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Flint (6.72) is higher than Brennan (6.62). (Batchelor at 6.65 just scrapes in) So assuming Basso is unavailable there is simply no reason to select a second Glasgow rider.

Not important enough for BSPA site, disgraceful.

It’s speedway your talking about,extremely!!!!

I bet none of them are season ticket holders.

Always liked the aggregate Bonus Point system...nice and simple and easy to establish league table potential placing.

Sad news - a little before my time but any fan with an eye on the history of the sport will recognise him as a main stay of the 'old guard' RIP

Halifax Dukes Captain Eric Boothroyd has passed away in hospital after a heart attack. Ninety five years old a great rider and team captain for the Dukes. R.I.P Eric

Sam started well but as a previous post suggest flagged a bit in his last 2 rides. A courageous performance from the captain on a heavy track. Paco best rider tonight. When he didn’t come round after his last race and headed to pits I thought he was a certainty for heat 15. Poor management IMO. Castagna merited heat 15. Only dropped a point, paid 11. Manager should have put him in last heat.

Big big balls from Michelsen. Pleased for him great riding.

Good start to the meeting....

Believe Pirates may feature on ITV Meridian South tonight in their 6.00 pm news programme.

To be fair to them.. They will need to be factoring in Bomber's availability... As soon as he informs them of his schedule they will release dates... Three teams to represent... And as an added bonus he will be able to jump across the podium to get three medals as they get presented...

Well that won't be the final line-up will it? Due to absences, injuries, other commitments or unavailability etc!!

Is that apart from DSE increasing the prize money considerably. They have given us continual individual pit shots of riders picking their nose and spitting

I would be surprised if Bickley is used in our Championship team, I think that maybe the relationship between club and rider has become strained of late.

The No Development League is now such a poor product, if attendance is not mandatory at any meeting it needs a name change as none of the N,D or L apply now really.

Sad news,was a great Team man and rider in his day.Lucky enough to have seen him ride in the 60’s. RIP. Eric.

A huge figure in the history of Halifax Speedway. RIP Eric.

The questions raised there are is the NDL a professional league? The governing body certainly doesn't think so. The disparity between riders will always be there when teams can be built using riders who double up and are riding 2-3 times a week vs riders who ride twice a month. The only way the standard will get raised now is for more double downers to drop back in from the CL, the journeymen have been pushed out/drifted away already. The youth setup is producing a few riders each year but not many and certainly not enough to fill the reserve slots each season. Most teams started the season tracking at least one 3.00 rider with full seasons experience under their belts. The NDL can survive if its viewed as a long game for developing riders (with the quick rising exceptions shooting through to higher leagues). You can't build teams across any league using 10 pointers and 3 pointers and not expect to see some strung out races. If you want a "closer" product then its cap the averages of the riders allowed in, if you want the NDL to be progression keep allowing the double uppers (but accept the costs). Unfortunately the league as a whole is trying to be too many things and if it carries on is in danger of no longer existing. A glimpse of the future for the NDL is to look at the CL, littered with fading stars earning pay days for the final few years, when the mass retirements come the league will be in tatters, if the trickle of fading stars keep dropping back down to NDL it will become the same.

started ok looked like he was flagging towards the end track was heavy so would be a strain on his shoulder maybe should have given ht 15 to paco he was well on the pace all night

ht 1 great race.

They are not the GSAs. You need to look at Issue 20 on the 2022 Declarations section. Lisa-Collette is correct.

Just browsed through and cant help but laugh, such idiots who cant see what happened. Clowns the lot of them lee complin too thanking rob lol he was garbage too. Oh he rides the oUtside bend, hahaha when? 10 years ago i miss watching newcastle and still annoyed as hell, probably could post my full feeling but ill be banned from the one place where folk speak the truth about the fall of the club!!

Just looked at averages & Steve top in July & August. Etheridge is above Flint.

It might be based on July averages & not August.

14.15 at Gdansk Airport won't get you to Torun until 18.45 by train, so hopefully the bus is a better option. In previous years the tram to the stadium has been free after 15.00 if you have a speedway ticket so worth checking that applies this year too.

From a couple of laps? Deserves to be broken in that case

Don't tell me Lawson's track record has been broken already...

Flix Bus (formerly Polskibus) do a direct bus from Gdansk to Torun several times a day, from about a fiver each way. Sometimes quicker than the train, as on some trains you have to change at Bydgoszcz.

Never quite sure what Bears team will turn up in these matches - can be quite inconsistent away from home. Will watch on the excellent stream that Edinburgh always provide and hope the Bears can keep it close.

Just for info Adam Ellis has had to withdraw from Middlo's testimonial on 31st August!!

For those that may have missed it or couldn't hear it, Matt Ford's centregreen interview - or most of it anyway - was featured on Thursday's BBC South Today sports update at around 18.50. Report and photos appeared in Thursday's and today's (Friday) local Echo.

Wembley also has good transport links, and there's quite a few hotels, restaurants and bars on-site now, as well as several shopping malls nearby. I admittedly haven't been for about 3 years, but the Olympic Park didn't have a lot in it from memory. And a fair bit of it was already looking unkempt and somewhat rundown. Erm, I was talking about Wembley. However, if a GP was to be held in London it wouldn't be at Wembley and far more likely to be in the Olympic Stadium.

If the team needed him to win his last ride he would do.

And to be honest I'd prefer to see Tom rather than Cook or Batchelor.

You sound a bit silly there, Basso is injured, Ulrich is injured, and Brennan has a lower average than Flint and Batch, as already stated. And as much as I love to bash Poole, what have they got to do with it, they don’t decide who’s in it

The whippet tickling was cancelled too. Lovely morning in Sheffield, not a cloud in the sky. Onwards to look at the rain in Glasgow now. Hopefully a suitable rearranged date is found, regardless of the rights and wrongs of which riders are chosen, the concept behind the tournament seems sound enough.

Three teams in each leg. For example: The heats go Poole v Glasgow, Poole v Leicester, Glasgow v Leicester, and so on….

I’ve said it before but track apart I find belle vue NSS very underwhelming but it is one of the best things to happen to British speedway in the last 20 years, I’ve only been there as a fan twice since it opened as it doesn’t make me want to go there, I’ve been there about 6 times working and on 2 of those occasions I finished the job and went home instead of staying for the meeting, I just find the place has no soul, the racing is great there but for me it must have that something and I don’t think it does, would I go to a GP there ? No I don’t think so, I didn’t go to the SON meetings there and I usually go to that sort of meeting, I preferred the dog track next door tbh but maybe that is because I used to enjoy the belle vue v wolves meetings there and later on I loved riding it but that’s rose tinted glasses I suppose, this is the first year I didn’t go to cardiff and although I kind of missed the day meeting friends I’m so glad I didn’t pay to watch that, it was awful and watching on tv I was bored, great win for Dan bewley but I don’t think even he realises that his win has probably saved Cardiff’s life as a speedway venue because up to that moment the end was nigh, Phil morris was in Birmingham yesterday , was he checking out a new venue ?

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Was a point when it was an honour to get a NL team place and by signing on and doung so the rider agreed to all the fixtures. Re-arranged meetings and dispensation for riders under 18 and still in education are all fair game but those who don't really fancy the travel/don't like x track are dragging the sport down further.

I blame Theresa May

No point arguing with these arrogant root vegetables. Poole who know everything had free kids and 10 quid to attract 2000 last night. They usually have 1500 for 18 quid. So they lost a few grand but according to their owner things are desperate in terms of speedway having the stadium after end of this season according to some or next according to others. Be better if they focused on their own problems like finding some land pdq than telling everyone else what to do. Joe Mc like you said worked his nuts off, as has Brian Buck and others.. Need no lessons from Poole. Maybe when they close Brian can help them get a new track.

Or the weather or brexit or climate change, or maybe the war.

Well done Poole for getting the meeting on, goes to show what can be done if you really try. Another very professional performance from the BSN crew, getting the views from the ref on the night was something different.

In most cases I'd suggest it's a "waste" of a heat leaders extra ride winning heat 8. For Redcar to have gained a point they'd have been looking for Wright to beat a heat leader in his extra ride & someone like Edwards or Andersen to win the "easier" heat 8. As it turned out Redcar were well beaten & their second strings were off form, so Wright's win in heat 8 probably saved them a heavier defeat!

Imagine recovery from a knock in 6 days who would’ve thought.

Every rider is given a list of banned drugs when they are issued with their licences and few cannot be aware of what is and is not permitted. Very few prescription drugs are banned, only those that are believed to affect performance, often through making riders fearless or indeed reckless. I very much doubt that there are many riders “who in extreme pain and under pressure to ride have taken a prescription drug” that would be in breach of the rules. Indeed, I recall Shane Parker back in 2005 riding with a recently broken collar bone saying he was unwilling to take any pain killers for fear of breaching the anti-doping rules. Drug testing at UK speedway meetings is carried out regularly and independently and it is testimony to the “clean” nature of the sport, possibly fuelled by a fear of being banned, that few are caught. I would expect that the same systems operate in other countries which have caught very few over the years either. Your comment that “Whatever the outcome the Sport needs MORE tests and more education and not just gloat that they have caught one and then sit back and do naff all for another 3-4 years.” is, in my view, very wide of what happens. Riders ARE educated and tests are already frequent. I have no inside knowledge about the current case but am aware that there are clear procedures for the hearing that will take place and these are laid down in section 018.5 of the 2022 SCB Regulations. Until that takes place and a decision made, it would be pointless to speculate further.

Yep, Kvechy was robbed