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Excellent.. Look forward to lots of different surnames for the riders.. If you listen to Sam, you would think there must be approximately 36 riders on view..

you mean when there were 120,000 spectators at Katowice in the 70's!!

First off its kept the Speedway banter going and secondly if it does happen you can say well the fat lad was right... and if it doesn't well it's filled a couple of pages where we have been in the limelight Regards THJ

Diamonds statement in full: https://newcastle-speedway.co.uk/latest-word-from-the-2020-diamonds/

How desperately sad and depressing. Such a shame. Camera work and drone operation are very good though. I hope the Speedway can be resurrected - if not - thanks for the memories.

No!!! . I just think that there are levels of decency honour and integrity that should be the norm for everybody. If that makes me a trouble maker I can live with that appellation.

Have u had your eyes tested lately the glass should be 1 inch thick

Seriously Ref, replay clearly shows contact

The site will already have plans in place regarding restoration which will have been passed & agreed by the local authority, probs ponds with plenty of biodiversity. On a separate note, if they are planning on running the dogs on a Sunday, would Rob not be better to just scrap this year (like Glasgow), save his cash and just return in 2021. I know everyone wants to see speedway this year but the sensible option might be not to have any and just come back next year with some money in the coffers.

I’ll be there either Sunday or Monday. Now that my dad has passed away I would even volunteer to be track staff. With regards to track location how about the open cast mine to the west of Cramlington? Being below ground level would mean no visual, and much reduced noise, issues. Being mined by Banks but due to end next year I think. The land I’d owned by Viscount Ridley(Blagdon Hall) if I remember correctly

Poole I read somewhere the only main Greyhound track not to re-open on 1 June when others like Perry Barr did. If the Stadium staff remain furloughed until October hard to see what Speedway can do, unless they pick up cost of Stadium staff as you can work for someone else while furloughed.

I'm no defender of Chapman but all I'd say is, there's nothing to say that's already been said, which is; "All clubs want some kind of racing if possible in 2020." Until there is word from the Government & the BSPA I'm afraid there's nothing to tell season ticket holders. It's also been suggested that season tickets may or may not roll into 2021 etc but no club can answer that for definite. The threat of small claims court doesn't stand when businesses have been trying to work or not work in an unprecedented pandemic environment. Plus the fact that no claim could possibly be made until the season completion at the end of October anyway. All I'd recommend is just a bit of patience rather than trying to bash & threaten Buster when he doesn't know WTF is going on himself. That goes on behalf of every other promotion in the UK.

You've been going long enough to know that you're in the wrong sport if that's your criteria and you've certainly had an unfortunate choice of team recently.

That's exactly what I thought

Best speedway rider in history ???...it looks that you were born too late to appreciate the earlier speedway masters .

Good 2nd for Robert Lambert. Great to see him becoming world class.

Watch Madsen win this

Have you heard of Ivan Mauger?

"Coventry Drone" ? That's no way to talk about Peter York!

Yup. He's nowhere close to the best speedway rider in history Tomasz Gollob. Gollob dominated whole world speedway even when he didn't win SGP

Dont feed the troll.

I don’t get why the commentators said it was a controversial decision. Michelsen was already ahead and cornering, Woryna completely lost his place and run out of room by his own fault. Michelsen didn’t do anything wrong so it was an easy decision for me.

Bizarre decision from the referee.

I think I must live in a completely different world with outmoded views on decency integrity and morality. I really am unable to see how it is acceptable when asked for a refund for something that can no longer be provided to just keep quiet, similarly I fail to see when it is obvious that the product you purchased can't be provided it is unreasonable to expect a refund because a fraction of what you bought may be available at a date as yet unknown.

Think Lahti can

There are some real divas in modern speedway

Normal service is resumed for Madsen after a couple of ropey rides last night. Can't see anybody beating him today.

Personally speaking I have never had Lambert and Bewley in the same level.

WOW, great ride by Robert Lambert, so much speed

Great heat 3. Lambert's Mr Excitement these days!

Fans in Poland don`t though because they know there are very few race starts called back as the riders know they cannot mess about !!!!

Exactly

Now that’s the way to deal with it..well done Kent and Eastie!

No, Rick Frost settled it when he took over at Peterborough

As Poole Stadium is owned by the Council (only leased to Stadia UK to provide a minimum of 2 core sports as part of a designated leisure/sports facility!!) then if Speedway is allowed to return I imagine there could be some pressure brought to bear from the Council (with whom Matt Ford has a good relationship) onto Stadia UK to re-open and fulfill their leasehold obligations. Lets not forget that Stadia UK have NO income at the moment from carparking, bars, restaurant as well as rental from Speedway!! As Danny Ford says - its certainly a hurdle to overcome but not insurmountable by any means. Lets hope for some positive guidance announcements over the next week.

Certainly did, if memory serves he started the season in the main team before having a spell at reserve, arguably the best reserve in the Premier League as he ended up topping the Berwick averages come the end of the season. I believe Matej was quite happy to return to Berwick for the following season, sadly for him Havelock snr had other ideas and he went to Redcar.

It's a bit unfair to say all. I'm sure some do give a toss but you don't take on the mafia. You go with the flow or they'll get you in the end as Frost/Mahoney and Sandhu found out to their cost, as did Rathbone.

Put it this way, I'm on holiday from the 17th July (which should have happened in May by the way) & I've sat & waited patiently for information from the holiday company. The holiday cost me £800 & I've not complained once because I fully understand the situation. It's an unprecedented time & if you don't have the patience to wait for an outcome during, what still is, an ongoing pandemic, then I think you need a long hard look at yourselves rather than blaming others. Get a fooking grip FFS.

It`s not really that bizarre as Premier Sport is now involved with the channel and have not space to show the Polish Speedway on Premier/Freesports tomorrow. Somewhat similar to what Eurosport did when they showed GP Speedway on Quest.

Yes I thought that it's a very good concept and both Spencer Timmor & Lee Kilby really got into the swing of the thing. I hope that a return leg can be arranged...I'd look forward to it. Well done to everyone involved!

Also track staff etc as a lot of them hold down full time jobs & wouldn't be able to commit to working as ( volunteers ). Every Monday as they do on a Sunday

Gambo is waiting for official confirmation.

Seems like a strange move to go PL but, in view of what THJ said about the dogs intentions, Rob may be trying to at least give us some speedway, given it will end up as a filler for this year and just to get to the end of the season. If he doesn't, and THJ is right, Rob could not run speedway, so it could be a good thing to keep things going. OK, no amusements and all the bells and whistles that Rob was going to introduce, and no possibility of the junior teams, but we would have speedway for a short season and it might be fun to see the standard of the PL. Could be good.

We will have Sudden Sam's commentary to look forward to tomorrow on Eurosport. !!!

24 points difference going into the last heat and they all race their knackers off. . Got to love Polish Speedway haven't you?

Rybnik are out of their depth at Ekstraliga level.

Hopefully Newcastle can survive and continue - I don't think a full track share is a valid option, but what should be seriously considered regardless of changes at Newcastle is Newcastle & Redcar sharing a junior team in hosting the meetings - seems totally logical to me and has so many advantages given what both promotions and venues can offer

Premier Sports won't pay for a second commentator, it's a mega-cheap production for them.

Yes- every meeting on Tv is listed and updated on the OP here

Difficulty with Mondays also is, at the moment, we put the sheets down on the doggie track on the Sunday, due to the sheeters working on the Monday. Very late night for them also on a Monday plus a late night for the air fence people. In making decisions, nothing can happen unless an army of new track staff can be found to work these hours. Plenty of talkers, but when it comes down to it nobody wants to red flag, be a sheeter, add to the air fence crew who can't always be at Brough every week due to BYC Sunday meetings for juniors like Archie and Danny. I pointed out these obvious requirements to 'Mr' Phillips when he first started, but as expected he did nothing about it, hence we have very few track staff. Getting staff could well be harder to do than change nights or find another stadium.