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For any fans thinking of going, and wanting hot food, please take sandwiches, just in case there is no Cook available 😀

Isn’t boughen the youngest rider in that league? And the youngest by 3+ years in the premiership. Scored 10 points in the top league in his first two meetings this year and then an unfortunate crash in his 3rd meeting while on a 5-1 with bomber. I agree he’s struggled since the crash but surely we shouldn’t be criticising just yet? I am a kings lynn fan but following his journey up with you guys. Some of his performances last season was the best I have ever seen in 40+ years of watching and following speedway. He’s 17 with 2 years experience under his belt, let’s give him time and hopefully he will do what I and most of us know he can do.

Leicester & Dickerson got that badly wrong & must be kicking themselves now. Louis & Hawkins seem to be fantastic judges of not only talent but attitude & personality. No pre Madonna’s just a bunch of talented, hardworking down to earth guys.

If they arent going to take the top league seriously they might as well not bother tbh, they gave upon the play offs mid season in 24 when well placed, nobody knows whether it was financial but it could have been. Janowski is just not the same rider away from poland but if your going to team build under strength your going to struggle. Shining light seems to be francis gusts who looks a combative bold rider capable of mixing it .

I still don’t know why you’re all biting and giving him the oxygen he craves. Ignore him!!

All of those things are true, his main reason for riding in the UK is for more bike time. Michael is also spot on about the track and why it needs to improve. I am told his polish club are very happy with his start to the season, they want him to continue riding in the UK as they feel regular races will keep him sharp.

Sam Hagon's even smaller than i imagined he was 😁

next two meetings for worky is agaonst the monarchs . it could be an eye opener for either side .

Craig Cook's replacement spotted at Berwick

But apart from that?

It's x-rated. You won't find it unless you switch off safe search 🫢

Two days after the match & I'm still waiting for Oxford's match report, was looking to see what excuses Schroeck has this time. Didn't take them so long after the Cheetahs victory on Wednesday to post the match report.

I don’t really get all the noise about Foxhall being a boring track with no passing. I agree that it does not hold a candle to the NSS but that is purpose built, single use, designed from scratch and funded by the taxpayer. No UK track can hold a candle to the NSS, it’s brilliant. When compared to the remainder of the Premiership tracks, I don’t think it’s any worse and I would argue better than some. Yet again, Louis has spent time and money over the winter making more improvements which from memory is the fourth or fifth set of improvements over the past few years. You can’t fault the endeavour. It’s too early in the season to judge how successful the improvements made over the winter are because the only way you would have had close racing with lots of passing this season so far is if you had introduced handicap racing and given every Aces and Spires rider a five yard head start. You can’t have passing when the home team is consistently first and second into the first bend and even on the odd occasion they aren’t, they steam round or under the away riders. It’s pretty hard getting past Doyle, Sayfutdinov, Brennan, etc at Foxhall once you are behind them.

If more fans thought like that, I'm sure there would be challenge matches, individual events, pairs, fours at every track & fans wouldn't have to opportunity to moan about lack of matches. Unfortunately as long as a fair selection of fans only turn up for league matches, that'll never happen. I think as it's the same 7 riders wether it's the league, KOC or challenge, why go to one but not the others?

Good help us if we have to resort to MPT

His average is even smaller still!

Or maybe he just wants to ride one league pretty sure he has had an addition to his family and wants to be at home more

Think only injuries will stop them.

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Like every season, I was filled with false hope again this year, and the way Harris started off I though it boded well going forward. And then........... It seems now that what KL do with team manipulation is irrelevant. They are dead cert finishing 5th.

@ouch My hero ❤️

He brought it on himself, he didn’t have to sign Cookie for either Leicester or Berwick but he did.

Good luck to Stewart Dickson having the most awkward job in British Speedway.

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Comets have 3 or 4 that could apply too!

Yes that’s correct, so you hit 75% on 21/7/25. Belle Vue have the least amount of time again to make changes with our cut off being almost four weeks before Ipswich or Oxford.

That he's only riding in England for more bike time, that the team is really struggling, he can't get out of the starts and the blue groove has been appearing after heat 4. His body language and facial expressions gave the impression he didn't want to talk about Birmingham, unless he's just miserable all the time...

Edinburgh have knack of picking up decent riders that have not ridden in GB.Nothing is won on paper.

We got beat at home in a glorified friendly we won away in another glorified friendly. We have ridden two meetings but on here we are now in no particular order. Not a good team Weak Not a top 3 Team Poor And that is not including the personal slaughtering of a young rider. This place is Bipolar.

Has Berwick been invaded with twitchers ? Hoping to spot that unusual species ? The lesser spotted cook 😀

Love the "pre Madonna's".🙃

Thanks for repeating my point about the difficulties teams have from time to time when assembling competitive sides. Glad we could agree. It’s not cool to make fun of those that are struggling with it just because things have worked out for you this time. Your bit about team building over a number of years, I couldn’t have done it better myself. What duration were you using there? Weeks, days or minutes? Classic! Do the same with the current Belle Vue team (I’d do it but if I post facts, facts that are in the public domain the trolls go into meltdown) and compare. For Ellis to be at 4 instead of Cook we would have had to tap him up last season and offer him considerable more money to join us. We wouldn’t do that. Anyway it’s time to go back in your box with the other trolls. I’ve check in and you’re all as bad as ever with the lies, anger, insults, gaslighting and yesterday the insult about the literacy (perceived or otherwise) of someone on here when there is a real issue around this currently was just a step too far. Though you may be trolls you are (I hope) speedway fans and I wish you and your team a healthy and competitive season and that you reap the rewards you deserve. One of your compadre said fans enjoy it when members of the opposition get injured. That’s not me and I hope the fate that struck us in 2021 & 2023 which cost us championship wins doesn’t befall you or any team.

Nice early morning sunshine here in Częstochowa, should be all systems go. Hopefully they will run it nice & quick so I can get the train up to Lodz for tonight’s meeting.

There were points were they looked like they could beat some other Edinburgh riders but didn't quite have the power. Perry and Hodder werent afraid to go wide and were trying different lines, they both definetly have potential

The boy is carrying an injury and it’s early in the season let’s give him a chance to settle.

Just caught up with this... Richard Lawson appearing in heat 1 with a dirty bike and race suit, not really what you expect from a professional Premiership Speedway rider. Ben Cook has had a shocking start to the season. Boughen still looks to be backing off in the first turns, not as blatant as the end of last season but still noticeable he doesn't like to mix it. I'll never understand the mentality of some Speedway riders. Kvech in the same heat surely saw Bomber blasting around the outside to make a pass but still refused to ride any wider than mid track. Great bit of team riding from Jack Holder to shepherd Rowe home for a 5-1. When the riders do their obligatory arm fold in the captions, unless the team sponsors logo is situated on the top of their chest it gets hidden, I noticed this during the CLPC & CLRC, not great for main team sponsorship exposure. Some good track action despite the scoreline.

You are an absolute plank Ipswich wanted to sign a number one to replace Doyle and couldn’t find one … Dudek was close but stopped and I doubt he would have been like Doyle more like Janowski. Lets see how Sheffield replace Tai… they probably can’t and would have to make 2 changes or run with guests like Ipswich did Oh and I know how thick you are but Ipswich have built the team over a number of years King 2015… Doyle 2022…. Emil 2023 Ellis 2024….. Dan T 2024….Jenkins 2024 and Brennan 2025 Ellis was sacked by Sheffield and Dan by Leicester and we picked them up anyone could have done the same …. Imagine Dan T at 6 rather that Zischke … imagine Ellis at 4 not Zach Cook If no managers have the foresight to sign riders then that’s their fault Our management have built this team gradually and maybe we might get the rewards You come across as either a child a troll or someone with no speedway knowledge

let's see shall we !! you lot have been cannon fodder since 1998 🤣🤣 going to be a lot of eggy faces come October looking forward to it 🤣🤣

I've seen some crap at the NSS over the years... if the track is heavy because of rain (in Manchester I know!) the racing is dreadful. I've also been to a lot of daytime meetings and some of those are nothing to write home about. It generally is always a spectacle though mostly because of how close you are to the track, the speed and noise of the place.

I'm genuinely sad for you if you thought heat 15 was the only genuine race of the night... I think the rest of us enjoyed it a lot more. Riders don't always have to change places for it to be a good race, you obviously missed the other passes... your mind must still have been in the King's Lynn car park 🚘🚘🚘🚘🚘🚘🚘🚘🚘🚘🚘🚘🚘🚘

Think this may be close tonight. 61-29 for the stripes.

A guest in a friendly. Surely would have been better with R/R to give the Bears riders extra practice.

Again, people shouting their mouths off with no understanding of what 'mental health problems' either means or entails. "Should a rider be issued a licence if he has mental health problems?" Did you know that if someone has OCD, that is classified as a mental health problem?! So if somebody has to continually wash their hands, or has to count a number of times before carrying out a daily task, or has to check they have unplugged the iron five times before leaving the house, they cannot ride speedway?! Don't be so ridiculous. Next, you'll be asking for a table of classification as to what permits you to ride and what doesn't. There are too many people who think the term 'mental health issues' means 'nutter' and that anyone suffering from it is incapable of living a normal life. And for the other person on here who believes that Craig's problem is alcoholism, and that he is using the excuse of mental health issues to cover it...firstly, you know NOTHING at present. But let's humour you...if someone does have an issue with alcohol, you do realise that may be BECAUSE of their mental health problems?! Up to 75% of PTSD sufferers turn to alcohol. But I suppose they are all using mental health as an excuse too are they?!

The teams are shaping up exactly as last year, I know its early etc but the top 4 are the same as last year with KL, Ox and Birmingham as the poor relations - long term its not helpful

Artem Laguta?

I agree huge majority of the fans haven’t a clue what’s going on regarding Craig Cook.Surely a simple statement from the Promotion saying that Craig is having personal problems which they are trying to resolve(if that is the case?) would have been suffice.Instead we get all sorts mixed messages from people which doesn’t help anybody(Club or Fans or the sport).

Could be worse, you could be Drew Kemp at the Media Day walking around in Craig Cook’s suit…

Don’t think I’ve ever known a press and practice with two missing riders before. Reading Racers in the 80s often had 6 and would choose the number 7 at press and practice depending on who impressed most on the day. out of the 5 who were present there seemed to be 3 different variations of race suit Boughens was a lot darker blue than the rest and Harris and cooks suit used different blues compared to klint and iversen. Phil Morris is trying to get the sport to look and be more professional. He must be in despair.