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The misses said to me, "You don't seem to visit many tracks these days?" It reminded me that 50 years ago I averaged over 5 meetings a week over the whole season and my team had a home meeting every week! 50 years ago we had the following options for the first Saturday in September : D1: Belle Vue v Poole Cradley v Exeter King's Lynn v Leicester Swindon v Glasgow Halifax v Coventry D2: Berwick v Workington Canterbury v Hull Rayleigh v Scunthorpe. For today I have NDL: Leicester v Kent. I commend the Promoters on their inability to delight me and want my money at the weekend.

For LEAGUE racing what happens inside the fence is a bonus but not the most important, the most important is what happens outside the safety fence, the fan experience, how that fans feels, if that fan supports their team and there is a bond with that team and they are with other like minded fans (the more the better)creating an atmosphere and their team hopefully wins with maybe some controversy thrown in even if the racing was crap the fan experience will be a good one and make that fan want to go back, this is basically what happens in any team sport even football, add in value for money and you’re on a winner, we all want great racing but great racing infront of a few fans with no atmosphere will be a negative fan experience, it’s the opposite for a TV audience as tv can’t capture atmosphere so relies on good racing , just think back when you went to away matches back in the day on a coach or with your teams fans and you watched a dull meeting with no passing and your team got battered but the 50 or so of you supported your team and had a blast creating an atmosphere, it was a good fan experience, it didn’t matter what happened inside the fence

It is past the cut off date for play off positions but the league meeting MUST take place or fines will be issued.

That’s just playing a game, I didn’t play, I developed it in full and ran it for the benefit of others, and for 90% of its lifetime it was free to play, despite countless hours it took to run it, have you ever done anything that benefits speedway fans across the globe off your own back for free?

Nice edit you clown, clearly you know I’m right

Enjoyed our trip to Redcar again but making a habit of coming off second best. We blew the first leg with only a 4 point lead but once Super Sam blew his best engine while leading heat 5, we were in trouble. Way too many 0 scores and not even a ht 14 from Paco Superb from Josh as usual Congrats to Redcar and we’ll meet again next weekend

Polish type then? Big, flat and slick? If so most of our lads just don't ride enough on that type of circuit, which would probably have been Wozniak and Kubera's argument at Glasgow the other week. Very difficult to rock up somewhere alien and be competitive.

The crowd levels are dropping though.The meetings are Professional run,but Temporary track prep is not consistent.40000 to 20000 tells me that all is not well with Cardiff and this years debacle will certainly not inspire fans to attend next year.

Don't think they are, it's been bounced for Lions v Poole.

We're Poole and we do what we want. Lol

Poole finished above Plymouth, so why shouldn't they hold the 2nd leg , if this had been any other team at Plymouth on Tuesday nothing would be said, because it's Poole the forum goes in to melt down, jealously raises it head again

A 2022 average of above 5 isn't too bad is it? Put 1 and a half points on his starting average... he'd be knocking on the door of being a heat leader at some clubs!

Trees should work for the BSPL as their PR officer can put a positive spin on anything.

Well he was at Brum on Wednesday where he outscored Dan, Kemp, Edwards, Bailey in the under 21s

There shouldn't be any owners or promoters,independent is the only way forward.

Indeed... All the promoters need now is to find 20,000 others of a like mind and they have cracked it... Might be somewhat of a "challenge" though....

Plymouth shouldn't have needed the BSPL to point out why that is the right thing to do....

You really need to grow up and stop playing games, if you want to actually say what you are alluding to then do it otherwise keep quiet.

Oh here we go. The Forum Trolls / Bullies now turn their attention to Glasgow and more specifically one of the best british riders of his generation with innuendo and queries about why he is not riding. The "form / mantra" of these trolls is clear. That's why people as "why are Poole so hated" For the easily provable record Craig Cook has suffered a series of high speed crashes in recent months, has probably come back too soon from some of them and in almost all cases has been an innocent victim. Its bad enough at the comments made and some of the inferences, winks and nods. When the guy also has well documented and well know mental health issues about which he has been very honest, it really does make you realise how desperately sad these trolls are. People in glass houses really should not throw pebbles and stones, you never know a bloody great boulder may land on you at any time! Behave! Leave the guy alone. He's beaten up physically and taking time out to recover, hopefully to smash the daylights out of Poole where it matters on the track with big points.

I hope he is. Because I'd have him back at Leiccester in a heartbeat.

Shows where speedway ranks in Entertainment value.

Yes he won`t be.

The podcast is well worth a listen Dan comes across very well and has high praise for the new Northside track and what Steve Lawson has done to help him get to where he is now, IMO Dan is a future world champion

The main issues with any decision is that the Referee is often in the same position within the circuit, that being at the start line so they will always get the same view ie looking at the rear of the riders entering turn 1 & the front exiting turn 4. The Referee is at a disadvantage when any incident happens on the far side of the track as the inside rider blocks the view of the outer riders. Sometimes TV cameras are on hand with multiple views & then a more involved view can be considered. But lets put this in a match with no TV just the local cameraman with a single camera, on this occasion it would not be worth looking at the playback. In short for any move towards changing the current situation from the single match Referee to anything else will involve a lot of money & manpower. So as I suggested before you might not like one decision but the next might just favour your team.

As we know... A great meeting in a two thirds empty stadium soon gets forgotten.. An average one in a full stadium, full of noise and emotion due to something truly worth winning being on the line will live long in the memory... Hence, sadly even great Speedway doesn't generate those full houses in the UK, and never will, due to its operating model which drives so many away and fails to engage thousands of other passionate followers of the sport to atrend...

Quite right. In my late teens snd twenties I was part of a big group of friends, we had loads of fun and banter on race nights. Lynn, as a team, didn't win the league or anything but it didn't matter, we witnessed some great riders and great racing (as it happens lol). I now stand with a good group of people, the banter has gone but we back our team 100%, we like good racing but I think for us it's most important for Lynn to win. This year has been testing to say the least but it's easy to find positives from every meeting.

Tbh there is a German podcast started this year and I haven’t heard a single one because the last thing I want to hear is speedway riders talking , just like whilst I love football I don’t much care for footballers being interviewed. And I came to this conclusion due to the experience of hearing loads of footballers saying the same things

Wasn't in any way referring to your question Rather the Poole originated innuendo winks and tripe that followed. I also hope Craig can come back fit and well, and lead Glasgow to some silverware.

Which I must admit I would have preferred

Edinburgh accepted home leg 1st when finished above Redcar. It's another example of Poole arrogance nothing to do with jealousy

Yeah 100% racing next year

Fair play for doing it but it does not mean you know anything per day about speedway more you can design and run a game. Maybe you know lots about computing …… I was chairman of a football club for free with no pay for several years doesn’t mean I know everything about football just means I know about the business model which is greatly different to football itself.

Some miserable old buggers on here... somebody has taken the time and trouble to create some extra Speedway content for fans to listen to, costing him time (and probably money), just comes on here to publicise it and all anybody can do is be negative about it. If you don't want to listen to this FREE podcast, don't download it, move along. Why would you not want to listen to Dan Bewley talk about his maiden GP win and his career in Speedway? How about giving it a listen before condemning it? Come on cheer up fellas, you're better than this

I agree Tbh it was Chris Harris that done it for me with this constant set up stuff. Self protection really. Nobody ever just had a bad race, it was always the set up to blame

Looks terrible in many parts all week. Only in Speedway Faff around for 3 weeks mid summer with a pointless regional Cup that they now decide to elongate when it could have actually been all done and dusted tomorrow b4 the rain sets in (at Sheffield)

The trouble is Trees is that you love the indifferent ones , the bad ones and the downright piss taking ones just as much too.....

1)59.90 2)59.25 3)58.78 4)59.75 5)59.25 6)59.56 7)59.88 8)59.47 9)59.03 10)59.69 11)60.00 12)59.89 13)59.75. Missed heat times for heats 14 and 15.Too busy yapping no doubt

Nap to be off , poor weather weekend and early next week

All to race for tomorrow !!! Lublin v Torun start time 4pm UK time Eleven Sport 2 Czestochowa v Gorzow start time 6.30pm UK time Canal + Sport 5 Racecards Lublin v Torun https://acrobat.adobe.com/link/review?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:3bcd5f96-c1e3-49ba-ae87-1fec8554f69d Czestochowa v Gorzow https://acrobat.adobe.com/link/review?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:bcf531d9-be3d-4a5b-aa07-a16eb1006494 Links Lublin v Torun http://kergel.ucoz.lv/index/live_stream_2/0-12?fbclid=IwAR2eL0VtZngKO7mWxtVxD6VmjVlUNOdM89lON8Sy-AcWVpETDr4TLLAnh68 http://www.maniaki.tv/st2 http://www.drhtv.com.pl/drhtv-2.html https://livetvon.click/stream/stream-72.php http://assia24.com/live/mix-sport9/?lang=pl Czestochowa v Gorzow http://kergel.ucoz.lv/index/live_stream_2/0-12?fbclid=IwAR2eL0VtZngKO7mWxtVxD6VmjVlUNOdM89lON8Sy-AcWVpETDr4TLLAnh68 http://www.maniaki.tv/st7 https://livetvon.click/embed/stream-75.ph http://assia24.com/live/mix-sport6/?lang=pl

Yeah, will always love a good speedway meeting .....

No, basically the same, 7 riders racing for your team barring injury. Polish fans respect the riders, put them on pedestals for what they do, some British "fans" have no respect for the skills of the riders, some of us take them for granted basically and can't see beyond riders "gardening" or meetings not finishing in an hour flat! Poland don't provide their fans with anything more than their team and their track and a few flags on race night (I saw no evidence when I went to Gorzow anyhow) but we expect soooooo much more ........

Speedway fans :“Why does speedway get no coverage?” Also speedway fans: “don’t bother showing the speedway on TV”

surely if Plymouth don't want to race Tuesday they'll call it off due to weather forecast?

So it's Poole's fault Plymouth have got to have it Tuesday, nothing to do with the bspa ruling

I still fancy Lublin to come through. Cierniak won't score Zero at home and Michelsen if fitter will score more than 6.

Plymouth are being told to start the playoffs same week as the other QF is all. Otherwise gonna have one SF start before the other one! lol

Kelvin Tatum has a new podcast out with Dan talking about his 2 GP wins and the new track at Northside... "I think it could potentially be the best racetrack in the world" "It's like Belle Vue with some character" https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/dan-bewley/id1641594866?i=1000578057860

Tony says he is in talks - we must await the result. Fingers crossed.

Not forgetting some great video messages from Darcy, Davey,Bjarne, Krysztov Cegelski and Kacper Woryna. Well done to Nigel (MMX Events), the Piratecast boys and all the other helpers. The Matt and Helen Ford reveal was brilliant. Also some really positive comments from the likes of Doyle, Holder, Harris and Kurtz about the Poole track surface being the best and smoothest its ever been.

Think what we could do if we had ' three ' team managers?