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Scraps again... Oxford must have decided to have Kerr back, so we'll pick up the left overs... again The website says he was signed 72 hours ago, I bet after Cook's performance last night Stewart Dickson must be searching around for his receipt today. A heat leader is needed, anything else is just tinkering around at the edges

You need to get out more. Try going to Glasgow, Workington, Redcar, Oxford or Scunthorpe for example. Broaden your horizons a little.

Kendo Nagadrabik...

Well your post is about speedway skids,majority of posts on recent poole threads have pretty much been garbage

First time I’ve seen Leicester this season but I would have said Becker was the biggest issue in that side, only 5 points at home from a guy people are clambering over to be in the GPs isn’t a great return when the scoreline made the home side look so dominant.

Don’t go to any other track as you’ll get 15!

Oh come on I know you’ll want to justify a win by making claims you’d have won anyway even if Ipswich were at full strength but we all know that’s not true. Klindt 7 points from 6 rides and Batchelor 6 points from 5 isn’t particularly impressive. I think King and Ellis would have improved on that. End of the day a win is a win, Birmingham were handed a golden opportunity and grabbed it with both hands which is all that matters.

God I miss Peterborough and Somerset

Still stunned by how many thought that Oxford were a great side who would win the league . Could never get my head around it.

No but to have both is going to be twice the expense which was my point

There is no doubt he has under estimated the resolve of Speedway supporters locally and indeed nationally. He was warned about this eighteen months or so ago and to not underestimate the strength of support, but scoffed at the mere thought of it. The Speedway club is now his biggest problem and shows no sign of going away. The pressure is obviously building hence his recent rant. In fact we don’t need to make him come across as an idiot, he does it for us.

Maybe not if he was somewhere else, but at Birmingham, he's now their 5 and is showing good signs of being up to the challenge

What a condescending prick that guy is..acting like the big man Infront of 10 ringers.. embarrassment of a man and I hope he fails badly and then gets hurt badly...in a financial way of course..

If it’s about cost then pawlicki will be the one but if they are serious about team strengthening then I’m not sure he is, pawlicki is riding well below his best for whatever reasons, he is a hard rider who can mix it with the best, can anyone at Birmingham bring the best out of him ? If so then letting him go is not the right move

I think if I was Buster I'd just keep quiet because I think they have dodged a bullet. If he wins his appeal then any team missing a couple of riders will have carte blanche to say they are not turning up to a fixture - possibly at King's Lynn - and that'll damage his business far more.

I would say it was 100% correct... No Doyle so Emil takes as many of his rides as he can.. Much better to see Ipswich race than six of them and a guest... And watching Emil race is always VFM so the more he rides the better the meeting..

There isn't but Oxford deployed a tac sub on ht 9 for Cook in yellow) and both Riss and Tungate came out in yellow!

I bet he would still be there if he'd carried on his debut double figure performance

Wow, thought Dickson would have learned from previous seasons re Cook. He’s had one good meeting for Oxford at Sheffield (dodgy filters and all), next thing he’ll be signing Batchelor

You won the meeting fair and square no arguments from any Witches fans …. But to say that King and Ellis wouldn’t have done better than Batch and Klindt is farcical You won and it’s good to see you competitive

It has always amazed me that clubs don't take on some proper professional marketing people to drive footfall into their stadiums... They will each spend literally hundreds of thousands on their riders each year, who hardly anyone in even the next street will recognise, yet a very minimal amount on actually promoting themselves.. A strange business model..

According to the poll it's not looking good for the Pole

I know Ipswich were running RR, but for one rider to be in half of the 16 races seems wrong somehow.

Welcome back Emil, thank goodness they sorted out the gremlins finally

Utter shambles hope lessons are learned from this farcical pathetic meeting

lemon can be sour

The issue start Marshall’s have got is that you can call them forward but because there is now a clock riders will garden & then sit back until the clock hits 20 seconds then come forward knowing they won’t get excluded .

Or pronunciation. After telling us he has pronounced Boughen wrongly he carries on saying it wrongly.

Sensitive lot on the south coast

Doesn't matter what time you start them as long as you start them on time and get the meeting moving along once you do with the threat of rain around... none of this happened

The team could be the Royal Wootton Bassett Hounds?

His admission was not good enough me Mark .. Its scary to see how out of touch he is with what is going on seeing he's a local lad . Thou i would love to the speedway come back at a new venue its become just as important to me to not to let Clark and Taylor Wimpey get there way with the Stadium . I just hate the fact that the lies and corruption might be rewarded

There's been a backlash to his appearance at the Blunsdon site. To be honest when I spoke to two local councillors, the Green one said it's a shame about the Moto Cross, and the Red one didn't seem to care. Not enough peeps bothered about local speedway these days. Swindon becoming a dormitory town for commuters to the south-east now, recreational stuff disappearing, just more houses everywhere being built on sporting areas.

Ref said track was fit- both teams refused to race so it’s been decided a double walkover 0-0 and no points each i understand- we haven’t heard the last of this !!!!

SCB in charge of international calendar?

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Cook is crap at Ipswich. Scored 5, 4 and 5 last year for Peterborough, and a big fat zero for Belle Vue this year! Batch a far better bet.

What did you think was wrong with the Drone shots ? I would much rather see the surrounding area than pictures of Bill and Florence sitting in the stands eating their Cheese Sandwich and cup of Bovril . i don’t like the FPV done in GP when it’s trying to chase the racing but last nights worked well

Yes I did, Leicester never in doubt, Birmingham not so much but felt they were always in control.

i paid £27 for 10 processional races. i need my head examining

Agreed, he’s certainly not qualified to be CEO and clearly he is way out of his depth and he only inherited the job because Smith walked away or as some insider suggested was got rid of to save cash. Lemon was a cheap and easy option for the detached owners. The club is losing money every season and that must be a big pressure that he’s obviously not capable of handling or changing. Lemon job as TM is littered with basic errors and he misses so many tactical opportunities, ok he was an average rider but he’s a well below average manager.

Pithy comment..

Me and my mate almost didn't go last night because of the tediously long breaks. But we did attend and had the best of both worlds. We watched the speedway live and got Discovery+ on a phone and watched all the reports from the other meetings and the replays from the races we'd just seen live. This had an added bonus. The Discovery+ pictures aren't quite live. If something happens live e.g. someone falling, you can quickly refer to your phone and see what happened.

Which book?

Glad someone cottoned on to the pun! Now I’m not an accountant, but if they’re prepared to talk to him, money can’t be an issue…

I doubt it. Has had a few digs about Poole this season. I'm sure if it wasn't connected to Poole they wouldn't have said anything.

No real point though for that is there..? It is UK Speedway after all.... Rinse and Repeat ad infinitum.. Nothing really changes, so a waste of time and money having investigations etc... Just crack on with the rest of the season and lets get all giddy for the play offs, and the "bumper crowds" they bring, plus the return of Robert Lambert to one of the four teams, and the chance to play the annual "Who will Bomber guest for?" Bingo.. Breaking News. Those who run UK Speedway are not very good at it... They were not very good at it 25 years ago, and stll wont be much good at it in 25 years time.. (Assuming it is still with us, obviously)..

Looks like you've been on the bitter again.

Well something worked as both pages on the PCC planning portal are full of objections, so a big thank to anyone who made the effort Do keep it going if possible. We need to keep on the front foot

excellent point hopefully discovery will read it and abandon the idea. my take on 'sprint races' in F1, Moto GP and WSB is that they're required because the full length races are dull and they need to fill 3 days content. Only in speedway could the sprint race be the same distance as the normal race.