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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

Sure there's been a few more 'big names' that couldn't do it. It's great to have both Worrall's there as well as some others, a bit disappointed there's no Ludde or Rob Lambert, Cook and Pickering.

I'm sure many years ago Jem Doncaster's brother Nick Doncaster had his throttle/clutch swapped over after he had a bad crash which left him unable to use it the normal way, saying that i thought Nick was actually looking the better rider of the two when they both took to the shale.

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.

I beg to differ.

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!

There was a TV programme some years ago that pitted stars from all forms of motor cycling against each other to find best all rounder. If I recall Grass track riders came out top with Road Racers not very impressive overall

That is my point, John! Speedway riders can switch to other forms of motorcycle sport with little or no difficulty, but it doesn't happen in reverse. Therefore, those who master small oval racing tend to be much better all-round motorcyclists.

There's no real benefit to have wider straights IMO. The legal limit is currently 8 metres wide, which is quite adequate to accommodate 4 riders abreast at the starts. Probably the only time they will be in one line in the whole of the race. Far better to concentrate on widening the entrances/exits to the corners, and widening them to give more racing lines especially with some decent banking. There should always be banking on every track.

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.

That's the sort of reply most people would expect from 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

Very rarely saw stewards and never saw any altercations , I think situation greatly exaggerated to do what they intended anyway and to justify their stance as they will never admit a mistake. From what I hear H &S were being nasty to the management. I keep thinking to myself how could anybody with a shred of decency done this and continue to defend their actions

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

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

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.

Is that so any sun breaks can be accommodated by the interval?

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

Rules have been changed from the published ones at Xmas. A rider now can't ride for 2 teams (Leon already signed for Armadale) so Newcastle have acted quickly and signed David Wallinger. Not a youngster, but he is a very experienced rider who, from observation, is very helpful and encouraging for our younger team members.

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.

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.

I'm sure godfrey will do whatever is in the best interest of speedway..........and scunthorpe

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!

Good to see some TV news coverage of Speedway tonight, even though it was local (Look North BBC), covering Nicki Pedersens introduction to the fans at Owlerton last night. This is what the man brings and it shows how important having riders like him in Britain is.

As long as you know who I'm talking about it wouldn't worry about it