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If your post is a pathetic attempt at taking some kind of moral high ground then its just that, pathetic. The passing of Danny Ayres is a tragedy and we as fans have paid our respects by posting messages of condolence on here and other parts of social media, of course there will be other on here closer to the Ayres family who have paid their tributes personally. My post was a perfectly reasonable answer to a perfectly reasonable question posted the other day. How ever hard, the management at both Scunthorpe and Ipswich will need to sign a rider, when that will happen of course is up to each club.

Rusty was the reason I ever started going to speedway I spoke to him one night in town when he first arrived here and he persuaded me to go, that led to me running the track shop for many seasons and fundraising for the club. It also led to some life long friendships who now since closure sadly we may never meet up with again. Supporting the Comets has some amazing memories for me and of course our very last season brought us the trophies we had strived many years to win.

So many people in everyday life suffer from mental health.

Agreed It's right and respectful that Scunthorpe and Ipswich will want to wait until after Danny's Funeral on the 14th and possibly the post mortem, before making any announcements of team plans and replacements but as with any sport and facet of life as the saying goes "the show must go on" as it will with a lot of respects paid to Danny to come all over the UK no doubt. That's as it should be!

Seems each year UK speedway continues its downward spiral to the bottom..... less entertainment and lower quantity teams for more money. Kent’s pitch at CL speedway is just a reflection on how few people are bothered to go and watch. Sadly it’s reflected in the sports magazine offering, with increased costs and less detail on match reports. The sport is slowly failing. Reducing attendances will continue to reduce still further ..... initiatives to attract a new generation of fans will fail unless the accompanying adults turn up with their kids. As for the OAPs .... they are a significant % of fans attending the sport, not sure it’s good business to not offer any concessions. Price comparisons with other tracks don’t mean much in speedway.....people who don’t go rarely to save money don’t suddenly start supporting another team. They just find other things to sped money/time. Not sure Kent can support Championship speedway at these prices with the draconian curfew still in place. Let’s hope the track delivers entertaining racing without the all too regular incidents seen at NL level last season.

I get the reason why Leon has been stopped from riding for Newcastle but it's two different competitions and as long as there was no fixture clashes I would've thought a young rider getting track time would be encouraged rather than blocked.

And was that the same guy who a speedway supporter, working in his day job as a conductor on a train, caught out, not having a ticket for his journey from Rugby to Edinburgh? :-)

I find it odd that some people get funny when certain names are mentioned. Fans are using a thread designed on the 2020 team to speculate on who might ride in 2020. Some people think there is zero chance of Crump, OK that’s your view and you might be correct, but why be so argumentative. Very odd.

https://ipswichwitches.co/louis-pays-tribute-to-ayres/

While they were in the same Team ,Sam Jensen rode at No 4 in all his matches Bickley never got out of reserve ,Nicol has a higher average than both of them so will have to ride at 2 or 4. Jensen is replacing Bickley at reserve is my point.On what I saw last season that is a big +.

Nicki P has a meeting at Belle Vue the following day for Sheffield which would have come into the reckoning for him I would suggest... Big shame because I woukd have paid double just to see him at Brough one more time... #Legend... Regards THJ

I was at that meeting. Memory's fogged now but I think Grahame had taken 1 of the belle Vue riders to the fence. I was with a fellow Wolves fan and we said Wilkie will "sort" Grahame out, but it turned out that it was Mort who did.

Yes, that would be common sense you would have thought. But it is the BSPA. No doubt there's something about getting more riders involved rather than doubling up with youngsters.

Yes, as long as you take it with a very large pinch of salt!!!

Of course the list could be improved:

It's such a weak excuse. People entering the stadium should have been told told that anyone not parking in designated places, or driving/parking on the grass, abusing stewards etc, will have their registration numbers taken, be warned and potentially denied stadium access in future. It's been done before and isn't rocket science.

These I am afraid are the issues that those at Peterborough have chosen cynically and callously to disregard.

I really do not see a golf buggy resolving this problem . May help on entry but chaos on exit

Rob stated at the first "fan night" that Nicki had been asked (along with Bjarne and Kenneth Bjerre). It's possible that Nicki has a compulsory polish practice that weekend, since they are rather good at that.

Because he was raised on it. My point is that other motorcycle racers are generally all at sea when trying speedway - as was shown on the show I am talking about (Superbike Six, I think it was called). However, speedway riders were able to adapt to the other disciplines a lot easier. I agree that the speedway is largely unrecognised by the motorcycle world, but the fact that many speedway riders haven't ridden other bikes is irrelevant. My point is that if you can ride a speedway bike, then you can ride a road racer or motocross bike with little difficulty. That doesn't appear to be the case in reverse. Can't argue with that at all. I was waiting for him to be mentioned!

A very random list of an obscure small fraction of the books published about Speedway. I have dozens if not hundreds of better speedway books not on that list.

ICE SPEEDWAY GLADIATORS FINAL 4, TOGLIATTI, SUNDAY 8.2.2020 Result: (GP Points in Bold) Dinar Valeev (3, 3, 3, 2, 3)(14+2+3) 19 20 Daniil Ivanov (3, 3, 3, 1, 2)(12+3+2) 17 18 Igor Kononov (2, 3, 2, 3, 3)(13+3+1) 17 16 Johann Weber (R, 2, 1, 3, 2)(8+2+d) 10 14 Dmitri Koltakov (1, 3, 3, 2, 2)(11+F) 11 12 Martin Haarahiltunen (3, 1, 2, 1, 3)(10+1) 11 11 Dmitri Khomitsevich (2, 2, 3, 3, 3)(13+R) 13 10 Harald Simon (0, 2, 2, 3, 1)(8+0) 8 9 Franky Zorn (3, 1, 1, 2, 0) 7 8 Evgeni Saydullin (2, 2, 0, 2, 1) 7 7 Stefan Svensson (2, 0, 2, 1, 1) 6 6 Ove Ledström (1, 1, 1, 0, d) 3 5 Vladimir Fadeev (Russia)(res) (2) 2 4 Lukas Hutla (1, 0, 1, d, 0) 2 3 Charly Ebner (1, 0, 0, 0, d) 1 2 Bart Shaap (d, 0, 0, 1, 0) 1 1 Jasper Iwema (d, 1, R, N, N) 1 0 Saveli Vedyanov (Russia)(res) (d) 0 0 SF1: Ivanov, Valeev, Haarahiltunen, Simon SF2: Kononov, Weber, Koltakov F, Khomitsevich R FINAL: Valeev, Ivanov, Kononov, Weber OVERALL: (*=Wildcard) Ivanov 78 Khomitsevich 64 Valeev 59 Kononov 56 Koltakov 51 Simon 43 Haarahiltunen 38 Weber 33 S. Svensson 28 Zorn 28 Saydullin* 21 Ledstrom 18 Hutla 18 N. Svensson 17 Ebner 13 Schaap 2 Cheblakov* 1 EDIT NOTE: There was some dispute regarding 5-8th places which Gambo alerted me to. Having just seen the FIM Results, I've amended the scores and result. But the words P!55 up and Brewery spring to mind regarding the Referee and Jury! CUP OF RUSSIA FINAL 2, VYATSKIE POLYANY, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 8 & SUNDAY, FEBRUARY 9 Vasilli Nesytyh 26 (15+11) Nikita Bogdanov 22 (10+12) Igor Saydullin 21+3 (12+9) Nikita Tarasov 21+2 (9+12) Nikita Toloknov 21 (11+10) Sergei Makharov 19 (5+14) Evgenei Sharov 17 (9+8) Eduard Krysov 16 (8+8) Ivan Chichkov 13 (10+3) Konstantin Kolenkin 12 (4+8) Dmitri Borodin 12 (5+7) Vladimir Bobin 9 (3+6) Yuri Olejnik 9 (7+2) Elisha Vydrin 2 (2+DNR) Dmitri Solyannikov 0 (0+DNR) Final Table Toloknov 50+3 Nesytyh 50+2 Bogdanov 44 Tarasov 40 Krysov 34 Sharov 32 Saydullin 31 Kolenkin 31 Bobin 23 Makharov 19 Solyannikov 18 Borodin 17 Chichkov 17 Olejnik 14 Khazmurzin 12 Khuzhin 10 Urakov 7 Vydrin 2

Many thanks for that. The main meeting of course is the top riders event. In addition, there is planned to have as many as possible previous Diamonds doing demo races, possible uprights races and special races including the Gems/Sapphires members. The doors will be opened earlier and there will be entertainment for the kids in the form of fairground rides. No doubt a hog roast will appear at some time. The meeting, as well at the whole season, will be sponsored be our areas largest radio station. Metro Radio, who will be allied to the big sponsor which has yet to be announced. Yes, exciting times ahead.

Ha Ha. Yes it would have been great to get Nicki but I am sure Rob would have considered it especially with the pull he would have added to the event. Knowing Nicki, if he could have made it he would of. He always speaks so highly of his time up here, and what it did for him. His biggest regret was he didn't stay up here, having digs in Peterborough with the same arrangements that his brother Ronni had enjoyed. He wished he had stayed up here for to know and socialise with his favourite fans. Ironically he did the same at Wolverhampton which is why they didn't really take to him. You never know do you.

Sweden didn't join the EEC until 1995.

Yes, but we also banned commuting Swedish riders in I think 1974 !! Wasn't it only Olle Nygren and Sören Sjösten who avoided a ban ? Also nothing really to d with anything apart from bans, but we also banned foreign riders back in 1934 I think. Which at the time only affected US, Danish and German riders. Ray Tauser, Morian Hansen and Sebastian Roth More controversial than anything was someone suggested Morian Hansen was banned post war. Which considering he had joined the RAF and was a war hero on our side, was a terrible decision, if true

Oval track racing - Simon Wigg, top speedway. longtrack and grasstrack rider over a 23 year career must be the obvious one!

Some great titles there...must also mention the Ivan Mauger book and the one written by Bob Kilby's son, Lee, both great reads as well as Johnnie Hoskins book "Walkabout".

That's not the reason I heard Dave but putting that aside, wouldn't you have thought that it might make a little bit of sense to carry the rules through until the end of the season? Any tinkering, amendments or changes can be thought of during the season and brought in for the following season or on a specific date and, not just on a whim.

Was that Burgergate? As I remember the insinuation there was that Wolbert’s food poisoning might have been made up, whereas in 2010 every EL team had an official number eight who could ride as often as the team manager wanted them to which contributed to Pawlicki riding so few meetings. It was a massive loophole and for a change Poole got shafted rather than doing the shafting which I’m sure the vast majority of those watching thoroughly enjoyed

We were blessed with the old fence at Rye. While the introduction of air fences as mandatory has been a revelation at many tracks the old fence at Rye was probably safer for riders in all honesty. It would give on impact and there was then a run off behind it, whereas with an air fence despite a cushion there is still a more sudden stop on impact. There are many incidents that I can recall that would have probably been worse had an air fence been in place. As mentioned in other posts the air fence did also make viewing worse at Rye, we do have to accept the times change however and air fences being mandatory is certainly a positive thing on the whole.

Excellent news. I do hope they make it a huge success.

Obviously not you...

The DDA requires businesses to make 'reasonable adjustments'. So the question is does preventing blue badge holders from parking near to the track represent a failure to make 'reasonable adjustments' Given that the facility was previously available and has been withdrawn by elective decision rather than 'force majure' I am inclined to think that the answer is yes.

A google search defines exclude as " deny (someone) access to a place, group, or privilege." Similarly privilege defines as "a special right, advantage, or immunity granted or available only to a particular person or group." So technically they haven't denied access but that really is semantics because showing poor disability awareness and removing the privilege to allow their disabled fans to attend in comfortable circumstances if they're able is exclusion in anyone's book.

Who wants to watch Wallinger rather than Flint? This decision is a shame for Newcastle fans and those of clubs that the Gems will travel to.

IMO Championship speedway should be no more than £15 to watch.

That's an interesting statement. Wasn't he the first to sign a "less suitable" rider as well? Rasmussen may well have been a success in the league but Peter Schroeck certainly wasn't!

Aye that's what I thought !! 3& a half shillings for a pint of fosters yuk but the broon ale was better tho

Leon has signed for Armadale so still be getting the small track experience.

I will be backing Madsen to win the world title at 3/1 , ive no idea why i should be backing him each round, im not even talking about each round but overall I will each round be having an each way bet on Fricke, whose odds each round will be much shorter than the 100/1 for the title, but i dont want to back him for the title Starman logic lol

In fairness to the Diamonds promotion, I think you may have taken this completely out of context. If you attended yesterday evening's Race Night at South Gosforth, you would have seen that the draw for this event was made throughout the evening. It would appear that once the draw was complete, someone in good faith has published this tweet in the form of "breaking news". I am sure the follow up promoting of the event will be as polished as ever and to most peoples' liking. As a bye the bye, I thought the race night was a huge success and marvellous to see all the riders in attendance together with representation from the Gems squad. Well done to the organisers - and by the way, the Hog Roast was excellent!!

As far as I can see Crump has done nothing to indicate he has any interest in returning to Britain. Every Summer he rides a couple of meetings in Australia and this seems no different from previous years. In previous years there was no speculation about Crump returning - the talk of his 'comeback' seems to be more of an indication of Peterborough's desperation than any real possibility of him coming out of retirement and riding full time.

When you read some of the examples on here you must conclude that those responsible for the decision either do not understand the concept of Blue Badges or are lacking in compassion and "The Milk of Human Kindness"

When Buster makes a decision the facts surrounding it become The Truth - at least to the deluded Yes men / women that surround him.

He's rather confusingly approaching it using horse racing logic for what he's trying to say. His long post could literally be something out of the racing post even with the way he's written it. Madsen was on the rostrum for 3 of the first 4 rounds coming in 2020 so his prices each week will be daft anyway unless he has a stinker or two which is unlikely. Just reading his post again and it's making me chuckle.. bridge too far, watching brief, well exposed...it's like i'm reading about the 2.15 at Chepstow. Bless him.

I'm sure Rob and the less bitter, normal speedway supporters, will think nothing of team building until poor Danny Ayres is finally in his resting place.

Yeah, Rusty had made 325 up until 2013, then made another 13 in 2015 making 338. Carl rode in 361 official matches for the Comets

Madsen for me this season Will be putting a few £££££ on Fricke at each GP to

a lot of the examples used on this thread are of specific incidents!....I would say a lot of them are acts of repercussions for the "innocent" rider being targeted for something that had happened previously.....some riders were renowned for having a little black book in the tool box!