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I'm not usually too critical of the TV coverage but last night, those first few heats especially, tipped me over the edge. It was horrendous and an embarrassment to the sport, you can only hope that nobody was watching for the first time. Track was a farce at the start, it soon became rideable but the entertainment on show was non-existent. Music sounded like it hasn't been changed since the Victorian era. Mechanic in the pits wearing a Redcar Bears shirt, branded attire is a great idea but to be wearing another club's shirt just looks so tinpot. Stuff like that may not be a massive issue alone but it all adds up to make the product seem amateurish. And then the coverage itself from Eurosport. Aside from the usual poor camerawork and wrong graphics, we now have them making a complete mess of the scores. Commentary.. I like Kelvin and the circumstance of him becoming lead commentator was obviously very sad but he's hopeless at that role. He must have been doing this job for over 20 years now and still spends half the time going "umm, er". He must know the rules but seems to forget them, consistently has trouble keeping up with the score and getting that wrong. Same old comments like for Chris Holder it's always "great to see him back in British speedway". Mix it up! Mention he's a Poole legend, started his career at the Isle of Wight or something like that. I also thought it was poor and almost disrespectful that he said he knew little of Luke Harrison. He was known to be riding a few hours before, if that's the case then maybe research a little about him? It's your job to do things like that.

After all the pile on over the Sheffield track are we going to discuss the joke that was served up last night? Or is Sheffield only track that’s allowed to be deemed dangerous? Both home and away riders couldn’t turn bike, riders falling through bends. Nicholls almost embarrassed to have to explain what was happening with the track on Eurosport

Just finished flicking thru this and I'm not one to moan like some about the sport but everything about that was rubbish

Its the second televised meeting in a row where Tatum thinks that two 5 - 1s are needed to get a draw when a team is 10 points behind

I really hope you get Peterborough back one day!

Thankfully he has recovered in time to ride in Sweden tonight. Brave soldier.

Too much of this sort of thing going on. Riders doing the TeamGB/Union Jack thing before they've done enough to prove their ability at club level. For example, how come Dan Thompson wasn't one of the GP reserves at Cardiff?

Let's just ignore the fact that your own riders were struggling most with the conditions. It's all someone else fault as per usual.

Wasn't a bad meeting at all against Birmingham, with some decent racing on a well prepared track. 20 of us down from Berwick checked into Ibis nice pub, next door Norfolk Arms £1-95 a pint as it was happy hour lol. Quick pint in the Old Crown then into the stadium, bumped into a Bandit from long way back Doug Wyer looking well. Booked a table for the carvery excellent view and food, although it wasn't £1-95 a pint so just the 1 lol. After the meeting we all went to the Bankers Draft to finish a good night off.

Just caught up with this and like everybody else I've got to say what a complete shambles of a televised sporting production in almost every aspect... I was half expecting Mick Fleetwood and Sam Fox to put in an appearance at some point!

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The irony of that first sentence bearing in mind the grief your fans dished out to Sheffield for their use of guests in last years playoffs when both their 1 and 5 were injured.

Wolves had The Karlsson Corridor,, and Foxhall has The Musical Youth Corridor,,,,, pass the Danny on the left hand side

He's a little lost without Nigel beside him, and Allen brings nothing to the party imo.

A new, more focused fans group had a kick-off meeting tonight. Lots going on in the background, with great support from.key people in Swindon and elsewhere. Mobilisation imminent.

Wasn't expecting the Tigers to win this especially when they were missing Dan and running RR for Woffy

No, it's eleventy thousand Priti Patel.

Is Diane Abbot doing the scores.

The whole production is comedy of errors.

Fair enough mate - I just went by what it said on the tin. 😉

Some won’t get that! actually one bright spot was Doyley being interviewed - Ipswich need him back in 2025!!

1st and 2nd at the under 21s were the reserves

He’s a Peterborough fan.

Lawson confirmed as the guest for Klindt.

In Piccadilly gardens you can dodge drug addicts and step over pools of sick.

They cannot even get the start line riders correct... "Tactical Rides" seem to be Rider Replacement and any rider could be a "Rising Star" at any time...

Changes to the ownership of Berwick Speedway see co-owner Scott Courtney stepping down after seven years’ at the helm. Along with brother Jamie he bought the club from John Anderson in 2017 and has also acted as promoter and team manager during that spell. Jamie becomes sole owner of Berwick Speedway and will continue to plan for the 2025 season alongside promoter Steven Dews and team manager Stewart Dickson.

If they do I’ll give you the money meself.

You don’t build a team with that kind of attitude though do you? You don’t pass up the opportunity of signing Jason Doyle and Emil Sayfutdinov on the remote chance they suffer season ending injuries. If every promotion took that view we would never have gone with Rickardsson Gollob and Louis in our treble winning year of 98, Cradley would never have gone with their all star side back in the early 80’s, Poole would never “gamble” on a top two of Holder and Darcy Ward during their trophy laden years. I’ve no doubt if every club had the budget to do so and the riders were available, every single one would build the same way. Injuries happen in this sport we all know that, but to lose not one but both of your world class top two is more than unlucky. There won’t be a single Ipswich fan though that won’t want the promotion to sign them up again next year just incase this happens again, that’s a cast iron certainty. We’ll take that risk ta. For all the stick King is getting by the way, he still isn’t fully fit either. He has metal work in his hand that is restricting his movement. But it’s his living, if he doesn’t ride he doesn’t earn but you won’t see the best of him for the remainder of this year either. It’s a season that promised everything, and has all gone wrong. The others won’t care of course and I don’t blame them one bit. Dog eat dog and down to the other three to take advantage. One final point the team this year was stronger than last years and comfortably so even though we missed out on the double in the final heat of the season. Rew and Thompson have improved on last year, and we carried an ill rider all year who shouldn’t have been riding last season which isn’t the case this year. Ellis has been a huge upgrade on Riss.

You must be deluded if you think the track was bladed at the request of a visiting rider. Its more likely it was bladed because everybody was complaining about it and it was on Eurosport for everybody to see.

Isn't that just a case of a gamble taken by the management though ? Your last line sums it up, that your team 100% relied on the top 2 firing on all cylinders. It was the same last year, especially away from home, where the bulk of the points always came from Doyle and Emil. Bringing in Ellis strengthened the 1-5 this season, as has Thompson's performance, but it was a huge gamble to put all your eggs in 2 baskets so to speak. Sheffield in a similar situation in that they chose to run with 2 rising stars this season in order to have a stronger 1-5. Losing Tai has had a massive impact due to the way the team was built and running R/R away from home has been a struggle at times, but what can you do when 6 out of 7 are riding on the same night ? Both managers took a chance with their team structures this season, and both have suffered for it, but without the injuries they would have been way ahead of everyone else.

Absolutely, Trigger wont help much so we need Sam or Tobias back to form.

The only reason you miss Emil and Doyle is that they can trap,our top four riders were trapping all night and the races as a whole were done after the second bend but being brutally honest I couldn't part with my hard earned every week to witness that,yes it was a very comfortable win for us in the end but come on you can't call that which was served up entertaining..far from it.

I think you have more pressing issues to worry about with your own team

It isn’t just you, it’s killed the atmosphere and enthusiasm stone dead. It’s got to the rest of the team now too as alluded to by King last night. Him, Rew and Thompson are now riding a level below what we’ve seen previously this season, it’s drained everybody. Hawkins has made a rallying cry on the official website as you’d expect him to do, they still need to try and get people through the door, but the truth is it’s become a chore to go. Just have to muddle through these next few weeks, and then go again next year.

Last night showed, in my opinion, how much Emil was carrying the team whilst Doyle is out. I said before that we will now go on a losing streak until Birmingham when he isn’t in the team. Missing the top two riders in the league if not in all of speedway. No rider can cover for them. Emil is the only person who is capable of covering Doyle. Maybe it’s just me but that special sparkle about foxhall isn’t there without Emil and Doyle, heat 13/15 were so exciting.

No, that is not quite correct. ONLY the race leader needs to have completed two laps for the referee to be able to award a race.

What a poor meeting, gate and go bore fest, no wonder speedway is going down the pan

Hard to agree with the feel sorry for Tolley bit. He signed the team, he has asked them to race against teams with a combined average advantage of over 7 points and today v Kings Lynn 3 points, and no surprise they lost by 3. The riders face every meeting at a -7 (belle vue was -10. Pawlicki should have gone when Freddie came, the guess who for the sack lasting 2 weeks was poor. Riders are beat before they arrive and the track prep is crap, but keep it consistently crap to give the team a chance. Trying something different each week makes it worse and helps the away team. Nigel needs to set a budget, step back and let Peter / Chris Adam’s pick, sign, and run the team next year and Nigel enjoy himself as owner and watcher. Drop Sam and Lawrence, no blame but not needed. A fresh start required

If I were a Brummies fan I think I'd actually prefer to see R/R, they may well have actually won tonight if Pi000tr didn't turn out.

What the heck is going wrong with Eurosport tonight? Their graphics are showing the wrong riders, the scores have been wrong. Tatum and Allen are getting it wrong as well, reserve rides are not rider replacements, rider replacements are those taking Emil and Tai’s races not when Harrison and Rew are taking/swapping with each others races! Rant over!🤬🤬

This track might just be up there on the top step of podium as the worst speedway track on the planet. Truly watching gutter speedway tonight.

Track, graphics, entertainment and commentary all of similar level so far. It’s not a high level either.

This track is an absolute disgrace both sets of riders can hardly turn bikes 😆

Bit of a strange start to show, presumed Abi not there, but then she is.

But we are wondering why he managed 4 e tra rides over in Poland????

Buster could learn a lot from them.

This fixture was due to be televised but was changed to give Ipswich a TV meeting and commercially it would have been wrong to put it up against Leicester vs Spurs premiership football so any casual fans will likely choose the football. It is expected that live footage of Leicester vs Oxford will be shown during the Ipswich vs Sheffield match This will possibly be Leicester’s lowest attendance of the season with the football on as well. The club could have easily looked to move this fixture to next week BH Monday if it’s wet and don’t go ahead Leicester may not be able to restage it before cut off so best to get match raced and hopefully points on the table

Manchester is a problem, it is not a tourist city and thats putting it nicely as I can.

It's going to give the Semi Final of the KOC a little extra 'spice' on the 4th and 6th. On the incident, I think the ref got it right, Nichols locked up in front of Wright, leaving him nowhere to go.