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Pumped. That is all.

Ellis should be given a ban for start of next season. That's an absolute piss take. Bad enough second rate foreigners doing it but the British champion? Out of order

BREAKING NEWS: Adam Ellis today confounded medical science to race for his French team Morizes. The French ace romped to 13 points helping his side to an away victory. Government scientists are now seeking to question the British Champion to ascertain his miracle recovery from "illness" sustained at Sheffield on Thursday evening. They believe it may have been a dodgy pie but sources close to the Lourdes based Frenchman say that he has been drinking the spring water from the bottom of his garden... more news as we get it.

To be fair Brady is better off resting at Home because it's not like Belle Vue are going to win the title tbh. Peterborough are just too good.

Some riders are already doing a better job than people on here. IMO.

He’s just been on the phone to MPT to find the excuse that the BSPA will accept.

Behave couldn't even get a lap done in Friday

Delighted with that lead , tie not over , but thats a defendable lead

Racing incident IMO, Nicol did nothing wrong either. Kemp cut under Bailey just as Nicol was coming round inside, neither could have anticipated what the other would do, if they even saw each other. With the track being extremely slick to cope with rain you had to be aggressive to get anywhere, unfortunately another downside of October speedway.

Ermo is the Stanley Unwin of speedway pundits His answers never match the questions asked

Nah - just can't be bothered with the whingeing from various Poole pullets.

And you know the circumstances of both clubs, their ability to stage meetings on an ‘off race night’? Do you genuinely believe Edinburgh and Leicester wanted to drag things out to the extent they have been just to be awkward? Give me a break. Hopefully Poole have found their venture into the second tier so unbearable that they’ll trot off back to the Premiership next season. The rest of us will survive without you.

4/6 in Speedway.

Anyway back to the present , let's set about this mob from the east today and see if we can take a decent lead over to Armadale for the second leg . No more of this beautiful Sunday nonsense haha

I dont get why the test match upsets you so much . We're in the fortunate position to own our stadium, so we could squeeze a test match in that week and aqueeze anything else in any other day as long as the other club and riders agreed .

Nonsense I have a text from someone in the pits well before 6:30pm confirming the Ambulance breakdown and also on this thread it was also mentioned well before the time you state. If the call didn’t come through until 18:45 as you say what was the reason the riders didn’t start to warm up their bikes then? Did you not think that odd ? Perhaps if you had asked why they were not preparing to race they would have told you!

At this rate the Poole and Glasgow riders will need to do another pre-season to get up to speed again.

Don’t be silly. There is no place for common sense/logic on a speedway thread. Next you will be suggesting that riders can only ride for one team in the UK.

Poor Nicoliar. She certainly knows how to run a country. Just noticed I said run meant ruin.

To cop off a farcical week roary the tiger and ed the monarch get into a vicious fight and both ambulances have to take them separately to hospital to prevent another fight. Meeting off

None I would have thought if they are insured to deal with peoples injuries

No practice for SON DAY 1: Race Office Opening Date: 16 th Oct 2021 Time: 09:00 -16:00 Stadium Open For Riders and Mechanics Date: 16 th Oct 2021 Time: 09:00 Machine Examination Date: 16 th Oct 2021 Time: 12:05 – 13:50 Signing On Date: 16 th Oct 2021 Time: 13:00 -14:00 Final Track Inspection Date: 16 th Oct 2021 Time: 13:00 Team Managers Briefing Date: 16 th Oct 2021 Time: 13:30 1st International Jury Meeting Date: 16 th Oct 2021 Time: 14.00 Warm Up Date: 16 th Oct 2021 Time: 14:30- 15:10 Parade Date: 16 th Oct 2021 Time: 15:45 1st Heat Date: 16 th Oct 2021 Time: 16:04 2 nd International Jury Meeting Date: 16 th Oct 2021 Time: 19:15 approx DAY 2: Stadium Open For Riders and Mechanics Date: 17th Oct 2021 Time: 09:00 Machine Examination Date: 17 th Oct 2021 Time: 12:05 – 13:50 Final Track Inspection Date: 17 th Oct 2021 Time: 13:00 3 rd International Jury Meeting Date: 17 th Oct 2021 Time: 14:00 Team Managers Briefing Date: 17 th Oct 2021 Time: 14.30 Parade Date: 17 th Oct 2021 Time: 15:45 1st Heat Date: 17 th Oct 2021 Time: 16:04 Prize Giving Ceremony Date: 17 th Oct 2021 After Final Heat 4 th International Jury Meeting Date: 17th Oct 2021 Approx 19:15

I don't think the first practice is until the Saturday morning

once you sign into a fim meeting you can’t leave to race anywhere else unless he does not sign into the meeting till saturday and gives up practice

...which is why speedway in this country continues the long slippery slope.

Mixed emotions..great win and more than acceptable lead, but felt they were there for bit of a doing tonight. Special mention to Tom Brennan best meeting by a million miles at ashfield

The rest of his team mates had also taken the night off, so I wouldn't have thought they gave a toss either. To be serious for a moment though... this was a Play Off quarter final, their most important match of the season, it's sport and anything could have happened, seems like there wasn't much will there from the management either.

All teams(3 riders) to be nominated with the FIM 6 days before the event but no federation is allowed to name the riders. I expect the FIM will announce it tomorrow morning.

Look I’m no Scunthorpe fan but that is disgusting if he’s done that then the promoter needs his head examining if he selects him next year really poor that ,unless there’s a miracle medical certificate produced he should get a ban for the start of next season not this when he has no more meetings over here unless there is a miracle comeback maybe our British champion has got a bit to big for his boots.

His team did used to be called the "Saints" so you never know......

MPT declared himself fit to ride for Peterborough tomorrow. If he comes through that ok ? will he than ride for Redcar on Tuesday. If he does he will need to do 5 rides as he is one of the R/R rides for James S. Hope he is ok, but it will mean him riding 3 times in 4 days Mon/Tues/Thurs. With 2 dodgy fingers seems a bit of an ask.

You don’t know the circumstances so can’t comment on what teams should have done. The end.

What has Godfrey got to do with this ,I’m sure Rob will want the meeting out of the way and close Scunthorpe speedway for the season . Some people are delusional

Bright and windy

Plus if they did keep to the original cut off date i'm sure they would have just fitted it in on an off night.

In fairness an ambulance is perhaps one of the last things you would expect to brake down. Presumably they are maintained on a regular basis. I guess it is just the way the cookie crumbles. I'm sure all who cannot make the Tuesday restaging will be reimbursed. I think it is helpful to realise that speedway is far from a proffesionly run sport which couldn't operate without a good number of volunteers . And doesn't have the finances associated with football etc. Basically it is a semi pro operation that is lucky to break even at the end of a season. I think to a degree when attending meetings. YOU PAYS YOUR MONEY AND TAKES YOUR CHANCES. In some things you just have to accept that it is what it is. It won't change anytime soon that's for sure.

Speedway hasn't always been played out in front of sparse crowds with not atmosphere in the UK

Erm... I told you so. This thread is now open for apologies

Paying the riders less would be a good start,they might not pick and choose their meetings so much.

The other way to look at it is they've given up a fixture to promote the sport as a whole rather than just the club. Given state of ko cup I don't see season being finished anyway. Why was increased to 6 in play offs god only knows

Not necessarily, could have been a technician. The paramedic is in attendance as they can administer certain drugs, techs can't.

Elbow I believe. Mark Lemon said on Monday they are hopeful he will be back for final.

Hmmm.

I don’t think anyone is having a go at the duo…….just one half

Good idea. But it had been there 4 hours and got clamped.

What you need is an 'ice-cream/ambulance' combo vehicle, make it useful when its quiet.

That's the problem with speedway, riders expecting to make a living. It needs to be an amateur sport, with the chance of some prize money as the 'icing on the cake'. And teams are skint now!

Bloody pessimist.

One worrying thing for me, on the eurosport coverage, was the shoehorning in of Sam "straightaway" Ermolenko. Terrible commentator.

In a perfect world, clubs would be running on nights that make the most economic sense for them