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Totally disagree, common sense is often lacking in this sport but I think for once it has prevailed. A minor league sport where we should be doing everything we can to preserve and help the clubs within the system survive, I’ve been following the sport since the late 90’s and the amount of teams who have fallen on hard times and disappeared to then never return is staggering, to the point where the bare bones remain. Giving Plymouth no facility and then basically no hope of competing never mind winning would surely turn not only casual fans away but the fantastic loyal support that the club has. The last thing I as a speedway fan want to see is another club fall on hard times through in theory very little/no fault of there own. Why do you want to see Plymouth in a potentially bad situation? Is it so your own club does better? I’m a Berwick fan like yourself and I would much rather have as many competitive teams in the league as possible and teams being sustainable for years to come.

This could be a big win for Scunthorpe.

Not really Plymouths fault on this one, didn't ask for there No 1 to get injured

Maybe the decision was made/rubberstamped by the promotions of the other CL clubs as being in the best interests of all CL clubs.

Absolutely, need some rags to clean my work van

I see that Plymouth had snow that settled last night! They really have had some incredible weather, I really don't think the early call offs are anything other than genuine. As for the Covatti facility, I have mixed feelings but I think its common sense to grant some kind of facility. I'd always prefer R/R over borrowing other team's riders but it is what it is and the league needs all its teams to be competitive.

But could end up racing front of a terrible crowd, some not coming expecting it to be off, others not wanting to stay out in terrible weather. Apart from wether the match could be raced, gotta consider the financial implications of racing on a very wet day.

This should be a comfy home win but will be really interesting to see how the Comets newbies go.

Apparently he is holding onto them to see if a consortium from a children's charity come in with an increased bid.

Buster has some Easter eggs going cheap now

There will be thousands more views on their Facebook page then the website gets. You don't have to use or be 'on' Social media to see the posts, it amazes me how many people don't get this. It's just a web address like the official webpage is - https://www.facebook.com/scunnyspeedway All the info you'll ever want will be on there

How are Plymouth making a mockery of the sport? They didn't make the decision to allow a facility for an injured rider.

Yes it should be GT Tyres Comets, not GTS

Do you not consider this forum board to be social media?

Imagine your life being this sad!!

Could you think of anyone appropriate that could do it, I could think of one who shouldn't.

And it’s off… best decision to call it early

James Denham is on the Offical British Speedway No Brakes No Fear podcast this week and he explains the riding order logic, plus much more. But basically it is to put an experienced rider out on the away tracks in heat 1 and allow the newer riders a few heats to see what’s what. Here’s the podcast > https://pod.fo/e/22b0b3

We don't, and never do... The "In the interest of Speedway" card regularly gets played ,which clearly shows that all rules can be (pardon the pun),'ridden over, as is, and when, required... A common sense approach in a tiny minority sport where whoever wins the league isn't going to earn "millions", or even "hundreds of thousand's" and, as history tells us, could even close down due to the financial strain of getting that success.. With so few teams it is bad for business for all the clubs to have any "cannon fodder" which fails to attract crowds both home and away...

Frankly, Plymouth aren't making the playoffs, so they can have Bartosz Zmarzlik for cover if they can convince him to come as far as I'm concerned.

Poole Not sure about the rest

Read my post again, slowly this time. Or do you think Landshurt and Daugavpils are now in Poland?

100% correct decision to call it off. Used my spare evening to visit a relative in Lynn hospital and it was slashing down when I came out at 8:10pm. Clubs often get criticised for getting it wrong, so only right they get praise when they get it right.

any scorps fans seen the footage of celina beating mr kemp fron back in fashion . keep it clean search you tube if you dare lol

So far clubs have been calling meetings off early enough to avoid fans travelling. Certainly better for the fans than turning up.

It would be refused a licence, would be closed down and then presumably lost to speedway. That's why there are now only FOUR Polish teams in the bottom league.

Meeting off

It'll take a lot of improvement from the bottom 5 to get Redcar into the play-offs imo. They certainly have potential, can they realise it? Good fixture to start with before the serious stuff starts.

Not determined until 18 April I think

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Weather forecast looks ok so far, ready for tapes up excited for it now!

Workington Speedway are delighted to announce that our title sponsor, GT Tyres, will also become our ground name sponsor in 2024 and 2025.

But they’re still in the league. Doing better than many.

9 likes,1person thinks it's funny just about sums up that person.

https://poole-speedway.com/news/view/2024-03-26-previewing-poole-wessex-marine-pirates-v-oxford-monarch-cheetahs-friday-29th-march

I'm normally one for sticking to the rule book, however, on this occasion given the circumstances and the clubs unsuccessful attempts to sign a heat leader I believe the common sense approach has been taken.

Correct lisa and I believe that there has been other examples of this aswell with other clubs. The precedent was set a while back.

Yes, numerous people have commented on this, but unfortunately, there is little that can be done to remedy this. When the stadium was restored from the wreck that the previous owners (Birchfield Harriers Athletics Club) left it when they moved out in the late 1970's, the new leaseholder Maurice Buckland was only interested in greyhound racing and laid the facilities out accordingly, removing the original terracing on the home straight and replacing it with a flat area for the bookies to use to set out their stall. Spectator viewing was confined solely to the grandstand/bar. When the operation was sold to the GRA in 2004, speedway was invited back and restarted there in 2007 and this was when the "temporary" accomodation on the first bend was installed by Tony Mole's promotion. Part of this later had to have the roof removed because it was blocking the view of a section of the dog track from one of the executive boxes, which the GRA would not allow. As the stadium now has only another 2/3 years before it is demolished to make way for houses, there is little point in trying to remedy this, which I agree is a pity, but its fair to mention that the view of the speedway track from the stadium's first floor bar is superb and uninterrupted, and is air conditioned on warm nights, and heated on cold nights, and there is no additional charge for viewing there. Personally, I'm not too keen on watching from inside, but even I have to admit that it does have its consolations on a cold or wet evening, and I'd say that overall, a visit to Perry Barr on a speedway night is well recommended.

But Poole got 28 day facility for that Czech who never rode for us a few years ago, so unless the rules have changed since then, I don't see the problem.

Respectively I can`t agree, how can a team get a guest facility for a rider that`s never ridden for them. We either have rules that all clubs abide by or we don`t.

My prediction is that Buster will be relaying the track at about 7pm

Hagen and Perry got better with every lap though we mustn’t expect too much from them. Tobias looked more confident than I expected and seems to think he will do a good job. Soon find out against opposition riders who know the Poole track very well. Roll on Friday night and let’s hope it’s a good entertaining opening meeting.

What a weird observation. Not sure I'd judge a club by the age of a machine being used to do the track. I think you're looking at it the wrong way. I don't think it's so much about Plymouth being a 3rd tier club, more a case of the likes of Glasgow and Poole being top tier clubs. The reality is you're always going to get 'minnows' in every league, clubs that punch above their weight and on the flip side clubs that are fallen giants, that a bigger fishes in smaller ponds. I fully accept Plymouth in the past has been poorly run and I'm not a massive fan of the current promotion, but the facilities today are chalk and cheese from what they were in the past.

New race suits look very impressive

Can you take food and drink into the stadium? Also, are the seats on homestraight unreserved to sit on when you arrive, looking forward to my first visit tomorrow, hope the forecast doesn’t ruin it.

I see Oxford have cancelled tonight's practice. Any conspiracy theories about that, or is it just Plymouth who aren't allowed bad weather I wonder?

I hate the super heat. There I said it. Completely deflates the side that hard earned a draw.

The track was very wet from overnight and morning rain, and although I was there before 4pm, I didn't see any water being added. It did seem a bit greasy and this probably made passing more difficult. I thought we caught Sheffield cold in the early stages and were able to twice build up a ten point lead, but Sheffield always looked to be capable of catching us up, and being able to use Tai Woffinden four times in the last six races (including the superheat) was hugely to their advantage - although fair play to their team manager for reading the situation rightly. I didn't think Birmingham's Team Manager made any blunders. He might have made a couple of late changes but these probably wouldn't have affected the final outcome. In my opinion, the superheat spoiled the meeting. What is wrong with a drawn match anyway? Both clubs and their supporters would have gone home happy with a draw, so why ruin things for half of them with a daft rule that very few people ever wanted introduced in the first place? (That's not sour grapes, and I congratulate Sheffield on their win which I think they perhaps just about deserved, but I was delighted with the size of the crowd which was a great relief and was well deserved by a promotion which has worked so hard to keep speedway in Birmingham, and by the enthusiasm displayed - made so much better by Sheffield's happy and noisy contingent. This I think, justifies the gamble to move up to the Premiership, and will hopefully lead to more entertaining meetings like this one.

I think the way Plymouth abused the rule book a couple of seasons ago with the Eddie Kennett debacle and were allowed to use a guest all season for him . They broke no rules I admit but this is why the Rule book over a missing rider was tightened up

Usual old chestnut about admission charges, Everything else has gone up but for some people speedway promoters are expected to somehow absorb their increased costs.