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Well done the Save Coventry Stadium committee! Their long-term fight and tactics and planning nous has been brilliant!

GB Speedway is just a travelling circus of the same riders racing each other on various nights of the Week for different Teams.That’s the Bottom line for me.

My husband attended this meeting and was very emotional when he passed the news to me. I then became 3 times as emotional as him. Whatever the outcome well done to all those involved in a possible return. I'm cock-a-hoop for a positive result and will transition from an armchair supporter of speedway at to my local club.

Problem is the Premiership should be stronger, but Premiership clubs can't attract stronger riders. So if you want a distinction between the leagues, the only alternative is to weaken the Championship.

Wish that was live on you tube as well

And why hasnt someone else been given the chance to run the sport in the brand new facility that still needs to be built to comply with the building permission for the houses.. ?

Tony Gillias round of applause for this man, full of facts and obviously emotion

Not many speedway rules would stand up in court imo tbf.

Agree years ago it was champ riders at reserve in prem or there abouts not heatleaders in both, there was a clear difference between the leagues back then

IMO that is the problem.1 League slightly weaker to start with would be my solution,but that’s just me.Opinions greatly vary on the subject.The people running the sport are not for change mainly because they don’t want the share any income generated by TV and Media IMO.

Your 10 years behind with your comment on British riders.Plus NOBODYis going to pay £20 to watch NDL level speedway it’s £10 at present at most tracks and crowd levels are small. Ps Its the Premiership that is that weak that it needs Championship level riders to even run.

Holding over the completion of a competition to the following season is not without precedent. But completing a competition with only two out of the three finalists, with the two remaining teams operating in separate leagues looks like a bit of a nonsense. If Leicester and Poole, jointly, want to run an interleague challenge, with Poole running a guest or Leicester having somebody stepping down for the night, well fine. But please, let's give up on a competition that "died" some time ago.

Hopefully not. NKI has had his best days.

So I have heard. If this upsets Poole fans I am all for it.

Richard lawson

And Toby Lawrence

No thanks.

Do they think people are stupid... Where i come from it's called a crock of sh$t.

Fingers crossed for this evening.

Quite blurred ianb?……totally blurred I would say. Agree with your point but they shouldn’t be trying to unblur it by weakening the Championship League and denying us the top riders we’re used to seeing.

Certainly they do; you have to with wire wheels.

His teams regularly got me to attend when they were at Belle Vue... Not many other promoters' teams did the same...

Tofty

Barry Duke , I think he started out in 1967 or 1968. He sounds like a most interesting guy-wish I could have a chat with him, some great comments of his view on speedway. He would be a good candidate for Lee Ashby's interviews . BTW I am sorry Martin Ashby is having some health problems and to learn that Hitchy is 80- my mind boggles. God bless 'em all.

I’m afraid lowering points limit will have negative effect for the sport IMO.Admission prices will certainly not come down,I for one is starting to lose interest given the shambles the sport is in.Don’t know the answers but certainly seems to take the fans for mugs at times.When you can’t organise a fixture list for a league of approx 10 teams there has to be something fundamentally wrong,easy to blame the weather though.Starter for me would be to tell the riders their priorities if the want ride in GB ( not the other way round).Then work with what’s left.

I am utterly dismayed that they honestly believe they can bring some credibilty to this competition by staging it with guests next year. Bury the problem now and don't drag the self humiliation into 2023. The fact that the decision makers are never accountable for their hapless decisions makes it easy for them to blame the weather, stadium owners, rider availability, (delete as appropriate). As a board of directors they don't even measure up to the village fete committee, I assume they all sit on the board the monkey effed the cat on not a limited company!

Rambo is 100% committed to whoever he rides for, & is brilliant for team spirit. Would much rather have him in my team, rather than an overrated foreigner who will cost more with flights etc, & score less points.

Please please pretty please,,,

They are individual human beings. Some will and some won't. Some regard councillors as ignorant amateurs getting in the way of professional planners, others accept they are there to give professional advice to democratically elected representatives. Most will take time to listen to and engage with councillors they respect, and try and remain dilomatically tight lipped with the grandstanding egotistical ones.

Good on Tony Gillas

Embarrassing presentation skills

I think that you will find that those of us that flagged Musielak as a rider to watch, did so with the fact of how much that he could potentially put on from his starting average of 6:21. If my memory serves me well myself and other predicted that he could potentially put on a point to point and half on his average. He surpassed those expectations with a figure of 7:91, increasing his average by 1:70. If Ipswich want to be successful next season and want to have Jason Doyle in their team they need to find a rider that is going to replicate Musielak's improvement this season.

HEEPS ALLEN,,,,, maybe its the fans that have a lack of ambition

Bit early to start the excuses for next season.!!

But king's Lynn was judged as the home leg, hence the practice session

the big bulb in the sky will sort it and comes super cheap . no standing charges either .

Yes……but totally unfair on Championship fans. All points to the need for one league and I’m sure it could be made to work one way or another.

That gives me hope at 66, and a recent knee replacement. I was Pontins Brean Sands junior champion in 1970, hardly played since then. Dukey plays in the top Swindon league with my mate. Will definitely give it another go. Have just tried lawn bowls.

Think it's more a case of how many times he gives up or politely moves out of other riders ways,, when a pass is coming

The ndl before it got messed about with was a good league needs to go back to that instead of getting pushed aside for prem and champ. There can't be second halfs 1-2 crashes it's game over then just look at so called prem junior thing from this season.

Let's hope Danny Ford is made of more sincere stuff than his Dad then, Matt put Poole first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, eighth etc etc, British Speedway was his very last thought!

Sad news indeed. Dick was the sole survivor of the Bristol team that I saw at the first meeting I attended on August 19 1949 when he scored 6 points from 4 rides at reserve when Bristol rode against New Cross in front of a 22000 crowd at Knowle Stadium in the second leg of the National Trophy , I still have the programme. Dick was one of the finest riders ever to represent Bristol and was loyal right up to the closure in mid 1955. Only then did he move to another club Southampton. I imagine that during his spell at Bristol he would have drawn interest from the bigger clubs as he top-scored all over the country. He also scored 16 points for England in the Test Match at Harringay in 1952 in a very late call due to injuries.

Got to love British speedway. Big announcement tonight is now not happening. What a let down

Great quote... but stop these riders wearing 'xyz' different 'team' suits in a week!

All riders put my bum on a seat……..I am a speedway fan……..

Batchelor to panthers

Economically, a four month regular season wouldn’t be sufficient.

Play offs this year especially turned out to be a complete lottery. They need binned going forward they have no credibility. Only my opinion of course.

Clear space? There's only seven of them left.