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There has never been a bigger likelihood of speedway returning to Brandon than there is today, it may not fit the doom monger narrative but maybe give credit to those who haven’t rolled over and given up. Nobody is saying anything about a multi million restoration, it would be a basic version initially and a lot of the old buildings may have to go. But can speedway get back there, absolutely it can, let’s see… 👀

The end of the year will come and go and there will be nothing announced. He means well (I think) and fair play he's kept Brum going, but the reason that people don't go and watch Speedway in Brum has nothing to do with the word "Speedway" being omitted from the fans replica team shirts. His bit about the motorway service station and people not knowing what he was wearing was comical..... Its because year in year out he builds a crap team. Its poor management, it's the same in any business. No doubt, he runs a successful business, a world he understands, but when you listen to him, its clear he knows very little about running a Speedway Team. A little bit like when we had Mick Horton. If the team was winning, or at least has a semi decent chance of winning at home, more people would go. And in a city the size of Birmingham, there are plenty of other things to go and spend your money on. I appreciate its difficult though as Brum are always left with the riders no one else wants, and as a result all ride out of position. EDIT: You compare Tolley with Peter Facenna later on in the Podcast, which was a great listen, and they are worlds apart. A person who clearly knows what he is doing and has the right team surrounding him.

Steady didn't look too impressed with that coin toss... where's that other woman when you need her 😂😂

Had it only once... A week in bed... Lost over a stone and a half... Could do with getting it again...

He wouldn't even be there if he really had flu...🤣

Not if you speak to any Belle Vue fans

All the cup competitions should have designated dates like the football. Year after year we have the same situation with cup fixtures.

That shows how clueless you are.

Yes our riders love to deliberately lose races in front of their own fans Moron

Been somewhat disappointed with Brennan this year, thought he might have kicked on a little. No Dan T is a massive miss at reserve...

ive had it 3 times, still had to get up at 4 in the morning and lick road clean wi tongue.

He's not been diving off bridges as well has he... looks like there's a bit of northern flu doing the rounds

Hope is eternal................... Up the 'Bees'. 👍🙂

Practice is probably in the morning or early afternoon on raceday

Probably not. BUT the longer all alternative options are closed off to them, the more likely the presence of a willing and credible purchaser will mean it becomes their least worst option

Luke Killeen is struggling for whatever reason at the moment so is Boughen, Sam seems to have his mojo back . At the moment Sam Hagon is better.

Harris and Ellis the reserves for BV, then. I'm sure any experience Harris picks up in his 104th GP appearance will stand him in good stead for 2026.

If it wasn't so sad it was quite comical listening to his interview, the shirts, that he's responsible for, not having the word Speedway written on them! His head completely in the clouds regarding the Alexander stadium! £6,000 rent per meeting, meaning tickets for his 600 crowd would have to start at £100 before you even get to thinking about paying riders, cloud cuckoo land, why even mention it as a possibility, he may as well have gone to Villa Park! A fool and his money are easily parted, he obviously knows how to make and sell badges, but like you say running a Speedway promotion not so much, he needed better people around him I think, and now he's talking about inflicting the same process on another club, it beggars belief!

Would love to be with you in the trenches....

Fair to say the Kennedy's have been impressive.

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

Confirming that Charles Wright is the wildcard and Chris Harris and Adam Ellis the reserves. Just a reminder that on Friday there is qualifying and a sprint race. Starts at 2pm Saturday no qualifying at all.

You can’t sugar coat this. You might have injured riders and be gutted but why should belle Vue and Sheffield fans have sympathy for you. We are all fighting for top spot. It’s not gloating about injuries, I wish the injured riders well as I’m sure others will. Ipswich fans getting on there high horses for nothing here. tells me your worried

So remind me why we might be deliberately lowering our averages ???? Who would we sack? You are utterly clueless

And fans thought kings lynn would finish above leicester

Dunno but I can see Leicester maybe winning this!

We’ve used who’s available till the averages change next week. some people looking far too much into this.

Had it only once... Got it on the plane over to Florida... Spent 10 days in bed... Came home... Never want it again!

Kenny carter and jack millan are spinning 😁

been dry for a couple of weeks now and forcast rain this weekend be some recovery if dan is fit to ride

That’s too simple.Like I say riders dictate when they are available in GB.

Oxford to win now that Zach Cook is guesting.

It's not from anything that I've read, it's more from what I've heard from a number of podcasts and on BSN. I didn't want to single him out but okay, you've forced my hand... @IanBrannan I know he's on here and will read this, so I'll start off by saying he produces great podcasts and does a stellar job on BSN and while I understand it's great to have a glass half full outlook on life, I'm more of a pragmatist. I don't know which club you support but what you've got to understand is that us Cov fans put up with a lot of 🐄💩 from Mick Horton who strung us out for his last couple of years, whenever he was asked anything about the future of the club the same old replies kept coming, there's stuff going on behind the scenes, we're looking at sites, I can't say too much at the moment. So when I hear things these days like the return of Speedway to Coventry may be closer than you think my first reaction in the face of any real news on this front is I've heard it all before. Especially when we've seen the closure of many clubs over the years, remember the roof at Odsal? Remember we're just dotting the i's and crossing the t's for Long Eaton's new stadium and it still goes on today more recently with Wolverhampton, there's a site 15 miles away... Swindon and their new just off the M4 track. Like I've said before, nothing would please me more than to see the return of Speedway to Brandon but to be told we're following a "doom monger narrative" when commenting on the information we actually have in the public domain is difficult to take. Some others may come at it with a bit more of a sledgehammer approach but I'm not going to give up hope, but at the moment that is all it still is... hope 🙏

Here is what I think is latest list (From Chunky) 01 - Arthur Payne - 28/08/23 02 - 03 - 04 - Ove Fundin - 23/05/33 05 - Dan Forsberg - 25/03/34 06 - Josef Hofmeister - 17/06/34 07 - Brian Crutcher - 23/08/34 08 - Mike Broadbank - 25/09/34 09 - Barry Briggs - 30/12/34 10 - Bob Andrews - 27/10/1935 11 - Reg Luckhurst - 11/11/1935 12 - Sverre Harrfeldt - 23/11/1937 13 - Leif Larsson - 16/02/1938 14 - Bjorn Knutson - 27/04/38 15 - Gunnar Malmqvist - 25/12/1940 16 - Andrzej Wyglenda 04/05/1941 17 - Jim Airey - 19/08/1941 18 - Bengt Jansson - 09/01/1943 19 - Anders Michanek - 30/05/1943 20 - Trevor Hedge - 30/08/1943 21 - Terry Betts - 15/09/1943 22 - Howard Cole 29/12/1943 23 - Martin Ashby - 05/02/1944 24 - Jan Simensen - 26/07/1944 25 - Zygfryd Friedek - 19/10/1944 26 - Jerzy Trzeszkowski - 10/01/1945 27 - Eric Boocock - 02/02/1945 28 - John Boulger - 18/06/1945 29 - Hasse Holmqvist - 18/06/1945 30 - Jim McMillan - 03/12/1945 31 - Soren Karlsson - 23/10/1946 (Not a Finalist) 32 - Ole Olsen - 16/11/1946 33 - Ray Wilson - 12/03/1947  34 - Doug Wyer - 16/08/1947 35 - Grigori Khlinovsky - 11/11/47 36 - Egon Muller - 26/11/1948 37 - Christoph Betzl - 13/02/1949 38 - Jiri Stancl - 18/11/1949 39 - Viktor Kuznetsov - 27/11/1949 40 - Georg Hack - 20/02/1950 41 - Marek Cieslak - 28/06/1950 42 - Alois Wiesbock - 31/07/1950 43 - Tommy Johansson - 21/10/1950 44 - Vladimir Gordeev - 30/11/1950 45 - John Titman - 26/01/1951 46 - Dag Lovaas - 25/02/1951 47 - Jan Verner - 03/03/1951 48 - Petr Ondrasik - 08/10/1951 49 - Phil Crump - 09/02/1952 50 - Henny Kroeze - 11/03/1952 51 - Valery Gordeev - 28/08/1952 52 - Dave Jessup - 07/03/1953 53 - Ales Dryml - 10/06/1953 54 - Scott Autrey - 09/07/1953 55 - Robert Slabon - 15/09/1953 56 - Peter Collins - 24/03/1954 57 - Larry Ross - 15/06/1954 58 - John Davis - 10/11/1954 59 - Finn Thomsen - 16/02/1955 60 - Mikhail Starostin - 24/02/1955 61 - Tommy Nilsson - 10/03/1955 62 - Jan Andersson - 07/05/1955 63 - Kai Niemi - 15/09/1955 64 - Jerzy Rembas - 18/04/1956 65 - Chris Morton - 22/07/1956 66 - Steve Bastable - 16/09/1956 67- Bruce Penhall - 10/05/1957 68 - Karl Maier - 24/08/1957 69 - Roman Jankowski - 05/10/1957 70 - Bo Petersen - 21/02/1958 71 - Les Collins - 24/05/1958 72 - Mitch Shirra - 27/09/1958 73 - Michael Lee - 11/12/1958 74 - John Cook - 18/12/1958 75 - Richard Knight - 26/05/1959 76 - Dennis Sigalos - 16/08/1959 77 - Erik Gundersen - 08/10/1959 78 - Hans Nielsen - 26/12/1959 79 - Olli Tyrvainen - 11/01/1960 80 - Phil Collins - 02/06/1960 81 - Sam Ermolenko - 23/11/1960 82 - Rick Miller - 12/01/1961 83 - Jeremy Doncaster - 16/06/1961 84 - Tommy Knudsen - 09/11/1961 85 - Zoltan Adorjan - 15/11/1961 86 - Shawn Moran - 19/11/1961 87 - Peter Ravn - 16/03/1962 88 - Zenon Kasprzak - 10/05/1962 89 - John Jorgensen - 18/07/1962 90 - Antal Kocso - 22/12/1962 91 - Sandor Tihanyi - 28/04/1963 92 - Lance King - 13/08/1963 93 - Armando Castagna - 22/09/1963 94 - Kelvin Tatum - 08/02/1964 95 - Marvyn Cox - 11/07/1964 96 - Zdenek Tesar - 30/07/1964 97 - Mikael Blixt - 08/08/1964 98 - Paul Thorp - 09/09/1964 99 - Tony Olsson - 13/03/1965 100 Gerd Riss - 17/03/1965 101 - Conny Ivarsson - 15/04/1965 102 - Simon Cross - 31/05/1965 103 - Bohumil Brhel - 10/06/1965 104 - Slawomir Drabik - 06/02/1966 105 - Per Jonsson - 21/03/1966 106 - Andy Smith - 25/05/1966 107 - Jan Staechmann - 05/06/1966 108 - Ronnie Correy - 08/11/1966 109 - Jimmy Nilsen - 16/11/1966 110 - Brian Karger - 09/02/1967 111 - Jan O. Pedersen - 27/07/1967 112 - Craig Boyce - 02/08/1967 113 - Troy Butler - 22/09/1967 114 - Piotr Swist - 20/06/1968 115 - Todd Wiltshire - 26/09/1968 116 - Gary Havelock - 04/11/1968 117 - Stefan Danno - 10/02/1969 118 - Martin Dugard - 18/05/1969 119 - Gert Handberg - 30/05/1969 120 - Chris Louis - 09/07/1969 121 - Billy Hamill - 23/05/1970 122 - Greg Hancock - 03/06/1970 123 - Henrik Gustafsson - 14/08/1970 124 - Tony Rickardsson - 17/08/1970 125 - Mark Loram - 12/01/1971 126 - Tomasz Gollob - 11/04/1971 127 - Leigh Adams - 28/04/1971 128 - Josh Larsen - 12/05/1972 129 - Joe Screen - 27/11/1972 130 - Jason Crump - 06/08/1975

The BSPL don’t seem to grasp the most seasons the same Top 4 Clubs that Season usually contest most of the Trophy Finals thus causing fixture congestion by delay these meetings.There should be cut off point that should be strictly adhered too.

Where have you got that impression from? I haven't read anything anywhere that says a return to Brandon is imminent, and I follow all the reports from the Save Coventry Speedway campaign. I find all their reports to be honest and helpful, and I commend them on the terrific fight they have put up so far, but I haven't seen anything saying the fight is over and a return is imminent. What have you been reading?

I would think Poole want to stage theirs after June 29th!!😉

Class,very stylish and well in control .IMO Sensible enough to stay out of Killeen on opening laps.

On a par at the moment... but has got the potential to rise above them in the coming years (if not months).

Which is awful, should be given to two of the young guys coming through. I’d be embarrassed if I was Harris or Ellis for even accepting it.

I suspect he's not going to pull out before he really has to, "just in case" he wakes up tomorrow and reckons he can give it a crack.

Away from home, we are really bad. Have a look 2025 Rider Statistics – British Speedway Official Website

Think you’re spot on with that. Kileen had advantage of an experienced mechanic who knows the setups around Glasgow (mechanics for one of the Glasgow team) but he just seemed to be going backward heat by heat. Not sure what the answer is as you don’t want to say bring in likes of Jody Scott before he’s had a chance to dip his toes with Redcar. Only one that I think could do the job is Luke Harrison but like a lot of the available rising star riders that would mean him having 4 teams in UK (already has Scunthorpe, Scunthorpe/Sheffield & Kings Lynn Young Stars)

I think Oxford are asking too much of young Killeen. Watching him in the U21 final on Sunday. He was a shadow of the rider he was last year. His scores suggest that he's really struggling in the top league and you can see in his riding his confidence is low. Just like Boughen. I think he needs taking out of the firing line. i have no idea who could replace him. but the RS system is not working for a lot of these young riders.. Leicester took Hagon out of the firing line because he was not scoring. Look at him on Sunday (Lower Standard) but he looked like he had a lot more confidence on the bike and went on and won the meeting. If he was still at Leicester scoring hardly any pts. Would he have won that meeting?

Realistically it needs to be one big league only with riders committed to British Speedway, 2H2A, no doubling up, on the best race night for the club.

Thompson found himself in that position to be judged because he had to take evasive action from Killeen. You can see from the picture below, Killeen’s veered three feet to his right from the start to the first bend. He was on one wheel with his head jerked back (which is why he’s looking up in this picture) and his left boot is in the air, mere inches from the first bend. Thompson’s read that; if he doesn’t take evasive action by cutting back, Killeen’s hitting him. As a result, he’s stepped in front of Foord who can do nothing other than nudge him. By the time Killeen’s deep in the first bend, he’s where those in gate three found themselves. Killeen hasn’t done anything illegal, but a lack of control on his part has subsequently cost Thompson, Ipswich and Glasgow, big time. Harris had to take similar evasive action against Polis at Ashfield last week. Fortunately, that didn’t put him in danger, but three seconds later, Polis and Howarth went down.

We deserved that defeat. Shocking performance early in the meeting. Again took 8-9 heats to get going. This time it cost us and comical time in heat 14 when gating on a 5-1 turned into a 4-2 to Berwick with Starke falling on the last bend to gift Berwick the win. Some extremely poor performances from our captain Zack Cook. Mobile chicane. Tobias no better. Just poor. Every meeting this year we start so slow and this time, just like Oxford at home, we ran out of heats. Hagon decided to have his best meeting in months and was excellent. Against his old club? He should be fired up like that every meeting. There’s a talent in there. Hume was good and I have always liked Drew Kemp. He is now beginning to fulfil his potential as a very decent rider.

You're so far up your own backside that I bet when you brush your teeth you can see your face where your tonsils should be. If its not Poole it's not worth knowing about That's your mantra.

Poor old Amorim he's got a team full of Troy Batchelor's 😁