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My take on things. We are pi$h Edinburgh are also pi$h. They are just slightly better pi$h than us.

Looks like they have found new owners.So for once a club has not closed down after Osbourne being involved ...Really Please for them

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Get over yourself. The track and racing snobbery from a select few from the West is tiresome.

Well Paco turn up from the start and Hey Presto it makes the difference.By all accounts Glasgow were poor. Flint like Worrell can only win if he gates and gets down the back straight in front.Maintaining his average but not winning important heats when the pressure is on. It’s Definately the least exciting Tigers Team for while. Well done to Monarchs.

Edinburgh's mechanical issues saved us from a doing. 50 -39 has the face of respectability but its far from that. Broon summed it up in his comments after ht14 but FFS how did this team come to be put together by choice.

There is a lot of rain in Poland. Meetings being called off already. Ben's Leszno meeting today and Tom's Gdansk meeting on Saturday both now OFF!! UPDATE. TOM BRENNAN NOW BACK IN FOR POOLE - CONFIRMED.

Oh No! Has he got to go as well

Hope they list two track records in the programme, one for the championship and one for the PL, that way Rickys name will stay in the programme

I suspect we’d have seen a lot better performance from Redcar’s youngsters if things had worked out as planned over the last 14 months. Our team structure relies on a strong top 3 doing most of the heavy lifting and we just haven’t had that. Connor was a late addition to the team last year. We lost Eric early on and he was only a shadow of his former (or current) self when he returned. We were still just about in with a shout of winning something when we lost Charles and the season quickly fizzled out. We’ve started 2024 by losing TJ and then almost straight away lost Danny. Puts a lot of pressure on the bottom end to perform in every heat with no respite. I’m sure Connor, Jason and Jake will put a couple of points on their averages at some point and I wouldn’t want to lose any of them. Just a bit tough being a Redcar fan/rider/promoter in the meantime that’s all. Similar situation at other teams to be fair.

Is there a reason Cami Brown stays as manager? Genuine question. Does he have a financial stake for example?

Some very good racing despite the score line and the delays caused by the tape issues. Very inconsistent refereeing didn’t help things but Scunthorpe were always well in control and always looked like comfortable winners. Few bright spots for the Bears, Wright battled as always and Bailey looked much better as the meeting went on. Gilkes had one excellent ride. Zischke had a fantastic first race then tailed off. Scunthorpe are strong at home and Howarth seems to have upped his performance. Could even afford an off night for Lambert and win easily.

Still no sign of any smoke coming out of Perry Barr yet?

20 mina neil how big steps u taking

Sounds very much like Beaumont Park

Although, of course, Lawson conceded the match changing 1-5 in Heat 8 against Thompson & Jenkins ...

Hilarious headline on the Leicester Facebook page:

Take a bow Scott Nicholls. Sam Masters is becoming the most disappointing rider in the entire league this season when you take into consideration that returning Polish riders haven't been used to British tracks for a good few years. No excuse for Masters to keep putting up these 5's and 6's whilst being protected in the engine room when signed on a 7+ GSA. Richard Lawson having to cover for Max Fricke's poor away form is becoming a regular occurrence.

My Top 20 riders as at 30.05.24 are as follows:- 01-Jason Doyle-Ipswich-1075 02-Tai Woffinden-Sheffield-1040 03-Emil Sayfutdinov-Ipswich-960 04-Jack Holder-Sheffield-955 05-Chris Holder-Sheffield-950 06-Brady Kurtz-Belle Vue-880 07-Dan Bewley-Belle Vue-875 08-Ryan Douglas-Leicester-870 09-Rohan Tungate-Oxford-830 10-Tom Brennan-Birmingham-810 11-Max Fricke-805 12-Ben Cook-Belle Vue-770 13-Richard Lawson-Leicester-760 14-Sam Masters-Leicester-755 15-Neils Kristian Iversen-King's Lynn-740 16-Jadon Lidsey-Belle Vue-735 17-Chris Harris-Oxford-700 18-Adam Ellis-Ipswich-690 19-Josh Pickering-Sheffield-675 20-Charles Wright-Oxford-650

Takes two to tango, unfortunately yous were absolutely guff. I say unfortunately it’s no really.

Referee had a shocker tonight

Yep, 1 is a world champion and the other isn't.

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Glad to see you finally admit you’re not a proper Oxford fan. You can go back to Swindon now, we don’t want you.

It's not exactly our strong point though!

Macon & Terenzano live update links: https://live.baansportfansite.nl/event/812/fim-sgp2-world-championship-qualifying-round-macon.html Ludwigslust to follow as soon as the lineup is finalized.

As a youngster and an Arena-Essex fan we would regularly get to 'ackney for friday at 8. I did enjoy trips there. I have some great memories but we were also there the night Paul Muchene had his crash from which he never recovered and I have never forgotten that! He'd been a promising junior at Arena left to go and ride with a certain Mr Nielsen at Oxford and he had just signed for Hackney when the tragedy happened - bless both him and and his dad who used to always be there, its been so long now and I often reflect on it. However, always try and finish on a high - yes the magnificent 7, the man selling the star - Andy Galvin invincible. I recall a patched up Arena getting runners up in the NL fours in 87, the NL pairs meetings they were always good! Huge rivallry with the fans as well but nearly always good natured - although one did call Arena a mickey mouse track much to my annoyance. Think he was miffed we'd just won i think! A certain Ipswich promoters debut season and seeing Mark Loram as a raw 16 year old novice and thinking wow he's good! For some reason I always had a sniffle / sore throat the day after going to Waterdon Road - my old man always reckoned it was due to all the factories and industry stuff in the area. Would give anything to have both Hackney and Arena back!

Not sure if tonight is about which team is better, or which is worse, in all honesty.

One thing I'll add about Batchelor, who on the opposing team did fans expect him to beat (besides Hagon)? For example Leicester's other reserve Cook, had a greater Champ average than Batchelor. He scored about as well as I'd expect him to.

It's tough to call, neither club has been going great recently.

Yes - largely agree here - I recall Douglas trying to pass trying to pass Rew in heat 10 and he fell after making up a decent bit of ground , Nicholls made some very good first / second bend moves - in fact in heat 15 he was trying to same but just didnt quite have the speed to get past Lawson.

Would like to think we should score 46 minimum but you never know what you’re going to get with this lot of late.

Id have Cook over Lampart .And not so costly ...

You must have missed the bit where I said I'd like to keep Chris Harris. It's just before the bit that you put in bold. What a clown! I've no issue with Harris. I'd swap out whoever works with the averages, be that Harris, Wright, Janowski, etc. Oxford should be making the most of the points they have available to improve the team - if there's a rider(s) who want to actually come.

Rearranged fixture on tonight. The British Speedway website isn't entirely accurate with their promo The Monarchs lead the table after their dramatic Super Heat win at Ashfield earlier in the month, and they need to avoid defeat in the return fixture to progress, whilst the Tigers must win inside the regular 15 races. Whoever wins goes through, if it's a draw whoever wins the superheat goes through. EDINBURGH: 1) Craig Cook 2) Lasse Fredriksen 3) Kye Thomson 4) Paco Castagna 5) Justin Sedgmen 6) Max James 7) Connor Coles. GLASGOW: 1) Chris Harris 2) Paul Starke 3) Leon Flint 4) James Pearson 5) Steve Worrall 6) Jack Smith 7) Ace Pijper.

Fair point but it’s really hard to attract new supporters to speedway but very easy to lose them with a shambles that was experienced at BV on Monday.

You were warned about signing our riders told you what they like away from home.

I would guess that crescent girl has access to the private SCB website used by promoters to declare their teams for upcoming meetings and also used by Referees to file their meeting reports.

Fortunately I'm still blocked from Lions Twitter/X Maybe it should have read... Captain and ex-Wolves contingent let Lions down again as they roll over against a severely weakened Ipswich team

bet365 were treating us tonight. Never in doubt.

Good to see a Troy putting in a positively strong performance. What a waste of space this guy is and you can only think that as a guest he was the cheapest option. Any second string from the lower league would have been a better. At least they would have gained some experience rather than let a has been top up his retirement fund. It beggars belief that Troy was chosen as a guest.

Scott Nicholls is a cheat code for Ipswich.

Here you go Ray, a bit of a legend of the sport back in the day - A thoroughly nice chap too. https://britishspeedway.co.uk/miscellaneous/graham-reeve-1952-2024/

And free at Berwick.

The only trouble is you'll be running your fixtures long after the play off cut off date, double headers in October

They will be paying out around two hundred grand to a quarter of a million, to a team of riders who will not be recognised by many in the street outside including those living in the houses opposite... Maybe run with five rider teams, save forty grand or so, and use that to advertise their product? Doing the same thing they always have done can only keep geting the same results.. The riders don't have the profile in the UK to bring in crowds so try something else to do it.. And, as the riders' profiles hopefully increase, you get that organic growth you need..

The simple truth is todays Speedway Promoters in general are lazy people who can not be bothered to get off their backsides and drum up support. At BV they have the best speedway track and stadium in the country BUT if you ask someone in Manchester where BV is or what’s speedway they haven’t got a clue. The promotion of BV and the sport is zero and that’s why speedway is where it is….basically bust!

Pithy comment..

I wish the hot dog van would at least feign cooking the onions though!

Steve Johnston... When he first arrived at Long Eaton from second halving at Sheffield I used to have to watch his races through my fingers, seemed to be out of control for most of his races!