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‘ is anyone losing interest ‘ asks the title ?, well no as you ask. I find the ‘ sport ‘ fascinating now as individual promoters find their own interpretation of the rules ( are there any now ?). Having seen Poole’s and now Birmingham’s line ups for there next matches I am constantly entertained. A facility granted for a rider who hasn’t ridden for you when that was against the rules but now isn’t ?. A guest for an ‘ injured ‘ rider ( injured in this country allegedly )who is now riding in his own country but not here ? I used to think I understood most of the rules but not any more. I don’t think we can call speedway a sport for much longer as sports have rules, not guidelines to be used to increase an advantage for some but not all.

Bjarne has been a fantastic servant to british speedway. What a fine season he is having.

I like Lewis Kerr and he always comes across as a decent guy. It's riders like him that are making the British Leagues tick at the moment so good luck to him and if he was to achieve a rostrum place in the British Final I think it would mean a hell of a lot to him.

Been there tonight as a neutral supporter, the match was a good one enjoyed my first visit

Personally I think that it was in doubt from Friday evening so I wouldn't have been surprised if it was called off irrespective of the forecast. I think I've lost the point you're trying to make though. They had to make a call on the circumstances and information they had. So based on that it was correct decision. So you're saying that if you were paying the bills and doing the organisation you'd have waited until Monday (you've got until lunchtime I believe before losing your money), ignored the forecast and hoped that no unexpected showers crop up between 12 & 7.30 to further dampen you're already sodden circuit?

Special one--off arrangements with rules and regs apply for this season.

But that would involve Keleher being in the line up of both teams!

Scotty, Bomber and Rory are the "official" guest riders for the BSP I think... The rules must state that you have to ask them first... Given they ride for so many teams each season, surely they deserve a winners medal come play off time, regardless of whether their own team reaches the final or not..? Maybe they would even qualify for a runners up medal too.?.. Joking apart, all three give 100% every meeting which must make them the "go to" riders for the promoters, and meetings with any of the three in attendance are usually the better for it..

Well done Plymouth on grabbing a draw, look forward to my first visit there next week with my Glasgow tigers team

There is difference of opinion between two commentators, Tomasz Gollob in the studio and Miroslaw Jablonski at the track(both ex riders). Gollob saw Kenneth fault and Jablonski did not.

don’t think the refs got a clue holder goes straight to run pedersen wide no problem. Pedersen cuts back again no problem think the problem was there was not enough room for all 3 just riders all going for it would have put everyone back in

Think the Trumpton riots were the last straw for the Chigley track

As a Farmer’s wife I totally understand any business following the Forecasts - it’s what we do 24/7. 365 days per year. It just becomes part and parcel of daily life - part of calculating what we do or don’t do each day - the other thing not mentioned which we follow (not sure about the Eoes but they may do so) is the Water Table - this year is exceptional and first time in over 30 years that we are not irrigating any crops and it’s the MIDDLE OF JULY - this a job that has usually been going on for weeks by this time of the summer. I doubt its hardly any different for Buster & Co so my feeling is that they made the right call - I would actually have been shocked if it had been on!

Peter won't help you need St Jude. The Patron saint of lost cause's ( & possibly the BSPL)

Haven't Leicester just signed Jake Knight temporarily for the same reason?

So basically you like to sit at the EoES for an hour, look at a load of people staring at the track doing nothing, be thanked for your patience and then sent home again with your ticket and blank programme? That's what the forecast suggested. The call wasn't just based on the forecast alone, albeit what turned out to be an incorrect one, but additionally "Club staff have already pumped over 150 tonnes of water off the circuit following Friday’s deluge" - It might be summer but it ain't no 76 and when the riders got to look at it then I'm not sure that 72 hours non-drying time would have been enough for them to want to race on it.

Here comes the forum trolls. Grow up children. The constant sniping at anything associated with Poole Speedway brings out the worst. Kindergarten mentality.

The riders registration has been lodged with head office. It’s a covid/brexit issue which is taking longer than expected through no fault of the club. Patel needs to sign it off but she is too busy arguing with Tyrone Mings.

He's ridden twice abroad since then

look at the money he could earn though

Anyone who may be interested in Hastings Saxons of 1948 and 1949..... I have finally got around to updating my vintage speedway site that is a tribute to this short lived speedway venture. I have added a new Gallery 4 with the help of some wonderful contributions from followers for which I am truly grateful. Always looking to add to it. Some unidentified riders in the new gallery....... I don't want to guess who they could be so any help with identifying them would be gratefully received http://1066-media.com/hastingssaxons/index.htm

You really do talk alot of crap,firstly you state bowtell was dangerous and out of control then you say he knew exactly what he was doing you've contradicted yourself and your whole post stinks of sour grapes get your eyes tested i saw plenty of passing just read the updates seems I,m not alone either!

Never realised how good bjarne is absolute class act

Congratulations Robert Lambert, his first maximum in Extraleague

Found out on Twitter No 8 can have 5 rides and a Tactical making 6 rides as you say.

We very much appreciate him at Lynn, he's a good, brave guy and was on top form before his broken collarbone. He needs time to get back to that, the absolute idiots out there only see black and white. And however much Lewi puts it to the back of his mind their black words hurt

Three way tie for 6th between Grudziadz, Torun and Zielona Gora on 6 with three (tough) matches each to go.

Obviously pleased with the 4 points, especially as Charles didn’t score particularly well. Pleased to see Sarjy get some points and big thanks to Drew Kemp again. Kings too reliant on 2 riders again and feel for the fans having to see the same riders struggle every week. Hope things pick up for them, need a few home wins to keep the fans onboard.

Tough call, but Bjerre did cause the collision when he changed his line, so the ref got that right. Nicki was knocked unconcious, but otherwise o.k, he even wanted to ride again but the doctor won't let him.

Brexit, thatcher, The summer of 76, the Danish invasion, the Swedish invasion, the Polish invasion, the Australian invasion, the Poll tax riots....

Jake’s not either of those things at the moment…..

Marcus Bisson of Poole Seemed be progressing mid 80's, 7ish average in the National League then disappeared. Not sure if he picked up an injury but I did see him riding on a beach in Jersey early 90's. Maybe he just didn't want to leave the Channel Islands too often. Who can blame him.

Friday’s match line- ups NOT ON TV( just as well ) Daugavpils v Wittstock Daugavpils 9 Gusts 10 AnsvIsulis 11 Mihailovs 12 Matjusonoks 13Kostigovs 14Kolodinskis 15 Wittstock 1 Wasserman 2 Ivacic 3 Wolter 4 Bowes 5 Jedrzejewski 6 Baumann 7 Liebmann

After a lot of consideration, most of our group are still going to Wroclaw. We didn't purchase Friday night tickets because of the uncertainty but sitting in a sportsbar drinking beer and watching speedway in a foreign country doesn't sound too bad to me. The tests will be an unwanted expense and inconvenience but my god it will be nice to get away. I hear there is an extra meeting just down the road at Rawicz on the Saturday lunchtime too...tempting.

It’s completely frustrating for everyone whom meetings are postponed for the club, it’s riders and supporters, I do have some experience of trying to get race days at the Showground and it’s not as easy as it used to be because of other events on those weeks and health & safety issues which affect whether speedway can run alongside other events, mostly they cannot. The track had clearly taken an excessive amount of rain on Friday and even getting it on having had no more would be have been a major task but the forecast was dreadful and quite rightly and likely to save considerable expense if nothing else the decision to try and run was correctly declined. In years gone by Promotions were not required to pay the full cost of renting the stadium and travel costs for riders and officials including flights etc if matches were postponed late but those days are gone and they now are which clearly comes into the equation. I dare say if you ran Peterborough Speedway things would be different but thankfully you are not and this way no one is unnecessarily inconvenienced other than you.

I've got a spare Costa voucher if you want it, seems you could do with it

C More sporten 17.20 local time

St peters school is the only car park at moment as the other car parks being used at covid test and vaccine centres. There is quite a bit of street parking available but the showcase cinema car park now gone as been demolished.

or more, as his average shows.

This confuses me, while no-one deserves abuse not matter how poor their form is, in this case Lewis has been doing his job!

Absolutely no way !!! Should be a junior instead of rider replacement

He is now in the top 3 averages. Although it's a mystery where his speedway related injury came from

If any Lynn fans want to watch a proper team, please remember that you will always be welcome at the Showground.

Have to agree, it’s not a sport dabble in,if your 100% committed your safer out of it,to many risk factors that you have no control over.Agree regarding Bridger totally wasted talent,if only he had half a brain .

I think Lawson was destined to ride for Lynn but then Riss made himself available again and the club decided to sign Riss instead.

...those were the days! A morning's picnic up on Beachy Head and popping down to Arlington for an afternoon meeting followed by an evening walking the prom at Eastbourne!

Embarrassing to call it off

No rain. I live about 10 miles away and the suns out. Perfect for a bit of speedway

There's only one on here deluded and talkes so much crap??????

If you look again you will see that it was Zmarzlik who started "showing off" towards Janowski, who just resonded with the same action leading to exchange of words at the pits gate. Nevertheless he (Janowski) should not have leave victory rostrum prematurly.