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You really are a barrel of laughs ain't you pal.....no need to take sarcasm or cynical pills for you is there

The "Chronicle" newspapers are a collection of free papers distributed by the Wolverhampton Express and Star Group. There are the "Dudley Chronicle" the "Halesowen Chronicle" and the "Stourbridge Chronicle" that I know of, and there may be a couple more distributed in other parts of the Black Country. Usually, they are almost identical in content, apart from having different front page stories, but I don't know of an edition that appears in any parts of Birmingham. (The border between Birmingham and Halesowen being somewhere mid-way along Mucklow Hill probably means that households on the Birmingham side will get the Halesowen version.) The Chronicles do feature the occasional Speedway story - usually Wolverhampton focussed, but on rare occasions, the Brummies do get a mention. The Birmingham Mail also get in on the free paper act by issuing a Dudley News, Stourbridge News and a Halesowen News for free. Living in Brierley Hill, I get both the Stourbridge Chronicle and the Stourbridge News - but I can't recall ever seeing a Speedway feature in the latter paper. In the late 1970's, the Express and Star did make a determined effort to push into Birmingham Mail territory by opening a branch office in Perry Barr and for a short time producing a "Birmingham Express and Star" but this failed to take off and the experiment was soon abandoned. Further back in the 1950's, there was a plethora of newspapers produced in Birmingham, including two evening papers in the Birmingham Mail and the Evening Despatch, two morning papers in the Birmingham Post and the Birmingham Gazette, plus the Birmingham Weekly Post, the Sporting Buff, Birmingham Planet, and two Saturday Sports papers the Sports Argus and the Sports Final (the latter, better known locally as the Blue Mail) and the Sunday Mercury. In about 1955, the Birmingham Mail and the Evening Despatch merged and became the Evening Mail. The Birmingham Gazette, the Blue Mail, the Birmingham Weekly Post, and the Sporting Buff were all scrapped. The Birmingham Planet which was an early full colour newspaper, died a natural death at around the same time, and the Sports Argus died when football stopped playing all of their matches on Saturday afternoons. These days, the Evening Mail has reverted to it's original title of the Birmingham Mail and has become all all-day newspaper which can be purchased from early morning onwards, and has been acquired by the Mirror Group along with the Birmingham Post and the Sunday Mercury which all now resemble the Daily Mirror both in content and style. This hasn't the slightest connection to Birmingham Speedway, but possibly some people will find it a bit more interesting than a few of the very juvenile postings which seem to be plaguing the site!!!!

No it’s a club that’s realistic with its budget

Exciting stuff - just over a week into the season and I'm just one away from a line on Harris guest bingo already!

Even more so considering he is prob similar to that age!

Why cancel the Wolves meeting, 4 of us were coming up. Changed plans to come. One of us self employed didn't book any work on the Thursday afternoon. Makes you realise why so few travel to away meetings

Well it's on global live stream. No reason why they can't go down the VAR route us there? Two shocking decisions could be easily overturned

Wow, now he's given Kerr the win when Bomber got him.

Thanks Arch, way too busy with life and career to read or post much. Speedway is a low priority for me these days. I’ve been working Mondays for the past 3 years so not even had chance to get to a meeting. Thanks for the thought. I know you always famously get the quote wrong so it’s good to see nothing has changed. I said he COULD have been given his success in other motorcycle disciplines. You appear even more clueless if you think David could still be Workd champion. It’s comforting to see little has changed.

Probably 4 years older than you then.

That makes 2 of us paranoid

Oh god the brains of the operation has turned up.

To be fair Steve the track at perry barr has been re-laid in the off season, so I think most if not all riders should ride it well.

NKI can't do a season he has said, and is on a 28 day thing. I think it runs out sometime in the last week of April. Killer is riding in Poland now, so fit. So could be back for the Ippo meeting on the 25th i think.

All very true- one thing that surprises me with Poland is that whilst they don`t make a big thing of averages, they do use them to decide who is in the top 3 and therefore if a rider is injured (has to be out for 15 days) RR can be used but no 1 above and any below rule which can make the team stronger using RR. Now with the banned riders RR- it covers a top 5 rider yet apparently still no 1 above and any below rule- we will have to wait and see how it all pans out starting tonight.

Yeh true there's a few hiccups to sort out but overall not bad at all

Glad Plymouth got a point but deserved more

They need to get the basics sorted out first.......

We was robbed

Ambition can bankrupt you and close you down in many sports... With Speedway being one of them that is particularly risky given the lack of any real financial remuneration for success when put up against the added money being paid out when you have a good season home and away.. Happiness Is 46-44.... And whatever happens away from home, happens... With many teams I would think being not too upset at the odd 30 to 35 point score now and again..

Superb team effort from all but extra plaudits to go to young Ace.. what a debut!

Another shocker from the ref! Bomber clearly won that!

Graham Hunter

I'm further away and saw Riss take him out. Woeful refereeing

From my distance of 155 miles, it looked like Riss took out Gilkes’ wheel there.

To be honest I don't think Discovery are covering themselves in glory so far. The lack of unambiguous information so far is not great. However, in the same news item it also says. François Ribeiro, Head of Discovery Sports Events, said: “Part of our role as FIM Speedway global promoter is to bring the sport to a wider audience. By offering every minute of the action to millions of viewers on discovery+ and Eurosport 2 in the UK, complemented by the best analysis from local experts, we know we can attract new viewers to speedway while delivering the most energetic, exciting and engaging season for passionate fans yet.' Now, that can also be read in two ways. 'Every minute of the action to millions of viewers on discovery+ and Eurosport in the UK' should mean every minute show on both (because otherwise they should have said 'or' rather than 'and' ). It's ridiculous that with only a couple of weeks to go we are still speculating. I contacted the Customer Service team at Discovery and they assured me the GPs would be shown live on Eurosport , so we will have to wait and see. If I were someone who had taken out a discovery+ and sport subscription which is not required I'd be annoyed. If they now only show some GPs live on Eurosport I won't be best pleased. Discovery got lots of negative comments about its Australian Open tennis coverage, so the jury remains out for me.

If anyone is restricted with 365 etc try stsbet.co.uk. They carry exact same speedway offer that the Polish parent company have.

No is the short answer.

Thanks for that update, I’d forgotten it’s a 28 day replacement. Certainly changes my thoughts on KL unless PK is able to find some form. Be interesting to see how he goes if and when he comes back.

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Shurely shome mistake there

Same joke 3 times, top banter.

I will ignore BBC weather in future!

Why ask the question? You should be able to easily recognise a 5-year old!!

Hard to disagree. Top 2 should be clear and then 3-6 will be a big battle of recruitment as well as on track

The club statement did say: "This is due to inclement weather with more forecast throughout the day in the city" which is why people are talking about the forecast.

They do, particularly around Redcar. Depends what version of Anderson turns up but he is obviously capable of a good score. Think a lot will depend on the performance of the second strings and reserves - if Roynon and Andersen can pick up points and if Jenkins/Edwards can take more points than Gilkes (who is another one who scored well in U19 fixtures here) the Bears should get a narrow victory. Weather seems set fair, blue skies and sunshine but it's going to a cold evening. Hope it's a good meeting for those who are watching the stream tonight.

Yes and no in order.

The grandstand has 2230 seats

I work outside and I use the Met office app rather than the BBC one, it tends to be much more accurate. I think the Beeb stopped using the met office a few years ago and their accuracy suffered as a result. I think Lynn speedway use RAF Marham weather station.

Never really understood the seemingly dislike for RR by some people... It keeps the meeting, and therefore the whole league and sport in that country, credible.. And means the actual team wins (not "six riders and a ringer" wins) thus maintaining true team spirit and the ethos of a proper team sport.. And also provides the six men with the potential to earn more money... You could argue that an injury means you are down to five men but two injuries mean you are down to five too, and given the nature of the sport injuries happen all the time and at any moment... Poland in particular have true strength in depth so RR can be no disadvantage, and the Polish authorities will also be very mindful of the unmitigated disaster that would befall them and the sport over there, if they allowed "guests" similar to how they are allowed over here..

I’m sure the grandstand seats 2,000 edit. According to the panther’s website the stand seats 2,200

£20 entry, £10 for my son to drop me off at 6.30, and pick me up around 9.30. 8 pints at £4.80 each.

The problem is how do you decide what a good crowd is? many posters within this forum I imagine remember crowds upwards of 10K back in the "Good old day's" but now there is so much to factor in. Fewer top stars in British racing, lower standard racing, Cheaper & more frequent flights, the need to accomodate visiting riders & of course the modern human. I attended a Promotion/Fans get together & someone asked why dont you get a couple of riders with their bikes to attend schools in the area. A good idea in principle & a very good idea in 1975 but as I mentioned above "The modern human" we need to get the youth away from their hand held devices for a 90 minute period. They will come to watch but when a meeting is strung out & 15 races take from 19:30 until 22:00 they get bored & never return but the worst is to come when they put on their social media account how slow & boring speedway was & they will never go again. In short run a slick show start on time pre-meeting presentation 19:15 first race 19:30 at the tapes run to the finish 21:00 (without intervals) victory parade (15 Minutes) second half races until 22:00. If this was sustained maybe we could hold the attention of the youth & the word SPEED in our sport of SPEEDWAY might just mean something again.

you might not be interested but thankfully many true speedway supporters are

I feel for you, supporting Man Utd and Belle Vue!! Just as well you have a long memory!

Love him or hate him Porky is a great presenter and Wolves understand better than most that they are in the entertainment business. Evenings at Monmore would be half what they are without him.

One thing I can say about 'Monmore', the track may not be to everyone's taste, but the racing is decent, but above all that is a very enthusiastic 'atmosphere' ! Plenty of heckling/banter/good noise in general..... Speedway meetings at Wolverhampton are far more entertaining than at B'ham and not just because of the level of racing on show!

I have always enjoyed my visits to Monmore it is fair to say, not all about the track, I like the people too.

Like Shovlar with his constant Monmore is crap ? ( I know you think Monmore's okay)