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There probably isn't a rising star that would make a difference to the scoring.But what I want to see is commitment from a rider and to never give up like Boughen has on numerous occasions,that's the difference.What I have seen of Harrison,Scott they don't give up no matter what the position they are in a race.That's what I want to see for my money,effort!!,not the opposite.

I hope they can at least see out the season, at least to have a proper farewell/send off meeting for the fans. As for a winless season, the last one I remember was Mildenhall in the 2nd flight in 2008. You won't believe who their TM was.

He couldn't beat juniors on his own track yesterday 4 pts from five rides. Are the management that thick at Lynn? If they had a brain cell between them they would be looking to put Luke Harrison or someone of his capabilities. Boughen needs to be taken out of the firing line. Yes he looks fantastic when he gates. Bloody hell he beat Doyle round Ipswich last season, he looked the real deal. Shutting of going into the 1st bend will get him nowhere. Get him back in the third division. Let him get his confidence back. He might then come back next year a better rider.

That was exactly the same case over 2 years ago... Why did the penny never drop?

Looks like Kvech at reserve next month then.

They are sponsors nights and they cover the meeting costs.

GB Promoters have created their own downfall by letting the riders dictate unrealistic demands in declining sport in UK.

I’m not expecting Bomber to be scoring maximums at number 1, but I at least expected him to score at least his average (6) in every meeting at 1 🤷🏻‍♂️ not 2-4 points! but he’s not the one I’d drop anyway if we could somehow get a proper number 1 (which is unlikely)

Some really enjoyable heats last night - the pick for me was actually Kyle Howart keeping Kurtz in 4th in heat 10 a really good intelligent ride. Credit Leicester they gave it a go in the end as expected BV just too strong at home.

Yeah it is pretty crazy he is getting blamed for the Berwick loss when that was down to other people. As long as you are not expecting 16 at Plymouth lol. How is it a worry? All I am expecting is 6+ a meeting. You and Steve I think are about 9+ a meeting? Which he will do sometimes but not all the time. Guess some of us are a bit more realistic

No! No! No! We must keep team racing with seven riders per team, 15 heats of four lap speedway, and maintain the excellent facility to upgrade your team by using better riders from your competitors on an adhoc, make it up as you go along, basis... The riders should be expected to have at least £20k of kit available at all times and the promoters can then pay them several times that.... And do so through an admission fee that bears little correlation to the standing and credibility of the sport, but has everything to do with paying out those tens of thousands to riders so they can be fully professional in a sport that barely generates 20,000 visits a week from 20 matches across the country... Keep that fantastic operating model that devalues any and all competition's, and there really is no need for any change at all... Rinse and Repeat, roll on 2026... Next on the agenda. Find the next cannon fodder team to make the top tier up to seven teams, rather than doing anything radical...

Why did ‘tactical genius’ Stead leave Flint in Ht14 when Kerr was available for his 7th ride? Unless man/bike couldn’t do another one

Harrison makes the most sense considering he is in the young stars team.

Sam was appalling for over half a season last year. No way did he warrant a team spot. But really pleased he seems to be having a few good scores and retained the u21 title.

Pardubice line up:

Another meeting and more errors and throwing away points.Surprised ht 15 wasn't pulled back. How Boughen still has his place is beyond me.He backs off so visibly to everyone that's there.Let's put in a Young Star and give them some experience,because in my opinion Boughen won't get anywhere while he is in a mindset where he backs off so much when near anyone.

Not defending the promoters entirely (yes they do have a few faults) but with the apathy amongst the speedway supporters for wanting nothing other than a league meeting and shunning individual events as well as the NDL, what else can a promoter realistically put on as a meeting that will grab the imagination of new punters. Years back you had the second half where newbies got a chance to pit their skills against established riders and in a good few cases you could follow the progress of a rider as they developed from a second half rider to reserve to main team and then into the top league starting at reserve and hopefully moving on in the sport. All riders need track time to hone their skills but that comes at a cost to the promoters most of whom rent the stadia. Just take a look at Poland and see the various opportunities for all classes of rider. Yes Poland has far more practice tracks than we have in the UK but the Polish supporters don’t just turn up for a league meeting. Years back I can remember meetings being packed with families out on Saturday night to watch the likes of Rayleigh, Canterbury, Coventry etc and what you now see in terms of Polish supporter and mixed age groups, you did once have that over here. The business model in the UK no longer lends itself to full time top tier racing particularly given the restrictions of movement on riders and equipment since Britain left the EU and with the ease that riders can cross borders in Europe to race, why would they bother with the UK unless they are getting a good wedge for the effort and that pushes prices up for everyone. The sport needs to look at its lot and decide what works financially and stop pretending it is something that it isn’t . With the increasing decline in tracks and the lack of talent coming through the ranks it is only a matter of time before you are down to a handful of tracks left operating and a few more amateur clubs operating on an open licence with individual race meeting events possibly share these events with th3 likes of short track racing and side cars.

Get off the kids back he still learning and rember how long he has been riding rember how Dan Bewley started ?

Best you find it and watch it,before you make yourself look even more stupid.

Believe when new averages issued end of May Dan should move to 8.30 (8.71 for home matches) will mean can get anyone in the league as it stands now with exception of Masters, Lawson and Wright. With Flint and Boughen being let’s just say inconsistent R/R not really the first choice option

Sadly though crazy fixtures again Not another home for 3 weeks especially as team on high after Saturday 2 home 2 away for each been better giving 16 home league ? And scrub early league cup

Is it really 47 years since Tommy lost his life (20th May 1976)? May he be forever remembered. RIP

How can you call Iversen "over the hill" yet want to continue with Harris 🤣 They're both 42 🤪

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He did at Berwick though but that still wasn’t good enough for you? That’s what I can’t understand? Also his average is below 8 and will come down again as his Oxford scores which counted towards his average are finally coming off. I’m just quite not sure what you expect from him? Kerr and Rowe are at a very similar level (imo Rowe is better) but one is on a falsely low average to start the season. Would do Kerr the world of good to be at 3/4 in a stronger pairing like he did at Oxford two seasons ago. I just find it fascinating that you are basically blaming him for losing at Berwick when Zach, Tobias and Starke all were shocking in comparison to Kerr. You just seem adamant not to give the guy a chance because you decided it was a bad signing now you must push that agenda on.

People forget we’ve only rode a few matches as well. The majority of our team don’t ride for anyone else other than the comets too.

regardless it wa s still a decent ride by Howarth as he had Kurtz up his inside and almost through on more than one occasion!

Zagar is just a waste of time - he was poor at Owlerton save one ride where he gated a stayed out. With MJJ gone Birmingham really are struggling. Good to see Tobi gettign a decent score. Witches managed a fairly routine with without two of their most effective riders Dan and Jason - speedy recoveries to both!

Still fondly remembered, RIP

We need a new rising star (probably Luke Harrison)… and we need a number 1 in an ideal world, but we don’t live in an ideal world unfortunately 🤷🏻‍♂️ If we lose against the Brummies on Monday then I won’t be going as much anymore, if not at all

I’m sure Denham will act accordingly.

He's only had one bad meeting though and that was at Plymouth. I'd say Zach and Tobi's form especially at the weekend are more of a concern.

Kerr may not have delivered early on with the points, but he has a bit of fight about him that I like. He wouldn't have been my first choice but I'm begining to believe he can do the business for Poole. To be honest I'm more concerned with Zac's up & down scoring.

I would imagine there are many fans disappointed with Kerr's early season form but hopefully the form he showed tonight can be reproduced on a regular basis.

Disappointing to see Birmingham lose. Zagar and Jeppesen need to be doing a lot better.

With the saddest thing being that all this was crystal clear before a wheel was turned... The Birmingham riders will earn a good few quid guesting for Leicester, Oxford and KL I would think, as I am not sure they would want a rider from a potential play off rival to help them out.....

Scoreline flattered Birmingham, musielak was brilliant after 2 duff rides and castanga is earning his points too but rew seems to be going backwards, jeppersen after a promising start to season is really struggling, Edward’s is ok but is getting beat by his reserve counterparts regularly and zagar is just zagar, they have the riders to do it but I just can’t see where the first and probably only victory is coming from

Doyle and Dan T rides scored a total of 9 We lost 8 points through engine failures Massacre in all honesty

Good laugh reading this, 4 lads going for the same bit of track at the same time it happens it’s racing. You wouldn’t be making such an issue of it if it wasn’t Glasgows finest Dan Thompson.

The million or so people that attended football matches on the day of the Cardiff GP maybe? 🤔 I would suggest that there are a significant amount of fans that follow both their football and Speedway teams. Also Speedway fans who no longer have a track to attend, who usually went to Cardiff, but opted to watch their football team instead. Just looking at some of the user names on this forum, which is a small cross section of fans, shows a few with an affinity to a football team. Out of the small number of Speedway teams left, Manchester, Sheffield, Poole (Bournemouth) Leicester, Ipswich, Birmingham, Oxford & Plymouth had teams playing in the Premier league or EFL championship that day. Myself, along with 5 others who always went to Cardiff opted to go to Forest instead, to watch Bournemouth. Shovvy said on here, that he did too. I can't believe that out of that million that went to football that day, that we are the only ones that would have attended Cardiff if it was at it's traditional June/July (pre football season) date.

A completely different outlook then, from now... Big crowds provided "working men" with additional income, who, often several evenings a week, earned, on each evening, more then they earned in a whole week of doing their "day job"... Only the very top riders had the sponsorship and salary band to make Speedway their profession... Nowaday much smaller crowds (maybe a tenth of 40 years ago?), are funding even juniors as full time professionals for at least 6 months of a year, (and for some all year!)... With the ultimate irony being of course that promoters expect their riders to spend tens of thousands on kit, so they pay them even more tens of thousands in salaries... And then collectively get together and devise an operating model that pretty much devalues hugely every single competition they "desperately" all want to win!!! Unsustainable madness and a true race to the bottom, as has been seen over the past 30 years or so, with absolutely nothing changing.... (Other than we had a green helmet cover for a while, which, very surprisingly for me, didn't bring tens of thousands of fans flocking back)....

Birmingham should have been allowed to ride in tier 2, on Mondays... A complete waste of time, money, and credibility for the league itself, allowing/making them ride in tier 1...

That's just one too many kick in the bollox imo😄

Quite possibly because there is little riding on most matches because of the play off system. They will all be back for the play offs. A shame 3 sides won't be in them and so don't get a boost - and the 4 who are in it can't be sure that the playoff numbers boost outweighs the reductions all through the year

A lot of speedway people are sadly quite happy for it to be run in this amateurish and low key way as social gathering for their mates, hence anyone who comes into speedway with any form of vision finds that the small-minded existing promoters simply close ranks.

Its not just the West Midlands though Dean. Here In London and the South East. Wimbledon, Hackney, Eastbourne, Canterbury, Crayford, Rye House, Arena Essex all gone. Only Iwade left. The South West. Swindon, Reading, Weymouth, Exeter and Somerset all gone. Plymouth, Poole and Oxford are the only three clubs from that region who are still running. Then you have to travel all the way to Ipswich and Kings Lynn who fortunately are still running, but Peterborough and Mildenhall have gone. This has all happened since the 80s. Very sad, but this must prove, as much as we all love the sport that is not far from dying, certainly as a Professional Sport anyway.

"Devastating news to those few hundred people"... Says it all.... Never more than a tier 2 team at best given their fanbase, yet had to get shoe horned into tier 1... I hope Nigel gets plenty of punters between now and season end, and it offsets at least some of the tremendous costs he has incurred keeping afloat a sport in a town that not enough people could be bothered to watch.. Should get plenty of away fans for their teams' last meeting ever at Perry Barr.

To Speedway from motorcross is a massive difference.

Like me. We had the papers delivered before I went to school, and I remember picking them up, and seeing the headline, "Speed Star Killed". Seems like yesterday, still...

I still remember hearing the news, could not believe it. I was walking to school the following morning, on the Friday. It was a lovely sunny morning, when one of my pals met me on the way and told me the sad news. Such a loss. Never forgotten RIP Tommy