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In football terms Glasgow won the league, Scunthorpe won the fa cup and Poole won the Johnstone paints trophy.

Plymouth fans always enjoy trips to Ashfield, great bunch of supporters and like minded people.

2 days more like, I’ve only put Danyon in until Vadim finishes his Polish league duties.

Why must you repeat my response and everyone else's???

I don't see what Ford's problem is here? Surely giving fans a chance to say thank you to a guy who led you to every trophy available until end of this season it should be made public? Was obvious one of Richard or Stevie were going and the anointed one has had a better year. Won't it potentially add more fans to the gate too in what is otherwise an end of season challenge match? Sure Steve no had a vintage season, but that happens to everyone who has a testimonial year in my experience.

For sale at Sturminster Marshall Warehouse ..... one large trophy cabinet .... reason for sale owners downsizing.

Nobody can ever knock Lambert he can have some poor meetings,but there is NEVER any lack of effort.Deserves a bit of success.

Simon Lambert @ 7

Well done to Scunthorpe the better team won over the two legs. What I do not get is the the responses from both sets of fans and the aggression. Poole always put out a competitive team and when they are doing well they like any team they put bums on seats when they travel away. The current state of the sport needs clubs like Poole and every other team to come to tapes in 2024 but if for any reason Poole lost out because of circumstances beyond their control such as the closure of the stadium, the sport overall would be poorer for it. Swindon have gone and now Wolves and Panthers are lost, Kent and Mildenhall may be kicked into touch, surely it is time to appreciate what teams are left because without those speedway in the U.K. is dead. Continually knocking clubs is counter productive and whilst a lot of what goes on is good natured banter, you cannot help but feel some of the vitriolic comments are counter productive. The Scorpions did what they needed to do and Poole came up short. So what. Just look forward to next season.

Does Pickering not get a reduction for quitting the league for 2 weeks?

I think it was £16 in 2018 last time we were at this level. £20 will be reasonable imo, although I can only imagine what some people will say when it’s announced it’s £20. But even non-league National League football is £20 to get in these days. Unfortunately some casual fans won’t realise the actual costs to put a meeting on.

I come on here to follow the speedway news and hear first hand comments about what is happening in meetings. Unfortunately, I have to encounter the garbage that comes off your fingers. If you had wit or intelligence it wouldn't be so bad, but you are sadly lacking in both. Why you are allowed to remain on this forum is beyond me when you obviously have no knowledge of speedway and just come on here to wind people up. If you ever met any of the people you insult on here I guess you'd just wet yourself.

I’m going for the below Glasgow Bingo lottery on team building 2024 depending what the prize is will alter accordingly. 1. Chris Harris 2. Tate Zischke 3.Connor Bailey 4.Danyon Hume 5.Josh Pickering 6. Lee Complin 7. Ace Piper This team comes to 38.42 but seeing as we got Vadim on a 5 I am sure we can wangle a little bit extra if the rumoured 38 is true..

On the flip side it may bring more exciting and competitive heats of speedway.

Might want to watch heat 14 again scunny were on a 5-1. Lawson was unlucky in heat 10 though. I thought heat 2 could have easly been rerun, red lights came on with 2 laps to go, Kemp could have got Thompson.

Has shayman touched a nerve? By responding you obviously care what he thinks..

I can’t believe I’m saying this but, as frustrating as the class of 2023 was, I’m sure they can do better……………

Riders who excelled at long track have been mentioned in previous posts and one of these was Finnish rider, Timo Laine. As far as I can see, he never rode for a British speedway team but I seem to remember him riding at New Cross in a Speedway Internationale qualifying round in the early 60's - Norbold can probably confirm that. Laine won the gold medal at the European Longtrack Championship in the 1961 Individual Long Track European Championship. In addition, he won the Nordic Longtrack Championship three times (1964, 1965, 1966) and the Finish Longtrack Championship seven times (1962, 1963, 1964, 1965, 1967, 1968, 1972).

No, next.

Think I seen somewhere he still is.

Sam, Ronnie, PK & Sqora confirmed. And more importantly the weather forecast has taken a distinct turn for the better!

Sorry can't be bothered to trawl through your 14677 posts, or average of 2.5 posts per day ,every day since 2007!!!

Wish someone would pull Trackrat's cut out!!!!!! .

Yes. The first and only time it's happened to him!!

Hodder was very impressive when he was at Berwick with Belle Vue

Oh ok rotten luck, seemed pivotal at the time

It's left us a little bit stunned and it's not ideal. Doesn't sound like he wanted it Now finish work and had time to read more than first line very valid points. I don't understand the "stronger sides" argument. Everyone builds to the same average. In theory the teams should all at least be competitive. Reducing the limit won't even the playing field. The "better" clubs will still attract the more attractively averaged riders and still be ones to beat

I saw a lot of People stay behind last night and congratulate the Scorpions on their win.

Be as pedantic as you like. We won and we are Knock Out Cup Champions. Now lets get back to the p take of the whinging, bottling, Runners up

Why not let Steve say his goodbyes with a meeting left as he’s done a good job for Poole over all. Fair play to him for ignoring Ford’s decision.

You cannot have a "ghost" team but a team full of "guests" is more than acceptable...

I watched a few meetings that were streamed at Plymouth and actually enjoyed the racing. I do hope they're at the tapes in 2024, plus the away supporters probably the loudest we've had at Ashfield this season.

And if rumours are correct most of the No 1's in teams now won't be in the league in 2024 (josh pickering ryan Douglas, sam masters etc ) so top money for a diluted product !!! Just hope fans will support a higher level speedway with weakened teams

Well done Scunthorpe, really glad to see the trophies spread around, maybe us next year UTB

In the ‘special’ zone?

So glad belle vue got rid of the worrals. Let down so many times in the playoffs

A bit if deserved silverware for Scunthorpe after a fine season,,hell of a performance from Lambert and not to mention Mountains effort,vital point from him Fair play to Poole on yet another final,they are the team to beat constantly and deserve credit for that, Lastly ,a good effort from the track guys down there to get the meeting on and a raceable surface

What about Jack Thomas who would be on a similar average to Kyle,In my opinion Kyle won’t improve much on 5.50 in the main team even in a weaker league,Jack Thomas would improve I think but the other top4 spots I’m guessing are pretty much nailed on

Well done Scorpions Knockout Cup Champions 2023!!! Guess who is nailed on for first signing for 2024 season?

Fair enough they were better on the night, Simon Lambert outstanding

All the Poole fans all cocky saying the tie was over and they choked huge huge choke Poole specialist Douglas doesn’t win a heat and yet Poole still couldn’t win ….. Steve Worrall really has gone missing in both finals So so sweet

there’s always the jubilee trophy ;-))anybody for a flat white

Yes. Even if there had been a rider who could've come in mid season for Lee and done better - which there wasn't - it would've been a terrible move because he was so good at getting the crowd and the kids hyped up. Not enough riders work the crowd, but he's brilliant.

If the points limit stays the same and Doyle Emil and King return, I don’t think you can build a team with Rew at reserve on 4.00.

Agree completely. I think the objection was cause they saw it as fans running "ghost" teams with no intention whatsoever of reopening a track in the teams area. I see where the authorities are coming from in that respect but when Rye House ran in the 1999 Conference League using Mildenhall and Eastbourne as home tracks the consortium doing it didn't reopen Hoddesdon the next year, Len Silver did. But if the 1999 consortium hadn't reopened at Mildenhall and Eastbourne would Len Silver have been motivated to reopen the track the following year? In this day and age of not enough tracks any possibility/spark or little acorn that may lead to a track reopening has to be encouraged or at worst not hindered and/or nipped in the bud.

I never quite got the objection and eventual banning of ghost teams. If you start with the objective of organizing a racing environment whereby young riders can get competitive track time on a regular basis and enough people are willing to pay to watch them, what's the problem?

The wording there that he needs 2 Leagues in the UK to make it pay is partly why British Speedways in the mess it's in, he see's it as a cash cow because Polands possibly not worked out for him. There should be no doubling up/down except for British Riders under 24

If brother Steve is leaving Poole would that be too high an average for a top 2 under this new limit? Only leaves about 21 points for your remaining 5 spots

What a team that Edinburgh 2008 side was. They absolutely dominated that year.

Josh would ride on his Polish Licence so would probably come in as a second string on an assessed 5.00!!