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https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=pfbid0Tp72XcA47sAtXWEBGynypfZ39fudPnRUQk9Bd5DfgZ82iSfXVcPdgLviudMmRfGKl&id=100000674626434 Looks like being very early doors but this is positive news never the less. Speedway hopefully returning to Somerset and 15 minutes or so up the road from the old track. Let’s keep our fingers crossed!

Sorry. Maybe the new owner will build new stadium next to your house if you ask him nicely

Very, very good talent. If he can regain the form he showed when he got injured, his starting average will be significantly improved upon. Delighted this one is now confirmed.

Does anybody really give a ...... Newcastle fans/threads should be welcome anywhere anytime if it helps maintain interest.

Exactly that. Trophies are a bonus when you have great racing. If you don’t have great racing, they’re the only thing… and then, the numbers don’t add up. The best thing about the Facennas isn’t the money thrown at riders, it’s the investment in the track and the product. Plus a great team of track staff - Paul, Chris and the others invest incredible hours putting it together during the season and they almost always get it spot on, which isn’t always easy with our weather.

Don't think so, Complin's away ave was far better than his home ave for Newcastle. Put him on a home track he likes & his average could rise.

But what if it is the team,,,,,, you will be like a beach ball that some has just stuck a fag into.

if Flint and Thomas are RS, so then so should Brennan

Wait till September.. The leagues dont start until then...

One thing guaranteed at Ashfield is entertaining speedway on a great raceway.

It does seem a lot of people are jealous of glasgow tho, int just about a trophy tigers win most weeks with a top race track & product give me that every time over clubs who rak up big home wins with zero racing & entertainment...without racing the sport goes simple

You would get a great number of fans hope up.IMO

A few seniors at Peterborough didn’t pay anything to get in for the last two seasons apparently. Their excuse? They were riding for the Panthers!

You don’t fully grasp the concept that the clubs worked together that both were happy with. And not one or the other being quick enough as you put it to get deals done, both clubs would have to agree the deal. But your version probably suits your comfort blanket better that is Glasgow bad Poole good.

Never heard that one, I’m sure he would settle far better at Poole.

Yes and I am glad it is not us! One is okay.

The selection is based on averages in both leagues and Brennan has exceeded the threshold, plus I don't think he needs the protection of the RS scheme any more anyway.

And name it The New National Speedway Stadium

Till tomorrow at 8am when Jake Allen is announced by Scunthorpe

Funny you should say that, I just looked through the website trying to find an answer. There's no mention of it in ticket section, but the press release/news story states the following... *Advanced tickets are available until midnight the day before the event date. The above admission prices include a ticket booking fee.

Seems you might have. Just waiting for the club to confirm it

1. S. Worrall 8.05 2. J. Thomas 4.78 3. B. Cook 6.09 4. Z. Cook 4.92 5. R. Lawson 7.97 6. K. Newman 4.29 7. A. Roynon 3.47

Bickley seems to have followed a similar career trajectory as jack Thomas until 2 years ago. Jack signed for us as a teenager and looked a prospect but stagnated as a 2/3 pointer for 3/4 years. Penny seemed to drop at Birmingham in 2021 and looks a totally different rider nowadays (on steal of an average too imo). Hopefully same thing happens with Kyle, might never be world champion but sure can have a decent career at it

Gilkes was the most pivotal plymouth signing by a mile .

If he doesn’t improve significantly this season from a reserve position in a very weak league there’s something wrong.

Is it though? Much weaker league were a lot of teams are running either one or two 2.00 riders. I’d fancy him to beat them more often that not home and away. If doing that I’d fancy him to get 4/5 points a meeting which is doing his job at 7. Also now at a track he’s always scored reasonably well at and will help boost his confidence and he won’t be put under any pressure.

Doubt it. In 2009, he was faster than Jason Lyons and obviously going right to the top, but with all of his injuries he would be better off now in the NL.

He was cheap then if the rumours are right that Dudek wanted 6k a meeting

15 minutes based upon fifteen heats (?) but I remember the days of Second Halves when either the "main players" took part with a smattering of assets/juniors (we had the likes of Eastbourne & Peterborough riders take part due to the promotional tie-up at Cowley/White City) and later Junior Matches plus, of course, the occasional Golden/Silver Helmet Match Race(s) thrown in plus Individual/4TT/3TT/Pairs/Test Matches which had a variety of race formulae. Meetings often had up to twenty races at times. It's often argued that many left after the main event and that was their prerogative but many stayed on to catch all the action and therefore got more for their money.

Your doing a good job of keeping this post going

Rule Book what’s that.!

At times over the last two or three seasons Jorgensen has been the only Lynn rider worth watching at home, he is exciting and rides Lynn well, and to be fair his away form improved too in 2022. This time last year I'd have agreed with you but for me he gets in on merit for next season. Cares about the club too which goes a long way.

Depends on which end of Edgerley Drain Road it would be. If it's closer to Newark/Sainsbury's end then there's the number 4, if it's closer to the Power Station end then nothing in the evening.

Not "unfair on them" at all 1) With a very strong top 5, scoring lots of points the reserves don't need to score much to win 2) if they don't think it's fair, don't sign for a club with 2 x 2.00 reserves

Not anymore. Think Richie Worrall broke it last season.

No, they wont discount an assessed average, l believe Still a 4.00.

Plus he'll be on a much better wage than the 'Rising Star' position

With slightly wider straights...

I don't mind Bowtell...it's Proctor that I wouldn't sign!

Possibly - due to married life! . Or he could do an 'Eddie'!!!!! (except that wouldn't really work as a reserve).

Let's hope the land is big enough to put a real decent track down.

The scatter gun approach, and there was me thinking he had a direct line to the scunthorpe kremlin.

Will need more money than that !! As the old saying goes how do you make a small fortune from speedway? Start with a large fortune . I'll get me coat

The way the majority of fans now watch it I would say... A great spectacle and can still be a great evening out, but best not to take the outcome too seriously given the often contrived nature of its operating model.. I attended five meetings last year in the UK domestic leagues, including both play offs, and they were great entertainment, with some good "old school" hard riding and plenty of controversy.. The fact the Aces won was "a bonus", but if the Tigers had won I would still have felt that I had watched two excellent sporting contests to rival anything else, entertainment wise, that I had paid to see in 2022... No point putting a club under financial pressure simply to try to win any Speedway league given the lack of financial reward and publicity generated by "success"... Only one team can be Champions at the end of each season, but all need to be in existence at the end of each season...

At 5 grand a meeting I shouldn’t think there is a mention

And crowd levels

Brilliant news, love Plymouth and rate gilkes very highly

A bit like the choice of sticking a pin in your left eye or your right eye......

I agree. There is of course a minimum weight for the bike but why I've no idea when no account of the rider is made. Perhaps it should be a rider + bike weight minimum and a bit like jockeys those thinner riders then wear body packs. It would certainly stop those sorts of complaints/theories if it was proven to not make much difference.

He`d be even more popular if he wasn't behind in the first place.