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You are also away with the fairies and do yourself and your club no favours with the continual crap you post on here.

If people are bashing Roynon based in the fact he can't do what Darcy could do on a bike, then they'll need to bash every rider in the Championship!

The new owners are AEPG but are actually only custodians for the Agricultural Society. My understanding is that they won’t actually pay for the Showground until development begins. Of course Panthers could ride there for a number of years until the track is swallowed up, but that, I believe is not what AEPG want. I engaged with the CEO at an open day earlier this year (he had no idea who I was) and I slowly turned the conversation to Speedway, it was clear he didn’t want it, he even said the rent for the Speedway was a peppercorn rent per meeting (it isn’t) and that he should be charging 10 times more per meeting (that would make the rent circa £20k per meeting)! He’s either a very shrewd businessman or he’s away with the fairies. I’m leaning more towards the latter.

And so it begins.

It needs credibility though.Racing and Entertainment is important,but you need fans to watch it. The League is just a set of Challenge Matches these days.Everybody riding for Everybody when it suits.

I’m pinning my hopes on planning being refused and AEPG baleing and someone getting ownership of The Showground and putting on quality events that appeal to locals as well as people who travel from afar. Then again I’ve been pinning my hopes on Posh reaching the Premiership for far to long lol.

actually think Terry has done a brilliant job getting the track smooth at Poole

Borefest unfortunately

Just bumping this up, if you haven’t already signed please do so. We’re not going down without a fight, 4 pages in the Express and Star tonight. I know some of you detest Monmore Green but quite literally the future of top flight Speedway in this country depends on a positive outcome. Any more clubs fall by the wayside and it’s all over I’m afraid.

What’s the betting that the speedway will get kicked out and nothing will happen to the land for years. Just like lakeside Middlesbrough rye house Coventry Reading and Coventry.

It would be good to not have what appears to have become an almost annual mid season concern about Birmingham.. The people running it certainly seem to be trying to make the sport viable in the UK's second city.. (Behind Manchester).. Best wishes to them and their endeavours... Let's hope they get the crowds their financial and emotional input deserves..

It's time for all of us Panthers and speedway fans in general to make a stand on this. Wolves seem to be getting a lot of sympathy and rightly so but Panthers seem to have been left to rot

How's about : 'Having given it due consideration we have decided to extend Wolverhampton Speedway's lease by 12 months to allow them more time to find an alternative venue'.

His decision in 2018 to force Lakeside and Workington to cancel established fixtures and then run on off nights (so he could have a better choice of guests) did huge financial damage to both clubs who both folded at the end of that season despite being in all the cup finals and in Worky's case winning a treble.

Well that was sh!te.

Now a track grade!!god jnows what hes grading,terrible track

Just talking sh#te to make excuses for gullible fans.

Somebody should tell those Plymouth fans to lower their flags to half mast

Steve Lawson stated the track will be different come race day than that of the recent practice days.

Don't know why TR gets such a raw deal on here... He will have spent countless hours and covered thousands of miles driving 45 minutes outwards from Swindon town centre and back, in all directions of the compass.. Selflessly and forensically looking at every single piece of land within that zone so he can build the Robins a new stadium.. He could though possibly save himself a lot of time and fuel by putting "Abbey Stadium" into the sat nav.. I believe there is a track already there at this location, and a new stadium is already being built on it I have heard.. Sounds like it could be just what the Robins need..

Maybe Kurts is available after all?

I reckon they will demolish the Grandstand, pits and safety fence at the first opportunity they get.

Three home matches and yet to see the away team turn up with their declared 1 - 7.

Unfortunately no matter what happens, it will only end in them making a load of cash from extra houses or a stadium sale to someone else once the original houses are sorted. The fact that no one was given the chance to come in and say they will have a go at running speedway and making it viable says what we all know. The sham of Swindon Motorsports just confirmed they are all in it together which most sensible people realised a fair few years ago.

I'm sure Buster and crew are all over it like a rash..

Don't see how TR will make any cash. Oxford will pay the riders surely. Zero mention of it on the Swindon website. Don't think its got anything at all to do with the club.

That's the spirit, ruin it for the rest of us, fool.

It's seems inevitable we'll end up with one league. If not next season, then in the next 2-3 years. So why not bite the bullet sooner rather than later?

I’m not really that bothered by the purple rebrand, I think supporters of the club have bigger things to concern themselves with right now.

He was hated at Swindon!!! We had them in the cup one year and he was an absolute arse in the 1st leg away at Eastbourne. The 2nd leg went down to a last heat decider and his bike went bang on the start line to put us through. Karma is a bitch mate!

I don't disagree, however I don't think speedway will ever return here. So no Poole Pirates, or a Poole Pirates relocation? It'll probably never happen, but surely a relocation would be far more favourable than Poole being lost? Just sayin'

I remember one at your place where someone got onto the track and Dugard rode through the tapes when he was excluded! I was only about 7 or 8 and thought it was amazing!!

IOW has more than 'a sprinkling of NDL riders' as you put it in the speedway based meetings. Of course, as they run a varied programme, there are meetings that may attract a different client base. Every promotion in the UK could benefit from watching how the IOW run meetings. As a customer I feel valued from the minute I arrive in the car park to the moment I leave, and often that is extended to the ferry trip home.

How many have viable businesses under the current operating model? If tracks were very profitable, running with 5000 crowds or so, and paid ten grand a night to landlords, then pretty much all those huge amount of tracks which have closed over the past decade would still be open... Well meaning fans with deep pockets prop the sport up at several tracks to keep them open,, the operating model and marketing plan of the sport doesnt do that...

That’s two meetings now and he hasn’t won a race on the flip side I saw Scott Nichols tonight who is still quality on and off the track.

He could have resigned and let somebody who has a plan to save and revive the sport have a go? Just an idea

The cynic in me wasn’t surprised the meeting took place at the same time as Panthers were flopping against Belle Vue. AEPG have for over a year now portrayed this mantra that it’s all a done deal, the majority of local residents didn’t even realise that a planning application had not been submitted until last week. The underhand DHL storage deal for which AEPG have now submitted a retrospective planning application has stirred the residents, they are not happy with the increased traffic movements and they are now beginning to take more notice. It’s worth noting that the Haddon development which is about the same size as the Showground has only now started to be developed many years after the planning application was submitted. FWIW I thought AEPGs plans were fanciful and when I first saw them I thought to myself there was no chance of them succeeding and I’ve seen nothing since to change my mind. Why do they want to end the Speedway and every other event? It’s obvious really, they want it to become a desert wasteland full of cars and vans, that becomes an eyesore and so they hope the council will eventually approve the plans to develop it. All depends how big the councils balls are I guess.

A wise move...? In charge of their own destiny... And not having their brand getting negatively impacted by the BSPL's brand reputation.. Maybe more should join them?

That makes things a bit clearer from the new site situation. However maybe MT shouldn’t of promised so much so soon.And before he knew he could deliver. That’s what got all the fans buzzing, and now they feel so deflated with the last east news about the club. I’m no Buster fanboy, but I do think he is taking a lot of crap ,when MT looks to have spouted everything the fans wanted to hear, and not delivered. Just my opinion, we all have our own I guess.

The guest system needs sorting out, it's got completely and utterly out of hand. It doesn't take much common sense to work out that riders shouldn't be guesting for other teams in their group of three #jokesport

Darcy would be quicker than Roynon whatever he rode.

Darcy never rode a lawnmower.

The crash was 100% down to what we would consider to be the poorest lap he's put in since his 125 days the 3 previous laps were very good . no fault of scunthorpe speedway or the facilities there. There's nothing to imagine so let's not stir up another campaign as there already one happening on Facebook

Just beans on toast for the rest of the week??

At this moment in time there is no time set on how long before he returns. After a conversation with him today he is eager to know timescales but he is under no illusions that regardless of his desire to ride he won't be rushed back as at 15 his career should he have one is all in front of him

Wrighty's pretty good on co-comms

Really gutted for Pontus, he had something really good going.

Isn't this tomorrow? 20th

British Speedway has always been run by jokers, and it’s finally caught up with them.

Your the joke