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Enjoyed that tonight... Some cracking racing from both teams.. No guests either... (Not sure if that is allowed in the regulations though).. Connor Mountain and Tom Brennan both deserved more for their efforts, but great to see young British lads mixing it with GP stars.. Plenty of sponsors on the centre green too, and that ball game thingy is good to keep the kids involved, so the Aces look like they are giving something a go off track too... Biggest crowd of the year at the NSS for the Premiership? Maybe 1800/1900? No guests, decent crowd, full on cracking racing from both sets of riders, regardless of the scoreline, interaction with the fans, and all done an dusted by 915pm... When done this well, what's not to like about British Speedway? It shows it can be done...

So Clegg is too old at 25 but Aussie Keleher at 29 is fine?

A young Dane would have a 5.00 average, so you would need to replace at least two riders in order to fit him in, and revert to the original Team Building limit.

Max Clegg to Leicester. Riding at reserve to, great move for him.

Its another in a long list of reasons why the sport isnt taken seriously anymore and why the crowds are so embarrassingly low. The new generation of riders just don't give a toss about the fans , simple as that.

The riders have been doing as they please for years.It’s just a regular job ,ride as many times a week as possible.Probably have to look at their body colour to remind them who they are riding for on the night.

Correct Panthers wouldn't have won without that masterstroke, clever move.

So we can use Basso in 14. Lyon is the best manager in the league so he knows what he's doing.

It is in the programme in Rob's notes, diagnosed bowel cancer a month ago. Best wishes to Dave & his family with a speedy recovery.

Think he was on a better racetrack

Another view...

Even with a fit Masters, Monarchs may not have got a point!

No, no problems with Sam. He is a legend up here and much loved. I’m sure ice and Ibuprofen did the job. He has not hidden his distaste for Scunny. Glad to see he will be back on form with Josh for Friday when your mob come to Armadale. Should be some fine tussles with him and the good twin!

Reliably informed that the Edinburgh team manager saw Sam's foot injury before the meeting @ Scunny, & it was badly swollen. Sam is very loyal to Edinburgh and found it too painful to continue during his second ride. Despite the comments by the would be "medical experts" on here, it's not unknown for the recovery process to improve sufficiently 48 hours after the injury occurred in Poland, to be able to resume racing. It also should be noted that r/r would have been the only option otherwise for Wolves tonight.

It was announced at the Scunny v Edinburgh match that Dave will miss the rest of the season due to going into hospital. . Here’s wishing him a speedy recovery from whatever the medical problem is he suffering with

Correct, Sam wouldn’t of pulled out yesterday If it wasn’t bad. Has to much respect for the club to do that.

That Miss Understanding has always been a trouble maker.

Just for interest and for our Glasgow friends with a good memory the chap standing in field on the second bend was Jackson Irving... I offered to hold the dogs while he had a spin but he was slightly worse for wear...(and politely declined) https://blantyreproject.com/2019/03/1986-blantyre-speedway/#:~:text=paulveverka-,3,-years ago Regards THJ

Leicester building a collection of Maxes Max 1 - Clegg Max 2 - Perry Max 3 - James Who will be next? Hope Max 1 is better at keeping his front wheel on the track than he was back in 2014

It`s not total madness if you are Poland paying big bucks expecting the riders to perform and not be exhausted by riding every night all over Europe. Sweden and Denmark both run squads so it should be possible to come up with riding number of nights per week instead of number of other league`s.

He is 25 not 35 ???…. Only 2 years older than Dan Bewley !!

I suspect it was the best option unless you know otherwise.

Where did you get that from? The BYC wasn't covered, since the Scunny stream is done by a young and enthusiastic group of lads, some of which had college, etc, to go to today and it takes significant time for them to pack up the gear.

Great attitude. To take it a step further, Leicester won at Mildenhall in the league a couple of weeks ago. Using your logic, is there any point Mildenhall turning up for the final? Or just give the trophy to Leicester now? Wouldn't that be the most sensible option?

One of the best refs to work with

Ooops.was trying to reply to H.Gould about ref’s looking at video.

Even with Masters,, this is one Ipswich should be winning with a Rider like Riss at reserve. Has to be a 4 pointer.

I think speedway will only survive in the U.K. if we can build new tracks. They will be out of the way and capable of accommodating the modern speedway bike that is now too fast for some of our historical tracks. Sadly the south of England is now a waste land to the sport with land values encouraging more developers into building more and more housing.

Most interesting to me was the start, where the riders were held a couple of yards (don’t recall the exact measurements) and when the green light (or whatever) came on, they moved to the tapes which immediately rose. No gardening, no rolling. Ah, the good old days. Will we ever learn from them?

Any forumlanders out there who attended this meeting. Living in Canada I just had to go.. A reasonable crowd , but there was absolutely no publicity-nothing in the L.A. papers for example. Les Collins had the meeting of his life- but of course the main thing was the Kenny Carter-Bruce Penhall clash. On balance I have to go with the refs decision to exclude Carter-great meeting though. I met quite a few British fans -for some it was the holiday of a lifetime. Also met Dave Jessup at Disneyland-seemed like everybody had a wonderful time.

A bit like Schroedinger's Cat, then

Maybe cos Wolves would have had to do r/r anyway, so if Sam struggled with his injury and had to pull out then would have reverted back to IRR. So wouldn't have really lost out. Bit like Peterborough ended up doing with MPT.

If he wants to sit Friday out and rest his ankle, I definitely don't have a problem with it!

Worth it it to highlight the cockwomble

Newcastle were getting 250, that’s shocking.

You tell him John. I'd prefer Gold. Ha ha.

Come on Batch,,, time to prove your worth in 14,,,,

No some pretty good racing tonight.

Jacko rode for the Tigers at Shawfield. Opening night in 1988 he was at reserve with the legend Shane Bowes.

Cups are silver in colour........

Yeah definitely echoed here a real man with a passion for speedway

You can't afford to carry anyone in either leg of the play offs.

From 4 qualiefiers (64) to straight seeded final in about 15 years.

Max Headroom...

Not forgetting big Leggy, I,m sure Steve said on a recent podcast question best team mate..” Jacko Irving”.

Max I Mum!

Max Holder!

It's a really good shout. Loads of relatively new investment in the area with the new Gateshead College, Sage and Baltic plus all the quayside apartments and OU buildings. Then you have the new Arena under construction and perhaps a new Metro/Local Rail station if the Leamside expansion gets the go ahead. Access isn't too bad from Felling By-pass or via the quayside and there's plenty of car parks close by or more unused land which could be used for parking. I'm not really sure why the area hasn't been used for housing or who it's owned by. Lots of residential investment on the other side of the by-pass. I can see Gateshead Council being behind something sports related in this area, it's close to the International Stadium and sports academy, but as has been pointed out before the cost would be prohibitive. In lieu of a millionaire without a clue you'd need to attract grant funding. Not easy. Sport England is an obvious starting point but they tend to focus on Olympic sports. Speedway isn't but BMX & Skateboarding are. If you can pitch the facility as a multi sports training facility you might get somewhere. That's a lot of contacts to make and manage and even then you'll not get 100% funding. Gateshead FC tried to do something similar with NHS funding thwarted by the credit crunch in 2008 I believe. There's also a decent plot of disused land at the north end of the Team Valley Trading Estate next to the A1 Lobley Hill junction, currently used for the occasional fair. Maybe too close to Festival Park housing. Not impossible to pull off but definitely a long term project for someone.

We cannot raise the importance of the British Final back to the days when it was a step on the road to the one off World Final, but at least the prize for winning the National Championship can have some real significance. The chance to step out in front of the biggest of crowds at the British GP and hopefully nick a few points is surely a big incentive. I love seeing the British Final winner at Cardiff.

Ambiguous at best.