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Pretty negative comments there Hawk. Most posters on here, including me, seemed to enjoy the meeting. Close racing, a fair amount of passing and the meeting went right down to the wire. Plus the underdogs won. So put that in your pipe and smoke it.

What a great Speedway meeting! If you didn't like that I really don't know why you watch Speedway at all, it had everything, great racing, close scoreline, last heat decider, drama in the last race and a victory for the underdog. You can compare it to Poland until the cows come home but you're comparing Premier League football to the Championship. That was a great advert for the sport in this country

Really good to see all the postive comments on the match - often after a TV meeting there is a lot of negativity. So glad Birmingham won (Nothing against BV) as well otherwise the gap between the top 5 and bottom 2 would be geting too large - just need Kings Lynn to win a few now and we might get a competitive battle for those 4 spots! We need an even and competitive league!

Good to see he has got the chance , when he is riding the way he is and the way we know he can he is an asset to both leagues. I wish him well and hope it is a success for him.

Cracking meeting this.

Meeting off. Flooded track from over watering after too much sun throughout the day. Sorry just practising for Thursday.

That’s because Belle Vue DO have the biggest home advantage in the league, let’s not pretend otherwise here. Why are you all saying you’ll take all the aggregate bonus points if that wasn’t the case? Nobody racks up home scores in to the mid to high 50’s at home as consistently as Belle Vue do. The stats are there for all to see! The only team that occasionally make a decent fist of it there are Sheffield, probably because their riders also have a decent set up for big fast tracks. You need to be fast at the NSS, otherwise you get swallowed up very quickly even if you make the start. The home boys have the set up to a T, away riders very often struggle for speed around there, even the very best.

Why would he though? Very least they would had got was a match winning 4-2! Birmingham deserved that victory , bit of a recently typical bitter attitude from an Aces fan

Well done Brummies - very entertaining meeting and some of their riders really did well for them tonight!

Pawlicki did ‘a Nicki Pedersen’ slightest of criticism touches and dropped it.

Brum deserved that win tonight. Showed a lot of fight throughout the meeting with various riders stepping up.

How the hell did Wrocław get a draw out of that ? Great meeting, bewley outstanding

You wouldn't know a sensible debate if it crept up and bit you on the ass!!

Electrics all fixed (see the insta), nobody injured. Classic Trackprat claptrap.!

7.30pm UK time

Pity about Wednesday. Getting our fix by going to Edinburgh and Berwick. Come on the Pirates ☠️

Exactly, that was my point. They are much weaker than last season and fail to see where the improvements are going to come from. Blodorn is doing way better away than I expected and mountain in reserve will get them a few points. Not in the same league as PC and Mort.

You stick to Poland, I'm very happy with the product here, great meeting last night and really pleased the Brummies did it

And yet F1 does so well? First corner, race over... Unless the tyre fitters can come up trumps...

From what I saw then read on updates only 12 out of 15 (80%) were like this. Just shows the ignorance of none speedway fans.

It does seem a strange one putting Ellis at 5, I can only assume they want to pair Dan T up with Doyle to take the pressure off a bit in 3 of his rides perhaps?

In the Leicester match, I had to go into the grandstand, it was so bitter cold ... I didn't last night, but I wouldn't be surprised if it was full again. Certainly, the crowd has been so much bigger this year than for a long time.

I don't get that one either? I'd class previous tracks such as Eastbourne/Wolverhampton/Arena-Essex, as the 'home-advantage' type venues? Failing that....Leicester's gate-'n'-go type track is the new Home advantage for me....simply because the home side can get the bike set-up just right for getting out the starts....

For me he's a bit of a mercurial enigma, on his day he's as good as anybody and he can do that consistently until something gets in his head (and I am not talking about his mental health here, before everybody jumps on me, I am talking about his mind management as a professional athlete), history has shown that with various incidents he's been involved in. He's established himself at several clubs over the years and for one reason or another has moved on and it's been quite a surprise to see that. He is a quality Speedway rider, you don't get to qualify for the GP's without being so, there is absolutely no denying that and he should dominate the CL in its weakened form, PL in it's "strengthened" guise this season? He has the gating ability to be a lot better in the PL than he has recently been, his current form in the CL says it should be a no brainer for a team to include him in their side in the PL especially on a short term basis.

No pressure on the lad I would suggest.. 28 days to earn a few quid he hadnt budgeted for.. If it works out, great, he may find a permanent place either there or elsewhere... If it doesnt, then no loss...

He had a very decent season last year, up until the crash that injured a photographer. That could affect any rider, wether the struggle with mental health or not. Some comments on the forum suggests he had a bad season, but really he just had a bad end to the season.

Someone had to be excluded - as Chris Louis said it would have been very harsh on Pawlicki to exclude him as Kurtz dived underneath - it reminds me a wee bit of the playoff final at Owlerton (22) when TobiM charged under Oh Kurtz and down he went!

Fans ? never spotted any

certainly encourages you to make a journey to perry bar. i was impressed by the poles and the brum team in general

Lots of positives tonight for British speedway. A well prepared track close meeting throughout and good racing to go along with it.

For a rider of his stature, Bewley has apalling track craft and race awareness

Fair call imo,but once the ref come to that conclusion the race should be awarded as Brennan was in a different post code to Bewley.

Anyone who follows polish speedway will be fully aware of the pawlicki brothers, “ getting knocked off “ and getting a rerun

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prob because you are a problem with other posters and give the negative factor to teams and fans of other tracks . maybeall posters shold take a restraining order against you ! Left Over Lolly

Of course, it's terrible when someone uses their knowledge to make a post, as opposed to just blurting out nonsense...

It's all a bit safe though isn't it, it's always been done that way so that's the way we're going to do it. I think keeping the opposition guessing as regards their line-up is like Speedway's version of Bazball... Stewball if you like No disrespect to Ritchie as he does a fine job for Ippo, but it's hard to imagine him managing elsewhere for another team, I wouldn't have thought he'd be on anybody's "wanted" list unlike Stewart Dickson or Rob Lyon for example.

He's probably serving a ban for withholding his services

If taking it to a last heat decider away from home, was a poor display....God help all the other teams if/when BV get it together! B'hams reserves were the difference!

A poor display from BV last night. The best team won.

I think you must have been watching a different meeting? there was plenty of passing from where I was watching the meeting? The consistency of the 'gate' positions are always up for question...but it also has a lot to do with how the rider handles the first 2 bends on approach! (there was a race win from each gate last night...albeit only 1 from gate 3 ) If riders did/do a track walk, then they would've seen where the dirt was/wasnt? they wouldn't need to have to ride it to find out? Pawlicki going down gave BV a 2nd bite of the cherry, had he stayed on B'ham would still have won! ....may be he thought that the race would be awarded? Would like to know why it wasnt? the refereeing has been poor this season! Why no warning for Kurtz moving at the start? Hoping Brennan/Worrall can pass a bit of 'track set-up' knowledge,when B'ham visit BV next week!

Great to see Cookie looking more like himself again. Think for his own sake he should take it slow and keep scoring high consistently for Workington before rushing for a spot in the premiership. Get the confidence up very high with a lower pressure environment instead of taking another hit if he isn't getting the same consistency/results in the top league, then mid season see if a place opens up.

Kurtz is one to talk about putting bike down lol! Was no room there had to go

Pawlicki chucked the bike down.

My expectations were low after the reports on here of the first home meetings but this has been very enjoyable, Brum has always been a decent race track. The Brummies have showed plenty of fight, effort and determination but ultimately are probably going to fall short in heat 15 against BV's top end power.

I sm watching on Eurosport and I would say the coverage leaves a lot to be desired BSN coverage of meetings is far better

BBC garbage forecasts

Great to see Cookie got a full five ride Max... Surprisingly not been mentioned by those who are somewhat more prone on here to giving him grief....

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Ive heard but only just retired so couod be lured back out if it if he still has his bikes potentially