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Speedway in the UK failing to move with the times ? i’m shocked I tell you

So you are saying Wolves are run on a business like basis, but are blaming the Wolves management for the demise of British Speedway because other tracks aren't run as a business? It seems to me that you do not have a clue what your own point is. By the way I think all of our riders last year were UK based i.e. no Swedes etc.

Poole don't pay over the odds, but they pay, and that makes a massive difference these days

Wouldn't Eastbourne's assets of been seized by the BSPL to cover any debts , whereas Somerset had no debts when they stopped running and there assets would still be under the control of the company and are free to be sold off by the company owners

I think clubs have got to accept that this day and age you may as well announce signings as soon as the ink is on the contract because with social media it’s going to be leaked. It’s the same with football. Fans are anxious for up to date news which makes it nigh on impossible to keep anything a secret That’s the world we live in now so we’ve got to move with the times or get left behind. Peter mole said last week he would prefer to announce riders at staars meetings but in reality it won’t work. Our promotion do a brilliant job but I think we are at a time when riders just need to be announced as soon as possible to keep the interest going throughout the winter and hopefully the riders can get some sponsorship sorted early.

Unfortunately you may well be right Mike ,but Plymouth weren't accepted until February last year and were given 2weeks to get a team together so I'm not that sympathetic to any late starters tbh.

Should be a transfer window at the end of the season, like Poland, where riders are signed and teams announced. I cannot fathom that, in 2021, we're making announcements through newspapers at 6am on a weekday morning. Crackers.

Aren't most of us Speedway fans retired and watching Lorraine at that time?

Good signing,,, I'm pretty sure all the clubs would have liked him in their team. Definitely a rider that will improve his average,,, and that's how you win. Did you just read that Hawkins/Louis,,, that's how you win

This must already be known, otherwise how can you sign riders on contacts when not knowing when they are required to ride & for how many meetings for your club?

I believe season ticket applications for all clubs will not be available til after the AGM on 7th December when it will (hopefully) be clearer as to which teams will be taking their League place in 2022 and therefore how many fixtures the season ticket will cover.

So this Lawson story which supposedly 'originated' via a link on a Polish website, has now very quickly disappeared into the ether, no doubt from whence it came!!

Good luck to those involved in trying to resurrect Rye House speedway, if ran properly it has been proven in the past to be more than viable. I suggest that maybe if the stifling set racenights hadn't been enforced then possibly Rye House wouldn't have closed a few years back cause Saturday nights in the top flight were well supported? But Rob you've fallen into your mate Steve Ribbons trap of getting involved in petty arguments on forums which can make you look amateurish, looking for notoriety and rub people up the wrong way. I think you and Steve mean well and your doing what the BSPL should have done a couple of years back with Rye House with the generous planning on offer and just basically keeping a track going but I think it'd be wise to keep your distance from online forums.

There is a beautiful photo of the Brisbane Exhibition Ground Speedway (EKKA) on the back cover of this week's (w/e Nov 20) Speedway Star. What a great and historic venue for our sport.

Will believe when I see it, having Lawson throws out at least 3 of last years team.

How does that work? Their averages are miles apart?

Be careful if book Newport I live here it's a dump dont go for small hotels.

Yes, Noah Moss is half Danish and half Korean. Thomas Sörensen was half Danish and half Sri Lankan. ... and that young German lad You mentioned is Mario Häusl (see picture below), whose father is from Munich and his mother from the Seychelles. He is even sporting the national flag of the Seychelles on his kevlars. He must be the first speedway riders ever to emerge form these Indian Ocean islands.

mechanics are around £50/60 at tops unless your full time

If we can reach agreement with our landlords at Rye House our intention, BSPL permitting, would be to run NDL. If the agreement is reached quickly enough and the weather allows the work to complete in time to meet the BSPL deadline we could aim for 2022. This is rather unlikely but you never know. With us, Oxford, Eastbourne and maybe Iwade all possibly running NDL sides in 2023 the situation could well be far less bleak in 18 months.

Malcolm Obviously

It came up on screen about 9.30 Sunday morning (I copied this from a recording freeze frame)

Personally think it's good for the club and josh to part company for a while . Fantastic around scunny pure entertainment but has become poor away

I believe it said every Thursday with the final 2 the Thursday before Christmas

England 50 Australia 28 1 Ray Wilson © 2 , 2 , 3 , 1 8 1 Phil Crump 3 , 2 , 3 , 3 , 2 13 2 Martin Ashby 1', 1', 1 , 2' 5 + 3 2 Bob Valentine 0 , 1', 2', 1 , 0 4 + 2 3 Peter Collins 3 , 2', 2 , 1 8 + 1 3 John Boulger © 1 , 3 , 0 , 0 , R 4 4 Dave Jessup 2', 0 , 2', 3 7 + 2 4 Phil Herne 0 , 0 , - , - 0 5 John Louis 3 , 3 , 3 , 3 12 5 Billy Sanders 1 , 1 , 1 , 1 , 2 6 6 Malcolm Simmons 3 , 2', 3 8 + 1 6 Garry Middleton R , 0 , - 0 7 Terry Betts 2', 0 , 0 2 + 1 7 Bob Humphreys 1 , 0 , - 1 Against possibly the strongest England team of all time, Australia had little chance of victory but often outgated the home country. But Crump received little support from both ex-Leicester rider Boulger and Sanders Saw this on the excellent info site www.internationalspeedway.co.uk with quite a big statement thrown in over this being the strongest England team of all-time at an international match at Leicester in 1975. But you know what, it probably was. All world class and all at - or very near - their peak. Useful reserve pairing too.

Don't really agree with that. Can't run the sport on maybes and what ifs. Have to give those definitely running their guidelines what running to. Not kick the can down the road another few weeks leaving everyone in limbo

Always thought the P word in Speedway was Poole

The real England play in white

How did you know!

Even I am a bit young to remember that but have seen footage of speedway there.

Stuff that! There u go I said it! And Stevie Worrall & Ben Basso will both be in the Pirates team 2022. And I said that n'all !

I know and I'm saying it's where u end up not where u r now, hence the King's Lynn comparison! C'mon Lisa wakey wakey!

Why does it Benefit Scunthorpe Stop acting like a child

Yes they were - at the end of the season - which is why Bomber Harris was not in the Poole 2019 side. cos his average went too high!!

Maybe it benefits Scunthorpe so it's better to adjust averages?

I've included Dan Thompson in my team as well as his brother as I feel they would've been mentioned in the press release with Douglas, Andersen and Zaine if they weren't returning. I do agree with the majority though that Dan would be a bad signing on his average.

I think they'll stick with Joe, because his average is low & there is room for improvement, but like you say Dan's average is inflated because of his spell at reserve. When he rode in the main body of the team his scores were disapointing , I know people on here previosly have said he earnt his average which is true, but he got it mainly from reserve, if as expected Howarth is the 4th signing, Dan wouldn't be at reserve & would find it difficult to maintain that average. It would be like fielding a side with 3 reserves, 1 decent 2nd string & 3 heat leaders. Like you say not good enough to win the league, but do you keep both of them in the hope that they really kick on this year & hope for a play-off spot?

Why? The people in charge of the NDL haven’t changed …..they still have to approve these NDL membership applications…. who knows whether they will support stand alone NDL clubs who wish to sign riders that the BSPL big boys don’t like ? If IoW had a successful season - good luck to them ….. maybe the route to profitable speedway is for new clubs to adopt the IoW model instead of accepting the constraints of racing in an NDL with the big boys of the BSPL calling the shots ?

Don't really want Lawson, much prefer to keep Worrall

I think it would be terrible if they were to get rid of either of them. For me they give the club a bit of identity, being relatively local lads (I think) and associated with the club for a number of years now unlike some of the here today gone tomorrow riders we've had since the club came back out of retirement. I don't see why twins/brothers always seem to come as a job lot either, bogof?

Absolutely. As a Wolves fan it was great to get there for the Tapp Series and watch Sam Ermolenko and the other riders blasting round there. One hell of an atmosphere.

You can more or less piece together every team from the information posted on here so there are few surprises nowadays unless you don't use the internet!

Thanks for that. Should prove to be a very shrewd signing.

Lawson in at the expense of Stefan Nielsen.

Some people might be offended by blasphemous words!

Tbf the teams are prob already signed, just not announced!

Are you sure it wasn't Kevin?

Anders Rowe

Very Harsh on Adam. Greg Hancock won 4 world titles by getting away with rolling at the start so it's not always a bad thing.

No,but common sense tells you that we won't be having a 12pt average no1,so we will undoubtedly have a more balanced team of that I,m certain