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Oh the irony! A Poole fan extolling the virtues of the spirit of rules

Thurrock councillors have unanimously backed a motion calling for Thurrock council to use the local plan to support the retention of Speedway in Thurrock and identify a new home for Grays Athletic FC.

You put Holder in Leave Holder out In, out, in, out You sort the numbers out . You do the hokey cokey and then start again That's what it's all about

Had to happen. You currently have Russian players competing in the Australian tennis and quite right too. Wilmbledon better start changing their stance as well or they’ll find themselves in all sorts of trouble. Penalizing individuals and stopping them earning a living because a mad man happens to be in power of the country in which they happen to have been born in which they had no control over is absurd. Just don’t promote the Russian flag and crack on. They weren’t rumours in the case of Ipswich trying to sign him though. The only question open to debate is whether they were going to be successful or not.

So do we get a 10 point start for sponsoring the league . It's only fair as compensation for a conflict of interests and laughing at sporting integrity

Who wouldn’t want to ride for the best club in the country at the best track, we should be aiming for a top number 1

If Mr T spent less money on his teeth,, he could afford it

Oh Lord! You know your post is going to set TTT off again, don't you?

Think this criticism of Hayley Bromley is way off the mark, I think she does an excellent job as presenter. Also women in speedway should be encouraged not mocked

Would you now? Well when you come and buy the club you can charge what you want... however at the minute you don't own it... how do you know that the £13 quid isn't the OAP price and the club were thinking of charging every adult 15/16 quid and the 13 was the concession... but because they would like to give the spot not only a chance of breaking even but still encourage enough folk to come through the gate... they decided to charge 13 quid across the board... Get a season ticket for £90 they are a steal... it looks like 9 matches on your season ticket so that's £10:00 a meeting... Honestly what more do ya want... Regards THJ

So Newcastle Diamonds live on, well for one night only! Redcar have organised the tyne tees trophy with a Newcastle "select" Diamonds side on the 24th March I think. A good gesture by Redcar and hopefully a few Diamonds fans may make the trip down the a19. No idea who is riding for Newcastle though...

Maybe he's getting pulled off too, so is offering his services at a lower rate

Something for p0rnhub rather than Speedway imo

Unfortunately a few years ago may have been £10, but can't see that back again now really. Although we had quite an expensive team for NL , Eastbourne charged £13 back in 2018 and before, so can't think it's far out today. I think more teams will stop the OAP concession and that's coming from one who would qualify.

Don’t be daft. But you do get three snake cards which shift Edinburgh to the bottom of the league every time Blobby has a whinge about the cheque book Tigers. Did you really expect ladders cards as well?

Maybe the shock is Holder has been re assessed to 8 as his old average is too old to use

This was an end-of-season individual meeting for which the Bristol management invited riders who had appeared at the track during the season. It was not a meeting for which riders had qualified. It would be better described as 'a championship for northern and midland riders' (plus Roger Wise of Bristol) rather than THE Northern Riders' Championship. The advertisement ahead of the meeting described it as 'a gala night, when 16 "stars" of Northern and National League teams will meet in a Northern Riders Championship'. Afterwards it was reported as consisting of riders whose clubs had been the main opposition of the Bulldogs throughout the season. Of the riders who took part, Jeff Lloyd and Roger Wise had appeared regularly for Bristol during the year. Frank Hodgson, Norman Evans, Jim Boyd, Wilf Plant, Stan Dell, Frank Lawrence and George Craig had also represented the Bulldogs during the 1946 open-licence season.

Come again ?

I’d love to see another lynn Ipswich double header at Easter.

I’d be deleting my account!!

And to just be clear, that's in sterling pounds Michael, not PLN...

Not if he went to Turkey

The council don’t really need to spend any money, just force the developer into making changes to their plans. Simple solution would be to give the speedway stadium and large part of car park back, volunteers and sponsor backing could handle the rest.

Jack Smith? (Troublemaking smirk).

Spot on. Very impressed with Glasgow Speedway over the years. All these people who moan/complain about them but I tell you what, if they were no longer there they would be sorely missed. Keep on with your forward thinking and although I am not strictly speaking a Glasgow supporter, I hope they win the league this year. Good luck!

You’re not alone there

Plus given the fact the BSPL have closed that door for 2023 shows they knew the loophole had been exploited.

Mike Parker is the only promotor to throw me out of a track. He threw me out of Crayford four times in one evening before a stock car meeting there because of something I had written in a magazine. Trouble was all his staff agreed with me and kept letting me back in. He would have been even more cross if he had known that the staff always let me in for free as I wrote articles for a number of different magazines. He did a lot of good promotion but also damaged both speedway and stox by some of his actions in my opinion.

It amazes me how much stick Gerry and Peter get. In my experience, pretty straightforward, people-focused, invested in the community, great at business. They seem very private but that’s all.

It won't bother Marcin - he only knows about 10 words of English anyway! I don't think any of the side will be lacking motivation to be honest. The biggest question is going to be, how many foam bags are going to need replacing? I expect the racing will be wild.

Capacity is no longer a problem, while don't worry about the weather - the online ticketing means both transfer and refund options are very easy, no stupid, archaic re-admission tickets!

Would have been a story,, they only last 24hrs

if Neil buys a season ticket and we only get the 8 meetings I will buy him a pint just to keep his face straight... Regards THJ Agree a season ticket is a bargain, but for me I will be in Greece for 2/3 meetings , but I'll have a pint with you anyway John and I may buy them, be careful you Don't spill it 

We had a rider on almost that in 2022.

Well that's something that was discussed at length i.e. age concessions, on this forum, many moons ago. And, if my memory still serves me well, I think a top poster wasn't keen on such discounts? I'm old enough to qualify for some age benefits. (wish I was younger).. And must add that thankfully I'm also lucky enough to reach these milestones.......yes certainly lucky enough. I don't really want to have another written exchange on this - and whatever it costs me to watch Comets I'll cough up the readies.........hopefully many others do too....UTC.

Dudek is no.1 at Panthers it was on his Instagram account earlier this week saying he was flying into Stansted to complete a deal, unless of course thats a Sponsorship deal related to GP's there were a few mentions of this on some facebook pages too that he had flown to the UK was Sunday/Monday

I know you're probably being a bit flippant( always a first I suppose ) with the £16, but having thought about it again £13 is spot on for a stand alone club. If the track is as good as it looks, good value, shame it's 500 mile+ round trip for me otherwise I'd give it go if I was closer.

Lets be honest, you have no idea if he is or not. Just heard a rumour like the rest

Don't know how these prices compare with the rest of the league, find it strange that's theirs no OAP prices, don't know the finances involved but I would maybe have had a flat rate of £10 for all and kids £1.

I see Ippo has got the the Bank Holiday home fixture. Must be a big day for the bangers boys.

Yes Michael I'd love to join the best club in the country again, 3.5k a meeting sounds good to me.

Dreamers can dream

Some people are in for a very big shock when they find out Iversen is not Panthers number 1.

Calling yourself a snowflake is very apt.

I am truly devastated at the loss of Steve. He was my friend and travelling companion on several memorable domestic and overseas trips. He had no side to him but was a straightforward gentle gentleman. He worked tirelessly to get Peter Collins to come back to Belle Vue - and don’t believe PC’s propaganda, he was told he would always be welcomed at the NSS as would any ex-Belle Vue rider. What wasn’t on offer though was his demand, not request, that nearly 200 of his cronies, some who’d had no involvement with speedway let alone Belle Vue, also got in free. Steve tried many times to talk sense into PC, including going round to his house, but PC would not change his mind, possibly because he’d backed himself into a corner. Steve was never one for taking offence and went to the Glossop signing of PC’s book. Having paid his £20, PC scrawled in his copy “Steve, I will never forgive you for what you have done to me and my family. I will never go to BV if you are there.” Steve shared a photo of the inscription but then said to me that he’d enjoyed reading the book. That is the sort of man that Steve was and I hope that, although Steve will never be at BV again, neither will PC as he’ll be barred. I am not alone in knowing that I will never forgive PC for what he wrote. Many men become world speedway champion, there’s one every year, but there will only ever be one Steve Casey. I knew Steve’s cancer would take him sooner rather than later but am still stunned that we have lost him. The world is a much sadder place today.

I'm sure it was mentioned b4 either on this thread or another one that Dudek was after summit like 6k a meeting guaranteed, whether that's true or not who knows.

I think its being an asset of the same club for ten years nowadays. Its not for me personally as they seem to get handed out like confetti but there we are.

Didn't you used to get a testimonial for riding for a club for ten seasons not one?