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I agree! Was looking through his CL averages over the years and it reminds you how dominant and consistent he's been at this level. "Bad" seasons have still been 9 point averages. 2009 Workington 3.93 2010 Workington 7.47 2011 Edinburgh 8.09 2012 Edinburgh 9.99 2013 Edinburgh 10.83 2014 Edinburgh 10.41 2015 Edinburgh 10.47 2016 Peterborough 9.67 2017 Workington 10.37 2018 Glasgow 11.05 2019 Glasgow 10.71 2021 Glasgow 9.46 2022 Glasgow 8.98 2023 Edinburgh 9.08

I think Tarasenko is a pretty safe bet, most tracks he saw for the first time last year. He saw Kings Lynn once and was unbeaten until he crashed in a first turn incident in heat 13. He spent a large part of his time figuring out what are the best engines for english tracks and experimenting so I'd say there is probably more to come from him. He's ultra professional, brave, and very switched on. If he goes to Lynn, I'd expect him to be pushing for the #1 race jacket by the mid year.

bit of a pisstake if you ask me but whatever

But what about the games England are in...?

https://ipswichwitches.co/louis-update-on-2024/ Team building is complete. Announcements in the coming days..

Agree. It's not to bad. I'd rather Wojdylo over Toft tbh , but Tofty should be able to put something on his 5.13, if he is, and can stay fit. We desperately needed a re fresh after recent years, and I think a play off place is a must this time around. After the last few seasons, It's important to keep fans happy. Starting by winning your home meetings.

Your not the only one.. Talk is cheap. I don't believe it either.. But it makes him look even more of a fool if he is correct, for not paying what Buster wanted pre season. That's if he was ever serious in the first place... Either way it don't do him any favours.

Out the 2 i'd pick Feltz all day long. Could never be with a smackhead, so in my head there's a possibility then

It's OK though.... one or two are bound to be called off due to poor weather forecasts...... LOL

Can't see Dan lowering himself to those kind of levels tbh. Leaving BV for KL is the equivalent of leaving Kate Moss for Vanessa Feltz.

Interesting...

Obviously not knowing what the Birmingham business model is, but... You would have to think that Wolves closing is something that they would factor in, and see as an opportunity.... UK Speedway, uniquely for a team sport, does have a high proportion of followers who follow the sport generically rather than worry too much how "their team" does, which could give some potential.. 200 to 300 Wolves/Ex Cradley fans, starved of Speedway each week, allied to 200 to 300 extra Birmingham fans tempted back more regularly due to the higher standard of rider, might just be enough, with the TV money, to make it viable.. They appear to have done a decent job in at least trying to promote themselves, so maybe promoting the likes of Emil, Bewley, Doyle, Holder, Fricke etc, may just prick up more interest from those who still follow the sport locally, but no longer frequent the place... From what you can see looking at the crowds in Div 1, around 1500 seems to be a "decent" figure for tracks to compete and do "OK" financially.. Maybe Birmingham can also generate some extra sponsorship cash now they are in Div 1, and on a major TV sports channel, to offset any shortfall in gate revenue..? You have to wish them all the best for keeping Birmingham going..

Jason Crump has also retired... A double blow for the Aces...

Emil, King, Doyle, Ellis, Rew, Jenkins, Thompson

The information contained in the book is incorrect. My information is from the details provided by all of the tracks at the time regarding the format of the league, the composition of the groups and the fixtures. The first Swindon match in this league was against Poole on 28th April 1956. I have the programme for the match and it states the details on page 4. These details include: "Mid-week First Division tracks will race against Saturday Second Division tracks and Saturday First Division tracks will race against mid-week Second Division tracks. The Robins' matches will be against Poole, Wimbledon and Wembley." The groups determined which First Division teams raced against each Second Division team. The final league table was for the matches from all of the groups, based on a percentage out of the possible points gained - two points for a home win and three away. The book referred to does not include all of the groups, neither does it include all of the results for the teams shown. For example, it does not include Swindon 49 Wembley 47 on 1st September 1956. This is incorrectly shown on the Speedway Researcher website as a challenge match, but the fixture list in the Swindon programmes had the correct information.

That makes less sense to me, there's 3 southern & 6 northern teams

I don't disagree but the trouble is I'm not sure his average has an awful lot of value in it. His effort and commitment last season was without question but is he realistically going to keep that level of scoring up? We'll have to see who else is named instead, if for example it's Wojdylo & MPT you are looking at a Polish rider who showed a lot of potential last year and a Scunny team mate who average a point more than Simon despite a nasty injury.

When it’s needed no problem at all, but all too often it was coming out to grade a track that was a flat as a witches twit and hardly any dirt on it, what’s the point? Slick, slick, slick, dry and dusty and can’t water it because then it will go like ice, that’s all too often what we have now in this country bar a few tracks like Belle Vue, Redcar and Scunthorpe to name three.

Restraining order usually works.

i wish i could like this but I cannot. running social media/marketing isn't just a hobby, there should be money involved in my opinion

Tomlin got the wrong end of the stick and AEPG were deflecting the loss of their income from them crashing the showground business. The speedway was providing the only business income at the time (apart from the somewhat "illegal" unplanned occupation by all of those cars and transporters) so in AEPG sums, all of the costs to keep the showground open were piled onto the speedway and that was down to not wanting anyone booking the place for anything that did not pay them direct and operate under their full control. So in the end they might have been being almost partially truthful in that it could have been costing them more than they were getting from the speedway but that was totally down to their stupidity in thinking they could walk over the council and locals and hire the showground space out to DHL to get all income with no expense. Their business plan was to clear the showground of all those pesky customers and use it as a gigantic grass car and lorry car park. What the 150+ workers they said would have been doing to fund AEPG,'s loan repayments is anyone's guess unless they were going to operate money printing machines in the Arena since nobody can tell them not to in their fantasy world.

That's not a reason to not pay someone. I get it as there's volunteers and it's a great gesture, but time and effort costs.

People who run club's social media are unpaid so no reason for someone else to receive payment

Small boys in the park? Jumpers down for goalposts? Isn't it? Wasn't it? Hmmm? Home for beans on toast for tea? (Don''t quote me on that). Marvellous...

There was very rarely an interval at Rye House under Len Silver too. The short grading breaks were your opportunities to use the facilities/get refreshments. Speedway meetings don’t need an interval at all really.

They could sign... Vaclav Millichich. Or Martin Vaclick.. Or even Martin Vachilich...

Zmarzlik will be happy that he's not riding for Brum in the top flight this time around. He'd get annoyed at Sam very quickly for calling him Bartash Smashlik on a regular basis.

Stop being a stalker

Maybe he was asked straightway when Birmingham knew they needed someone.

Even if that was case, he's got the wrong end of the stick has he not? The AEPG 'angle' as I understood it is that it costs them too much to host speedway as a landlord and that the rent charged doesn't make it worth it. Unless I've got that wrong? Which is rubbish anyway. They just want the speedway gone to make their millions.

Birmingham did something similar to that a couple of years ago with Coventry and Cradley fans and by all accounts it did not go down well with their own fans, who questioned why they had to pay more while other clubs fans had a discount. Understandable that they want more fans in, but you don't want to get the regular ones backs up in the process.

If it's true, maybe he should of backed his some of his pre season words, and bought it then Vad will be a great back up to a No1 at the AFA. Once dialled in he could average 8.5 -9 around there. The first thing is to win your home meetings. If he can up his away average by a point or so as well, then all good.

https://x.com/TomalinMichael/status/1727228071395410089?s=20

1. Emil Sayfutdinov 10.10 2. Simon Lambert 4.66 [4.78] 3. Danny KIng 7.05 [7.23] 4. Patryk Wojdylo 5.00 5. Jason Doyle 9.12 6. Keynan Rew 4.00 7. Dan Thompson RS With Lambert definetly not at King's Lynn next year I feel this is possible

Staying at Redcar

If the fixtures get lined up to create a couple of mini northern tours it could add to the gate, Glas/Edin/Redcar friday night, Worky Sat pm , Scunny sunday....

Cook has his well published mental challenges, however just to overcome them, or even just cope with them, as he has shown he can do, actually (and maybe even ironically), shows great mental strength and resilience.. In a place local to him, with supportive management, and in a league of a significantly lower standard, I can see him flourish, and also have a Div 1 place after a couple of months or so as teams make changes to their middle order..,

Will be a lot easier for traveling fans to come to the Northside arena, and as most of the league is northern based, could be a few traveling fans, may also be attractive for southern fans, weekend in lakes and Saturday afternoon speedway

That would've been when he went round straight away as soon as the race was over Now the Tractor is not allowed to move whilst any rider remains on the track - hence the programmed grading breaks I do agree though it doesn't have to take an age ans could be done more than after 4 , 7 ,11 and 14 I've never understood why many get so upset with trackwork - done right it improves the racing and surely that's what people want....

Where this comes from is a mystery? It’s like the changing of the seasons and the tides of the sea….

So the 'good old days' that we keep hearing about, weren't so good after all?

Personally no, alot of ppl keep saying if he's in the mood but if he isn't he could end up being a no show again which ruins any decent team when your no1 is out. Saying that I can see it being cook at no1 tho

8.52 with the reduction in a "watered down" league could be a bargain.

I think the ever dwindling attendances across the sport show fans are less willing to turn up every week. The reality is there are many reasons people don’t attend weekly. The patchy fixture lists (and uncompleted fixtures) have been an embarrassment to the sport. Especially when there have been blank weeks during the height of summer and then a mad rush to finish the season come October when the weather turns. Of course any business wants to make a profit and a weekly one at that. But they also have to be realistic about how their product is consumed. It’s better to make a profit from two meetings a month than a loss from four.

Here are the Top Ten averages by year (over 9.00) 1965 11.12 - Nigel Boocock 10.83 - Ken McKinlay 10.48 - Mike Broadbank 10.16 - Ron How 9.90 - Jimmy Gooch 9.65 - Cyril Maidment 9.45 - Ronnie Genz 9.43 - Eric Boocock 9.42 - Norman Hunter 9.35 - George Hunter 1966 10.54 - Nigel Boocock 10.46 - Eric Boocock 10.00 - Colin Pratt 9.67 - Ken McKinlay 9.60 - Mike Brooadbank 9.55 - Cyril Maidment 9.42 - Norman Hunter 9.41 - Terry Betts 9.39 - Trevor Hedge 9.29 - Eric Boothroyd 1967 10.52 - Nigel Boocock 10.43 - Ray Wilson 10.29 - Eric Boocock 9.74 - Terry Betts 9.53 - Ken McKinlay 9.37 - Roy Trigg 9.12 - Dave Younghusband 1968 10.74 - Nigel Boocock 10.72 - Martin Ashby 10.17 - Eric Boocock 9.71 - Norman Hunter 9.62 - Ron Mountford 9.58 - Colin Pratt 9.45 - Terry Betts 9.40 - Malcolm Simmons 9.37 - Ray Wilson 9.15 - Trevor Hedge 1969 11.08 - Eric Boocock 10.78 - Nigel Boocock 10.56 - Ray Wilson 10.35 - Norman Hunter 10.33 - Trevor Hedge 10.01 - Jim McMillan 9.97 - Martin Ashby 9.39 - Reg Luckhurst 9.38 - Dave Younghusband 9.35 - Terry Betts

Maybe this is finally the stadium Osborne promised for Reading. Two birds with one stone.. Man's a genius I just hope the BSPL have taken the Robins' licence off ice and removed Russell from any control - but somehow i doubt it!

2nd half first sounds like a brilliant idea. But.... Lay out the rules for the second halfers clearly. Start on time. No stretching the 2 minute warnings. No gardening. Just a crisp flow. Get the main teams ready to go. In fact, maybe run out the main team riders on parade, in pairs, crisply between junior races. Of course this means they have to be ready and the crowd have to be clearly informed who it is they are seeing. And then the main meeting has to start right on the money and be run smoothly. Come back Charles Ochiltree

That's a myth any junior will tell you they want better tracks not the second hand rubbish they're forced to race on.

In stewart dickson we trust. Since hes taking over leicester have won the title, runners up and would have made play offs if morris hadnt failed a drugs test.

Steps back in amazement. Mind you. If they get all their fixtures completed, it might embarrass a few clubs who can't, despite only running one team.