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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.

No thanks, wouldn't want him near BP again.

It truly baffles me why some people see the GB GP as something that can help stimulate awareness of the domestic product.. Discovery will have some of the best media press releasers around, and yet the GP got the same MSM coverage that a Kent v Plymouth NDL match would get... Barely 20,000 fans attend all the tracks in the UK, so 6,000 or so, with the vast majority being UK Speedway fans, is a decent number for the event.. Next year, with maybe only one GP, could possibly mean cheaper tickets given one nights less accommodation costs.. Hopefully they don't get GP2, meaning more costs, but a much harder sell...

Hi from the commentary box for Rospiggarna v Vastervik. Looks like a late change for the home side - Dante Johansson being listed at #7 instead of Anton Jansson.

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Gavan is obsessed with people giving King stick for some reason. Nearly every post mentions it. Im pretty sure Gavan brings it up whether anyone has mentioned King or not at this point.

And he's probably right to be averse, Leicester's success over the last couple of seasons has mainly been due to our riders not missing any matches, most of them have been ever present or only missed 1 meeting... Steve Worrall could fit the bill?

Also, the 2 Luke's success has helped push through the Premier League Darts prize money double for 2026.

https://classicspeedwaymemories.webador.co.uk/2023-editions/april-2023/scottish-pirates Never came to anything but a big deal at the time. How will NORA be remembered? It certainly is a goer

He didn’t ride for the rest of the world, he was missing that due to injury he sustained on the return from injury at his Polish club Częstochowa the week before which the biggest mistake of them all. You can’t possible get over his injury within a week.

The difference between Tai and Littler/Humphries is the rise in the profile of the game. The sheer number of people taking up darts over the past 18 months has been phenomenal, the viewing tickets and TV demand has seen a massive upsurge thanks to "the Littler effect". If any rider, Tai or otherwise could manage even a quarter of that they would be carried upon shoulders to the Palace. We have seen a home rider win a home GP and it barely registered a murmur across media channels.

Glasgow sign Villads Nagel

Unfair re Jeppesen. He just doesn't like Perry Barr. His away average [2025 all official fixtures] is higher than: Zac Cook, Rohan Tungate, Nikolai Klindt, Erik Riss, Anders Rowe, Keynan Rew, Ben Cook. nb Zagar and MJJ (while there) also average more away. When 3 of your team seem to prefer riding away it suggests that the problem is not the riders but the track.

Good win for the Stars. Doyle clearly not fit in his first 2 rides, gating and trying to ride smoothly round inside. Turned up to avoid 28 day ban so he can ride later in week in Poland? Ipswich seemed to crumble after he pulled out, or did it just give the stars a morale boost. Either way, it turned the match. Klindt and to a lesser degree Lawson looked really poor in first few rides then suddenly turn into match winners. Good debut for Jody, very promising. Nki was trying hard, but for whatever reason wasn't quite working for him tonight. Kvech and Bomber just brilliant... After PK pulled out I feared the worst so to end up with a good win was a massive bonus. After Emil, the only real Ippo rider to show much fight was Jenkins

"Sit down"... "I've always sat here, I can't see..".. "Keep the noise down"... "Bjorn Knutsons my favourite rider"... "Happy Birthday to Ethel, who is 82 years young today, here's Frankie Valli... UK Speedway.....

And DJ before his name 😁