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Okay, I’ll say it again, wow. First of all, both sets of riders should take a bow because the racing we were served was nothing short of world class. I’ve never heard a roar like when Harris and Brennan hit the front in the first heat or when Pijper and Complin did the same in heat two, but when Tarasenko passed Masters in the thirteenth heat, Ashfield was lucky it didn’t have a roof because it would have came off. The goods weren’t only served-up by Glasgow though, because Masters pulled-off a last gap pass on Harris in that first heat, Jordan Jenkins outstandingly took over Basso in heat five while Masters was basically dancing with Brennan in the tenth heat before bettering him. Did anyone notice Heeps versus Basso for third in heat four? Wow. 60MPH, side-by-side at times and inches from the fence. Basso didn’t get past, but that was an incredible piece of track geography by Heeps to stay ahead. I’ve no idea how he managed it. It was almost as if the racing line was a lottery. There was passing on the outside and there was passing on the inside, both on the bends and on the straights. Incredible. Michael Max was back in the centre green one last time, so I felt like everything just came together again as I relived my youth. That smell of burning methanol is better than the aroma coming out of any Michelin starred restaurant on the planet. The Ashfield I last saw and the Ashfield I experienced last night was night-and-day. It adds to the spectacle. Apologies for the rant, but this guys hooked on speedway all over again and is devastated the season is coming to an end, but will be back for the play-offs, 100%.

Place was jammed last night just as well as we have a massive wage bill according to BSF accounting.

Speedway IS on its arse. Several clubs are on the brink of extinction, 3 riders have failed drink/drugs tests in the past few months, more have "withheld their services" and the sport is still (for the most part) badly run in poor stadia unfit for the modern age, attendances number a few hundred hardy souls at most clubs and the streaming you mentioned barely has any significance outside of people who already follow and support speedway. But one exciting meeting changes all that? I want to take a shot of whatever you've taken!

That was my first speedway meeting since 2016 and second in ten years; I’m hooked again. I’ve no idea where to begin, but it won’t be tonight. I’m knackered, so I’ll fire my thoughts in here tomorrow, but wow. The atmosphere, the smell, the racing, unbelievable.

It is impossible. Totally utterly impossible to have watched last night and not have every aspect of your love for this sport not restored and amplified. it was wonderous.

Well..... you wouldn't think there was a meeting on at Berwick tonight. 5 and a half hours before tapes up and neither team have a preview on their websites. The BSPL have TBC in both teams, so heaven only knows what the line-ups are. If the teams (particularly the hosts) can't be bothered, then why should the fans. And they wonder why the sport is dying on its backside.

Honestly cracks me up on here. Best meeting you're ever likely to see and got the usual suspects on here looking for negatives. Glasgow speedway must have some amount of accountants that everyone knows what our riders get. Gees peace. Bare in mind we never wanted to make the change and Vadim wasn't even first choice!! Anyway, what a bloody meeting that was, first class from all 14 riders. Ben's tape touch probs cost us the bonus and good to see Lee back among the points. More of the same in play offs please

What have the failed (none negative )drugs/alcoholic tests got to do with how the sports performing. I work in an industry where we are tested, is it the companies fault if idiots break the rules and get caught? Withholding services? Happens in every sport, want a transfer but the managers not letting you go ? The difference being they have squad systems that can replace defective or ineffective players. I 100% agree that the sports organisation and rules are a joke and something my 5 year old could write. What ruffles my feathers is having people continuously drone on about how horrific the sport is and how it's going to be the end of speedway. Speedway will never ever die and if anyone thinks it is they need a quick shake up to how life works. As long as people like seeing bikes go round and round in circles and riders like riding bikes anti clockwise there will be some form of speedway.

Was my guess as Ben and bomber couldn't take r/r ride they got heat 15 as meeting was won and bonus wasn't affecting anything.

What a read this thread has been, a rollercoaster. Some people just not grasping it. How dare he not ride for Redcar on a Sunday rather than the Ekstraliga play off semi final infront of a sell out crowd with Laguta, Bewley, Janowski as teammates!

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It's a view I suppose... he's seriously suggesting that driving a car is comparable to racing professional competitive motor sport. I can't believe a director of a Speedway club is advocating riders pumping themselves full of steroids/HGH in order to be competitive. Speedway is struggling enough to be taken seriously this would be the final straw for many I would suspect, the media would drop it in a heartbeat for starters. He says Speedway falls into line with sports like athletics or weightlifting, not quite true, it falls into line with almost all other professional sports. He's also suggesting that riders are required to walk in a straight line or something before a meeting to test whether they're "fit" to ride. I think he's had one dram too many before writing that post!

Fricke a very decent replacement for Woffy - certainly any perceived weakening there is more than offset by Vissing being missing Too close to call overall - could come down to which side gets that little bit of extra luck at a crucial time If ever Erik and Keynan wanted an opportunity to repay the loyalty and faith shown in them these next few weeks are it......

Staring a new Drinking game. Every time I see a post including the phrases: "Speedway is on its arse" Or "Final nail in the coffin of speedway" You take a shot. Rewind 2 years ago, there was very little championship speedway being streamed at a professional level. Now we have multiple meetings every flippin week, coming at you in Sky Sports quality productions. If you don't like it, sod off and watch cricket, I'm sure you'll find it far more entertaining.

Whinging toad, seems to be ruffled too easily. I understand he runs a pub, but I bet they’ve never had a happy hour.

Oxford were very good tonight but the whole package was excellent tonight, the racing and the atmosphere from a large crowd plus the glorious weather. Whats not to like.

Congratulations Edinburgh.

Thought Simon Lambert did very well tonight. He did Plymouth proud. Also got to mention Jacob hook who was tremendous . That’s the season over but already looking forward to 2024 .

Our coverage last night won’t have showed you how many were in attendance very well as our cameras are on the 1st and 4th bends, looking away from the grandstand and the home straight where the majority of supporters sit/stand.

Agree, what a sad ending to the season for all concerned.

Cherries are playing Stoke at Vitality. Would affect attendance.

WHY INDEED? Can only assume from that he doesn’t want us to continue either at the EoES or elsewhere!

Truth is we'll never know, but if he hadn't fallen off and managed to have an injury and fall-free run for the first weeks of the season I expect things would have been very different. I do agree with a previous comment, it's a bit of a coincidence that the team has become a lot stronger since the former co promoter left the scene

Don't think things would've been very different - I wouldn't be surprised if he was only due for 28 days anyway

What group are Berwick in?

With our recent drugs/alcohol testing record the last thing we need is a pub landlord in charge!

Have you got a link to where I can buy some of these rose tinted glasses please? The four riders on the track has never been in doubt. That’s always been the draw. It’s the rest that has been, and still is, failing massively.

I’d imagine they’d do 1 home meeting from all 6 clubs if they can. Easier said than done for the Friday ones.

GP riders swear if they get a camera shoved in their face after something happens that they’re not happy with. No speedway rider needs PR lessons, not enough people care.

Hopefully, BSN will stream where there is no in-house streaming, like Oxford and Glasgow until the final when I guess they will then stream both legs. ?

No one on BSN has said they're showing every playoff meeting they said some, not all

OMG. Glasgow v Oxford. The best Speedway for years. With matching TV coverage.

Yep

Berwick could have had him on 5pt av but they chose Hans on a 5.Unlucky again.!

Poole didn't win the league, they topped the qualifying table. I think that should mean they are league champions, but they are not (yet?) I don't think the jumped the gun announcing a match on Wednesday, for example Redcar & Scunthorpe may have both agreed to go to Poole or Oxford on Wednesday, depending who picked them. You'd think Poole would choose Edinburgh, but I really can't decide between Redcar & Scunthorpe, who is the better option to race against?

Didn't look like it was on its arse in Glasgow tonight. I think anyone who came, whoever they support, was thoroughly entertained and I can't think anyone regretted spending their money at Ashfield tonight. It did go on a bit, but it didn't seem like many cared given what they saw.

The sport in this country is going to be a poorer place when Bomber finally retires

Actually, I think having the likes of Tarasenko in this country is the complete opposite of the sport being “on its arse” His arrival in the Championship has opened up the race for the play offs. And I doubt he’s more expensive than, say, Schlein so not much cash needed splashed.

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Hindsight is a wonderful thing. However, no one knows what would've happened if that first corner, on the first lap, in the first meeting didn't happen

Have you forgotten who it was that signed that IDIOT Pedersen?

Charles Wright has given everything for Redcar for many years. Been on the lower end of wages despite being one of the top riders in the league. Turned down numerous approaches for much more money from other clubs. Hes now been given a once in a lifetime (especially at his age) opportunity to ride in the top league in the world and has to miss a match that ultimately means nothing for Redcar. Playoffs are confirmed and league position now means nothing. Give the guy a break!

Seems to be a bit of pals act going on with you. On one hand you defend Worrall for ‘saying it as it is’ and verbally abusing a fan online. Then on the other hand you are saying this? Of course the vast majority do not know the full picture! The vast majority are only interested in the actual sport not the personal lives of the riders. @davieb1 is only commenting on this from a sporting perspective. Everybody has their own issues and there are hundreds of riders in this country that ride week in week out that do not behave the way Cook does. How long do you expect people to keep giving him a pass for?

Having not ridden for the Club is a good restriction though.I’m starting to think you are just a forum name changer.

Please tell me how else do you find out, or do you abandon the meeting and every other meeting when someone has a flat tyre. I'm sure that will give everyone something to moan about.

H1: 57.6 H2: 58.8 H3: 57.6 H4: 56.8 H5: 58.1 H6: 58.2 H7: Awarded H8: 57.8 H9: 58.6 H10: 59.0 H11: 58.3 H12: 59.1 H13: 58.8 H14: 58.5 H15: 58.8

Yet Rosco has more titles on his CV than the back catalogue of the all Lions managers put together. Still, when Leicester can “successfully” grasp defeat from the jaws of victory in qualifying for the play offs this season, that’s probably an alien concept to you. I wouldn’t worry about a team manger just yet, with the Bates’ family having put Leicester up for sale, you should be worrying about Leicester coming to the tapes next year. If Leicester come to the tapes next year, then you can worry about a team manager, which probably won’t be Rosco, Rob Lyon or Peter Adams. Any new regime might want to put themselves in charge after buying Leicester speedway. Buy a lottery ticket today, it could be you…

Something about this struck a chord about this topic and hey presto I found it. Scunny v Eastbourne June 21. Kyle Newman tyre, disintegrated. Plenty of pictures if you search for it. Maybe Skidder you could ask Kyle. I'm sure he'd remember it. Sometimes Refs aren't interested. Clerks of the Course feel compromised. Mark had the balls to ride round Exeter, that's proof enough for anyone to know he has rider safety at heart. Hopefully Plymouth will stay under BSPL and not be lost.

That's your opinion. I was stating a fact. Poland has priority on a Sunday, I don't know why this is so hard to understand. I believe Wright signed as injury cover for Wroclaw around August 10, a good three weeks before Woffinden got injured at Cardiff, so not sure where you got your info from. If Wright was to ride for Redcar on Sunday, he would be withholding his services in Poland - not the other way around.

So that's the end of the faint playoff hopes at the end of what's proved yet another challenging and disappointing season for the Gladiators. A team assembled at the start of the season with so much hope and expectation that for whatever reason just never seemed to click. Yet again, injuries have played a huge part in the season along with a very poor stop/start nature to the season with how it was structured. Massive thank you to everyone who has guested for us across the year. Of course, there are some people on here who have a very strict agenda against Plymouth Speedway. One can only presume this is due to the distance you'd have to travel to see your team race (As an Argyle fan, it's never easy having to travel such long distances so I can sympathise to a point). People will always have their prejudices towards the track because it is different to anywhere else but I'm sorry, personally the joy and thrill of motorsport is that you don't race on the same track configuration every week. If we all raced on a 300m round oval then it would be boring week in, week out. Some of the racing at the Colosseum this season has been excellent. Even Tuesday night, threw the face of adversity, plenty of the crowd declared that as their favourite meeting for some while and credit needed to go to both sets of riders as everyone put it on the line. There's been some strange, peculiar bashing of the promotion as well. As someone who's had a hand in the day to day running of a recreational, successful sports club within the city, I can appreciate the tough, difficult job that Mark Phillips has. No promoter wants to lose money. No promoter wants to deliberately mislead supporters just to earn a quick bit of cash. People do need to remember at times just how difficult a job it is to be a promoter and absolutely nobody wants to call meetings off willingly just before meetings are due to start. As we are all aware, speedway as a sport is on borrowed time in the UK. There's no light at the end of the tunnel and every week there's another rumour circulating that another track is due to close for various reasons. We as supporters of the sport and of our own clubs have a duty to do what we can and the constant mudslinging and negative press that not just Mark but other promoters up and down the country receive are only going to drive people away from the sport and equally put off future investors because if they see what treatment promoters receive, why should they invest? This is a critical time for British Speedway as we move into 2024. The waters are choppy and the visibility isn't good. I for one, hope there's Championship racing at the Colosseum next season and I can't wait for the new season to begin.