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@ouch Is clearly in charge of production at TNT 😁

One thing is for certain the turnstiles are clicking, the opening two meetings have been staged in front of very healthy crowds!

Kemp for Castagna does strengthen the Monarchs round Ashfield , plus gives Kemp track time before the real stuff starts next weekend . Palovaara at reserve could be troublesome for us , expect him to get 7 rides . Not sure how the new Monarchs will do , will Murder Polis be murder ? After last week's successful opening weekend for us , I hope we can build more confidence by piling on the points tomorrow night .

And that will always be the case. They’re garbage I’m afraid. All of the riders are a bit meh who are a mix of past it riders who no longer can perform on a consistent basis to riders that just aren’t good enough. There’s just no sparkle there it’s all a bit flat. They won’t make the play offs with the team they have.

You can't keep blaming tracks for your teams generally abysmal record away from the NSS, hope you get out of the car park quicker than you did at King's Lynn 😂 and think of all the cars you'll be passing on the way home with all that dirt on the M1 👍🏻

If no one in the opposition team can beat Danny king on the night then Emil and Doyle are irrelevant

If lambert was interested he’d be in the team already, he won’t sign until later in the season if at all

I can't see it being much good for the sport with it being behind a paywall. I must have not watched speedway for around 13 years then one evening I was browsing the sports channels and saw that there was a meeting on Eurosport, which started drawing my attention back to the sport. That coupled with Woffinden, who I was a fan of as a child, rejoining Sheffield in 2023 brought me back to the sport. I must have watched virtually every English meeting and all but 1 or 2 GPs last year on Eurosport. However, as I must already spend close to £500 a year on sports channels already I can't justify spending another £30.99 for another channel. That coupled with me not being able to get to Sheffield, which is a me problem rather than for the sport itself, I can see how it can be so easy to drift away from the sport.

Ipswich haven't broken any rules, they used them to their advantage. They've out together a superb team and it's highly likely that they'll win the league - and no one would begrudge them that. However the playoffs are different and it can come down to injured riders, riders out of form, overseas commitments and momentum. Speedway by it's very nature, isn't predictable in the long term, that's why we love it.

Very true and very brave of you to point it out on here. Excellent. "STAND UP AND SPEAK UP FOR TRUTH-ESPECIALLY WHEN IT IS NOT POPULAR." With some.

Irrespective of whether Cook rides for Berwick or he doesn`t, and no matter what statement the Berwick management cobble together, I think the vast majority of Berwick`s fans will have already made their minds about Cook. His future at Berwick is virtually untenable even now and that`s before a wheel has been turned.

There is no doubt Guy Nicholls has ploughed decent coin into Ipswich but in all fairness, they had years of floating round at the bottom whilst other clubs were splashing the cash so can't really begrudge them even if they are spending big money. The side they have built looks ridiculous, the fact the top 3 are scoring so poor by their own standards and they are still winning is ominous for the rest of the league. When Doyle and Emil get going it will take some team to stop them.

Because you have Peter Schroeck building a side. Him and Courtney are out of their depth. Oxford need to be careful as Schroeck will kill off any feel good factor with his teams. Look at the shambles with the Cheetahs and the young Aussie having no visa/permit

Yeah why not..... Let's say £35k per meeting

They were all allowed to strengthen up to the same points limit that Ipswich have done. Every club had the same points limit to build to.

Oxford did perform better than Belle Vue 2 weeks ago.

Mike has got this badly wrong I’m afraid. A successful team which thumps teams at home will always attract more supporters than turn them away. That’s the case with ANY sport actually.

The very same Ms Turnbull! Perhaps she was trying to redress the balance 😉

Close. Christina according to updates.

Me too and I was watching the stream at home! Track conditions aside, the meeting was close which in itself keeps it interesting. The Aces were fortunate to take it to the last heat in my opinion. Masters retiring was unlucky for the Lions but then there were two borderline refereeing decisions that went against them in my opinion. Each time, the decision went in favour of the rider going down, with the outcome of the re-runs favouring the Aces, Becker excluded when Blodorn went down and ‘first bend bunching’ when Kurtz went down when behind everyone else. All four back after any first bend incident is a cop out and clever riders can manipulate this. Anyway, well done Lions for holding out and hats off to Fricke for his muscle in heat 15.

Bends 3/4 were like a sandstorm towards the end, so bad I couldn't fill my program out!

Track prep was poor again tonight, far too dry, not enough moisture in the track. With a track like ours it needs to be prepared perfectly as it can't rely on it's shape alone.

This looks like entertainment.... It will keep packing them in I am sure....

Just had heat 11 and racing is awful. Only 2 ‘passes’ because the riders in front went far too wide and gifted it. More dirt on M1 then inside half of track, anyone who goes looking for bit of dirt on outside goes backwards.

Newcastle over the 40 point limit! Typical of them to break the rules 😉 Sad that Erik isn’t riding and with so many ex Bears in the opposition line up should be a close meeting.

Riders or crowd.

Bit of an over the top reaction in my opinion. Yeah the side probably won’t win the league but let’s judge the side once we’ve have a few home meetings under our belts. For the majority of the team it was there first meeting of the year last night!

Paco not racing for Edinburgh tomorrow night as racing abroad (seen Drew guesting for him). Possibly that also.

That’s the spirit 😁

Paco I believe was due to ride abroad on Sunday therefore couldn’t fill a spot in the CLRC but also withdrew from the Pairs due to a crash he had at Armadale on Friday.

I thought I read it on here somewhere, I could very easily have been mistaken though, it has been known to happen. I may have been getting him confused with Paco, who withdrew from the pairs, it could have been him that was riding abroad on the Sunday.

yes, and they didnt last long under buster.

Two of them Brady got over didn’t he?

Where did you get that information from? As far as I can see he hasn’t ridden in Poland for a quite a while now, he also hasn’t ridden in any of the pre season individual meetings across there either. The reason he can commit to Berwick is partly due to his lack of overseas commitments, by the looks of it he is only committed to Britain and Denmark currently and the Danish season hasn’t started yet.

King's Lynn have to show some fight tonight even if they lose, A repeat of Monday's battering and it really will be time for a couple of team changes already as it would be another heavy defeat against a team with a powerful spearhead which would tell you everything that you need to know in the long run in regards to King's Lynn.

myself have seen nothing from ipswich that suggest they will walk the league, there was some mitigating circumstances that resulted in our drubbing. but they are sorted now, next time witches face us we will be a different animal. sheffield the team to beat this year

You say that they have 4 dates remaining 3 of which we don't ride and 1 match away to BV. Personally you want to see the best on tv not the s**t at the bottom who struggle to get a team together. Ipswich BV Sheffield are the teams you want to be watching

Could happen next season as there will not be any Birmingham speedway after this year.

Well if Bham can run them close, why wouldn't BV be confident of going one better?

All bend 2 except heat 8 which was the only genuine decent race. If you enjoy that kind of meeting, fair play to you. I don’t like seeing things settled after 5-6 seconds.

Absolute shambles and embarrassing from Oxford, not like they’ve had months to sort his visa out or anything.

I feel very lucky to be able to watch Emil & Jason week in week out not to mention 3 of the best young British riders out there. We’re also fortunate to have the most forward thinking & professional owner who gets great backing from local business. The future of the premiership at its current level could be in doubt if the rumours about Birmingham & now Sheffield having their stadium sold are true. Emil might choose not to ride in the uk after this season. I plan on enjoying the ride while these top guys are here. What makes it all the sweeter is knowing that there is one very bitter & jealous Belle Vue fan who can’t handle it!

Guy paid less than Sackers recycling did before him for a good few years. He couldn’t believe he got it for a “song”. That isn’t the case now but that’s only due to inflation and rising costs all around. The partner sponsors are very good at Ipswich. Collectively they help hugely.

You seem to be someone who has plenty to say on the matter but doesn't have a clue about mental illness, what it entails, varying forms of it and how it affects people differently. But most importantly, NOBODY knows what is really going on apart from Craig and his family. So maybe pipe the hell down and be patient for official news, because at the moment you are just coming across as heartless, and most of all, stupid.

Just been reviewing my updates from the meeting. Two passes in heats 2 & 3 down to rider error. Genuine passes: H6 - 1 H8 - 4 H11 -1 H13 -1 H15 - 1 Discuss

Dirt or no dirt, I think the trick to a "decent" track (any track) is keeping the moisture in it, as soon as it goes dry, you're on a hiding to nothing racing wise. Back in the day you'd often see the water cart coming out after every race, just for a lap or 2, during dry periods to keep on top of the track.

There was a couple of seasons back to back where sadly, you’d now have to describe them as his peak years where every meeting these highlight heats were uploaded and he was the centre of every one of them. He was like Cowboy Cook on steroids! Spectacular to watch around Foxhall. Swept all before him at junior level and had the world at his feet. Had the talent to go right to the top but tragically, not the professionalism or the will and determination to do so.

I would expand that bracket to the general population for the record (1st paragraph). A wise man once said to me "you never know what is going on under a riders helmet". I agree I hope Craig can sort himself out. Why Berwick signed him? Pass! Why he agreed to sign for Berwick? Pass!

Poole fans just can't handle the fact that some riders will and do turn them down for a number of reasons not just financial Ego far bigger than brain with some of them. Especially Skidder1 remember that bloke!

Correct decision in the final looking at the video. Riss got over the top of Kerr and never locked up in front of Kerr. Think Kerr was surprised/panicked by Riss getting over the top of him and lost control momentarily causing the collision.