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I find it odd people jumping on the wagon to jump on young James, poor guy has moved country at the age of 16 is on tracks hes never rode before what are you expecting from a first season. He won his first ride at scunny the other day so got his 3 points job done. He would have won his first heat last night however got a puncture. Its still only his had 2 home meeting , id hate to work for some off you lot , youd be sacked after your second day. I personally think middle to end of season he will be on 5-7 points at home. Keep the faith and get behind your riders.

James Pearson is still only 16years old. He needs as many rides as he can get. I have criticised LR may times in the past about some of his decisions, but i am with him on this one giving JP his 4 races. If the match was in danger of a home defeat it would have been different. Brummies won

The BSB’s had a certain aroma which was only found there. Probably eminating from the green mould up the walls by the urinals.

Maybe it was the pits area that was rendered unsafe, don't want anyone tripping over them toys or slipping on the spilt milk?

Have you been to Plymouth to actually see the racing there first hand? I'm not a Plymouth supporter but went there for the very first time on Tues vs Poole. Hardly a 'toy track' when you see the breathtaking racing that it produces even tho it's small. Tracks are not about the size but how they are shaped to produce quality racing. I would say you need bigger balls to ride that track than say a Sheffield. The riders are closer together so if one rider comes off it's likely more will follow like dominoes. Toy track, nonsense!

1 by the starting gate but a couple of right mingers on bend 4

I witnessed his dad getting hit by someone in the pits but I suppose the Newcastle promotion and fans don’t want to talk about that part. Winditin Winditon

anyway nice to see the brummies get there season up and running with a decent win

Barker just went into the corner too quick and overshot the apex . There was no hole just a berm of dirt ..Danny king was wondering what it was as he doesn’t get to see dirt much these days .

Never had any issues with cookie at ashfield no matter how he goes elsewhere

Another cracking tackle move from Paul Hawkins! Yes his name is now, Paul after the other two tactical genius Lambert & Cook!

Glad to win as I knew we would,,, but come on,,, why gift them a point with no Doyle in 15,,,that just sucks,,,,, I'm guessing they are just happy to win,,,

Could we not afford to pay Doyle to ride in heat 15 or something? Another top drawer move from the tactical genius Hawkins to gift belle vue a point

Steve once told me that 50 per cent of his output was genuine and 50 per cent wind-up and that no-one knew which was which. Including, on occasion, him…

It's probably preference. I don't like watching Edinburgh, Newcastle, Plymouth, wolves, Ipswich as don't find that kind of racing as entertaining as full throttle you get at Glasgow, BV, Peterborough etc. I won't say it's bad or boring etc it's just my personal preference

Met Steve in person he actually admitted he was a wind up artist and good at it better than me to be fair so anything he says i would take it with a pinch of salt. Turnip talks alot of sense,especially for a turnip.

It's clear to see that Plymouth is a much better race track than some would have you believe.

No bugger wants to ride with Batchelor I should think

Let’s be clear, no one is criticising young James. He rode superbly last night, his gating was superb snd on several occasions, held off their top heat leaders for over two laps. James is a great prospect snd yes, the points will come. Personally, I don’t care if he doesn’t score many points all season. I hope the club honour their pre season statements that he is under no pressure snd will be given time. I hope that means he is with us all season, regardless of his scores. We will reap the benefits next season. what is being missed, is that many of the “floating” punters snd the newbies, only want to support a winning team unfortunately!!! Birmingham have had an unfortunate start to the season at home, not having completed a match before last night snd this has already had an affect on crowd levels. EVERY home rider last night, rode their socks off and they ALL want snd, DESERVE the right to win matches if they are good enough to do so. What none of us want, is for that chance to be taken from them by an inept team manager!!! As has been pointed out already, we missed out on the playoffs last year by one point. No team can afford to “gift” points to the opposition if they are serious about getting to the playoffs snd competing for honours. The new consortium have already invested a more than six figure sum into the club snd are doing so many things right but, their hard work means nothing if the crowd levels are affected by disgruntled fans or sadly, by fans stopping away because the team isn’t winning. Laurence is to be commended for the work he does for the club snd his key role in getting the consortium together but, that doesn’t alter the fact that over time, he has repeatedly proven to be an inept team manager. Apparently, in a radio WM interview he said he left James in his last race because : “ he deserved it”. I can see the logic but, I snd I believe, most other Brummies fans want is for team manager to do his UTMOST to get the team over the winning line., not to be mister nice guy to the riders. By his actions last night , he could snd nearly did cost the other six riders the win that all seven of them, including James Pearson , had worked so hard for. Laurence has a history of such poor decision making snd it’s not good enough. We will never win anything with this team manager. He continued the Shanes / Morris pairing all of last season despite the fact that they are not compatible as a pairing, always wanting the same line snd constantly getting in each others way, constantly being on the wrong end of a 5-1 . Despite this being glaringly obvious and talked about by many fans, Laurence just didn’t see it or, change it. . We have been running rider rep at the moment snd guess what… in several of these meetings, what does he do? He pairs Shane’s snd Morris in the first rider rep ride, snd guess what, we got stuffed in those heats. Yes, they got a 4-2 in heat 14 last night because Shanes has actually started gating lately .That’s the same Shane’s that should have replaced young James in James’ in his last ride and then we may well not have been going into the last heats with Scunthorpe having the chance to either win the meeting or, the last heat with a chance of taking s point. That would have killed the “upsurge” the fans went home with after a great all around team effort snd our first home win. The criticism is of Laurence Rogers , not young James .

He was lucky nobody gave him the byker T.cake....

Maybe tracks that can’t get their floodlights to work should also just be training tracks

These 'works' seem to have come at a very convenient time. Reminds me of a Cradley v Wolves match that was called off due to a 'waterlogged track' . One of my mates lived in Dudley and we thought might as well go for a drink as we were going to be out anyway. Passed by the track to have a look, dry as a bone. The fact that Hancock and Hamill had missed their flights back to the UK was a pure coincidence.

Well done to all for achieving first home win this season. Sorry,I can't make the 140 mile round trip to support the team whilst there are folk who think loyal supporters of speedway(and have been for many years) are classed as 'keyboard warriors'. Who gives a flying from posts on Brummies Speedway Forum whos birthday it is or whos grass has been cut during the off season and if anyone has a day off work to take a rider to an airport No disrespect to those who have taken on the challenge to put the Brummies on track for 2022.Those folk who have put their money where their mouths are deserve our ultimate respect

Wouldn’t have moved King from 5 either personally. Once Riss has been moved to 2 he probably thought Barker and Batchelor as a pair at 3 and 4 looked a bit iffy so moved King in there. I prefer keeping things simple, Barker at 2, Riss and Batchelor 3 and 4 and King at 5. Although certainly an argument for Riss at 5 on current form. Only one man’s opinion matters though at the end of the day. Perhaps Hawkins is far more of a tactical genius than any of us gave him credit for

We thought it was strange to not put Doyle in but Nicola asked him after the meeting and he is feeling poorly so that’s why he didn’t go in 15

exactly. because there are too few to go around which was obvious at the end of last season yet they allowed some teams to track three whilst others have none and two have non existent No1's. It all leads in one direction with an increasingly smaller pool of riders who constantly guest for opponents. It's a team sport in name only now. Shame

I think LR clearly made the wrong decision not giving Shanes an extra ride. If he really wanted to give Pearson 4 rides, he still could have put Shanes in heat 12 & said to Pearson "if we have win the match before heat 14, I'll give you your 4th ride". Unnecessary risk in my view leaving Pearson in heat 12 & none of the comments supporting it have changed my mind!

RIP Back Straight Bogs!

I could see the point if he was your asset. But since he belongs to BV unless any agreement is in place then if he shows promise I suggest he'll be off to one of the "bigger" clubs. So giving him the rides only really preparing him for someone else

The Premier Sports presenter mentioned that Woffinden will be doing the next few meetings for Esbjerg. This will allow NKI to stay at King's Lynn for the time being.

Been much better day today in centre of town at my office than was predicted not seen any rain at all. bit of the wet stuff around tomorrow morning should just leave the track in perfect condition for early evening.

Is "Hemelec Limited" still the experts of choice these days?

Epic fail. Gladiators were Roman, not Greek. Next you'll be telling me sauerkraut is British, the French love scones with jam and cream, and paella is a traditional Russian dish. After all they are all European, basically the same people,.

Ok. Thanks. I thought I might have missed something!

Good post personally thought James was in the mix all night and think the experience of been in good positions before losing out can only benefit him. Think the criticism of Laurence is wrong as he was proven right on this occasion.

The bad weather probably affected the flights into Netherton International.....

A perfect Bomber track... Horsepower not a major determinant, and just enough dirt outside on an otherwise slick track for him to exploit like so few can... Wolverhampton could do worse than see how Plymouth get their outside line working...

No Steve, you are wrong, Jessup would have used chewing gum rather than Araldite!!

Hi. I was there on Sunday and I think you will find that it was a member of the Berwick promotion who told the Newcastle supporters to go forth and multiply and nothing to do with Rob

Ace has broken fingers, so didn’t want to risk falling off and hurting himself, as the Bullets have a meeting tonight that he wanted to be fit for. As for the silencer, there was something very wrong with it, it had a crack in it, but there was no proof as to when that was done, and was obvious that it wasn’t done to cheat.

Second half was cancelled due to the Berwick juniors not wanting to ride, nothing to do with the goings on in the pits. I did witness Newcastle fans shout abuse at all the Berwick riders and promotion, so if a couple Berwick guys gave some back, then fair game in my opinion, as it was the Newcastle fans that started the verbal abuse… as usual.

Well done to everyone that contributed to the collection for dan gilkes, £1243.64 raised.

With a bit of patience Atkins might well have ended up being the reserve benefitting from extra rides after Gilkes' unfortunate injury. Garry May has always made the most of reserve changes so riders should know what to expect when signing for one of his teams. I remember years ago at Edinburgh in a cup final he took Brady Kurtz out of heat 13 to give the weaker reserve (Chessell I think) his 3rd ride which left Rasmus Jensen able to come in and win it for Somerset in 14. I can see why it can get tough for someone in Atkins position but it's about the team winning. May not only knows how to build winning teams but also gets the best out of them.

Plymouth is Ben’s style of track though!

Bog standard riding order from both teams. Pair the No.1 with the 5th average. 2nd best rider at No.5. Remaining two can go at 3&4 either way around. Used to be fashionable to put the strongest reserve at No.7, but these days teams seem to give the easier No.7 spot to the weakest rider, and swap them around during the meeting as necessary. (Also, we're assuming that is the riding order, and not just someone guessing at what the riding order will be, and listing them in the most obvious order).

You really are a clueless c### aren't you As explained - we had an issue with our streaming provider, aswell as the other sports clubs they cover, had issues too on Friday - and this should have been rectified by now. Now keep yourself to the Plymouth threads or are you that embarrassed on having the worst track in the country you have to slag ours of

Superb presentation, tons of overtaking, what more can you want? Superb commentary in very difficult circumstances. Nothing to moan about here.

Well It’s hard and I am proud of Kelvin for stepping up to the plate. The show must go on and all that. It’s going to take a bit of time to get going. Well done to Chris Louis stepping into Kelvins shoes and Kelvin for stepping into Scoops. Not easy and I commend their efforts. I hope there’s no moaning about commentary. If there is they deserve any crap aimed at them.

Came upon this thread during a long odyssey to find a copy of Speedway Promoter. We played this game religiously as teens, and despite the limitations, was an absolute cracker. Many a late Friday night after a meeting at Oxford spent on this beauty. Looks like it’s been a while since this thread was updated, but if anybody has a copy of the files that they’d be willing to share, we’d be made up.