'") giving feeble reasons for not doing so. He was often difficult and a control freak as has been highlighted by team mates and by at least one Team Manager and his handling of the Danish Team whilst still the personal manager of Erik Gundersen (who later agreed that it was wrong when interviewed in an edition of Backtrack some years ago) which caused friction amongst members of the National Team...especially with Hans Nielsen. No not my favourite rider or, indeed, personality within speedway it has to be said. Thank goodness he turned down a move to Oxford and we got the majestic Dag Lovaas instead...who had the beating of Olsen around Monmore Green much to his annoyance!

Ole was booed because he went to any track and beat the local hero

No it proves exactly what you are

More surprising that a facility is still allowed!

He had more chance prior to last Saturday, turning up and putting in a sub standard performance due to injury did him more harm than good.

Sounds broadly similar to the Cradley match last week, my first visit to the NSS and enjoyed the experience (if not the actual match!) Seeing the Colts guys deep in the dirt was a pleasure, especially Flint who has a fantastic style leaning over so far. Cradley couldn't lay a glove on the Colts, I can't remember the last time Clegg went a whole match without winning a heat, nor the last time he registered a last place but none of the Cradley riders were able to live with the home team. Harry McGurk was unlucky in the reserve race where he was in the mix for the lead and suffered engine troubles. Great value NL racing for sure at a fantastic venue, kids for free and £10 per adult is great stuff

Are you aware of the reasons it has been pulled from the schedules? Having looked a couple of the TV listings produced by the weekend papers they show the match as being on BT sport. It is bad enough the promoters/BSPA regularly don’t give a fig about the paying public but to have your main broadcaster jump on the bandwagon is taking the. P.... I guess this sums up the state of things, the punter really does not count at any level and you pays your money and it is a gamble what you get in return.

Ole Olsen

... and yet back in the "golden" days the tractors came out at the end of every race and did a couple of laps. Meetings dragged on for two hours - only 13 heats in those days too - but everything was sunshine and lollipops. Admittedly at most tracks the music being played today is the same as we listened to as the tractors tootled round in the 1970s

Cannot really understand why this meeting is being held at a stadium with no seating, poor peripheral lighting at the back end of September, just because the GP is the day after should not preclude this meeting being taken somewhere else on a different date.

Yesterday I said Hancock deserved a card for only sentimental reasons. Services to speedway and a farewell tour. But having thought more I'd ask what more would he bring to the series that a young rider like Lambert or Mickelson would do. The answer is he would bring less. There is no chance of Hancock riding a race like Lambert did to beat Lindgren at Teterow. That was exciting to watch. So my view is Sorry Greg you are out but maybe hand him a GP wild card in a couple of GP's so he gets a chance to say Goodbye. Warsaw in front of 50000 a lovely way to finish or Torun.

B up 4 this .Big Big home win Puk will toy with Doyle like a mouse