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There are some at Newcastle who may question that.

There is not many, Jack Parkinson Blackburn Chris Harris Guest

All rounds will now be televised on the British speedway network subscription channel online. great news that. Well done Ben duffill and Martin Hunter for securing the contract to show it.

I'm pretty sure once Atkins' ban for withholding service is over Plymouth will have to sign a replacement. My guess on the other two is that while their prognosis or return date remains uncertain we will continue to have a facility to use. But I'd be shocked if we didn't sign Morley until Gilkes returns (if indeed he does this season). While I don't know specifics I do know Plymouth are actively looking at replacements for both short and long term however it's not always easy with the low availability of riders and the politics in the continued farcical world of the BSPA.

Kenny Carter?

I honestly don’t understand what all the fuss is about using guests. Plymouth started the season with a full 7 riders and have lost 2 to serious injuries and 1 rider has quit the team so the situation is not of their own making. We know from pre season that teams were struggling to even fill their teams so there isn’t going to be a long list of riders out there to replace them with. As a spectator, I would rather spend my money going to to a meeting and watching a team with guests if needs be in order to make it a good meeting to watch with similar strength teams on track rather than punish their misfortune.

Not if you're not a queue jumper it wasn't, saw one moron in front of me in a great big black Ford Ranger (I think) almost get into a road rage incident as he barged his way into the queue instead of joining the back... he must have a very small penis

Well it won’t be Aaron Summers

Like all speedway regs. Clear as mud and ineffective

Newcastle’s top3 could also be no1’s, but in the national league !!

I don't mind admitting I have a stretched Hummer

James Timy Te-Kerehi Herini-Moore.

Interesting thought process... I drive a Citroen 2CV...

What do you mean when. ?? I'm expecting Ablitt to be at Poole for the season.

Hope the chipped the concrete away or they are wasting their time.Could always places bollards on track to keep riders off it though.!

Kurtz would most likely of been beaten twice by MPT but for the extra grip MPT got in ht6 and then Kurtz lifting and veering right causing MPT to back off his speed in ht15 You seem to have a beef about Peterborough as most of your posts are just having a dig at them and there age,

Has Atkins got aNDL Team place.? Don’t think Champoinship Clubs will be queuing up for him with that attitude.

3-4 K i would expect( don’t forget the GP ticket holders are admitted free. point 4 and 5 is just plainly ridiculous. Things have changed for the better. Opportunities have grown with the Polish Extraleague U 24 league. Our youngsters are gaining more experience in the FIM Europe events which we were never really interested in- but it takes time and the results will be seen in the future.

How could anyone scrape the shale to make that "groove" without being noticed? The ridge on either side of it is concrete that has been pushed out when the kerb was laid into the wet concrete.

Updates about Leon and Ty are on the BSPA website not on Berwick's for some reason.

Adam Ellis may come in handy

It is,but that’s Speedway for you.Just enjoy the racing the results are meaningless.

It will be great to see the Cubs back in action after what seems like an eternity. I'm expecting some good close racing but can't see anything but a Cubs win when spearheaded by the twins. Furthermore, with the promotion now offering all season ticket holders free admission, there should be a good loyal group of supporters cheering the team on. What a great gesture on the part of the promotion to offer this troughout the Cubs season!

Hats off to Harris Wright and Nicholls, superb action in heats 13 and 15. Great meeting with good action and the odd couple of controversial refereeing decisions. Track was superb with several lines and gates much more even.

It’s really a World Team Cup Final in disguise.Most of the Worlds best are there,good prize money on offer.Just surprise the Brits see Harris as the future and have Brennan at reserve.

Result as expected. Track very good but riders not wanting to go out wide when it looked ok to. Eventually they did and found it was good to blast around. Smooth, plenty of dirt and no dust at all. Lawson off colour. Not wanting to do anything in one heat and sat at the back. Not like him at all. Worrall superb. King good. Ben Cook good, Zac less so tonight. Kemp hit and cold. So hesitant in one heat, then blast around the opposition in his next. A confidence issue? Ablitt battled. For Newcastle Howarth was good value but Starke was woeful all night. Think he might have blown his best engine. Rest were hot and cold but Wright did ok. Complin battled all night and had the race of the night with Zac Cook. The meeting lacked tension due to the result never being in doubt. Tougher tests ahead.

There was no cost cutting or papering over the cracks RD. A decision was made to give more racing lines, and try to improve the racing, and that quick fix has lasted over 20 years till shale has been spared later.

Got to make up for Missing Berwick on Sat.Its hard to make it pay in Speedway

Cardiff is the perfect example. Just leave the track alone !!!!

Now this surely is one of those instances where the meeting shouldn't be ran or made into a "challenge".. Does the sport no favours constantly having such "made up" teams.. If you win, it's not really your team, and if you lose, it's not really your team.. Meaning you wont be too happy nor will you be too disappointed, depending on the result.. . Team Sports shouldn't ever as a result of their operating model remove that emotional attachment the fans need.. Not to mention the possible impact to attendance with the No1 crowd puller missing in Bomber.. There must be other Saturday nights when this could have been ran surely? Getting the fans to believe in the "product" is a key issue for UK Speedway to overcome... Constantly churning out such situations doesnt help it achieve that sadly... A shame, as what can be such a great spectacle deserves a much better infrastructure built around it...

That went well then....

Damn you! I actually put "Justin Elkins E/F" earlier, then removed it...

Don't think it is Scott Mitchell this week. He has got darts match!! What he said on the Piratecast live YT video last week when he was interviewed.

I wouldn’t go that far, but I do cringe when I see ‘experienced’ curators dragging the dirt from the outside to the inside. That just makes it worst, dragging loose dirt onto the inside and destroying the dirt line that is building up.

Not a speedway rider, but my mate had a guy on his butchers round Maurice Plunkett-upham

Bomber did post on Fb apologising due to a personal problem

Hopefully we won't see Birmingham using guests for auty then

Our turn will come, eventually.

Is that Matthew Wethers

This is the point I tried to make a few pages back but people weren't very happy with my comment

Attention seeking cockwomble?

You can't change your riding order once you declare your team regardless of team changes in the meantime

I collect stamps...came across this one recently - has this stamp been stamped with a Exeter Speedway or have I joined the dots wrong? any clues

He should never have been signed on a 7+ average.

Got no idea how easy it is, am frightened of the sky remote!!!,,, a think some stuff is relayed at the stadium, but there's no way of knowing how many actually listen to what is said and comprehend it. Possibly many of them playing with tha phones on social media at the time, already, yesterday, sick?

65-25!! Only thing i can see as a positive for Newcastle is there used to a rubbish track so Poole’s shouldn't catch them out

I didn't think there was a serious risk of Birmingham letting this match slip away, the only risk probably being that Laurence would have been pilloried on this forum if things had gone awry, .and in my opinion, most Birmingham supporters were happy to see James given his fourth ride, given the level of entertainment he had provided in his previous rides. Undoubtedly, James deserved more than a single point for his efforts but was unfortunate in having to meet Simon Lambert in all four of his races. I'm not suggesting that Lambert did anything wrong - he didn't - but he is a big, powerful bloke and a lightweight like James inevitably found himself shunted out of the way despite his sharp gating and his willingness to get in amongst the pack. Not that he was complaining for I noticed that he and Lambert shook hands with each other warmly in the pits at the end of the meeting. As for the rather sneering comment that he "isn't a Birmingham asset" - well it is common knowledge that he is on loan from Belle Vue, but it is likely to be 3/4 years before he is ready to move up to Premiership level and as he gets on well with the Birmingham consortium and is extremely popular with the supporters, I see no reason why he wouldn't want to remain with the Brummies until Belle Vue eventually recall him, and in any case, how many British clubs in all three divisions track a team of their own riders? Not one of them does or it seems, is ever likely to do given the way that speedway has gone over the last few years..

The bspl ignore or change the rules as they see fit….. have done for the last 50 years

1) I believe Mildenhall signed Warren before Kent were running 2) based on his scoring last year, you wouldn't have expected a score like that, he's certainly improved over the winter