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Well the P.Offs (P/Ship and C/ship) so far have certainly captured my imagination. Both edge of the seat stuff. In fact I have nearly fell off my seat in the lounge at every meeting only to be woken up by me wife. Certainly the most important BSPA conference in the history of the sport will be looking to build on the great success of this season. It has been truly breathtaking and all supporters must be tyred out watching the action, anlas you are a Peterborough supporter.

It's not a cool on board Scott. It's a bloody awful camera angle and crap when they go to it during the heat

why wd we want the second leg when we'd be 30 or more points behind. Best just get a single figure win at home and pretend the 2nd leg isn't happening

GSA figures give you facts, whether you like it or not. People now seem to want a different system that deals in feelings or whether someone had a good or bad night here or there. People are then going to argue about how the facts came about. Finishing last by being dog slow or finishing last with a puncture after leading the race for 3 laps is still 0 points from 1 ride. Is Lambert better than Fricke? when he has a good night yes, but when he has a bad night no. The system isn't perfect, but sometimes I don't know what some of you really want. It seems to me some people want something to moan about more than they want to watch 4 guys, racing 4 laps with no brakes. Half of the people on here don't even go or watch speedway these days, they seem to get their kicks by moaning on here. If that is what floats your boat, crack on. For the record, I think Lambert and Fricke are pretty even overall. At the start of the year Fricke was probably better, by the SON, they were pretty level, and at the moment Lambert is the better rider on form. You can argue all you like as to who is better, all I know is I don't mind watching either of them at full tilt on a good racetrack. Belle Vue brought him in to replace one injured GP rider with another, a couple of members of the BSPL spat their dummy out and withdrew the permission with their own self interests at heart, and neither of them were the opposition promotion at the time. Just another example of where independent governance would work better than what we have at the moment.

I gave up after heat 10 and watched something else, I get Eurosport with my sky subscription , I can honestly say if I had to pay extra I wouldn’t bother. The GP,s haven’t been a lot better either, apart from one or two they have been borefests as well. The sport is on its arse at the moment and the TV coverage isn’t helping.

And trying to get excited about the racing which is worse than watching paint drying. Why don’t they just say this is crap and not worthy of live television, then shut up a play background music during each race. Bore fest sums up this year’s climax to the season and the morons in charge call it entertainment

My memories from early 70s until closing... Collecting hubby bubbly bottles for a penny each. Winning at white city at a Saturday afternoon meeting in the mid 70s. Going on the coach to Bradford to witness their biggest away defeat at the time...kenny carter was in his last season.. Watching hans nielsen winning by nearly half a lap for oxford My favourite swindon rider in the 80s was bo petersen...really thought they would win something with crump, nilsen and simmons The smell of the bikes and fried onions from the burger van. Watching swindon getting a 5-1 in the last heat to win at coventry Standing on a cold bank in the dark watching a tractor going around.. Some good, some bad..

To be fair in the early to mid 90's both tracks served up some cracking racing.. With Aces v Wolves matches often amongst the highlights of the season at both tracks.. Then the bikes developed but the tracks didnt...

Different times, British Speedway was the pinnacle of the sport. 1 off finals etc. Tight difficult tracks today get you nowhere if you want to reach the top. Zmarzlik, now 3x world champ is an absolute speed merchant, no trick track learning to be where he is. Any thought process pre 2000s is irrelevant

Let's be honest British speedway signed a deal with an engine manufacturer and that worked well then signed a deal for tyres you can't use at Peterbrough as they fall apart I'm guessing we will be behind Poland under 11,s in the pecking order

But they are both a long way from being their nations' top riders. Lahti and Loktaev (who may be otherwise engaged at present) must be wondering what they have to do to get noticed.

coin of the realm should be allowed anywhere, all cobblers card only .

Ashby was brilliant at his best. He scored a 12-point maximum in the first 6 meetings i went to.

Simmo "The whole truth" is another good read as well

...a good read and interesting background stories. Would recommend.

Didn't Chris Morton do a book several years ago? Seem to think it was called something like "until the can ran out"

Can’t see a thread about this… Looks like both sides are at full strength so going by previous meetings this season, it should be fairly close and is by no means a done deal for the Tigers. Think we will edge it, but doubt it will be a comfortable night. After a day or 2 of rain the weather forecast is dry all day according to the BBC and Alexa… so the massive downpour this morning didn’t happen and was just my imagination! All fine now with the sun peeping through and a bit of a breeze so all should be good for tonight

It may be cancelled, as a mark of respect to our late Queen. Can hardly 'celebrate' her Jubilee post mortem, surely? Maybe the mistake was not keeping it as the Summer Cup!

Surely it won't become a one-off final again due to lack of dates? One thing I will say, ignoring this competition since August & racing the final in October just suggests the clubs have no interest / feel this is not an important competition! If the clubs appear to act like that, it's a terrible way to entice fans to come out on a potentially cold & wet October evening!

Let's hope the two best teams in the league by a fair distance serve up a couple of cracking meetings..

hope he does ok, few years since he retired

Well that was bollox. All over with so many heats to go. Not a spectacle more a car crash as far as entertainment is concerned. Add to this two of the most nauseating team managers in the sport (apart from Hawkins) and it sums up why the sport has finally reached its nadir and no right minded investor would think that this is either entertaining or a viable business proposition. If I was Eurosport I would hand back the rights to televise u k speedway.

Kelvin Tatum-er

Odd thing to say? Not even remotely funny

Hi Ghosty, all of the Gladiators TV streams are produced in house, not by an outside company. So the club is in complete control of all aspects of the Gladiators TV streams, including finances.

Half the fun of travelling to away meetings was to see and experience a bigger /smaller track than the local track you attended every week

so we try again with this meeting on Sunday, currently the forecast is looking good, just hope everyone shows up and we have a good meeting

Poole continue to refer to aiming for the 'treble' so presumably are intent on racing the Jubilee fixtures.

Absolutely. It wasn’t rain though, he just didn’t fancy it. Teams are able to call meetings off with impunity if they think they’ll be onto a better thing at a later date. Not all teams however, one tried it and the BSPL/BSL cartel went into overdrive. Buster will get a better crowd when it’s run as Stars favourite Robert will be there and the say cheats never prospers. Go figure.

Don't think it's the last.

Must be two Patryk Dudeks then. The one I've seen on my visits to Poland over the last 7 or 8 years certainly isn't a 'gating tart'.

Not impressed by the Speedway Star article this week about this. Barely scratched the surface, with little or no insight or investigative challenge to what has been going on.

4.82 with the British reduction

Take Rob out straight away!

I think it's only Sid and Orion that are left...

The Cup Holders get the preference.

Technically Vaculik has debuted over here already for Leicester.

Eric Boocock "Going Round in Circles" another recommended read.

I've been told by half a dozen that its 42.5 no rising star

Prob not enough to rain a meeting off tbf! Why change a habit of a lifetime

I know I am getting on a bit, and years flash by now, but the five years of the RS system seem to have gone even quicker...

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What like the quarter finals,what like the semi finals,What like the final

Could have had the Jubilee final if the 2 other clubs had agreed!!!!

My thoughts exactly

So now the UK promotions have to keep an eye on Polish weather forecasts as well as their own. I certainly think the poles have the better side of that deal. Makes it less likely Thursday clubs will sign Extraliga riders but the poles were never going to give up the 1 league rule without getting something back in return

I agree with what you are saying, until you know how many teams your league have you cannot set a points limit! Promoters think reducing the limit reduces cost, can you work that one out. I will say this for the umpteenth time the U.K. has an extreme rider shortage & the Promoters just ignore the problem. If 3 of the current double-up riders were to retire this winter that will be an additional 6 team places to fill.

Expect a few Leicester riders with them moving to the premiership

i'll be there hoping GB get a medal, under no illusions how strong that Polish team is, especially on a Polish track, but i think the battle for other medals will be really good

No, that's only one side of the pits. Can't see speedway returning to Brough while dog racing is still going on there?,,, 'Dog Racing', should be outlawed, those poor buggers chasing an old piece of carpet around,,, they're not even allowed to play with it if they catch it!!!