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...personally I would have thought a photo/plaque commemorating Peter Craven would be appropriate in a suite/room named after him?

I'd agree with that. Worrall is a solid middle order rider. Last season in his last 10 away meetings he won the same amount of races as Lawson and Picko. I believe he was in the 1to 5 as well. Not an earth shattering signing, but one that is reliable and should keep his average imho.

i would be very happy with that team would be great to have kenny back and if we could fit tungate in as well that would be a very solid team. dont think with that team we would be beaten at home and should pick up bonus pts to. its much stronger than having a big hitting number1 and hans at 2

Henceforth to be known as Poole Pikey day.?

Have the Poole season ticket holders turned up a few weeks early for P&P day?!!!

I'd have taken Richie at Leicester for sure. I think he's only 30ish and some riders are peaking later than previous times before...I think there is a little bit more to come from Richie for sure. He's no bomber but certainly ain't no mug. Keep the faith panthers...looking forward to you coming to the lions den.

Ok Mum.

Hopefully the las rider will be named soon …fed up waiting tbh

In fairness, I’m not really sure that Rowe exploded onto the scene. Rowe was decent at reserve for Somerset and after a mid season reshuffle got forced into the main body of the side and was decent. I never really saw enough to think Rowe was going to become a top rider like it was expected of Kemp. I think there is something in Rowe to still get to a higher standard but he’s never really going to become World class and probably more of a Worrall standard type rider. Sounds abit harsh but that’s the way I see it. For what it’s worth, I completely agree that it’s a nonsense that if Kemp, Rowe, Thompson etc are ready and available and want a team spot but haven’t because of averages. That should never be allowed to happen. This goes back again to the “rising star” scheme should be a thing in the Championship without question, along with a certain quota of British riders along the same lines as what Poland do.

Wouldn’t lose at home that’s for sure

Kenneth Bjerre 7.75 Niels Kristian Iversen 7.59 Ben Basso 6.81 Rohun Tungate 6.61 Richie Worrall 6.15 Ben Cook 4.06 38.97 Jordan Jenkins RS

There's a rumour doing the rounds that Andersen has also now been Bustered

No Happy Pills though....

I presumed with the Victor Meldrew avatar it was an attempt at comedy that had just missed by a long way. In terms of Lemon's management ability in his 5 years in charge, I'd say 4 Premiership play-off appearances, 2 Premiership play-off Finals, a Premiership Title, a Premiership Knock-out Cup win, a National League win, and a National League Cup Final was pretty decent, but I'm not sure what relevance this has to the topic in hand of Peter Collins' BV vendetta, his list of 100+ friends, and his scrawling an obnoxious message in a dying man's book.

He's a rider that all teams tend to have Charles Wright, Stevie Worrall, Erik Riss, Kyle Howarth all bang average but steady Eddie riders

I totally agree, very annoying to see foreigners who couldn't reach their 4.00 assessed aves get team places before 5 point Brits.

Might need 8....to be fair it wouldn't be the worst bit of rule manipulation this season anyways.

Irrespective of how Drew and Anders progress British Speedway is going to suffer .Any British youngster that developing fast is going to lost in the main to Polish Speedway as has been proved with Bewley and Lambert,and let’s be honest British Clubs will struggle to meet their demands unless Swedish speedway (which is struggling) goes completely t#ts up,and the riders want to top up their earnings over here again. Ambition for any Young rider in the WORLD is to get into Polish Speedway.

Could we please leave politics out of a speeway thread and concentrate on the new season, and that goes for football too, mon the Glasgow Tigers

Would need to start a new thread for the more. A 500 pager more. You forgot the missing £600k that was allegedly ringfenced for a future referendum (no laughing at the back) that their executive officer hasn't explained its whereabouts. What's a missing £600k between husband and wife?

Ive always thought joint venture mergers at the highgate dog track (south yorkshire) or The Valley (south wales) dog track and the Tir Prince trotting track (north wales) could be potential ventures could maybe host some speedway?

Since we lost Peter Craven in 1963 and the first World Pairs Championship wasn't staged until 1968, it's hardly surprising that Craven's total number of World Pairs title wins exactly matches the total number of terminal cancer patients he callously insulted.

Have also heard this ! …… interesting

Who would be considered a major signing on a 7.78 or lower if we've managed to get Tungate after all.

I just don't get the criticism of signing Worrall. Hans Andersen's signing is way more baffling considering the team will be 2 points under the average.

He can probably consider himself a little unfortunate, in terms of his average he's in a similar bracket to Jorgensen, MPT and Pickering and personally I'd have been happy to see him back either in a slightly different team structure or in place of Jorgensen. Other than a few frustrating performances I thought he was decent last year. He probably is bang average in that he averages between six and seven but you know what you are getting. The issue will be Andersen if he ends up in the side.

You're correct. Obviously lots of Peter Craven in the Peter Craven Memorial meeting programme (and a big photo of him on the cover). Don't think there was any mention of Peter Collins in the Peter Craven programme (unless he bought one himself off ebay and scrawled a nice message in it). No photos of anyone inside the Peter Craven suite, as you say it's a multi-use function suite used by lots of sports and schools. But there are some big boards in the concourse with list details of the achievements and the multiple world titles won by Mauger, Fundin, Crump, Craven, and even the single title won by Collins.

Only got released due to the numbers game as KL needed a HL. Picko was a lock for one of the second string berths and TJ only got the other spot out of loyalty. TJ is KL's version of the Hans Andersen / Panthers situation where the rider gets a gig at the club every season no matter how he performs on track.

Keep the faith in Richie Worrall, Leicester stepping up this season too and that's another technical place he goes very well at. Richie's scores at Sheffield last season were the following which proves he can score points on a big track away from Home against a very solid side too. 6+1 @ No.3 7+2 @ No.4 9+1 @ No.3

I can't remember where I read it (maybe in a Speedway Star) but Danny Phillips was hyping up the Bullets as play-off contenders. Naturally he's going to say something positive like that, as no-one signs for a club planing to do poorly. But I do feel he's gravely mistaken & that Berwick will be nearer the bottom than top. Built to just over 40 points, which means they need to put 2 points on their averages, just to be a mid table side. I honestly don't see much potential for riders to up their averages. The league certainly looks stronger than last year. Coles is a good number one, but rode at 3 last year, so by adding heat 13 to his races, if he keeps his average, he'll be doing well. Ditto for Blair, had a great season, but at the easier number 4 for half the season. Phillips is an acceptable 3rd heat leader. Freeman showed so much potential for Newcastle & Armadale I expected a lot more from him last season. Now out of the reserve berth, it's tougher. Like Coles I think he can improve (by keeping his average). The bottom 3 all have the potential to improve, but I see that as a slow & steady rise up the ranks, which is where they will miss Luke Harrison! So on the whole, the team doesn't look bad. But if you have 6 or 7 strong looking teams & 1 or 2 average looking teams, they'll be near the bottom. If I was a Berwick fan, I'd just be happy you're getting to see lots of Speedway in 2023. More matches than Glasgow & Redcar (not to mention Newcastle).

There must be some way of making sure that Kemp, Rowe and Thompson have Championship spots if they want them before handing out work permits for similar standard non Brits.

After reading that correctly I agree with you lol! These older riders can assist the development of their team mates & be a target for developing riders to beat. I.e if you can beat Ben Morley, then you're reaching Champ reserve level. I agree they should get rid of the "development" name & just call it the National League.

I agree using 2022 form doesn't tell the whole story of Richie's form around Alwalton, as Panthers were weak. However had he scored 3 or 4 points each visit, I could understand people being negative towards his signing, but he didn't, he scored well.

Depends whether you've looked at who he beat and factor in how pants Panthers were last season. Is 2022 alone good measure?

The key failing was not to put a restriction on heatleader strength that would prevent teams having a powerful top three and as a consequence three low averaged riders, leaving little room for the mid-range riders.

Thanks to Stewmac- this is the revised fixtures following the demise of Masarna 2023 meetings will be held on Tuesdays only, except from Rounds 10 and 12, where there will be meetings on both Tuesday AND Wednesday. May 2, 2023 (Tuesday – Round 1) Indianerna – Piraterna Vastervik – Lejonen Rospiggarna – Smederna May 09 2023 (Tuesday – Round 2) Smederna – Vastervik Lejonen – Rospiggarna Dackarna – Indianerna May 16, 2023 (Tuesday – Round 3) Rospiggarna – Dackarna Piraterna – Lejonen Indianerna – Smederna May 23, 2023 (Tuesday – Round 4) Dackerna – Vastervik Lejonen – Indianerna Smederna – Piraterna May 30, 2023 (Tuesday – Round 5) Vastervik – Rospiggarna Piraterna – Dackarna Lejonen – Smederna June 6, 2023 (Tuesday – Round 6) Vastervik – Piraterna Dackarna – Smerderna Rospiggarna – Indianerna June 13, 2023 (Tuesday – Round 7) Piraterna – Vastervik Smederna – Dackarna Indianerna – Rospiggarna June 20, 2023 (Tuesday – Round 8) Dackarna – Piraterna Rospiggarna – Vastervik Smederna – Lejonen July 4, 2022 (Tuesday – Round 9) Vastervik – Indianerna Lejonen – Dackarna Piraterna - Rospiggarna July 5, 2023 (Wednesday – Round 10) Rospiggarna – Piraterna Dackarna – Lejonen Indianerna – Vastervik July 18, 2023 (Tuesday – Round 11) Piraterna – Smederna Vastervik – Dackarna Indianerna – Lejonen July 19, 2023 (Wednesday – Round 12) Lejonen – Piraterna Smederna – Indianerna Dackarna – Rospiggarna August 1, 2023 (Tuesday – Round 13) Vastervik – Smederna Rospiggarna – Lejonen Indianerna – Dackarna August 8, 2023 (Tuesday – Round 14) Lejonen – Vastervik Piraterna – Indianerna Smederna – Rospiggarna After the regular season, teams 3-6 go to the quarter-finals, where the 3rd chooses whether they want to face teams 5 or 6 in the regular season. The winners of the quarter-finals go to the semi-finals, where teams 1-2 from the regular season await. The league winner chooses which of the quarter-final winners they want to face. The winners of the semi-finals go to the final. All playoff matches are played as double-headers where the best-placed teams choose whether to start at home or away. August 15, 2023 (Tuesday – Quarter finals 1st legs) August 22, 2023 (Tuesday – Quarter finals 2nd legs) August 29, 2023 (Tuesday – Semi finals 1st legs) September 5, 2023 (Tuesday – Semi finals 2nd legs) September 12, 2023 (Tuesday – Final 1st leg) September 19, 2023 (Tuesday – Final 2nd leg)

Lowering the Average’s is doing no favours to British Speedway,regarding bringing on British youngsters.At least 3 or 4 are missing out this season because of it IMO.

If Worrall was that good Lynn would have kept him

Then they shouldnt have left it till February

As is traditional ( one might say mandatory) with Peterborough they are making an almighty balls up of what was supposed to be a new era for Panthers. How much of the 30 pieces of silver has Buster still got?

Brighton "Pride". With a rainbow race jacket. Liverpool "Hub cap steelers"

It’s been said before but Freddy still has the effects of Long Covid, it’s highly unlikely he will add to his workload I would have thought. If he agrees then fair play to Peterborough for convincing him, I’m sure CVS would welcome the extra income also.

Did she step down as from yesterday? That is not how I understood it. She is stepping down as from when a new SNP leader is appointed. She has got herself in a tangle what with Independance, Gender, hospitals, ferries and probably more.

A drop in the ocean compared to what she awarded herself. She obviously couldn’t recall or have that information to hand though.

Fandabidoubledozi...

My Alan Carter book arrived today...look forward to reading it after finishing "Tears & Glory".

Again this is rubbish, Anders was seeded to the final in 22 but couldn't ride in the final and is seeded again in 23 in Glasgow. I can assure you his Polish Team are 100% Anders and are looking forward to him representing GB in 2023.

This is rubbish, there were many clubs looking at signing Anders in the winter. He came back last year because he was wanted and put a point on his average which has gone against him for the start of 2023. When clubs start looking at strengthening up Anders and Drew will be the most in demand.

Evening ScampiSpeedway, I don't normally comment on here but thought it was worth clearing this one up. The meeting will definitely go ahead, all the necessary clearances and checks were carried out long before the match was announced. Seven former Diamonds with a combined average just under this years points limit, hopefully this will give the Bears a strong challenge leading into the season and be an exciting team for the Geordie fans to cheer on. There's two reasons for us not giving this much hype yet, first is we don't want to in anyway overshadow Robbo's meeting the week before. Second is it is far too early, any hype created now wouldn't be sustained. As for financing the meeting, we have six outstanding sponsors from Newcastle making this happen and we can't thank them enough. Hope that clears it up and hope to see you there

Didn't he turn his back on the UK last year though.