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Firstly, I was not referring to any of your posts, it’s was the one which was claiming it will never happen. I have never said a return is imminent, just that maybe closer than we have been what with everything but a long way from imminent I’m not party to anything specific but I know things are going as well as they can at this stage, as has been detailed in press releases from the group and interviews which are in the public domain not least on the NBNF podcast with Jeff Davies. I know first hand what it is like to lose a club, I’m a Bradford fan so you don’t need to tell me about super domes and roofs. Even more frustrating is they have a shale track down and still no speedway but that’s another story. Should anyone wish to hear the interview with Jeff Davies it is in this episode here, it’s a few weeks old but nothing has happened in the meantime to make this update any different or less positive at this stage. https://pod.fo/e/2c96c6 So whilst not getting anyone’s hopes up but the to say it will never happen is equally wide of the mark. Let’s see, this is not just a petition, people are working to try and make this happen and they deserve our support. Many have supported it, we’ve spoken about it on BSN to help drive the campaign for public backing, and the support has been excellent. We all hope it has a good outcome, anybody can say it won’t. One of us will be right 😂🤷🏼‍♂️

Boughen needs replacing

one poster in particular seems very touchy that Ipswich have lost

When you look at the Trophy you will see Sam Hagon's name on it twice in the last 2 years, there will be no comments section engraved on the cup. It is a case of "how many" not "how", you could say he was lucky, but I have found the harder you work, the luckier you get ! It is not his fault the system is set up for a winner takes all final, but it was there for all 4 riders to take advantage of, you just have to accrue enough points to get to the final, then in the most important race you need to want it more, and make your own "luck"

How you can say Hagon was the best rider on the night. Yes he won the meeting, under a winner takes all system. Both Thompson and Cairns beat him in the heats. He lost to Harrison in the Semi. All three rider in the final outscored him in the actual meeting. Thompson only dropped on point with Cairns dropping just two. Hagon scrapped into the semi as the lowest qualifier! having to win his last ride to do so. The original line up for heat 19 had Dan Thompson in it. Hagon was quite fortunate on the front. For needing to beat Thompson to squeeze into the semi would have been a tall order. So congratulations to Hagon for taking his chances, but best rider on the night! No not in my opinion. Would you have said said Kubera was a better on the night than Lebedevs, Lambert and Lingren? in last weeks GP. I would suggest no. The system played into his hands. Should he have deserved a chance of getting in the main GP final on six pts? I would say no, but just like it was for Hagon it was the rules. Stupid but still the rules. Could you have imagined the uproar if he went on to win the final and was awarded 20 pts after only amassing six in the actual meeting.

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

Everybody saw that coming unless you have no speedway knowledge I think Sheffield would have lost at King’s Lynn if it was r/r for Holder and Hume for Kerr And to gloat over riders being injured just shows a lack of class Every Ipswich fan congratulated Leicester tonight …. Yet we get weird accusations of us lowering our averages …. Then the Belle Vue idiot and now a Sheffield fan gloating …. Belle Vue who we thrashed twice and Sheffield who we held to 2 points …. I’m sure if we have our full 1-7 back we aren’t exactly worried

I'm pleased with the reserve choices. Always better to go with ability / who performed best in qualifiers etc. Nothing against Sam Hagon, but if he couldn't qualify for the British final, how can he expect to compete against GP riders. When the youngsters are good enough they'll get their chances, till then, that's what the SGP2 is for, the next batch of future stars.

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

Think you might need the practice

Great ride from Lidsey.... Last to first....

@R87 is the poster who said "good riddance" when Wolves closed lets not forget. There is still much work to do in the fight to keep Coventry running again. While Brandon is still there though (albeit decaying) never say never. I wish them well.

As I’ve said before I always feel Leicester are our toughest opponents at Foxhall You would prefer Bewley Kurtz and Lidsey over Fricke Masters and Douglas all day long ….. but at Foxhall the 3 Leicester boys go better then the 3 Belle Vue boys Add in that Blodorn and Zach Cook are generally awful and that Becker and Howarth aren’t … and that Belle Vue reserves are poor generally …. Then you can see why Belle Vue are probably the better 1-7 but at Foxhall we are more likely to beat Belle Vue easily as opposed to Leicester And Leicester absolutely deserved it last night

It is the same with most individual meetings, its all about qualifying for the final stages, Dan Thompson was the best rider in the meeting and most likely would have won without injury. I thought Sam deserved it as he came from the back to qualify for the final and also in the final to win it.

The only rider Hagon could conceivably replaced (staying under the limit) is Tobias Thomsen. Hagon's 2025 ave 4.35 (4.87), Thomsen's 5.19 (6.67). Well done to Sam for winning the meeting (despite not being the best rider in it) but that doesn't mean Poole made an error in not wanting him back.

His head completely in the clouds regarding the Alexander stadium! £6,000 rent per meeting, meaning tickets for his 600 crowdwould have to start at £100 before you even get tothinking about paying riders, cloud cuckoo land, ……………………. i make that £10 per head The rest might be right to be fair.

Good to see Sam finding some kind of form again, but it's been a long time coming. Mind you pity he found it again when against Poole, re the U21 final well that's racing for you, take the luck when you can. The question of course is can he maintain this level of success?

Many of us saw this coming but were hopeful the others could see us through. Well done to Leicester for taking full advantage. Fair play to them. When you operate R/R for your No.1, everyone else has to chip in with valuable points. Bringing in a reserve that you know is not going to score many points means you're effective a 5 man team - very dangerous. But the thing that has annoyed me, is the state of the track AGAIN. Similar to the Bank Holiday, there were blue grooves appearing on the entries to the corner, not as bad but they were there. This meant there was only ever one racing line. Nobody was using the outside which was the only thing that was getting graded with the new shiny tractor. The temperature and weather was normal in the few days before the meeting. So there were no excuses. Not only did we lose but the racing was poor. Not good enough.

I just said I don't rate him would rather have Thompson or Cairns in my team

Spot on post hagon only won the final with a desperate move. Don't rate him personally the Thompson twins and cairns far better.

Where has he took pleasure

I always felt he has under achieved in his career thus far - despite the obvious bit of leicester winning being a bit of a blow for the Witches - its good to see both him and Rowe having good seasons.

Everything that is wrong with British speedway in full view tonight…terrible track and an even worse pundit/commentator…absolute shyte.

Don’t understand how they can get track prep so wrong weekly at Oxford. Have they not got water down there.

that's before the Pirates rock up on 7th June 😃

I think with another strong heat leader in the team Tate may well be at 2 which may take a bit of pressure off him, he his finding consolidation of last seasons pre injury form difficult at the moment.. Ideally Fraser would have started at reserve like the Kennedys at Scunny and McDiarmid at Oxford which would help him find his feet. It's obvious that the point scoring abilities provided last year by Cookie coupled with the solid away average of Claus Vissing are a big miss. Jye's away performances so far haven't been what has been required from a rider with his experience while Antti continues to be an enigma on a lot of away tracks which is hard to fathom for a rider who often looks top notch at home. At the moment the team is very brittle. I can't see how the current deficiencies will be reversed without an inspired change or 2 in personnel otherwise we will be competing for the wooden spoon. Tomorrows meeting weather permitting will have more significance than the now near impossible task of achieving a place in the quarter finals of the KO Cup. UTC.

The comets team looks inexperienced at best , ok blasting round big tracks but no idea of anything technical . Batchelor will never ever be the answer at n1 , let alone tothers

MJJ looks like he's over done it with his bike rides 🚲 and runs 🏃‍♂️ this week

Additionally for Toruń v Grudziądz: https://vk.com/video-53550004_456242196 https://vk.com/video-220089063_456246446

Well that's handy for the Gladiators I'm thinking, Poole will just have to race as ever, they have the talent to win but all riders will need to perform.

It's a bit technical and pretty boring for most but on the off chance that somebody's curious it's because speedway engines operate in a particularly small rev range so they can be tuned in very extreme ways. In this case extreme valve overlap, when inlet and exhaust valves are open at the same time, closing the throttle interrupts the flow of mixture into the engine allowing exhaust gases up the inlet. Anybody still awake?

With their guests. Plymouth by 10

They are fantastic fans though... Will still celebrate every small victory as if it was winning the league...

Same as the league/playoffs as well really.....

So what? Leicester still got around there the fastest, both inside and out. The days of deep tracks are over, riders no longer like it and the tuners/designers have ensured the bikes can no longer cope with it.

Sheffield fans wont tolerate the teams that Rogers puts together! Its been dire at Bham since he arrived!!!!!

Troy Butler rode in the 1989 final

Plymouth currently have 5.72 available to replace Cluff (if they want to). When he gets a new average they'll still have 5.72 available to replace Cluff. The only difference it makes, would be I'd they dropped another team member (gives them an extra 2 points). But surely Cluff would be the one to go if they try to strengthen up?

It is very hard to replace a rider of Doyles calibre, r/r only works if the other 6 all perform well, if as was the case tonight other riders are off form a little then it becomes even harder and makes you vunerable, the best solution is a guest and I don't know why one wasnt used.

I am sure that Doyle and Thompson will be pleased to see you gloating about their injuries and inability to continue their excellent form so far this season. What type of speedway fan takes pleasure out of riders being injured.

The mighty witches beaten twice in a week who’d of seen that coming. Sheffield, BV and Leicester all rubbing their hands. great to see Howarth doing well

Just listened to the Tolley interview. A very smart guy who is super articulate. He seems to get a lot of stick on this forum, not sure why? Really nice comments on MJJ from Tolley. Tolley said the door is open for Michael to return later on in the season.

Found it an entertaining meeting to watch the scoreline helped but was some close races I’ve seen way worse meetings at Ipswich, Leicester on BSN. Picko as per bringing plenty of excitement. Feel for Oxford thought they gave it a real go, Kildemand at reserve is useful and Tungate and Riss rode well. Janowski is defo trying but just not making the gate. Jack Holder very good finish to the meeting showed his class in heat 15 and super heat to hang about for Picko. Kerr had an absolute mare in heat 9 getting passed on last bend. Rowe and Flint deserve huge credit they have been solid all season can see their confidence growing every meeting

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'. 👍🙂

Yes I listened to him, I thought what a great guy. He has spent a fortune on keeping Brummies up and running and still has the passion to try and find a new home for them to carry on. But could perhaps do with some help and guidance from someone so he can at least break even.

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… 👀

So it was published promptly and presumably the date the draw was being made was known by the four semifinals so it was no surprise to them but no action was taken thereafter and a blank Friday has been wasted by Redcar and Glasgow. Even worse should they be paired up in the KO Cup semis, Redcar having already made it through to this stage.

Guest for Saturday is Leon Flint.I did say better having a guest than r-r as to many passengers at the present time.

Be tough against Oxford though who also have good reserves. Depends how Mitch takes to Scunny.