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I’ve been told by a number of riders that Emil and ipswich have a deal agreed and that they just have some issues with the fim to sort. Chris Louis still confident he can get it over the line

2023 NDL fixtures Saturday, May 13, 2023 Workington Comets v Edinburgh Academy TBC Saturday, May 20, 2023 Berwick Bullets v Workington Comets 7:00 PM Sunday, May 21, 2023 Workington Comets v Berwick Bullets 3:00 PM Sunday, May 28, 2023 British Under-21 Semi-Final @ Workington 3:00 PM Saturday, June 10, 2023 Workington Comets v Leicester Lion Cubs 3:00 PM Sunday, June 18, 2023 Mildenhall Fen Tigers v Workington Comets 3:00 PM Saturday, June 24, 2023 Workington Comets v Oxford Chargers 3:00 PM Saturday, July 8, 2023 Edinburgh Academy v Workington Comets 7:30 PM Saturday, July 29, 2023 Workington Comets v Mildenhall Fen Tigers 3:00 PM Saturday, August 5, 2023 Leicester Lion Cubs v Workington Comets 7:00 PM Sunday, August 6, 2023 Kent Royals v Workington Comets 12:00 PM Saturday, August 12, 2023 Workington Comets v Kent Royals 3:00 PM Wednesday, August 16, 2023 Oxford Chargers v Workington Comets 7:30 PM Friday, August 25, 2023 Belle Vue Colts v Workington Comets 7:30 PM Saturday, August 26, 2023 Workington Comets v Belle Vue Colts 3:00 PM

the whole thing sounds like a farce to me

In 50 odd years of watching speedway racing have seen a lot of racing, racing incidents, crashes etc, some deliberate hard riding and some outright dangerous moves. The Ben Howe v Ronnie Pedersen incident was truly shocking, Howe quite deliberately rode Pedersen into the fence, it was utterly blatant with no regard for the safety of Pedersen and Howe made no attempt to race, his sole intention was just to put Pedersen in the fence. I have never seen anything like it since, at least with most other racing incidents and crashes I have witnessed the guilty party wants to win the race, this was different, the race was secondary Howe’s only objective was to ensure Pedersen hit the fence. He couldn’t have made it any clearer.

"I believe in miracles" by Hot Chocolate is the song more applicable to some Ipswich fans.

Spot on that

Yeah stuffed RP in the fence on purpose. What a legend………

I never let the cheese even have time to melt over my chips before!

The whole thing sounds like a wind-up by some Walter Mitty on a fantasy trip. there's no way any of this happened. So the council turned down a planning application for a multi-million pound entertainment arena? A planning application that doesn't even exist in the real world? A music festival arena for 25,000 people. That's going to cost £15M - £20M minimum (And I'm probably way under there), and sorry you just don't pop up a 25,000 capacity arena by registering a company at companies house the day before with former junior rider Greg Daniels as sole director, and sole shareholder with one £1 share. But this multi-million pound arena can be funded by one appearance from Michael Jackson, Robbie Williams, Simply Red and The Killers..... erm, OK. Then we look at some of the gibberish posted. "Un-vailing"? And what are "bonified" contractors? Is this some kind of fossilisation? "All domains both .co & .com are registered with companies house." No they're not! Companies House register and regulate Limited Companies in England and Wales. (Like the one Greg Daniels has a whole pound invested in). They're nothing to do with any register of internet domain names! Then we're expected to believe that this whole multi-million pound project to bring global music artists to Weston Super Mare has been brought crashing to the ground by a few phone calls with Neil Vatcher and Roscoe? A Speedway club using the facilities isn't some massive money-spinner. It would be bringing in chicken-feed compared to a Rihanna concert. Whether Henry Atkins can have a skid round on his bike isn't going to matter much to Bruce Springstein and Taylor Swift. No way would the lack of speedway derail this project. Sorry, but it's all Billy Bull****

Are you mad?..he's box office..the perfect replacement for Harris.

Looking at the old programs it would seem that Kalina was a Czech international who rode in three home meetings at Foxhall, The Billy Sanders Memorial Trophy on the 21st March 1991 when he scored just the one point, the meeting against Kings Lynn on the Good Friday when he scored 7 and on the 4th April when he again just scored one. I think he fell in his second race and took no further part. I guess he also rode for the Witches in a few away meetings.

True!! Someone stood on and crushed my cup some years ago

Madness to sign NP not overly wonderful last time with Panthers. Only just been repaired and no warranty as to the result, Must have concerns over those now in charge if the various permutations suggested are correct.

Another Aww FFS.

Only thing I can add is Aww FFS.

Her counting wasn't her best asset(s).

Guy Nicholls is the simple answer. It wouldn’t even be a consideration without him.

The pie would be the easy cop out but on this occasion having had the misfortune to sample one myself I will give him the benefit of the doubt.

Maybe too much Alcohol used to wash it down.!!

Can tell we're all a bit bored now teams more or less confirmed and still 2 months to the season starts when there's a 4 page thread on scran

They’re chasing hard after Emil Sayfutdinov. It’s not fake, it’s not rumour, they’re not leaking false information, they’re trying. May well be unsuccessful and if I was a betting man I’d probably lean on the side of that being the case, but it isn’t some elaborate ruse.

You’re absolutely miles off, millions of miles. The fella doesn’t have to “breach” any contract either because he’s signed nothing of the sort. Where did you get that from?

I don't buy the Emil rumours, I think it's false info leaked by the club to certain individuals who are then leaking it across social media, The clubs are hardly going to admit to scrambling over the same riders as it makes them both sound desperate. Emil has to breach his mega money contract with Torun and start a rift with them after singing a contract under specific terms set by Torun's management stating that he has to agree to not ride in any other country. FIM can step in but at the end of the day Emil has no case because he signed a contract under specific terms stating that he wouldn't ride in another country. Say for example the FIM take his side just to continue the story, after all of that, he'd then have to rely on a Pro-Ukrainian British Government to do him a favour and then hope that Torun don't terminate him for breaching the terms in his contract after double crossing them.

Count your blessings - Peterborough still haven't named most of their team !

If Gasser90 says his source has confirmed Holder is in,signed sealed and delivered then that for me is good business. And he heard that yesterday,so fair play, but at 11-30am yesterday morning Holder was 100% NOT a Panther. Things change by the minute, and this delay of naming riders by both teams proves there is some serious hold up for reasons apart from Work Permit's none of us know. It is quite boring now, and by the time these Septet's get named, some of us would possibly of switched off.

Not sure he was dirty but will admit he wasn’t always in complete control :-/

Ben had half a season at Hull 1999, as said not the best gater but was an all-action, leg traling, ever-trying rider ....

All in the past, he has had a career threatening injury since then

I hope there's a strategy for dealing with our friends camping nearby, my experiences with them is they'd get in where a fart wouldn't

Most councils in Britain are corrupt but going on an anti-Tory rant is a bit rich when you consider that a lot of the worst ones for accepting bungs or doing favours for their mates are Labour-controlled (especially in the North) *for the record i don't vote and i hate all mainstream parties equally

I'll put the kettle on for ya. Tea two sugars sound good?

If Holder does get confirmed then I'll work on the basis of Hans Andersen being the team manager rather than a rider. It's just a really tough sell for me to believe the proposed 1-7 on this thread. Tomalin is a very successful businessman who's putting extra finances into the club so I don't believe that he would make a twit out of himself in public before he's even started his new job by heaping praise and talking about winning a league title with an uncompetitive team that's 2 something under the limit.

Where’s holder.? He’s definitely racing for pboro

The burgers at derwent park were good value,u could taste them 3 days later !

Not a question of box office rather can he still do the business, did not set the world alight last time.

Spot on with this, he’s no excuse not too perform. Problem is how do you go about having a replacement rider on standby so too speak

What I would do with Hans if he's the rider and not the manager. I'd put him on a 5 meeting trial run and if he doesn't do well then he'd have to be dropped from the side. In the first 5 meetings we have 3 Home fixtures and 2 away trips, The two away trips are at Ipswich and Leicester (Technical places that he should go well at)

But you can roll it in glitter

Another Former Wolf J.Thorssell on his way back to M.G For Sams Testimonial....

Not sure he rode a league match for Ipswich but it was Karlina who rode against Lynn the gold cup on good Friday.

Sure it was Kalina but he didn't last long in the team, haps he only rode in a few challenge matches and no actual league matches b4 being replaced.

Actually Vlad did ride for Hackney in 91 and was in the Hawks team that visited Arena Essex in the Gold Cup. The Hackney team that day was Tony Olsson Michael Warren Pavel Karnas Vladmir Kalina Paul Whittaker Roland Pollard Dave Hamnet

Everyone knows what Roynon and Newman are capable of, but always a big question of actually doing it, I thought Kyle was going to be Hammers 4th heat leader in 2018 but it just didn’t work out for him. Poole have once again nailed the art of building a side on paper, a great top two with strength then down the order, that in turn might see Thomas or one of the Cook brothers drop to reserve at some point.

Does it work? I hear vegan cheese can be harder to melt.

A quick search of North Somerset planning site reveals an application for speedway was submitted and refused ... ..in 1972. Nothing more recent. Like you I think this is mostly fiction.

Just for the record I spend a lot of time in Devon in the summer and have followed the Devils and Gladiators since Exeter closed.

Well I noted there was a new post on the Plymouth thread so clicked in expecting it to announce their final rider (as their website doesn't appear to have been updated since the Starke signing!!!) but stifled a smirk at the BBC Cornwall story and then saw the usual bullrubbish so couldn't resist.

So a news item from BBC Cornwall about a situation in Devon being commented on by someone supposedly from the Midlands and trolling Dorset in general and Poole Speedway in particular!!!! You couldn't make it up - Oh but you did!!!

I wouldn’t have Tungate under any circumstances