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What a cracking afternoon. Sunny weather, decent crowd in, track in good nick, and Covid restrictions didn't affect enjoyment of what was a close and competitive meeting. I hope we will see more of the same next weekend.

Cracking win for the boys, well done to them all! Our team might not be as good as some other teams but you can never fault their effort. They are improving each week and a sterling performance from Steve was always going to help. Hopefully the stay away fans will return now we have proven we can win and will beat some teams at home over the course of the season. Bjarne being back at brough next week will also hopefully help get a few more back.

Excellent result for the Diamonds. Good choice of guest and all riders (apart from JPB) contributing. Team looks weak on paper but they all ride Brough Park well and will make it tough for most teams who go there. Sad to see Ty a shadow of his former self. Hopefully this will bolster the chances of the club continuing this season. Last thing we need is to lose another club.

Would have been long odds on Glasgow and Leicester not winning a single league point today!! Well done Scorpions and Diamonds

Absolutely. Ironic he’s a Lions asset. Any chance of a trade swapping him for Proctor? (I know, “Dream on”)

Well that was great! what a find Connor Mountain looks like turning out to be

Tofeek diddnt even set his own bike up. Said to the mechanic I've never been here set it up for me and I'll just ride the bike. Class above everyone else. What a meeting that was BTW. Always love my trips to Glasgow excellent set up. Well done everyone involved for a top night

it suggests the opposite doesn't it? i.e. where do another 35 riders come from? Going back to 2019 double uppers were getting ave 28 PL and ave 26 CL matches (excl KOC and play offs). So an ave of 54 standard league matches. If there was one big league of 16 (although not all would be able to afford it) gives a rider an equivalent of 30 matches. That's almost half the chance to earn than before. Yes you could increase fixtures but would clubs want to change from c14 home meetings in 2019 to c27 home meetings give the riders the same amount of meetings? Could they even? It's an impossible mess and a totally predictable one at that.

JPB was very impressive actually for his first competitive meeting at Brough for god knows how long, on the pace in his first 2 and then picked up decent points in his others... Looks like he'll be able to get properly stuck in once he gets used to the track... Well done for all 6 of the Diamonds tonight, cracking performance

Great win for the diamonds, some good close racing, track was very dry which was to be expected great guest plus special mention to Connor Mountain who looks like a very good rider all in all a very entertaining match, anyone who choose to stay away maybe get ya arses back next week eh

2+1 by Jack Parkinson-Blackburn each week is fine by me. I know one was gifted but did well with his other point and rode well all night. If he can get his gating boots on he can score a couple more points easily. Proctor was just pulling up at the back each race and strolling over the line. He was shocking and as you say shadow of what he was.

4 duck eggs for Proctor today, 5 from 5 last night,when will Allitt put him out of his misery.Surely it's not doing the club or the rider himself any favours carrying on like this.

Isn’t the point to give the young riders time to progress? We all knew that with so many coming in at once some would struggle. Especially the ones like Davies who have a new home track and don’t even get the luxury of being at reserve and heat 2

It's warm and cloudy 10 miles away

If we want speedway to be an international sport then these meetings have to be shared around. And without home representation most nations just wouldn't want to go ahead. Not ideal but it's something we have to accept. Personally I'd prefer 3 rounds with the top 5 from each. Feels more symmetrical and it reduces the risk of one pointless ride making qualification almost impossible (as Robert Lambert nearly found out last night). I'd also allocate some of the minnow nations places in a preliminary round to winnow out some of the chaff.

Your memories of seeing Hans progress from a world class rider to a superstar has to be up there as one of your greatest memories Steve surely…?Personally was never a fan felt he was a bit of a gating tart quick but nothing else how WRONG was i i admit it got it badly wrong as i have done endless times on this forum.My memory of Hans is just how underated he was as a team rider helped endless riders progress his team riding with Dugard, Sorensen, Butler, Rasmussen, Wigg, stick in the mind.To have a rival like Erik pushing you beating you but you come out on top shows how strong his mentality was.His rivalry with Erik to me is like a same scenario as Briggs v Fundin Lendl v McEnroe, Holyfield v Tyson, Ali v Frazier, Senna v Prost .

As my kids often tell me Addio on a regular basis( they take the mikey out of my memorabilia collection.) Dad you are living in the past the world moves on.Would not give up the memories for the world and endless members on this forum would agree with me.The biggest plus from the sport is that did quite a bit with my uncle and Dad which was great and my two boys who were both keen up until about 16 when girls and other interests took over.My biggest regret is not seeing Bjorn and the iconic PC ride my uncle did and told me his memories of them both he said they were capable of more world titles .The big five Ove, Briggo, Bjorn, Mirac, Peter ( later Ivan) has to be up there as the strongest era.Swindon we’ll have been blessed really Briggs, Crash, Kilb, Broady, Crump ( snr / son/ Scott, Leigh, Darcy ‘ Doyley, ( ect) been very. lucky other favourites are Wellie( Holloway) Clive Hitch, Shawn McConnell Per Sorensen, .Visiting riders the no 1s who were the stars for me what a treat to see a different one every week hence Mauger, Olsen, Boocock x2) Bettsy, Wilsonx2) Louis, Collins, Sjosten, Middleton,Janssonx2 Loftqvist, Sanders, Lovaas, Morton x2) Moore, ( ect) great days.

Top night for British speedway. Just goes to show how riding in Poland is extremely beneficial. Fingers crossed for a televised final

Don't think you can compare them. In last 14 years Kolodziej has been in top 20 of Polish league averages 13 times (the other was 2009 when his team were in liga 1). Lindback has managed that feat just twice, with a highest placing of 16th a position that Janusz has bettered 10 times, and on current form should make that 11 this year. And against much much tougher opposition Kolodziej has won 4 Polish national championships. Lindback has managed just 2 in Sweden.

A lot of people are sitting thinking yeah yeah we’ve heard it all before. Seriously if people don’t attend IT WILL CLOSE AND SPEEDWAY WILL BE LOST. Just try asking any fan of say Workington,Hull,Reading,Newport or Rye House to name but a few if they’d like to watch their team. Think we know the answer. Don’t leave it to somebody else,get yourself to your track and support your team. Granted it’s not the best of teams but Christ we’re talking about 10 meetings or so. So what they’re not going win the league, but the noise the smell and the thrill of watching speedway nothing comes close to it.I know Covid restrictions are playing a massive part but as I’ve said previously Newcastle speedway are being told how to operate at the moment. So if you haven’t yet got your ticket you have until 1pm I think. Oh and Diamonds 46-44 Leicester

Well done Adam Ellis! Three in the final!

Good to see several ex comets in the gp qualifier at Glasgow, a very good meeting Dan bewley won run off for last qualifier, also several comets fans spotted on the coverage

They forecast that on Thursday which resulted in the King's Lynn v Sheffield meeting being called-off, yet what we got was quite minimal.

6400 at the rangers game when they were in the 3rd division. Regardless of what percentage if you want to go get a ticket early . It’s really as simple as that. Some folk on here should thank their lucky stars they have seen and looks like continuing to see speedway when home fixtures are run. Clubs are closing and stopping racing all the time. With the amount of work put in by all associated with Berwick speedway maybe some should stop being a keyboard warrior and back them

For gods sake Trees. Anyone knows I am not attacking Proctor as a person , but as a team member of the Stars team he is poor and needs to be replaced as soon as possible.

What I can't understand is why fans let promoters walk all over them and then charge obscene admission prices to get in. And not a whisper of dissent am I missing something. Speedway can't continue down this path of destruction. Just been to a wonderful Vintage Grasstrack at Lemington with some excellent varied racing even 5 JAP engined bikes racing together entrance fee...a donation. Many volunteers and riders turned up and did it for nothing just the love of the sport take note Speedway !!

Well done Newcastle.

He's not been the same rider since he stopped jumping the start

You're talking about an actual person here .......

Excellent win from Newcastle against a much fancied Leicester team, one wonders how long Leicester will continue with Ty Proctor.

Would have been long odds on Glasgow and Leicester not winning a single league point today!! Well done Scopions and Diamonds

What drama!

As has been said many a time a simple sport dictated by unbelievable rules

Richard Lawson will be the Gladiators guest again. Details of the reserve replacement awaited.

Got out of jail big time. Heat 13 was the let down.

There was no victory parade last night as Leicester riders were keen to get home to prepare for Newcastle today and also rain was forecast from 9pm

12000 officially at The Abbey for GB v Sweden in 1968. The queue for people climbing in, my queue, was longer than the turnstile one, so far more packed in. In 2019 when Swindon won the league and cup double there was 3500 there.

Used to be a nice place.........

Lots of people moaning at our end about poor performances recently at least we have a well supported team with good local media coverage. For that we should be grateful. Hope it all works out down there.

At the track the stream is 30 seconds behind the live action, spoke to both max and nigel before the action both had nice things to say about workington, and have to say what a good night good racing and fantastic stadium now and the boss " gerry" always has time to have a chat i wish he just lived in workington.

It's not a like for like comparison. I totally agree on that. My point is for some, a year or two break in Gps can make all the difference. And if a rider qualifies via the qualifiers/challenge,regardless of GP record he surely deserves his spot.

I have never agreed with this. There are 4 semi-finals & each nation can nominate their riders to make up the 64 required & from what I see Slovakia have nominated only 1 & he finished 14th at Gorican. This event is to find 3 riders to qualify for the SGP series 2022. The biggest event in speedway. One man has placed all his finances into this semi-final & managed to make it in fourth spot after his 5 races & possibly a run off. But he has to be told that the host nation despite only nominating a single rider for the semis & he finished 14th will have a chance to make it to the SGP series, but thanks for coming.

Who do you think we will have then? Lawson again? I’d like to see Nichols in our guest spot

Aarnio was the innocent victim of Wilson Dean over-riding, his crash was a shocker. Best wishes to him.

I see no hope Sid.even if the sport were really well run society has changed. People are not interested in such a basic sport in today’s high tech electronic world. Also , with the price of Land and pressure to build houses it becomes uneconomic to keep a big stadium going just with speedway and dog racing, then shut during the winter months. Even dog racing is only a fraction of the size it used to be. I think Romford is the only dog track left in the London area whereas there used to be 40 in the 1960’s.

Yes, My memory of Knutson is that he was so accurate it was as if he was riding round on rails, almost in the same tyre tracks lap after lap. Apart from the rise of stardom of Malcolm Simmons, one of my all time favourites, we saw the rise even further of Norman Hunter , my first No1 favourite rider. I was gutted when he went to Wolves, and even more gutted when injury stopped him progressing further. I was so sure he was on the verge of a World Final appearance. Lets not forget “ Gentleman “ George Barclay . Pretty much out if his depth in the top league but as he used say when I used to chat to him at Lakeside, “I was the one who always came fourth” . Never a star but no rider was ever more deserving of the title “ Gentleman”. A truly lovely man. I don’t know if he is still with us but the last I heard he was suffering with dementia, which is tragic for such a nice man. His wife Linda was lovely as well. I never saw Aub Lawson ride, but I spent my early years living in Otley Road which of course led straight down to the main gate of the stadium. Aub was a household name among the older generation in the whole neighbourhood,for years after he retired. He is one of those riders at the top of my “Wish I had seen list” as is Tiger Stevenson, who I think I am correct in saying only ever rode for West Ham in his entire career. Fantastic memories that I wouldn’t have missed for all the tea in China.

I'm not a Diamonds fan, but I donated the cost of an adult admission. We can't afford to lose more clubs. Here's hoping the appeal raises more money in the coming days. Every little helps.

Danny King would be nice

Giving the poster, I`m afraid yes.

Think you are dreaming if you believe that is true. So if Poole asked everyone to show a negative covid test on entry they would be allowed to operate with a higher attendance ??? Or show proof of 2 covid vaccinations ? Maybe you should ask Dan and Matt Ford if it would make any difference ?