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I have a holiday caravan in South Devon and, as well as following my home town team, I have followed Exeter Falcons and the Plymouth Devils/Gladiators as well as the Somerset Rebels. At the Arena I have seen some cracking meetings over the years including those when Plymouth started up again and were in speedways third tier. The track might be a bit tricky but I've seen some spectacular overtaking and there's no time for the riders to get strung out like I saw at the NSS on Monday. If anyone reading this is having a holiday in South Devon or North Cornwall this summer, I urge you to go to the Coliseum for a good night's speedway. There's plenty of free parking in the Coypool Park and Ride Car Park and plenty of seating!

In other words there is nothing wrong with it this season. Especially now they have improved it with the extra banking.

Sadly because it fits an agenda used by a minority of the people on this platform. Sadly, this minority won't be happy until they see another club fold and close, without realising the knock on effect of such a decision. It would leave an entire region, not just a city/town - the whole of Cornwall, Devon, Somerset and Gloucestershire without a team. Just let that sink in for a minute? Millions of people without a team to support, they'd rather that happened than see the Gladiators make a good go at things. I really feel for Mark, he's constantly getting battered from all sides (including by riders from other clubs!) despite doing what he can with what he's got. People are more than entitled to their views I get that, hence why we are on a public forum discussing it however most of the time, it's not constructive, it's not helpful and it's hurtful what people say about the Gladiators.... However, it's us against the world and we're going to embrace that!! "No one likes us, we don't care... We are Plymouth..."

It is the annual "Leicester already need to make changes" thread.....

Have I missed a forum directive that members have to put their holiday details on the forum?? Surely this would be of no interest to any other poster and pointless!!

Unless you live within easy driving distance of Manchester- 4 nights hotel to be added on and it becomes a different proposition.

I used the Lions stream for the Ipswich match the other week - that started about ten minutes before tapes up - have to say it was very good, am tempted to do so for this match too.

Well done the witches. For tiger.

Nothing to do with rustiness if you're going to be honest.

Your own!!

Yeah, as long as he leaves the track prep to the track staff

Mention idiot & he’s straight on.

Done on both. Sanitised, de-personalised and re-pointed.

For me it has to be Prague and Torun. Prague being the easiest to get to and plenty to see and do over the visit. Racing wasn’t the best but with the ease of getting to it etc I would good back again. Torun was amazing atmosphere and nice town to stay in. We hired a car to get to it from the airport but there are plenty ways including the fantastic Travel Plus Tours. Thoughts on the your best and others you have visited. ?

It’s a very competitive league this year with teams generally stronger, which is good for the sport. Teams that will make the play offs will be the ones that have top end fire power when scores are tight entering the last three heats. For Leicester to win tight matches, Fricke has to up his game (although tonight he looked a little better) to give the Lions any chance in these situations. The reserves are a worry as many have predicted. At the moment, the Lions are just grateful for wins and bonus points appear to be a pipe dream.

Can’t wait for this one tomorrow! Big support for our lads and lass !

oops that didn't work out right

Well done Aces. As feared man and machine looked rusty and devoid of rhythm on the Lynn side of the pits, need to win more races next home match....against Sheffield

Good luck.

Charles Wright +0 vs Danny King Niels Kristian Iversen -2 vs Norick Blodorn DOUBLE

At least the weather is looking good over on the east side, looking poor over here on the west again, looking forward to the trip over on the sold out supporters bus UTC

Some Poole supporter you are fancy going on holiday in the speedway season will be down on the 15th with worky

They've had ONE match and that was AWAY on a less than perfect track for gods sake !

Would like to see Robert lambert and riders like him at Poole every week tho lisa

Robert likes a bit of oil as well

Keeping it simple tonight. £20 on a 4/1 TREBLE -> King's Lynn, Leicester and Ipswich to win. King's Lynn shouldn't be losing at Home all season with a team that's been built to win big at the AFA on a consistent basis. Ipswich look very solid in every department imo, Jenkins also knows Oxford very well so I expect an improvement from him tonight, The spires have a couple of riders who have yet to fire (Magic and Klindt) and if that continues then there's only one winner tonight. Normally I wouldn't back Leicester but Sheffield's reserves are just as weak, Difference is you know that the Leicester 1-5 can all ride their own track where's doubts linger over how C. Holder will take to the Leicester circuit.

it will only get worse as the lower limit is going to falsely inflate averages so the leagues "better" riders won't be as good as they were 10 years ago and the competition at the bottom will become poorer for it. British Speedway needs strengthening from the bottom up not top down if its to have any chance of surviving.

Because it was awful for years Glad to hear it's been much better the last couple of seasons. Hole free tracks are the future

4/7 yet to do a meeting over here. Forecast looking a bit more promising, just be good to see us out on track and blow off some cobwebs so to speak. Should be a fairly comfortable home win don’t see us causing too many issues.

Should be safe - like your Lions... Blackburn could go down; four matches left, including Coventry, Leeds, and Leicester.

You were already on

Change the record, there is nothing wrong with the track, it's called the great british weather, how many meetings have been lost to the weather all ready across the country

Grudziadz v Lublin Grudziadz 9 Fricke 10 Pludra 11 Lidsey 12 Tarasenko 13 Doyle 14 Lobodzinski 15 Malkiewicz 16 Lublin 1 Kubera 2 J Holder 3 Lindgren 4 Cierniak 5 Zmarzlik 6 Przyjemski 7 B Banbor 8 Gorzow v Torun Gorzow 9 Wozniak 10 O Fajfer 11 Vaculik 12 Miskowiak 13 Thomsen 14 Paluch 15 Stojanowski 16 Torun 1 Dudek 2 Lambert 3 Lampart 4 Przedpelski 5 Sayfutdinov 6 Lewandowski 7 Affelt 8

Looking forward to finally get our home meetings underway. Rob Lyon said on this week’s Pride of the East podcast that a few of the boys had a spin yesterday, so hopefully we’ll be dialled in from the off. Would be much more confident if we’d had those the Leicester and Birmingham meetings under our belt first, but still think we have enough. Stars to win 48-42 (hopefully)

Wouldn't have thought so. Should have beating of this Edinburgh side with or without complin

With those prices for the final they must be living in cloud cuckoo land !! Or rip-off Britain.

It will but surely thats the wrong way round? Once he is proficient in the NJL then he graduates to the NDL. Im not picking on Parker, thers plenty of riders who have been dropped into the league far too early, i can't even blame the riders for grabbing the opportunity its the promotions who go with the sink or swim mentality.

Excellent.

Chelsea (Stamford Bridge) are still in the Premier League, though they are having a bit of a rough time this year!

Agree, Bears favourites , no idea on the score but think it could be close. Looking forward to seeing the new Comets riders, might be a new track for a few of them but Celina has ridden here before and Zischke and Vuolas will soon get dialled in as most away riders always do. For the Bears a first home team meeting, need Bailey and Mulford to improve from their performance at Scunthorpe, where they were both well off the pace.

He had a great first match, but it's far too early to say he'll be the best reserve in the league imo. Gotta see how he'll do away for a start.

That depends on who’s riding at number 6 for Glasgow. I can’t see any announcement, or have I missed it?

Why do Plymouth get so much grief (on various sites) for their rain-offs? Currently they've raced the same amount of home fixtures (0) as Edinburgh, Glasgow, Oxford (Cheetahs), Redcar & Workington. Plymouth can race on Tuesdays & Saturday, whilst clubs like Edinburgh, Oxford & Redcar also have to fit in 5 NL fixtures. Yet still many act like Plymouth will be the club holding everyone up etc. I just don't get the negativity towards Plymouth?

I fully expect to be six up after heat 2.

Fancy Berwick to just sneak this 61-29.

Would love to see a Ipswich victory dedicated to the memory of Suffolk and Ipswich legend John Louis. RIP tiger.

Probably just a typo error Don't think it that big a deal mate

I disagree, can't see any major sponsorship deal being scuppered by the use of guests. If guest use were sold by virtue of Speedway needing the system because it is so dangerous and the injury rate so high it is impossible to keep a reasonably level playing field without them it could even be seen as a positive by some brands. Where it would be a more difficult sell could be if guests are used to cover riders who are competing elsewhere.

Visited Riga a couple of weeks ago and really liked the place. Just over 2 hours flight from the UK and the airport is only 20 mins by bus from the town centre. I asked the guy on reception at our hotel how far the track was and he said it's about 20/25 mins by bus from the centre. Will definitely go back for a GP, but not this year. Wroclaw as said above is brilliant. Close airport. Track is served by direct trams taking 10/15 mins and a great town centre. Going to Warsaw in May and will report back.