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Whilst the Berwick fans will point to a poor performance from their side, it was an equally good performance from the Bears. Didnt really look a weak link tonight - having Riss back a lift for the whole side. Good to see King back on form, and both Hume and Bailey rode hard for not as many points as they may have deserved. But hats off to Mulford tonight, best home performance by a mile and rode really well. Shows what at least getting to the first bend in the mix can do, but made some great passes and will surely take a whole load of confidence from tonight. Knudsen had a strange night, looked excellent in his first two and then nowhere. Hook did his job but otherwise a poor performance. A big well done to Rory Schlein however - my nephews always stand and wave at the away riders vans as they leave. They often get a wave back, but Rory stopped his van and gave them a cap which they were absolutely over the moon with. A simple but effective way to get two new fans.

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Deary me,not another who thinks he’s a superstar already.

Not sure I agree with the comments of calling posters "clueless" there can be arguments both ways of wether Workington or Leicester are weakened or not with their changes. A forum would be very boring if everyone agreed on everything - doesn't make someone with a different opinion to you "clueless"

Alex Harkess being interviewed at the end of the meeting last night: "We just gave away too many points tonight" 51 to be precise.

Track looks slicker than a strippers bikini line

Have to disagree, the GPs are for the top 15 riders in the world. Unless he is finishing 15th/16th in every round, then he's clearly still at GP standard!

Just watching thomsen saying he s happy to be back with a semi lol

What do their girlfriends think to that,thought that only happened in your 60's

Crap GP, crap final. Please don’t return to this awful track. Even the fans know it’s dire as there were probably 3000 there at most.

Indeed, not riding for the Aces on Thursday night at King's Lynn, obviously did wonders!! Seems he's scored a 15 point maximum for Rybnik today. So was he injured, or did Rybnik use their 'Polish influence' and prevented him from riding at Saddlebow Road?? Certainly has a whiff of fish or a rat.

At last, an exciting race. Come on the red tractor, but try not to mow Scotty down.

Some disciplinary action required if all this is true!

Interesting. I have had it suggested to me that he was 'high maintennance', looks like this could be true.

My popcorn got ruined last night waiting on his rant bit inconsiderate if you ask me, It was £2.49 as well.

Think you're underestimating the strength of Workington. Luke Harrison will be fine fitness-wise, and is a class act. The R/R will be solid with a ride for Pijper, 2 rides for Harrison, and a ride for H McGurk and will produce a lot more points than the single point from Kelly in the Mildenhall home loss. Kelly has crashed a couple of times at reserve, and as you say riding top 5 is harder. Conversely riding at reserve is easier, and H McGurk has been a consistent, solid 7-8 .point heat leader in the last few seasons. The move to Workington has been a disaster so far, but you don't become a bad rider overnight. Moving to reserve could see him making hay. This could be the comeback meeting. Dan Thompson is the NL No.1 man. The Leicester side is built around big double figures from the twins. Roynon is capable of a big score, but as we saw last Saturday, it's not easy to replace the league No.1, so Leicester are much weakened. I'm not so worried about the Ward for Foord replacement. Foord is another erratic type who could crash out as easily as score points. Ward will have a go and pick up any gift points without pulling up too many trees.

German SGP, Champions League Final in Istanbul, Sam Fender performing at St James Park and The Proclaimers are at Kelso. Another perfect storm ?.

Don't believe a word of it

Need the two Russian lads in this to make it interesting.... Artem and Emil would give Bartek a challenge. .. Nobody else in this field will...

It's the fans, his team mates and the Club who have been badly let down! It doesn't reflect very well on Speedway as a professional sport either!

I thought Cardiff was the worst anyone had ever seen…ever…

It was suggested his father was with him and could well have been the overwhelming influence in what occurred. Apparently car parks cannot be used as pits for health and safety reasons, this didn't suit and resulted in them leaving. If this is the case it is diabolical, there were a good few Leicester fans who gratefully made the journey and this action may well have cost them a victory bearing in mind the dominance Ashton demonstrated on track the last couple of weekends. It is these Leicester fans I feel a lot of sympathy for, quite disgraceful actually.

Using one of those provided by racers and royals at lunchtime ... Top quality and in English.

As Tarkens said above, this is now live: https://vk.com/video-81427162_456239518

I very much doubt whoever drove him up, would just let him leave and drive him back if they didn’t agree with him! Read into what you will. Young riders are usually influenced by their elder guardians. Henry Atkins was a lot like this, heavily influenced by his father and that often backfired for him. Thankfully, Atkins seems to have grown up now and is starting to show some potential.

I might be wrong here but I don't think that the riders vans are parked in the pits at Leicester. There's not enough room for starters!

I don't want to judge a rider before hearing his version of events, but if what I've read is true, it's the most embarrassing display I've ever heard of from a Speedway rider! Maybe Zmarzlik could complain about having too small a pit bay in the GPs but not Boughen at NL level! I also can't help but wonder who drove him up? At 15 he can't drive, so has he really thrown a strop which means his parents / mechanic has driven him all the way to Workington for nothing? Very keen to hear what the explanation is through official channels from Workington / Leicester / Boughen!

Speedy recovery Tom

I'll go far Workington 51-39 Leicester

JK`s excellent Teterow racecard https://www.speedwayservice.at/images/racecards/2023/SGP2023-04.pdf

How about a scenario where a potential buyer for the club, and current owner couldn’t come to an agreement over the sale . The potential buyer had already got his team sorted, but when the deal fell through the current owner couldn’t or wouldn’t honour the contracts that had been agreed, and the sponsors didn’t get the team they thought were buying in to . Just a thought

I was there and that was followed with the more sponsorship we get the the lower that figure becomes. There is more sponsors this year so that figure goes down. The 1000 is without any sponsorship, so please don't just use the facts that suits your argument. Nigel Tolley is having a hard enough time at the moment and like the rest of speedway needs our support. It's easy to kick a dog when it's down.

Yep, Tony is on facebook .. i couldn't make Wednesday but just done Leicester yesterday and Scunny today. Will be at Poole on Wednesday though

Job done tonight, a match on paper we should've been winning. Top 5 were really solid, Complin worked hard for his points and young Ace was unlucky with his fall in Ht2. Was a lovely sight seeing the stadium emptying well before the last race. Only thing missing was Gypsies, Tramps & Thieves being played over the PA as they departed

Luke came through five rides with no adverse effects last week. He was a little tender on the Monday but has been good all week after so let's what see what tomorrow brings sincerely hoping the seven isn't on the cards .

to be fair to harry his first 2 rides looked like he wasnt interested but his last 2 he looked a different rider

Kim, Tommy, or Harry?

From the Leicester Lions Web site:- The problems began with Ashton Boughen, who had been present on track walk, a non-starter with his van leaving the stadium before the meeting commenced as his father was not feeling well.

If he was advised to leave by his mechanics, guardians, advisors etc then that would be even worse! Especially from a helper to a young rider! Anyway all speculation till the truth comes out!

Refused to move then went home

Yes on Eurosport

Good Old Days in Wembley, i hope they coming back like did with Oxford Cheetahs!!!!

Well you are wrong !!! 6pm UK time

Craig is on a man up course for the next 2 weeks. So I have heard.

Polish Aves for comparison: Dudek 6.72 Tarasenko 6.43 Smektala 6.21 C Holder 5.72 Lidsey 5.47

It may well be but not according to Discovery+ Upcoming events both last night and this morning.

Harry has been sorely lacking in all departments so far not least confidence and looking like he his actually enjoying it. I hope he can rediscover some passion, speed and confidence otherwise i can't see him having a future in speedway. Callum Foy isn't ready for this level from what i have seen to date and i doubt very much he will get a ride from choice.

I'd certainly echo what Crescent Girl has said. In all my years watching speedway, I have never known anyone more passionate about the sport than Laurence Rogers. That doesn't necessarily make him a good team manager, but I can remember a few years ago Wolverhampton fans turning their ire on Peter Adams after a string of rubbish performances and a poor final league position. Adams was - and remains - the most successful in top flight speedway's history. I don't think that this is a matter of spite, but it is a matter of looking for someone to blame for Birmingham's disastrous on track performances over the last couple of seasons - in other words, a scapegoat. What you seem to believe is that if he left and the 'inept buffoon' was replaced by someone apparently more competent on track performances would dramatically improve. Looking through the 2023 predictions thread, most have Birmingham bottom and none have them in a play off spot. That means the team is poor - which it clearly is - and therefore whoever comes in is extremely unlikely to turn things around without significant changes. Booting Rogers out, then, will almost certainly make very little difference. I am not aware how much say Laurence Rogers had in building the team, but given a reported £250k loss last year even if he was wholly responsible it is more than likely that his hands - not unreasonably - were significantly tied in terms of the budget for the team. Blaming him - and only him - for Birmingham's present form seems to me, then, to be totally unsupported by the actual circumstances in existence.

Wozniak is the wildcard 17 O Fajfer 18 Jasinski

I,m assuming the promoters are having or have had discussions about next season and the future of the sport in the UK......