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Seems Ben Basso had a word regarding the club which obviously helps.

When Tolley said it was a. 100% trier, Bachelor doesn't come to mind, that's why I went with Barker.

Well said. What a strange thing to try and blame Oxford. His last four meetings riding at number 3 for Oxford before the crash on 15/9 were as follows… Away vs Scunthorpe (13/9) - 0,2*,2,0 - 4+1 Away vs Glasgow (8/9) - X,3,3,3,3,1* - 13+1 Away vs Redcar (6/9) - 3,3,3,3,3 - 15 Home vs Redcar (4/9) - 2,2*,3,3 - 10+1 He scored 42+3 from a possible 57 points.

Or a fit Ben Cook could have made a difference.... or Kildermand not got injured at the weekend. All 'if' 'buts' and 'maybes'. It's what happens on the day and over the last few seasons we've had more than our fair share of things not working out for reason or another. We won, we happy, on to the next one! 3 points behind Leicester... c'mon the stars...

Scott and Harrison are stronger than Knudsen and Gusts. Are you clinically insane?

You don’t sound bitter at all. No sir definitely not you. No bitterness in your post whatsoever. You can see that you are delighted about this signing and you are just coming across as bitter.

Glasgows to lose now. Great signing, magical what you can do to fit UK into your when a few extra pennies are coming your way.

Great signing, I hope Ashton can take time out and rediscover his form from last year, no doubt that he is a talent but there are issues he must overcome if he wants to make it in speedway. There have been a few very talented youngsters been lost to the sport, the question is, do we put too much pressure on them at the beginning of their career? Should they continue to do NDL for longer before stepping up a league? I do think that they shouldn't be rising stars in Premiership until they are fairly established in championship. Championship should have British youngsters at reserve and not foreigners, that is just my opinion, I expect to be shot down for my comments, but I am a speedway fan not just a supporter of my team.

Bruce Cribb? His ice bike would have come in handy last night 😁

Yeah, you know you're getting far less points with those two in the team!

Great to see Leon doing so well this season. His old school average (inc bonus) for this year is nearly seven points. Watching him in the Colts in 2019 I thought he was destined for greatness but he has plateaued in the intervening years, until now. Great work from Simon to help turn things around. Looking back to 2019 I thought I was watching the backbone of future Aces teams in Jordan, Leon & Kyle but sadly it was not to be. Also looking back, what a team Kent had with Rowe, Kemp, Gilkes, Jenkins & Mulford in their team. NL training at its best.

Still buy programmes, I’ve got over 50 years of them in the loft. I keep the dust off them by covering them in speedway anoraks weighed down by badges. 🤣

Great signing that

From a Lynn point of view we really need an Ipswich win please.

Every time the camera pans the crowd I cringe. People with more pin badges than real teeth, 80s/90s dance music at the tapes, dreadful working mens club banter on the centre green and people who go on about bring back upright engines, monkey masks, open helmets, rediffusion, polio, smog...

Personally, after attending both nights, I will definitely be there next year if it is held at Belle Vue. Lots of problems, but the racing was much better than Cardiff. Hopefully a few lessons will be learnt, & most problems could be sorted with more staff, in my opinion.

You make a lot of sensible points, I'm not sure about the 20,000 thing though, there's probably at least double that who still take an interest in Speedway and will be attracted by a major Speedway event in a major city, Cardiff has proven this, add to that foreign visitors and "the curious" being attracted with proper promotion and I think you could easily be looking at 30,000+. One thing I did notice attending Cardiff down the years was that the demographic was quite different of that at all "normal" Speedway meeting. They also need to get ticket pricing right, I can't ever remember paying more than £29 to attend Cardiff and only £23 in the final year, which quite frankly was ridiculous, for the cheapest ticket to then be more than double that at a league track in the suburbs of Manchester is equally ridiculous imo.With respect, although Manchester is a city, I can't imagine it's on many people's bucket list of cities to visit, shown by them just about managing to sell out the Saturday night and being quite short of doing so on the Friday. Parken, Copenhagen attracted around 30,000... Vojens 10-15,000, that's the big city effect. The London Stadium is the obvious choice, 30,000 at £50 a pop minimum (which is still quite cheap for a major event in the UK and cheaper than the cheapest ticket available in Manchester) brings in £1.5m in gate receipts (minimum) alone, if you can't turn a profit on that, something is seriously wrong with your business (and tbf, at the moment we know there is) Having said all of that, things will not change for the better while WBD run the series. What Laura Manciet (FIM Speedway World Championships director) and Jean-Baptiste Ley (Motorsport Series Leader at WBD Sports Europe) know about Speedway you could probably write on the back of a fag packet.

Arthur Browning in the stadium last night? Former heat leader.

Cardiff ran at a loss, hence it got pulled.. There was no "significant sponsorship" of the events, hence they lost money... They lost around 20,000 fans over a decade... A "successful" GB GP has almost zero positive impact to the sport in the UK... With an "unsuccessful" one having the same zero negative impact.. Outside of Poland the crowds are generally below 10,000 so the NSS is on a par with them.. Maybe the East Stand could get another 1000 or so added for next year..?

Three of them are away from home…

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Mitch never seen Poole before and still beat Lawson comfortably. Someone i would never write off and did well at Plymouth first time as well.

You're probably the only person in the world who thinks Lasse Fredriksen is an upgrade on Mitch McDiarmid, Ben Morley is an upgrade on Jonas Knudsen and Jacob Hook is an upgrade on Francis Gusts. You also seem to have invented R/R for Cheetahs tomorrow, when Cam is back from injury. Keep taking the pills, Blobby!

A special mention has to go Ashton Boughen who was a victim of his own success. To find yourself in the main body of a Championship side at 17 years-old, having only taken up the sport three years ago, is remarkable progress. Seeing him almost lap (exaggeration, of course) Chris Harris at Ashfield last season - less than three weeks after his 17th birthday - was the biggest “giant killing” I’ve ever seen. Bigger than Powell versus Hamill and Hancock at Shawfield in ‘95. I think @IainB was spot on when he said Boughen is trying to run before he can walk. Fortunately, he has time on his hands and lots of it to fulfil what is evidently a huge amount of potential. All the best Ashton.

A dislocation can often be worse than a break to heal to do it twice in as many weeks has got to have an effect , he's not in the first flush of youth either as you get older healing takes longer .

What another fantastic night of speedway at the Norfolk Arena for the Stars. Really didn’t have high hopes going into the meeting, and was expecting Ipswich to never get out of second gear and still win comfortably. How I was proved wrong. It great to see some atmosphere, and Lynn fans giving Witches fans some stick as they swiftly tried to exit after heat 14.

Yet people keep telling me nowt wrong with the track, looking at the shape it looks okay but week in week out it fails to allow for good speedway, there seems to be one line and when riders move off that line there is nothing for them, for years i have banged on about the track but nothing has been done, now it's to late no point when they are closing in a few months. The post above seems to suggest the riders seem to prefer to race away from Perry Barr which just about sums it up, may i suggest Brum ride every meeting away from home at least Tolley would not need to dip so deep into his pocket every meeting and make excuses most weeks about the track prep, hey we would still have a Birmingham team if they did that and then they could drop down to the Championship, I had better keep my mouth shut knowing the BSPL they might think that is a good idea 😉🤣.

No you missed my point, I said he shouldn’t have even turned up at the weekend. I.e shouldn’t have rode at SGP, was clear to see he wasn’t ready, what has an extra 3/4 points gained him in the series honestly over 2 GPs, I’d say it’s worked against him because he then had to ride last night which wasn’t the right call and again probably on the back foot for Gorzów due to aggravating his injury.

Am I right in thinking in roughly 10 heats at the last two Lynn visits Ellis scored about 5 or 6 points… I thought he could ride that place? He has really fallen off a cliff recently, don’t know about any other witches fan but soon as I see King, Ellis and Brennan come out for any heat I don’t have a clue what I’m about to watch, they are so unpredictable at the moment.

Definitely need a guest for Doyle and someone like Steve Worrall for Dan

I'm sure you'll be back next year, along with 6399 others. I think Dean's point is that no matter how good the racing is, and even if all the problems encountered this year are resolved, how do you attract the missing thousands when you only have a 6400 capacity and there isn't room for them? The event can't grow at Belle Vue unless the capacity is increased. Unfortunately that can't be justified for a once a year event.

I’d driven past the stadium at about 8pm but seems I made the right decision again about not stopping to watch the action on a completely dreadfully prepared track. Tolley’s interview was completely barking. All down to track prep despite being absolutely slaughtered and embarrassingly . The Brummies must be happy that he is the only thing keeping the sport in Birmingham alive. Seems a proper speedway fan but he is off his nut in that interview!

To be fair I've been to some other motorsports that aren't too far removed, but no sport body is quite as wilfully blind to it as the BSPA. Now if you don't mind I'm off to the track shop to get a new, laminated, no expense spent team picture. The out of date one with the riders who've been sacked or buggered off to Poland. 😁

I was around in the days of Ivan Mauger, and regularly watched Tony Rik and I consider Zmarzlik the greatest speedway rider in history already. Impossible to catch if he gates and brilliant to watch come through the field when he doesn't. Initially I though it was a massive shame that Laguta was unable to defend his title, but all Laguta is is fast. He's just Vaculik with better equipment, this year he wouldn't see which way Bartek went. But what I like most about Bartek is that he has no ego whatsoever, he just loves what he does and that's a rare trait.

The first Cardiff GP the attendance was around 40,000 up from the previous year at Brandon Coventry which was around 12,000 and stayed around 40,000 for about 10 years,why ? Because there was a buzz about it, it had a sense of occasion, it was the new kid on the block and we all know not one person there went for the racing as more often than not it was crap and the track was more often than not awful but it didn’t matter and every year we saw people who hadn’t been to speedway for years turning up and it was the same for the Toruń and Prague GP, the place was buzzing with Brits of which many hadn’t been to speedway for years but had heard of the great time British fans were having through mates and went over there, BV is fantastic we all know that and they were the best GPs for racing but as I said at the start of all this it didn’t attract me to go because it felt like just another meeting and not the bombastic all guns blazing social event that it should be and Cardiff for the first 10 years was, which when imo the circus should of moved to a new town but it didn’t and became stale, a new city venue would give a boost to the GP which I think it needs but if discovery think BV every British GP then the sport is done for because this tiny bubble that BV has inflated will burst, there is no easy answer but whatever that answer is BV in its current guise ain’t it

Waste of space

I agree that most probably the various vested organisations were happy with the attendance on both nights especially Saturday which was the original date for the Manchester GP. As we know, the Friday event was a replacement for Cardiff and clearly the losses incurred last year were avoided this time around. However, as a newsworthy spectacle an attendance of 7k does not compare with ones of 20k plus so if the objective is to avoid losses maybe even make a small profit then by all means keep to the NSS as a venue but say goodbye to the opportunity of creating worthwhile awareness of the event and future significant sponsorship.

Round Armadale, Hook and Fredriksen are an upgrade on the above, two riders who have done plenty of laps round the place against 2 riders who have never seen the place in their life. I’d come off whatever ones you’re on. 😂

If your good enough you just have to get on with it.Pressure comes with the job.Lee ,Collins,Loram and many others had the same pressure.

That's a shame,why the laughter clive?

As with any rider if the moneys right.

That track was unacceptable and deserves a fine. And the excuse from Tolley doesn't make sense. "We couldn't water the track on Sunday as a trench had to be dug on the start finish line." What about the rest of the track?! Clown show.

Villads Nagel replaces Ashton Boughen. Scored 6 pts in the SGP2 at Ashfield back in May, including a heat victory against Boughen before it was abandoned due to heavy rain.

I comsider myself a dedicated speedway fan - not as much as I used to be, but still - and will watch virtually any speedway meeting, but good grief that was possibly the worst meeting I've ever seen. Zero racing, crap track, crap home side...it genuinely had nothing interesting. I genuinely feel for Birmingham and their fans, but in all honesty, what's the point at this stage? That team clearly isn't bothered, they'll struggle to win another meeting all year, and they're not even entertaining. I don't know what the answer is, but this ain't it. Also, I'm in full support of some atmosphere in British speedway (christ knows it needs it), but what was "barmy army" stuff all about? Just sounded like 2 or 3 annoying fans shouting incessantly.

Seeing rumours it Troy batchelor

That's a bit generous. I think this system would work: No passes recorded lap 1 as they are sorting themselves out. None on lap 2 as they are just getting settled into the rhythm of the race after sorting themselves out. Lap 3 we can count passes, hurrah! Lap 4 doesn't count, as by then some riders give up on the last two bends so it can't be a genuine pass. Forthwith all programs to have a column to mark when authorised passes occur, so the 100 or so fans packing out the NSS can have something else to do when Kurtz is half the circuit ahead of the rest, again 😁

Really ? Speedway tends to.be same nearly everywhere.. the race is over after the second bend and riders way apart from each other for the rest of the race . I watched Gps and meetings in Poland and they are the same 90 % of the time..another Speedway myth

Not everyone you have to buy hospitality ticket £60 including food