Leaderboard

Some great news from the Jablonski family Mirosław Jabłoński ·

Think Lublin will be happy the way”their” Team performed given the injury to Laguta.Polish supporters support “their” team and associate with them.In GB it’s just anybody we can find to ride for us system.Just a joke sport here on who are Champions and Cup winners.It means so much more in Poland.

I'm not sitting in the studio waiting for no reason...

Approx 30%. The tv money doesn’t make up for the shortfall. Add in having to ride on Mondays and Thursdays, the same opposition every 3 weeks and it becomes very unattractive. I was against Poole dropping down but considering the league is double the size and there is no difference bar a couple of riders in team strengths, it’s a no brainer.

Has Tero got an HGV licence?

Bloody Hell! There's more lights shining on that poster than on the terraces at the Eddie Wright raceway! Any chance that we can all have a free candle in order that we can see to fill in our programmes and also not break our necks up the unlit terraces. And whilst you're about it, please sort out your p.a. system Mr Godfrey. I'm tired of all of the Norman Collier jokes and the Chinese whispers about the race times when you can't make out a word that's being said.. For the chair of the B.S.P.L. to expect us to put up with that quality of presentation sums up the state of British Speedway!

Let's see it built and confirmation from the Robins promotion that they are carrying on and then we can get excited

I wouldn’t trust anything Rob says.But that’s just me..

About 20% is social housing but don't know if they are near track. Fantastic news.

I thought this thread was supposed to feature Wolves and Peterborough. I for one couldn't give a monkeys about Poole and whether they should be in the premiership or not. There time has come and gone and the less said the better!

Personally I think the first thing speedway needs to address are user friendly bikes. Bikes that riders can control on less than perfect surfaces, tyres that work on a wet surface, once you get the confidence in the paying public that a meeting will run to the end they may start to come back. As it is, the first sign of drizzle and everyone wants to give up! Unless it was monsoon conditions, I don't recall the issues we have now back in the day, and that was before dirt deflectors. Once the fans start coming back, then you can think about being more professional. Clubs need to be sustainable from the off and I think that starts with riders wages and equipment costs. Get back to basics and then move forward.

What we reckon then? MPT R/R Andersen Nicholls Harris Pedersen Palin

Perfect example of where the referee should be able to award a race even when less than half a lap completed....

I don’t think living in social housing means the occupiers have fallen on hard times. They are for families who cannot afford, from their income, to pay the high price houses that some areas have. This would include low pay workers like nurses, care workers, transport workers etc. Those workers have been classed as “key” workers and no doubt they work in those sectors because they like the job, even though it’s not high pay. I think they may be upset if some class them as they have fallen on hard times. I think the not often used now term of council houses would have been similar in the past. I was brought up in a council house, and though we didn’t have bags of money we certainly was not on hard times.

Rather than point the finger at Rob Godfrey about the visa issue with Tero he has been 100 % truthful , it’s a shame the other promoters who it has affected are very quiet on the subject . Plus it’s a side in the play offs. ?? Rob stated that Tero was having an issue getting in and out the country after riding in foreign meetings and he certainly isn’t the only rider but fire bullets at Rob for telling the truth unlike other sides

He's the best in the business for me, has been for a long time.

Peterborough bound....

Premiership teams can nominate a rider with a Championship average of 3.00 or below who not declared in a Premiership 1-7 as an additional rider (AR)

I question if it helped us on our way. Because of the injury he scored 0,0 in his first two rides. Yes we got 5+1 for the last two rides but a fully fit MPT would have scored more than that, guaranteed.

Poole run it as a "rules no object" hobby though

There is a quite significant saving if what you read on the Newcastle and Eastbourne threads are accurate re payment.. With Eastbourne paying "too much" for the 2nd Division according to other promoters.. Probably far too simplistic, but maybe the conversion rate they use for averages is also linked in some way to points money conversion too? ie it is "easier" to earn more in the 2nd Division so you get less per point? I would also think that the 2nd Division teams could drive a harder bargain too as so many of the same (decent), standards riders will be relying on that second job due to very limited overseas opportunities... And. Let's be honest, given the crowd numbers the sport has, it shows hardly anyone really cares who wins either league title anyway so you might as well be "successful" for less.. Poole's crowds from what I have seen and heard are at the top end of the scale of any club in the UK, but wouldn't I would suggest get another 500 or so through the door if top of Div One rather than top of Div Two... And of course from an entertainment perspective you get to see virtually all of the best riders riding in the UK each week just like the Div One fans do.. I would also suggest that a few Div 2 teams should have taken the same decision and dropped down to Div 3 in a similar fashion, although to be fair, the Div 3 standard was messed about with which maybe dissuaded them from doing so.. 1000% the correct business decision for Poole, but not surprising as over the years they have made many good busines decisions... One of the sports major issues is the way some run it as a "money no object" hobby bringing salary inflation into it.. If all had to run it as a pure business to make themselves money to live, then I am sure many decisions made collectively by those who run it would be a lot different.. And the sport would be in a much healthier position because of it..

£100.01?

I know we've had this headline before, but the Adver is now reporting that work has started on the new stadium. Work starts on Swindon Speedway's new Abbey Stadium | Swindon Advertiser

I love how Shovlar thinks the Championship is the bees knees now.Oh how he changes his mind,he thought it was utter rubbish before the season started and was even contemplating not going.He would love Poole to be in the Prem play offs and not the Champ just so he could gloat even more.

It would be nothing short of farce and a major embarrassment for speedway if Edinburgh were to win the league this season. I know we must all bow down to the insane American obsession of back door winners and second chances aplenty but any team finishing a distant fifth during the qualifying campaign shouldn't even be given the opportunity to plunge yet another dagger into the heart of a once beautiful sport.

Looking at the new averages it is just as well Harris and Andersen had poor performances v Sheffield and then engine failures when well placed v King’s Lynn! Anyone might have thought it had been planned!

Is that Hans Andersen, nick Morris and Ryan Douglas riding on a wet grippy difficult track tonight? Surely not

See Geoff Brown announced on Look North tonight that "Rob Grant has decided to run for another year"? "Great news he said the Diamonds are back" Here Here Geoff... However I may not have that verbatim and he may have just made a sweeping statement but if we are only looking at one more year we do need to get our thinking caps on and get moving as it could be we aren't out of the woods yet and we are in the same predicament at the end of next season... I am getting lots of PM's pledging money and wanting to be part of a trust or similar to support the club so looking forward to seeing people next Tuesday... Regards THJ

Well that’s how to throw away a league title!

Can the Bullets tell the Bandits their secret to keeping their cool when things get tough! Amazing result for our junior team

What a great comeback.

Yes, rule says at least half which means 8 heats.

Not the previous promotion

Highly likely to be a meeting on 6th October as Matt Ford is due over from France!! More likely to be a play-off semi than a KO Cup 1st leg!!

That’s the missing Diamonds fans

Been going since 2012 & I get the standard bus from the Airport (run about 1/2 hourly) which drops at bus & train station. Buses about hourly & take 1 hour. Or trains about the same. Check koleo.pl for train times but if your hotel is in/near the square get off at Torun miasto NOT Glowny. As its the other side of the bridge. I usually go by bus (£2 each way). And about 60p on bus from airport to Bydgoszcz centre. The bus stop is out of the airport turn left walk past the taxis & the stop is on the left. Can`t go this year & have a ticket for Saturday opposite the side line lower section. Happy to give away BUT would ask in return for you to get me 3 x Torun GP programmes & post them to me in Gloucester. If anyone can make use of it let me know. First come etc. Have a great time!!!!

But we've only tried Dale's mate Jorgensen and he's gash.

The residents of houses near Shielfield Park had peace and quiet for 15 years before Berwick moved back.

If, as a few seem to be saying on here, there is little difference in strength between Premiership and Championship, are those doubling up riders sporting the same averages in each league? Genuine question.

Thats a shame as so many plus points in club

That would be a mole pup.

At that age more like egg bound a would say... two more Senokot please nurse...

Lets hope there will be 'enuff gasso' for all riders to get to their intended destinations!!!

May be a mole but not a senior mole but a junior mole?

In 2022 the Extraleague is almost certainly altering the play- offs to increase it to 6 teams qualifying thus increasing the season’s total matches from 64 to 70.

Im sure if the situation was reversed Redcar would pay his loss of earnings from missed Peterborough meetings especially as MPT will be at #1 on Monday at Peterborough MPT if available could use the Redcar fixtures to determine his fitness for Peterborough Stirred it this week already for Hans now Rob Lyon whose next on your list of Peterborough targets.

They not gonna be on the same pay. It was what was said when we moved down, that there was a big saving in costs. Tv money can't be very high, not many meetings shown this season!

Masters just doesn't seem to have the toughness and grit required when it comes to close quarter racing around the bends, comes off second best all too often.

He just needs hypnotising again so that he thinks he is riding for Kent

Most complaints are first submitted about 30 minutes prior to the first race. Which as we all know is when the bikes are warmed up in the pits, This is the only time when more than four machines will be running at one time on the downside it is the most prolonged time span. When someone is that annoyed they are prepared to make a complaint then the following 15 races could tip them over the edge. with the start positioned on the other side the exausts will be away from the housing so the noise levels will be lowered in the residential areas. If I were the promotion I'd go around to those houses in February & give them a season ticket. It's much harder to complain if you have taken a gift beforehand