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Special mention to Tom brennan 1st rising star to make the 1-5 1st rising star to get a heat 15 and if it wasn’t for a puncture on last lap probably would have won heat 15 just take a bow Tommy boy. A proper adopted ace that kid

It's still a big gamble for someone to finance a new track somewhere and gamble that the crowd would support it. I think speedway in general is dying off for all sorts of reasons. I watched the Bellevue match last night and was expecting a bigger crowd in the main stand. Not sure how many was there. Maybe that's their normal crowd or maybe being live on tv affected it. There did seem to be alot of kids there though which i suppose is a good sign

Didn't know Northumberland was part of Scotland

Good post Dean. I have watched a lot of telly Speedway this season and I reckon this meeting was the most enjoyable of the lot. But then I am a fan of Speedway RACING and we usually get that in abundance at Belle Vue. The moans about “we need a couple more riders” etc I find very boring. They should try living without their team due to closure. It is 100 times worse. In these days any fans whose track is still open should count themselves very lucky and stop bellyaching. great meeting, more of the same please. oh yes, one more plus - the complete absence of that bloody helmet cam which is and always has been a real pain in the ass

Always enjoy reading your posts as you get the point of team sports which speedway clearly doesn’t

Best chance we'll ever have on winning at Poole . Watched them at Armadale on Friday and wasn't impressed . Even if Craig is under the weather , its not huge issue . Our second strings and reserves could tip the meeting in our favour . If we can edge a win tomorrow night , top spot becomes a realistic proposition , but whether we finish first or second is pretty academic . On present form I dont fear anyone over two legs

Apparently they have Nadine Dorres lined up as Minister for Culture and Sport to present the Prizes on Finals Day. She'll no doubt recall buying a Car off Danny Ford, seeing Mark Phillips ride at Badminton Horse Trials, thank John Campbell for his Soups, and praise Mr (Damian) Bates and Mr Dickson for being in many of her saucy novels.....oh not forgetting the picture of Barry Sheene that she had in her bedroom as a teenager.

If Alex is learning from Dale Allitt, it would explain why the team are where they are now. Bottom of the league.

Before I started riding I used to be that fan that went nearly everywhere with wolves, on coaches to away meetings,it was always the same crowd singing away our songs like Brian karger has no father or we all hate the spoons to the American national anthem, great times and we loved our clubs no matter how bad they were at times, it was a tribal thing now I don’t even go to wolves that often and don’t feel an affiliation with them, I still love speedway but I can’t get behind a bunch of riders that don’t “ride “for that team, they ride for the money and anywhere they can get it,the sport has created this modern way but the riders have pushed it just like the modern bike, the riders have pushed the bike and nobody has ever held them back and we are now riding bikes cost to much for little reward and certainly no reward for the sport, British speedway has got to understand it’s a team sport on bikes not a motorbike sport and when it does understand that the fans are the lifeblood of the sport

Why does this worry a Poole fan? also, social rather than websites is the way most fans get their news is

Truly baffles me Dean.. No point having teams in existence if you dont create rivalry.. I remember fondly the early to mid nineties when BV raced against Wolves.. A few hundred away fans at every meeting.. And plenty of (good natured) abuse between both sets of fans.. Add in "Sammy" swiping "Young Joseph's" leg away as they entered turn 3 and you had uproar.. Two things I could guarantee.. One. Both promotions would have loved looking at the fixture list and seeing as many of these matches planned in as was possible.. And two? Anyone visiting for the first time, or maybe had just started going a few times, would definitely have been back the week later.. Noisy, tribal followings... It is what makes a team sport successful, and delivers growth.. UK Speedway seems to be ran like a Group of Gentlemens Clubs with those who own them quite happy to have "somewhere to go" rather than worry about ever expanding...

Got 11 in playoff final and 8+2 in the league meeting last season. I'd say that is quite good for him as took him a few seasons to get to grips with Poole. But in last few weeks going from getting maximums to scoring zero at Glasgow, goodness knows what he is going to do!

2021 - very few heats 13 & 15 (and a ride against reserves in heats 8,12 or 14) 2022 - heats 13 and 15 in every match (and no easy heats 8,12 or 14) Makes a difference

Scunthorpe have had plenty of blank Fridays, so don't know what the 2nd leg hasn't been raced yet. Perhaps Scunthorpe know they will get knocked out by Leicester & won't make the play-offs, so are wanting to hold this meeting later on to make their season last longer? I can just picture it now though, lots of blank days during the season & finals still raced at the end of October!

4-6? Probably 46 on the track land Could get 4-6 in the pits!!

Its full name is the "We need some more fixtures that we can pretend are meaningful Trophy"

Bombers other clubs are doing better than those two.

And we think it's just British Speedway that is a mess, a major international event moved 45 miles a couple of weeks before the event. Absolute shambles

I was there last night and to me there seems more than enough space to accommodate new houses and the speedway stadium.

No thanks we are just fine where we are.

The point being made was that it "doesnt look good" when you see opposition managers laughing and joking with the opposition during a meeting,.. Regardless of the standard of the manager it shouldnt happen.. Riders too often do it every night and all it can do is give anyone watching the impression that "it mustn't really matter this"... Poland keeping teams (and fans), apart gives off the right message that "this means something".... Even both teams stood together watching from the same part of the pits is something that should change.. UK Speedway definitely suffers from not having "rivalries" which stir the emotions and therefore encourages attendance.. Watching team members and managers all getting on together during a meeting wont ever engender those rivalries.. I do understand though that for riders it might be a tad confusing at any given moment who is your team mate and who is your rival given it changes so often.. As an example. Splitting them in the pits would have many wondering "can I stand and speak with Bomber tonight or not, I couldn't last night, but could the night before, and I am pretty sure I can tomorrow?"

Closer… but Paisley’s not Glasgow. Otherwise, I’m claiming Drumchapel is Bearsden and putting ma hoose up for sale!

It might be a bit crap for Peterborough fans atm but should keep going whilst you can.

Except it was actually TJ

Yep what an idiot, had it over the tapes!

Did the tapes hit the camera man there ?

Never really understood those who want speedway fixtures previewed days before on clubs websites. Meetings will be mentioned or counted down to on the socials (where most people look nowadays) but just like football, cricket or rugby why would there need to be a match preview any further out than the day before? Or team declarations until the day if need be, just like those other sports.

Dale was team boss when we came 2nd in the league in 2018 .....

Alex is a very long term King's Lynn Speedway fan and fan of speedway in general, he is one half of our main team sponsors, Minors and Brady, so a successful businessman with the attributes that go with it. When Peter Schroek lost his job I believe Alex was asked if he wanted to take on the job, obviously becoming main team sponsor he was more than interested in team fortunes, he learnt some of the ropes from Rob Lyon and Dale Allitt and is still learning I guess you could say ....

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At least it’s a couple of week… Riga was 24 hour swap to Daugavpils one year wasn’t it!! All jokes aside, it’s a bit of a shocker and glad I dodged it after almost booking like arnieg has. Zero thought for fans by the organisers.

And I believe we turned to Pickering once Ipswich outbid us for Doyle. So I've heard anyway.

Pickering's 2021 ave 7.38 (8.31) Pickering's 2022 ave 7.37 (7.89)

Don't think Craig Cook has ever been that good at Poole so not a big miss.

Last season there were actually two riders with HIGHER Premiership averages than Championship (Toft and Rowe I think)

I'll get Gary Neville on it

Not the Turbo Twins... more The Tortoise Triplets I can't think they'd be sacrificing earnings this year in the hope of a lower average for next year There was some fantastic Speedway racing last night and right from heat 1 this week. It's sad to watch Hans Andersen riding like he is at the moment, he's been a great servant to British Speedway and I hope he rides himself out of it, when his bike gave up the ghost even Mrs Panther threw her (his) hands up in the air shaking her (his) head... although it didn't quite wipe the smile off her (his) face . Scott Nicholls for me is not such a surprise, I would say his year last year around the showground was a freakishly good one as he's never really been that competitive around the bigger tracks before.

yes and bsn got hayley bromley .i have said before eurosport just playing at it

All the best people come from there / here. So I've been told.

i reckon jason edwards deserved heat 15 instead of lawson .

To be fair the racing Henka and Mark Loram provided in the early nineties was bloody good, perhaps not NSS standard but much, much better than the carp at Lynn nowadays. Put proper shale on it and it could be very good again. A bit if perspective tonight, as Rob says Sheffield weren't much better last week and we have massively missed Niels since he disappeared, would have been much closer tonight with him present. But the Kildermand/Puk thing has been a cock up and from looking a good side in the cup matches we look a poor one now. Kerr and Jorgensen need to be moved on for next season, no ifs or buts. All a bit depressing really. A shame after a good start to the season.

Obviously never watched speedway at Lynn in 70s 80s and 90s

Never

You’d think kings lynn were 10 pts clear at the top of the league the way their riders / management are laughing and joking with the bv riders, haha

Lawson throwing his dummy out like Holder last week giving fans the finger. Not shown on TV.

They never seem to water enough at Wimborne Road

They could of course name Coles as number 8 and allow him to take 3 of the RR rides and let the other go to the rider with the average above Dan.

Knowing what I do now Steve you are probably correct... it's a massive undertaking to set up a new venue and it needs a person or persons to dedicate hours of time to the undertaking... Things would have had to rumble on at Brough which isn't ideal and the commitment needed to move to a new track in either time or money is unbelievable... if you commit full time to the project you can save cash but will struggle to run a business or hold down a job... or you can go the other way and throw cash at it which will save you the time element but you are paying for the service provision... It's one hell of a juggling act to get the balance right... so one or more of three types of people required... someone who has a business making money and they can park that and have someone else run it to put 80 hours a week into building a new track and running a Speedway venture for little or no return... someone with mega bucks who is a fan of the sport who is prepared to put something like 500k in up front and happy to lose around 100k a year thereafter... or something like the Worky effort with one man's vision spending some cash putting in all the spare hours and relying on some good will and support from a network of friends... Because the returns from the sport are limited unless things change it's going to be a big ask and risk to get someone to come in for the club now... IMHO... Regards THJ

perhaps it's as well as the summer trophy as there doesn't seem to be any Speedway between the Beginning of August until the end of October... will her maj be presenting the trophy?

I used the service for the first time last night. I'm unable to watch live Speedway in the week due to work commitments and all the weekend tracks are the other end of the country. I don't get custody of the remote control until the wife has gone to bed so I bought the Edinburgh v Poole match to watch on catch up as I hadn't looked up the result. It all worked a treat for me. I guess all the live stream glitches are sorted for on demand and I thought the whole production was decent for what cost little more than a pint at the pub. No problem with Chromecast either which I've had with some of the club streams so able to watch on TV. Same again for Berwick tonight I think. Will retire to my summer house with a pack of Stella, what's not to like? (don't mention the score!)