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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

Should be a tight match. Even though I am unable to attend, I shall be keeping an eye on the updates. So much talent on show, I hope that it is a real success tomorrow. There was a piece on Meridian news last night about it.

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 ❤️

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

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11.04.2025: R1, Zielona Góra v Lublin: https://vk.com/video-53550004_456242102

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.

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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.

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.

It's a shame you came down from sunny Manchester determined not to enjoy yourself! I'll counter your selective lowlights from updates with: Heat 5: Kurtz passed Douglas on Bend 2 Lap 4 Heat 6: Fricke does eventually get up the inside coming off Bend 2 Lap 2 Heat 7: Masters who continued to press hard throughout the race. Kemp went under Cook on Bend 4 Lap 1 Heat 8: Blodorn comes down on the backstraight whilst battling Becker for the lead Heat 11: holds off Masters for 2 laps before the race settled down Heat 12: Lidsey rides a fantastic opening lap to pass Kemp exiting Bend 2 and then Douglas on Bend 4 before clearing off Heat 13: Bewley trying hard to pass Masters and is briefly past him off Bend 4 Lap 1 before Masters gets back into third down the homestraight Heat 15: Aces out in front until Fricke forcefully goes under Kurtz entering Bend 3 Lap 2, creating a gap that he goes through and Becker follows Add this to the tight scoreline, possible come back from the Aces and Fricke putting in a captains ride to win the match with his partner in the last race decider... and I'm not really sure what you want from a Speedway match, I can only conclude it's a win at all costs.

Though heat 13 was a classic . Disappointed we couldn't win on the night , but at least with Bomber you are guaranteed entertainment if things aren't going the way you'd hoped . Fair play to Edinburgh , impressed with Polis , Armadale might be a different proposition for him though .

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.

easy win for the tigers

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 hope that supporters wanting to use public transport to get to Perry Barr Stadium, will find this information useful: ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- All buses to the stadium from Birmingham City Centre start in ALBERT STREET which is a short walk from MOOR STREET rail station. From the station, cross the road and turn right. Albert Street is the third street down on the left, recognisable by the large carpark on the corner. Bus Number 33 (B'ham to Pheasey) stops outside the stadium entrance. and Bus number 51 (Not 51X) stops at the One Stop Shopping Precinct opposite the stadium. Both have a journey time of approximately 20 minutes. (bus number 51X passes the stadium but doesn't stop there!) Bus numbers 907 B'ham to Sutton-Coldfield), 934 (B'ham to Walsall via Pheasey) 935 B'ham to Walsall via Streetly), 936 (B'ham to Brownhills via Walsall Wood), 937 (B'ham to Brownhills via Boney Hay) and 997 (B'ham to Rushall via Aldridge) are all express services which each have only four stopping places before reaching the stadium, and all stop in Aldridge Road right outside the stadium. All of these routes run at ten minutes intervals and all have a journey time of approximately 8 minutes. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Trains leave Birmingham New Street on the hour and on the half hour and have a journey time of 12 minutes. Perry Barr Station is a 5 minute walk from the stadium. Return trains (after speedway meetings) leave Perry Barr Station at 21 and 33 minutes past the hour. The last train from Perry Barr to New Street leaves at 22.21. Trains from Walsall also call at Perry Barr at 12 and 42 minutes past the hour with a journey time of 15 minutes. The last Perry Barr to Walsall train is at 23.12. I hope that

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

It feels like we've been there, done that, and some. Surly not again.

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

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…

There is absolutely no excuse for that lack of professionalism. Others manage it, so why can’t Lynn? The whole idea of press day in particular is to get the team photos done and promote the bloody sport! Can’t do that if riders don’t bother turning up 🙄 Pathetic.