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I’m pretty sure they will enjoy it, track will no doubt be well prepared and produce a good meeting. Realistically the Bears are up against it, even at home, but if all the Bears 1-7 ride well ( that hasn’t happened very often) then hopefully they can put up a good show. Given the amount of guests used this year it’s nice to see full 1-7’s for each team. Just getting my big coat ready for tonight.

Using the logic they are the best because they finished top don't cut it for just 2 play off matches though.Using your logic Ipswich were the 2nd best team but Belle Vue destroyed them.So it isn't where you finished in the league that makes you favourites it's current form,and Belle Vue certainly have that momentum at the moment.So imo this is why you are favourites.

Kharchenko was probably the best debut performance at Brough Park ever. I was hoping he would defect and join the Diamonds who were a third heatleader short of being any good that year. I think there was a whip round at some point to buy some of the Soviet lads gloves. Must have miffed John Wainwright whose leathers were always taped together. That's how I remember it anyway,

Yes, I’ll give you that. Robert did indeed get the full 15 against Ipswich whereas the last time they rode at the NSS, Max only got 14. Bloody Aces, strengthening up.

What happened in the league isn't relevant to the playoffs, we start again. Poole were only third in the league but nobody would bet against them winning the championship playoffs. Lambert won't have any issues with the Sheffield track, he is a world class rider. Belle Vue are big favourites, most people think so, the bookies have them heavy odds on and they know what they are doing. You have destroyed them when they have visited Belle Vue and that was before you pulled the masterstroke and got Lambert.

presumably we are now going to have 4 days of "we're the underdogs", "No! we're the underdogs",

Well done to the Tigers (we were very poor, and consign the result to history ). However, the most important thing is that the Tigers give it their all in the final. After all who wants to see a league won by threatened legal action ? The Aces may feel that they are right according to the actual wording of the laws, but without doubt they are outside the spirit of the laws that they complained about in 2016. Hypocrites.

Have not caught up with the meeting yet, but I can't help but feel this is what you get when you run the play offs in late September early October. Damp and cold and riders and fans would rather be elsewhere. Everybodys enthusiasm is waning at this time of year. Get the play off done on the August Bank Holiday when hopefully, the weather and tracks are still good and fans go into the winter remembering speedway with the sun on their backs rather than speedway getting a cold and trench foot.

Can’t afford it don’t do it imo. You know what you’ve signed up for. As said in another post can’t just pick and choose when you feel like riding or travelling to. If serious about it you’d want as much track time and riding different tracks as possible to improve.

Brilliant Ben Cook paid 14 from 5 and beating Wright in heat 14. Pirates dominant though not at our best. Some great racing tonight. The rain earlier gave it the perfect watering. Big crowd there as well.

He has improved alot throughout the season, riding like a heat leader now.

Hell of a heat 9. Wright cranked it up.

Great ride by Ablitt!

Ritchie Worrall and Kyle Howarth would be a good start

You can't come on this forum and make sensible and proactive statments!! What will people think? ;-)

I,m Spartacus.

If I were Poole, I''d make sure the second leg was a viable meeting, give themselves 6/8 points to make up or even diehards would give it a miss if it were a dead rubber. Thats what Charlie Knott would have done anyway

We fold like that every final

For my money Lambert is better than all of them, but you are right matches are won on the track not on forums or on paper! Form can go out of the window on the night, or a crash / EF can affect things for either side! BV got spanked the time I went but I do expect Lambert to ride well with the caveats of the above

Only in your twisted world do Sheffield start favourites. Belle Vue are massive favourites, even Mark Lemon Can't mess this up although he will have a good go I am sure! You have massively improved the team throughout the season culminating with the signing of Lambert who on current form, is far better than the unfortunate Max Fricke.

Firstly welcome, it’s great to have newbies coming into the sport. Before your time, earlier this year this deal was discussed on here. Many had the same opinion as now about losing protected race nights being a bad thing. It all came out when Dan tweeted about being denied his chance by the BSPL. At the time of the tweet we were the only team still to declare.

lot of the security work at the vitality stadium as well . so many reasons not the 19th

It’s not in the current spirit that prevails our dead sport which is, Max receives multiple injuries in a high speed smash. BSF cheer and rum their hands with glee when we get a second division rider to replace our 2022 world champion and GP round winner. Fairplay, you guys love it, not. Next we sign an adequate replacement as per the rules and a promoter from our main opposition uses his influence as a controlling committee member to stop it. Luckily the SCB saw through it and told him to jog on. Over the last few decades your spirit has killed this sport in the UK. Well done.

He had a bad fall last week - facial injuries and bruising - maybe he didn't feel like appearing on camera.

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.

Agree 100%! When I watch vids on YouTube, it's amazing just how poor the racing was generally. As I've said before, I miss dirt on tracks, black leathers, monkey masks, gleaming chrome machinery etc (which all helped make it the spectacle it was), but the actual quality of racing today is often far superior.

What I don’t understand is how Terry Russell has the right to close down the speedway. if he says he can’t make it pay then at least give someone else the chance to take it on. the situation stinks and definitely looks like a big brown envelope has changed hands somewhere.

Most of the season at reserve , hopeless away and couldn't pass a snail with arthritis , saddled with an average over 5, abs awful signing

Yes good racing on a good racetrack.

I used the word potential advisedly. Well done to the Pirates, deserved winners. Ben Cook absolutely fantastic and too many Bears off the pace. Still an enjoyable meeting and some good racing.

Never in doubt from heat one really. Great performance once again.

Everyone likes the track.

The "deal" offered by the PZM was for the GB to give up all priorities ...

And rightly so

Just listened to the Tomlinson interview from yesterday. Still no answers to what has actually gone on but at least he's having a dig at Gaming. Its a toned down version of what I would have expected from the club if they were distraught at going out of business but at least he's saying something. Will be very interesting to see if SBC stick to their guns re planning permissions.

Yep. The minutes from the meeting contained that letter from him saying the dogs were closing. GI saying they aren't. So someone is lying. If Gaming are blagging and making TR look a liar then why doesn't he come out and call them out. The only person who has shown any sort of aggression towards the GI BS is Tomlinson in that statement he released after the news broke but time will tell if SBC stick to their guns so I won't get too hung up on that. The whole thing stinks and no one has done any sort of proper investigation into it. Its just accepted that we have folded and they will expect it to go away. This is where the adver or the local news need to step up and ask some proper questions to the club, Gaming and Tommo and get to the bottom of what exactly has gone on. It's very clear the only people suffering are the fans. It all seems to have worked out perfectly for everyone else involved.

Don't think Lambert was particularly happy with his lot at Saddlebow Road in 2019! Overall he was still third in the averages that year behind Fricke (oh, the irony) & Doyle.

7.61 (possibly with British reduction) was Lambert's attained average in 2019 with Kings Lynn, so he returns on that average as Fricke, Doyle, Musielak and several others did at the start on the season. I think over two legs this will be a very close affair, both teams will win big at home. Personally, I don't think Owlerton and the NSS ride at all similar.

We might, but someone has to find a track(s) willing to put on a meeting that probably will lose them money. the other thing to consider is that in 2023 the series is very likely to finish in November with the final round in Australia.

Coupled with ‘BV cheated by signing Lambert’, ‘No they didn’t, it was in the rules’

I am sure Chris Harris thinks the same but from a personal point of view I much rather he missed the gate!

Definitely. I think there are questions to be asked about his part in this - such as why he tried to sneak the closure through without anyone actually knowing about it and it only became public after it was leaked on here. Like others, I certainly wouldn't rule out the possibility of him getting paid off.

Very sad news but it appears that the next edition will be the last. I, for one, will miss the two magazines...from dropping thru' the letterbox I wouldn't put them down until having absorbed all the contents. At least I have the entire collections to browse thru' at my leisure reminiscing the good times! May I take this opportunity in thanking Tony Mac, Susie and all the contributors over the years.

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.

To be fair, the racing at places like the NSS, Peterboro', and at World Class level, is as least as good, and probably better, than what I used to watch in the 70's 80's and 90's.. Zmarzlik, Bewley, Laguta, Woffinden, Lambert, Janowski, Sayfutdinov, Lindgren, Doyle, Madsen, et al, all serve up some spectacular stuff which is more than on par with what I used to watch even in the halcyon days of the sport... The current machinery works fine if the track design matches in...

Easy... The tens of thousands of lapsed fans who will come flocking back to attend every week... All of them very happy to pay 25 quid a pop... Come on. Keep up at the back... Wonder if it is another five year plan.?

Take Rob out straight away!

Who said anything about paying with cash? You can’t pay by card at the gate either…

Rob Lyon would also walk away from it I know that a a fact. He has his eyes on building a team to win the premier League again next season

Can't see Pickering leaving KL.