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Did you tell him he rode like a novice before or after the pictures? 😂

It's okay everybody, I emailed the SCB early doors this morning asking which rule was breached and I'm expecting a reply very shortly 🤔

I see this from you a lot, Mike/Ouch is similar. Just goes to show the mouthy miserable minority on here don’t translate to what actually exists on the terraces. I’m sure you’d say that it was completely meaningless that Ipswich snatched the bonus point last night seeing as they’re already guaranteed a play off place. So what difference does the extra point make? Well to those there last night it meant something. The atmosphere in the closing races when the 5-1’s were coming and the bonus point was secured in the final heat was excellent. The crowd were fully aware of what was needed due to the excellent presenter Kevin keeping everyone up to speed, and the roar when the presenter confirmed the bonus point had been secured spoke volumes. I guess the likes of Birmingham and Oxford and probably Lynn are now all riding meaningless meetings so may as well now just forfeit their remaining fixtures and we’ll just fast forward to the play offs and we can all have an early finish this year? After all these are only meaningless “qualifiers”. Never known such a negative bunch of grumpy b@stards that follow a particular sport like we seem to have with this one. We have Lynn on Monday, I’m pretty sure their supporters won’t see it as meaningless if they do a number again on their Suffolk rivals. Life is short, enjoy every meeting while you can and savour any victory the team you support manages to get, whether your team is at the top of the table or rock bottom.

Didn't Andy Smith do 3 on the trot as a Bee in 93 94 and 95?

Poole have no say in who he guests for

every track has it's merits, even Plymouth (did i just say that!!), and it's riders that can adapt will always be better .. no point having all big fast tracks like Poland

Little chance of councils backing any speedway club as they don't have enough money to do the basics like potholes,SEND etc.

What everybody has to remember is every track has it's amazing races and rubbish races even the "best track in the world" NSS! 99% of the amazing races come from the best riders! Maybe BV fans didn't watch the 2nd GP at NSS when by the end of it was just a outside line track only with hardly any passing? It's the fact Ipswich was the ones making the passing tonight made it a rubbish track😂 UP THE WITCHES!

Sounds like a humdinger and unusual for updates to get it so wrong as from experience they are always bang on. Win or lose I’m always interested in the racing and have used updates when deciding to buy the dvd (re run are excellent btw). Can you give me your take on the action after bend three lap one as it does come across as a truly awful spectacle when reading updates. Well done Ipswich and especially Danny. I think this was his best meeting ever at Foxhall given the GP opposition, top bloke, please for him. For The Aces some might say it’s part of the master plan that went wrong but don’t look back in anger and just roll with it. Aces fans, stop crying your heart out and look forward to Monday when once again we will be supersonic, d’you know what I mean.

Deffo agree with you, no space to overtake. I mean I didn’t see king do both Bewley and Kurtz in the same bend at all tonight, oh sorry and Thompson doing overtakes, oh sorry and Emil and Doyle passing Belle Vue riders, oh sorry and Brennan going on the inside and then out. Deffo no room to overtake though if you can’t actually race a different track 😉

rule 324 subsection 32 part 4 appendix 13 any team causing he bspa to put out a generic statement and should there be a monday in the week and the away fixture from 2 weeks ago should result in a win for either team or a draw then the team will be deducted some points maybe 2 or 3 and sent to the naughty corner until they are really really sorry

A] all of them B] none of them C] one that someone made up this morning and wrote on the back of a cereal packet

Excellent post... Rozelle was initially a properly disliked Commissioner by many owners, (and some players with big personal sponsorship)... However, he knew that so many working in a "I am all right Jack" SILO, couldn't ever be successful for the sport overall... As he knew that one day the historically successful teams would end up playing themselves and no one else!! Which would mean sponsors and TV deserting in droves.. Sharing revenues equally, inc official merchandise regardless of which team sold most, and having national league sponsors front and centre, in front of any local, or personal agreements, (and sharing the money equally), saw the sport generically move forward... The historically big teams are still pretty much the same ones, as, organically they are the biggest, but the "cannon fodder" teams nowadays at least have a chance, and big money coming in from shared TV, merchandise and sponsorship agreements, regardless of position in their conference... A perfect blueprint for UK Speedway I would suggest... In fact, I suggested the same thing well over a decade ago on here!!! British Speedway should be "The Brand" with one overarching "leader" who is given complete autonomy, but held accountable by the owners, with every track being a franchise that can be lost if that franchise doesn't meet the standards expected of the overall generic business of "British Speedway Ltd"... All TV money, sponsorship and merchandise money, pooled with each team getting an equal share regardless of their own sales or TV matches... UK Speedway will fall together, if they don't work together as a collective...

I did it semi professionally for 20 years,rode in all 3 leagues + running my business at the same time and was never in credit at the bank in all those years. But cause I was sort of caught up in the moment and loving it and always seem to have cash in my pocket and I never actually rode for the money I didn’t realise how much it was actually costing me until I retired, I suddenly started noticing I was actually in credit and making decent money at my business, speedway was literally bleeding me dry, would I do do it again ? Hell yes, somethings in life you just can’t buy and if I’m honest looking back I did waste a bit on flash parts

suspend him for 2 weeks and deduct 2 months wages.😉

What a tosser 🪙

Update on Danyon Hume taken from the Danyon Hume Racing page. Hey guys, Just another update on Danyon, he underwent 5 hours of surgery on Monday which was successful and is now managing to take a few steps. The physios and doctors are happy with the progress he is making and in their words “Danyon is a warrior”. We both really appreciate all the messages/calls, we have received so much love and support it hasn’t gone unnoticed and I have read everyone’s messages to Danyon. Danyon will get round to responding to everyone at some point however he is concentrating on his road to recovery at the moment. Thank you so much for all the love. Jade x

Top 4 in a 7 team league though is ridiculous rendering most league matches meaningless... the only meaningful matches, perversely, are against Birmingham, Oxford & Kings Lynn, beat those and you're in the pay offs.

If I knew nothing it would still be twice as much as you.

Think you missed the joke, it was how Tatum would commentate the meeting. I didn't realise BV fans would be that sensitive to take this as a dig 😂

During all the years the British Final was held at Coventry i dont recall any Coventry track expert racking up British Titles, no matter where its held and i agree it should be shared around but as Phil says there were no other tracks willing to host it. Problem today there really isnt any other British rider who is going to threaten the likes of Bewley and Lambert, gone are the days of Collins, Morton, Lee Jessup, Betts, Carter, when the meeting was hotly contested.

Sorry yes I forgot speedway is all about going flat out on big fast tracks and if you miss the gate just ride out wide and ride around people …. That’s the trouble these days is riders only ride one type of track and can’t change … I’ve said many times watch riders like Loram Screen and Ward around Eastbourne and Arena that’s how to ride a speedway bike It’s ok having these throttle jockeys at home but you will always come up short away from home The home match against us at your place was boring gate and go See I like close speedway racing and last night at Foxhall was close fast racing and defending lines … overtakes by King and Doyle and Dan T…. And heat 14 with Zach Cook trying inside and out and Dan blocking him cleverly was great racing …. At your place cook would have gone wide and blasted around … yawn We had Ellis withdraw injured and Foord scoring 0 and Jenkins would have had at least 4 so the margin would have been even bigger The fact is with your current 1-7 you have zero chance of beating a fully fit Ipswich 1-7 over 2 legs because your guys can’t ride our place …..Kurtz when leading left everyone for dust.. Miss the gate rode like a novice or simply not willing to go for it as he has a world championship to go for (which I hope he wins by the way) … chatted to Brady after and was happy to have pictures with my 1 year old granddaughter nice guy to be fair and wished him well

Welcome to Foxhall stadium, home of the Ipswich witches, they are my favourites to win the league this season with a solid 1-7. Heat 1 gets us underway, Jason Doyle and Danny King in the yellow and white helmets looking for a solid start. Heat two, young Vinnie Foord. I don’t know much about Vinnie but what I do know is that he is a speedway rider and he rides speedway bikes. Young Tate comes in for the injured Norick, sorry no that’s Ben Cook, apologies Zack Cook. Heat 15 now… scores locked at 51-33 to the home team, Bewley and Kurtz need a big 5-1 here to make it all level! Emil is at the tapes, great to see him back in British speedway. Wow what a race… speedway from the top draw !!!! Just in case you missed the commentary last night 😂

Has someone found something you don't know about 😁

Spot on. it is just so very unlikely (and sad) that today’s UK promoters would go along with such a plan given the organisational structure that is the BSPA which in itself exists in a time warp.

You were saying about Tate? He looks to have been getting his confidence back in recent weeks and his style looks suited to Armadale to me. Obviously struggled on his first Armadale appearance but always likely to improve on his second.

Hmm lottery numbers plz

Clubs have to asked by the club wanting a guest, who then give permission or not.

Then how can he be the SCB Co-ordinator ? Speedway summed up right there

SCB Co-ordinator

Shocking if true for someone in his position.

Have you bought a ticket? You must make sure it's in your name. I haven't yet received a reply but I'm sure it's just down to... administrative issues

We asked her dad but he didn’t really say anything, just sort of shrugged it off but she has got a new boyfriend and is not going to belle vue as much as she used to, so maybe that the reason

Really, you have obviously not seen him in the previous two seasons. He finished last year on 9.14, with only Kurtz-9.18 and Doyle-9.36 having higher averages. That I put it to you, with the third highest avg in the league last year, he was already and out and out No 1.

Confused?? Never have I said Ipswich will win the league I’m saying I don’t see Belle Vue as a problem to us over 2 legs you have too many weak links at Foxhall You quite clearly have better riders than Kings Lynn but their 1-7 go better at Foxhall same applies to Leicester I’m more worried about 2 legs against Leicester than I am against Belle Vue. Certain riders and teams go well at certain tracks

You were right. You can see why Poole let him guest to get some practice in, not the best record round there last season and that was at reserve!

He said on the NBNF podcast (and I'm paraphrasing) that he already rides like a throttle jockey at the NSS so wants to go to a proper track in the PL 😜😂

You change your mind more than I change my underwear?Before the meeting you reckoned Belle Vue would get around 42pts,now you are saying the complete opposite.

Same for Emil. Would expect far more from him when push comes to shove play off time.

The middle bit is most pertinent imo Bewley and Kurtz have the talent and equipment to be more effective at Foxhall but why risk it for this one that is all but meaningless Maybe could've been enough to wrestle the bonus point into BV favour but zero impact on qualification Come play off time though that would be all that mattered- doesn't even need to be enough to win the away leg

They’re mad fer it. F**ckin’ biblical man

He is a weird one for sure I can see us finishing top and getting Leicester in the semi which will be the hardest match for us

Kings emotion was definitely evident after heat 15 but fair play when you’ve just schooled the 2nd and 4th current best riders in the world, and bear in mind them two are the ‘kings’ of wall riding at NSS! Nobody on that track wanted it more than King. Hat off to Thompson as well doing the business and really showing his form is getting back. Great night and great win. Marker has been set for everyone else… come to Foxhall with 14 points and leave with nothing.

Max Fricke take a bow son. Stunning ride off 15 metres.

Good.... No guests.... In fact, what would be better is that Fricke could take two rides, and anyone else at the managers choosing, also takes two... A fit for purpose RR facility would eradicate dozens of guests, give that teams riders more rides, and keep the sport credible... And Fricke will take two rides if a TAC is needed, so just make that the plan from the outset...

Post world war 2 there was a shortage of riders, they didn’t resort to doubling up, they just made sure there were plenty of training schools to make more riders. Do away with all this overpriced crap they have on bikes now, run them to a budget so costs come down. Make the sport semi pro, back in the NL days riders had other jobs, likes of Moggo rode speedway as a hobby and it didn’t do him any harm. The current setup doesn’t work and will never work, trying something else won’t kill the sport, it’s dying anyway.

How would clubs cope with 2H & 2A, they struggle to rearrange matches when it's 1H & 1A (plus BSN)?

thats what I'm talking about, i did for 8 yrs always had 2nd hand equipment, used to buy my 2nd hand tyre's of Collins and Morton when was at belle vue., 1st time i ever had a new set of leathers , was my last year at Boston, when they closed down , couple of years before that was riding for Barrow when they closed down, during my time broke my arm both my wrists, and bust my knee ( which now I'm waiting for a new one 😁, ) also knocked unconscious twice. i didn't start riding a bike till 18, 1st bike i rode was a jap, in fact i think i was probably one of the last people to ride a jap in a proper 2nd, half at Castleford, that place also closed down while i was there. i rode where i could when i could,, I'm guessing i probably had as much track time in 8yrs as you did in 2yrs, but i gave it my best with the money i had. i would call that some kind of love for the sport. its probably because people like us not being around today that the sport is suffering.

Erik is clearly very ill. He has not only stopped racing in this country, he has withdrawn from the long track championship where he was expected to be a front runner. I've read reports that he has pressure on his brain which sounds very scary. I hope people join with me and wish him him a speedy recovery.