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Poole drop riders that UNDER PERFORM. They always put together a quality team at the start of every season, but if you don't perform you're out. That's the mentality of champions and is the same in every sport. Like I said, totally clueless.

Honestly I don't want to get embroiled in this however the original company went through a Voluntary Liquidation not because there were any "funds to extract" but because a massive "fraud" had been committed (whether intentional or by accident) and once this came to light there were only two feasible options open to the person who had taken the business on and they were to either pay the VAT man what he was owed (circa £160k) and keep trading or liquidate the company (voluntarily) and then the debt to the VAT man becomes like a frozen debt for the VAT man to pursue through other means. There is an awful lot of legal jargon/technicalities to go through which I wont bore everyone with however lets just say Liquidating a company isn't just a straightforward formality as the person who owns the company being liquidated still has to do things by the book or they end up being blacklisted and stopped from being a company director again until they put things right or at least do things correctly when closing the business. Regards THJ

While certain Posters are obsessed with Poole using the rules to their advantage,there is not aTeam in the Leagues who don’t do the same if the situation arises.IMO. It’s the rules that makes the Sport “Mickey Mouse” and not credible regarding winning Titles.

Ipswich won't need them anyway

What they are doing on the island is fantastic. Yes I agree I to would like to see IoW back in NDL but if the current owners cannot agree with the politics then this is their best option. I may not enjoy grass bikes or Flat track machines on a speedway track but I see the business plan in that this allows access to more competitors it is a system that has worked across the world of motorcycle racing. In Australia NZ USA & SA all different types & standards will come together to produce the whole event & nobody can argue that anything upto 50 races is better value than 15 no matter what standard or discipline.

We fully appreciate that we are not for everyone. However we have embraced the European/US style of speedway meetings (and I have been to both of them) which last year worked very well, and we hope for the same this year. Personally I dont see the point to say this or that and that along with "glad its not my club" and not have actually experienced what our race nights are about and include. It is so easy for us Brits to put something down rather than saying well done, that is brilliant, good effort, congratulations... sadly it is a known Brit trait However, the simple fact is, and again we fully appreciate that it is not for every speedway/motorsport fan, but the overwhelming result of the year was that people really enjoyed what we put on, loved the atmosphere, and returned. Imagine what could be done without restriction, or fear for riders/clubs being penalised. Our view of the sport remains the same, keep supporting your clubs where you can, attend where you can and provide constructive feedback to your clubs about what you want to see on a race night. Thats exactly what we did. All the best all and thank you all for you feedback, it helps us grately.

They do form part of a forum though and I must admit do make me laugh now and again... But, in fairness to them, not as much as I laugh at those who rise to their bait and get themselves all worked up about something so insignificant.... And seem to react EVERY time....

We've said before that the variety of meetings kept the sport fresh. In addition to the league and KOC, every track had a couple of individual meetings, at least one regional cup, plus things like best pairs and 4TT's. The real icing on the cake was being awarded a Test Match! Those were the days...

As long as I have supported speedway , every home fan will tell you that their track "is a fair race track" . :-) :-) :-)

Sorry, but I can't agree with you. I think that in time it will be much better than the old one. It will just take time for us all to get used to it, and it shouldn't be a problem.

What's put bums on seats in the recent past has been the threat of closure, which brings back some old fans for one last look and the nostalgia, it worked with me and my family. Hats off to the new Promoters for putting up the money and also having the sense to say it won't be an annual thing. I love speedway, I've been brought up on it from a nipper but if I won the lottery would I sink money into it? no way, its not even a break even venture let alone profit making. Unfortunately the best times are behind us, the worlds changed, new fans aren't being attracted as it's not exciting enough and not worth the money. Could anything be done to change that?.....sadly I don't think so any more, it's beyond saving in it's current guise. Birmingham is a 2 hour round trip for me and I wouldn't dismiss me attending a couple of matches this season, but they will either be because someone of interest is in the meeting that night like BB or Smoli, or because the grim reaper has struck again and there's a threat that it could all disappear. Up The Brummies, fingers crossed for a full and profitable season in 2022.

Scunthorpe will be decent enough at home and have some genuine heat leaders. Newcastle have dropped a couple of clangers and the new Kiwi using up 4 points in place of a genuine 2nd/3rd heat leader looks madness as does the return of Complin. Its not all doom and gloom for Brum and both a full season and not finishing bottom are possibilities i just fear both are going to be equally difficult tasks.

Yes, and if he stayed on the bike for 4 laps he would have scored considerably more points. Sometimes the red mist came down and he tried just a tad too hard.

Speedway in the UK is more "sports entertainment" than a bona fide sporting contest where who wins has relevance, kudos, publicity and financial reward.. Therefore, it makes perfect sense to embrace this and build on it by using the "core product" of the racing as its "centre piece" and then building an overall entertainment package around it... With hopefully, "something for everyone" being the box that gets ticked as this means a more likely repeat visit....

Same could easily be said about British Speedway as a whole. Whilst IOW don't claim to have all the answers they are at least posing a few questions and getting people talking. The meeting types and formats clearly won't work a lot of places as they simply don't have the track to accommodate it but to successfully run an alternative to league speedway has to be applauded even if it doesn't directly appeal to you.

And why not when rules allow them to do so? Makes total sense to me in a competition that doesnt take on any meaning (if any at all) until the back end of the season... Is it top six or four who qualify for the play offs? Either way, you would expect Poole to be in the play offs and enter them with a team that could quite conceivably win the final...

Plymouth have announced main team title sponsors for 2022 season. Westcolour, who are one of the largest mailing and fulfilment companies in the UK. The team will be known as the Plymouth Westcolour gladiators. Fantastic news and well done.

Its been announced its at Oxford august 12th, the night before the GP So if you want to plan ahead So a heads up for anyone wanting to book accomodation, Premier Inn Cowley a 10 minute walk from stadium Holiday Inn Express and Hampton by Hilton both by the Kasstad and 20 minute walk from stadium There are newly opened Premier Inns in the Citycentre and Botley which is just off the A34 Both on very regular bus routes which will get you to a couple of minutes walk from the stadium , you'll have to change in the Citycentre if going from Botley. From Citycentre all you need is a return ticket from Botley a daypass to cover all bus operators, currently £3.80 return or £4.30 for a day pass Theres a Travelodge on the Abingdon rd, and a Jury's hotel in Wolvercote Obviously lots of other hotels and BnB's around from very expensive to very cheap, ive just chosen big chain hotels that are normally not a rip off price to let anyone who wants to book well in advance know about

Must be Birmingham

Nope. They should be mentioning names like Verge. James Jessop and Richard Andrews cause thats the sort riders that will end up being signed

tracks like BV sort the 4 out on track from rider to racer. big track should be more common

Poole went through the whole 2021 season unbeaten at home from their starting 1-7 to the 1-7 that lifted both trophies!! Good from start to finish I'd say.............

Changed one rider last season, so hardly 'all the time'

Richard Lawson

You are literally confirming my comments that Poole change riders all the time which therefor there's definitely an argument to say they don't put together great sides at the beginning of the season, You are embarrassing yourself time and again on this thread yet seem to genuinely believe your some sort of guru, You're not in anyway and the fact you continue in such an arrogant manner sums you up

Nobody knows how a rider will or will not perform. A rider can be fantastic one season but then drop off the next. It happens all the time. A rider can look good in Poland, Sweden, Denmark or Australia etc. and then come over to the UK and struggle. That happens all the time. Just two examples of many why Poole have dropped under performing riders in recent years. You're talking utter nonsense and obviously have no grasp of speedway, so I kindly suggest you stop posting as you're making yourself look even more stupid upon every post.

Wow. Logged in during lunch hour to escape from work, then got sucked right back into it reading these posts lol. Anyway, new sponsor onboard & fixtures are oot! What a time to be alive! Who has planned their roadtrip yet? Put their holidays in already? Ive already penciled in the dates that I will not be speaking to the Mother In Law (Glasgow fan)

Same in any sport, under perform your out

Fixtures got nothing to do with BSP Ltd. The Promoters compile a "wish" list BUT it is a guy from Edinburgh that compiles the final list.

Guess its all about opinions, but to me, its a better line up than both Newcastle/Scunthorpe....but we'll have to wait and see. It will probably be something different? Certainly no complaints about Covatti though?

He ended on 7.78 which is high enough but he was riding around heat leader level so i did expect him to be fixed up somewhere. I think his commitment to grasstrack probably made him unpopular with weekend tracks and left few options. Still thought he was a better bet than Hopwood at Oxford for example but maybe a deal suiting both sides couldn't be done.

And only a few months ago the usual suspects were screaming about the season extending into November! You never heard of rain-offs?

Premiership Junior League ?

Surely if that was the case he would have gone years ago

Totally clueless.

Last 12 matches he averaged 3.18 (exc bonus) maybe there's your reason. (He looked great when I saw him but that was in a brief purple patch in July/Aug)

Tungate is infuriating!

Things that fester too long in the same place go stale. That had happened with the Worrall's at Belle Vue. If he'd have returned, Cooke would have filled that 7-8 rider gap nicely.

There are a couple of brothers by the name of Worrall who aren't too bad.

There's a blast from the past

Still got Trolls on here. There's a suprise

Variety is the spice of life. If we all liked the same things life would be pretty boring. IMO one thing the sport can do is provide a bit of variety in some if not all the meetings. How many former regular attendees posting on this forum have said 15 heats and endless laps by a Massey Ferguson is one of the reasons they no longer attend. The sport needs to win back these supporters while also attracting new ones, 8 riders doing a few Flat Track demos may attract some who wouldn't go. At the end of the day the same old format being done every meeting isn't getting a new generation of fans through the door.

LOL... NO, no, no A PLC is a "Public Limited Company".... A company which offers shares to the public via the stock market. Think you've just proved you haven't "run a PLC" Ltd.

It appears to be a Ltd which makes it a private limited company. That doesn't make it a PLC A PLC designates a company that has offered shares of stock to the general public. The buyers of those shares have limited liability. Meaning, they cannot be held responsible for any business losses in excess of the amount they paid for the shares.

There's no way I can agree with this. Almost 50% of the fixtures are Island Masters (the same riders in each?) or 3TT (the same teams?). Flat track racing and grass track bikes on shale does nothing for me. Just glad it's not my local team.

That's a bit ripe coming from a Brummie fan with their renowned track prep....just saying

OK so why are they so poor at putting teams together at the beginning of the season that major changes are needed every year?

Think it’s a link to Fake Taxi

The new speedway rulebook? or it could be the rising stars thing...

Either that or a meat-free diet!?