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Steve if you think woffinden would put a few more hundred people on the gate at wolves, you are dreaming..

I think we should step back from some of the detail here and look at the bigger picture. We have a club with a long history returning to the top flight, on it's traditional race night, being lead by a former world champion. This is to be celebrated by all speedway fans. And we can only hope that many former Sheffield fans will see these developments as a good enough reason to come back into the fold. Well done Sheffield. I look forward to seeing you on track.

Grading is rubbish. Averages are much more accurate.

Not really, I would rather the club was more financially secure.

So you thought you would start another Poole thread in here!!

Don’t get the dislike for Mr Phillips. His sponsorship has probably kept the Diamonds afloat for 2 years.

To be fair a think there's a fair few that preferred it if you stuck to your own thread also?! First and final time I comment on a lower league sides thread ......

I see Rob ride at Swindon earlier in the season and boy he looked quick he had one dodgy fall in one race but his gating was electric.The one thing that struck me about him in the pits was his enthusiasm and he also was a really nice bloke to speak to.He will be great for team moral and great to have around the younger members of the team really hope he has a great 2020 season.

I think that is up for debate !

Glad to see things looking good for the Diamonds, i have a lot of time for the majority of the fans down that way. Have met a few over the years and are a good bunch, good to get this news and happy for the fans knowing things look ok .

You ask Cvs when woffy come back the other year he didn't put that much more on the gate than you think and that is fact....

You will only be bad and hate yourself in the morning. Lol

Yeah give him a spanner man who knows what to do & he could turn out as good as fast freddie

Im only discussing skidders statement.................'dont cry for me Argentina' This could be Covatti or Garcia...........and inmy opinion Garcia would be a poor signing But if you dont have the same view as others then you arent allowed to comment

Why does it really matter? It's a thread on a speedway forum not the formulae for world peace

Can I ask are you a fan of Newcastle who went to every meeting? If yes then I can't understand you saying you want Martin Phillips completely gone. Without Martin you would not have been able to have to watch your speedway that's a fact, so think about what you write before open your mouth.......

Aye ok, we'll forget that one

Surely to do with the fact that the competition is weaker.

Official Club Statement here: http://www.newcastlediamonds.co/news/article.asp?id=101059

He would be box office and loved within a fortnight. Fans are fickle.

I recall some years ago that it was stated in the Speedway Star that NP was the only rider that would draw in extra fans on the gate, having a much greater effect than Woffinden who, it was said, would make little difference. Well done Sheffield!

I think moving forward hopefully the higher league clubs will all start to have some development side as a feeder. even if neighbour clubs entered a joint side sharing home fixtures. It may cost promoters a little in the short term but looking long term it has to be cheaper to have a pool of local lads ready for the big leagues rather then importing riders. Equally a strongly supported NL gives potential new stand alone clubs a viable league to set out in, which in turn can only strengthen speedway across the board. For the pinicle of the the sport to be stable the foundations need to be solid. I actually think if the BSPA were to get the NL back of a couple of years ago, when it was by far the best the league in the country. Get everything around the National League set up right and then adapt the sport moving up the levels accordingly

Thanks for getting this thread up. Still not pinned?

Can just imagine the conversation mid season, drop your average, we will sign you next year on big money !! And some silverware to hold, but last bit may be a struggle as we only have spiders in our trophy cabinet

Surely you can't be insinuating he done a Wolbert.

The Chinese phone doesn't like German names in the predicted text

Don’t rate this signing at all.

Because all of them are subsidized (sorry if mispeled) by the city/region/goverment. Thats how ALL sport works in Poland. Krakow for an example had an overgrown footie pitch in the middle. Some track are busy, some tracks are only for the "top team". No difference to any other country. And Wroclaw has the American football to use. It's all VERY different to UK. Thats all I know.

Carl Blackbird was forced to ride for Edinburgh many years ago, FACT.

Ten more, costing the 2div teams ten times more to ride the season. ”All is not not well in Poland” is not news.

Impressive... You could see them working with eachother the whole way around... Brotherly connection... That's Jordan Palin too... No slouch either... Used to seeing Danny at the back, but didn't expect it against these lot

I must be the 1% thanks

I think You Ray C and DC should get a room. The conversation would be riveting

But maybe Gavan is an antidote to your Poole propaganda? I know you’re a Poole sponsor and, quite rightly, you want the club to be successful, but you never make any constructive criticism of the promotion. If you can’t occasionally adopt a more objective viewpoint, you’ll have to accept that, on a forum, others may take a contrary view.

Averages that grade a riders ability is one brilliant tool speedway has & other sports can only dream of. The way they are sometimes implemented & abused is the problem!

Prob cos they are not signing? Well the second one..

Some interesting points in there.

Can Newcastle now be re instated subject to new consortium being approved.Thank You.

Pleased to see Newcastle are going to be saved.

Having looked through unsigned riders for 2020, with 2019 averages. Can't see anything other than a 8 pointer & a 2 pointer being sought. Just no riders fit with Thomsen or Hume/Perry.

Bump to get pinned

Where’s the value in Todd Kurtz? His converted average is 3.39 but presumably he’d come in on the Aussie minimum of 4? Pickering, CL 6.98 would be 4.36 and better value, or Vissing or Proctor, both 4.43.

Pedersen Grajczonek Kildemand Howarth Bellego Nicol Kurtz (Todd)

Woffinden would bring the fans back like no other.

If only you could have got Nicki back at Wolves, that would have put your attendance's up considerably

Any significance in this? Companies House has a new company called Newcastle Diamonds formed as a limited company in November 2019. The director is Alexander Robert Grant of Ponteland

The feelings are definitely mutual between both parties.

Would it be impertinent of me to suggest that future contributions on this topic should be made on the "Sheffield 2020" thread on the SGB Premiership Speedway League forum?

Yes thanks. Bloody annoyed that the Chronicle didn't carry a full report and pictures tonight about the classic race off last night at Brough. Plenty of TOON and Mackem fillers, and other minor sports, but nothing about our meeting final which was a national final after all. Could be we didn't send things in to them, but that would be so unusual for us. We should and need to publicise big events like this regardless of who won.

Well done Redcar! Really pleased I decided to attend last night for what turned out to be an enthralling night of speedway. It was a throwback to the close encounters we have had with Redcar/Middlesbrough years ago when large crowds turned out to watch the likes of Eric Boothroyd, Dave Younghusband etc racing against our lads for the bragging rights. it was always going to be a tall order to recover the deficit with Redcars top 3 strength but by heat 12 it did look as if we were in with a shout. Full marks to Riss and Wright who held their nerve and there was no way they were going to let the cup come to Newcastle. Credit also to Woolley for his battling point in Heat 2 and also to Jordan Stewart who bounced back from a dire performance on his last visit. Last night was a reminder of the potential which speedway still has in pulling in decent size crowds. In some ways the 2 postponements may have helped because their several mentions from Jeff Brown on local BBC news and also the anticipation building up. Plus also there must have been a number of neutrals there last night from Berwick/Workington etc. Have to say I don’t understand the negative comments on here about Roy Clarke. He took over the role I recall when Andrew Daley took some time out. He gives 120% and is Newcastle through and through but always gives total respect to the opposition and their fans. I hope both he and the Diamonds are back next year with George still on board!