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Holding the riders Championship on a Wednesday night at Poole is just plain ridiculous.

What is the point of number 8 if you aren't prepared to use him to replace your number 7. Isn't that the whole point of the scheme?

trouble is skids thats a very insular view we really need to look at the bigger picture,speedways in a sorry state and cant carry on like this.(if i could offer another insular view i would say that many local businesses pubs,hotels,restaurants etc would have benefited from a weekend meeting and they wont now)

If he takes up golf will end up at Ipswich

Jason Edwards signed as the injury replacement RS makes debut on Thursday v Sheffield

The attraction of Sweden is more money (if you get paid) but more importantly much reduced costs. You do Sweden using your Polish equipment and staff. Fewer meetings means it can be done on one day with a shorter season. At the moment Air travel is cheaper than van travel, so Sweden is becoming more expensive to do, but still cheaper than a UK set up. I understand people being cheesed off, but they are aiming their frustration at the wrong people. We moan like hell about guests and RR over here. The Poles are trying to avoid the same, by minimising risks of riders getting injured elsewhere, not eliminating, but minimising. They are saying you should only need one other job (in their eyes, your home or base nation) if you ride here. Their ruling stops no rider from riding the UK. EVERY single rider in Poland COULD ride the UK if they wanted to. Dan Bewley wasn't stopped riding in the UK by the PZM, he was stopped because he chose to ride in Sweden instead. I get it, people want someone to blame, but they need to look closer to home

Because you would lose even more riders and create an even bigger problem with rider shortages. You would lose I expect Fricke, Zagar, Holder, Musielak, Doyle, Riss, Masters, Pickering, Kurtz, Ellis, Morris, Becker, Bloedorn etc. That’s a lot of riders to replace all of a sudden plus the cut off to bring in new or returning riders too.

There's more than a few tracks got 18 holes and their share of sand

It will be a usual sized crowd then. Missed a massive trick here. And people wonder why speedway is in decline. Not many supporters going to travel with work the next day and kids who are the next generation of income for teams still at school. This main men want to wake up and smell the coffee. Clueless

Certain events in many sports have a spiritual home, in Speedways case the home of the PLRC is Sheffield. Enjoyed some great Sunday afternoons/ evenings back in the day there watching Anders and Wato. Always a huge crowd and great atmosphere. They were the days. When Stoney was Mr Workington, Wilson for Sheffield, Carr for Edinburgh, Pickering for Stoke , Wato for Newport, Coles for Exeter, Lanham for Arena, Thorp for Hull etc…. When clubs had proper, loyal , long term number ones. So sad to see how low the sport in the UK has fallen.

Line-Up has been revealed 1 Ed Kennett 2 Bradley Wilson Dean 3 Adam Ellis 4 Danny King 5 Richard Lawson 6 Ben Cook 7 Zach Cook 8 Drew Kemp 9 Nathan Ablitt 10 Chris Harris (of course) 11 Chris Holder (if he's in the pits) 12 Jack Holder (if he's with Chris) 13 Steve Worrall 14 Richie Worrall (if he can come down with this brother) 15 R/R 16 Shovlar

I agree, it's not a great way for Kings Lynn to do things, and however good it feels for Jake now, venting your opinion on social media, it only alienates those potential future employers, looks unprofessional, and drags you down to their level. Riders get treated like this all the time. Doesn't make it right, and I don't condone it, but venting publicly never improves the situation.

Wednesday night at Poole, with a live stream available for the other five thousand who would have gone if it were on a Saturday ...

Hi guys, we can confirm once you have purchased a stream, that stream is available on VOD ongoing. So any stream that you have already purchased this season you can still go back an enjoy again.

If it's not on should've gone back to old format. Split league into 2 x 4TTs and 1 3TT. Race at each team's home track, 3 winners and best runner up go to final then same again. Used to love the old 4s meetings, great weekend Edinburgh Fri, Berwick sat, Glasgow and Newcastle on the Sunday

Was always a great day out at Peterborough. Although my team were never very competitive and never made the final i always enjoyed some great racing.

The sport cannot be taken seriously in GB in its present state.But as usual in the Ivory Towers everything is rosy.

It could change But needs 5 years of constant supply from the NDL into the championship but it's far too strong, for the good of the sport it needs to weaken to become a platform where riders can progress But then fans will say they dont want a watered down product even if it becomes £10/12 to get in as a result, meaning long term their beloved club dies

I think we all know that her getting a wildcard was a box ticking exercise.

Apart from 2017 when it was held at Glasgow on a Saturday night Riders Championship has always been on a Sunday at Sheffield for many years. Why it is not there this season god knows

I agree with you regarding what a number 8 should be used for but if what he has said himself on Facebook is true and he’s gone too the effort of sorting everything out at his own cost too turn out for Lynn and he’s found out through social media he isn’t riding then that’s terrible, can’t and shouldn’t be treating a young rider like that

Shocking that this is now mid-week and if I'm not mistaken won't those north of the border be out of school holidays by then? To be fair the fact that it's not a neutral track or in the midlands to allow supporters a chance to get to this is a joke, but then what's new with this sport...

I think he was at reserve all year and didn't pull up any trees

I agree re the gardening and other things that go on... The UK just needs to do what the Poles do.. Two minutes is on, and you had better be ready to start in two minutes.. Noticable too over there that when using RR or putting in a TAC sub which means "two on the run" for a rider, there is seldom extra time added like you hear from the track announcers over here... The two mins is on, and you had better be ready to start in two minutes... This means they run meetings in "sections", so have several natural breaks for relaying the track and plenty of time to go to the toilets, bars etc... The start marshall is also linked to the ref too so the riders all start in line and not going off at all angles, and no one can pull back from the tapes when the start marshall moves away like happens over here.. Simple, structured, and organised..

Right up north?! Manchester isn’t right up north… Newcastle northwards is right up north! you say holding it at a neutral venue wouldn’t attract many locals… there was never a problem with crowds when Peterborough have held 4TT’s at their track… Poole will have mainly locals filling up their stadium but it’s still a poor choice when you consider the fans from the real north… Edinburgh, Berwick, Glasgow, Redcar etc… teams that have fans that normally come out in good amounts for the tournaments!

What red blooded male doesn’t ! Oops..just checked the Japanese spelling…move on.

I think both Leagues would collapse if Bomber got injured.

Ben is one of the best and most exciting riders on show in both our leagues.

All worked out well in the end. Hans heat 15?

As soon as walked in and saw track knew it would be poor tonight. Any decent track guy knows you make inside slicker as it’s the shortest way round and make outside grippier. Not Wolves though the inside was so ripped up and heavily watered meaning 4 riders chasing a 1m strip of track and no one even close to making a pass in 7 heats.

So August 24th. Loads of holidaymakers in Dorset, local schools still on hols. A huge crowd in attendance,

I would think being the 24th August, the kids will still be on holiday

Kurtz ill tonight ?? they have Elis and Swidnicki as well in the squad.

So the current state of British Speedway... British Final on a Monday night, CLRC on a Wednesday night, No Fours, No PLRC, No Test Matches, No point

Let's see if Kurtz rides in Sweden tomorrow

Was usually towards end of season, assuming after end of polish regular season less fixture clashes.

If everything Jake has stated is true. Usually there's rider side, club side and somewhere in the middle is the truth. For me its just another outburst from an ungrateful brat who thinks speedway owes him something. There is a reason why a talented brit on a low average in each of the leagues didn't have a full place in any of them.

Prob cos of Poland it's not on a Saturday anymore!

We could have a competition to design his race jacket with all the clubs logos on it

The point is Poland have indeed stopped some riders from riding in all the leagues they want.They aren't the reason it has declined in this country as Bagpuss said earlier.But to stop someone from riding in as many leagues as they want is wrong imo.If Poland paid you for your days off then fair enough.But surely if it doesn't interfere with their Polish race nights what's the problem with them racing wherever.

Might as well rebrand it the dorsetnapolis or something and be done with it

That'll bring the northern supporters down to approximately.... 0

Car park is open best to get the car in there.

Try Kyle Howarth if available.

I thought we'd covered this before...

Hmm, rider replacement is all well and good until someone else picks up an injury during the meeting. So if they are going down that route they should have the no8 there imo.

Welcome to speedway.

Would take any speedway. My children are 12 + 16 this is the first speedway season (pandemic apart) they have not been to a speedway meeting. Although they are looking forward to Cardiff SGP and the British Final should tickets ever become available. As for Eastbourne let's hope they kind find some significant backing.

Bob Humphreys training track is a vivid memory the old house used as a changing room (use at your own risk). I remember one weekend getting stuck in there as there was a concert on at the bowl & the police wouldn't let us out so we were allowed backstage to watch U2

I think it was an away match at Swindon. Douglas Underwood plus six guests in the mid 70s.