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So good to see the Comets riding so well yesterday I can say a lot of good things about everyone in the team however more importantly for me the biggest positives I seen yesterday were the atmosphere in the team and sprite among all the riders, from Troy at 1 down to Vinnie so nice to see. The last 2 weeks have been great for the club after such a worrying time. Have to comment on how good the track was too, I think somebody have already mentioned this but for such a one sided affair it was very an entertaining meeting. Well done all involved!

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c3vd0xv7nw2o Apologies if it's been posted elsewhere, but this was on the BBC news page today, in case anyone missed it.

We try and do the same but some teams are so chaotic they get missed. In my opinion if the team manager doesn't tell you then the ref should exclude the rider after the race. They will only do it once.

Workington to finish top of league. They are doing everything right(bar administrative matters). Forget Poole and Glasgow, Workington have a balanced team who are getting results. They will certainly be in the top four, and probably finishing top. Look at the stats, Poole might be on an average of 2 per match, the rest are pretty much on 1 or below. The play-offs will be between Workington, Poole, Glasgow and ?

They say it can’t get any worse, with the current lot in charge, oh yes it can! Everytime a new promoter comes into the sport with fresh ideas like Stuart Douglas did, they get pushed back by the old guard who continue to drive it into the ground.

Just make the rule that heat 15 is between the top 2 scorers on the night, then there is no arguments.

I've failed to convince King's Lynn fans... that's because they'd hardly see any Speedway due to the continual stunts that are pulled by Buster. And that is part of the reason the sport is in the state it is, cricket doesn't rearrange or put on double headers and that's doing quite nicely thank you very much.

think we all can

Season ticket holders? Those who own concessions?

As far as the result/points were concerned, the meeting was done n dusted. Dec and Luke had been taken out of rides earier on... Rob gave them the opportunity to get more track time and chance to earn some more pennies... IMO, nowt wrong with that. As a big fan of Luke Harrison, I was pleased to see him nominated for ht15.

Would be plenty of arguments. Say a rider retires leading his first race then reels off 3 easy wins but cant race in a last heat decider because two riders who have had an extra ride and got 10 points are the top two? Should always be able to choose who you want in heat 15, its called the nominated riders heat for a reason.

Streamed last week as well , and will be streaming more in the future well worth it for the racing it provides.

Great set up, will be back!

Well, let's hope the Ruskies don't invade or we're toast! As a season ticket holder it is not beyond the wit of man to roll your unfulfilled meeting on to next season. What you guys in deepest darkest Norfolk don't seem to realise is there's a whole league system going on elsewhere in the country with play off qualification/positions to be decided and a TV schedule to be adhered to. KL idioted it up last season and they're idioting it up again this season.

Is that the new drink what the yoof drink to get smashed these days ?

Thanks for your response. Why PolskiZuzel?…as born and raised in Bydgoszcz I support the local team Polonia and Polish National Team, although living with my English wife in Stowmarket I also support Witches since the time Magda L. brought Tomasz Gollob and other Polish riders to Ipswich. Now-days Emil Sayfutdinov, living in Bydgoszcz, carries on where Tomasz G left off.

You couldn’t make it up could you, Edward’s as a guest for kildermand , I know he doesn’t ride for Birmingham anymore but FFS, so what’s cook excuse this time ? How much longer is speedway going to put up cook ?

For Grudziądz v Zielona Góra also: https://vk.com/video-81427162_456239731 https://vk.com/video-53550004_456242328

I really don't understand the mindset of we have to have the big names... no we don't. We need races with riders of equal standard against eachother. I'd rather watch a race of dan Thompson, danyon hume, Connor Mountain and Jordan Jenkins (first 4 riders of semi equal ability that came into my head) As opposed to Max Fricke, Jason Doyle, Jake Mulford and Joe Thompson. With all due respect to Jake and Joe... the first race is going to be much closer and much more entertaining than watching Max and Jason half a lap ahead of two others...

Just a bit of context for those always looking for the conspiracy theory, this is a statement issued by the Kings Lynn stock car promoters on Friday : Saturday 19th July – Cancelled We are sorry to advice that this Saturday’s event is cancelled. With Heavy rain forecast for much of the day, including MetOffice Amber Thunderstorm warnings, we have taken the tough decision to cancel the meeting. Cancelling is never an easy decision, but we don’t believe with the current forecast we would be able to put on a quality event that we endeavour to do each meeting and with the forecast for Sunday also showing rain, rescheduling is not an option either sadly.

nope, rained for several hours yesterday, raining most of the day today and heavy showers all day tomorrow (yellow weather warning) so wouldnt be surprised if its off later today or early tomorrow

Despite his mistakes you can't fault Tolley's commitment there must have been a zillion other things he could have blown north of £250k on.

Like I said, its not about quality of riders for me. I wouldn't be happy seeing great riders go but if it meant the future of speedway is more secure then so be it. I'm sure when Poole lifted the championship title last season they weren't thinking about the quality riders.

Just to clear a few comments up from previous post, I want the biggest and best names in British speedway. Watching Fricke the other week in that insane heat from riding from 15metres back was something special. Since Leicester have moved up the premiership the crowds have reduced, not massively but enough that its noticeable. I know not every club is like mine but nobody has given more one decent solution on how to fix the premiership. Not one. We can barely run it on 7 teams and its going to be reduced to 6 and you never know about Oxford, Sheffield etc. We need change and right now can anybody actually say that the current system works? It doesn't one bit. A 5/6 team premiership doesn't work for me and 7 is still too low. Now the premiership isn't just root cause of all British speedways problem, we can go on for pages about the issues we already have. The reason why I'm so passionate for change is that I am not even 30 yet and I'm dreading what it looks like in another 30 years time. I want to be able to take my kid to watch Leicester one day and I fear it isn't going to happen. I'm willing to make a sacrifice in quality if it meant I can still support my club for many years to come. I want every single club in British speedway to actually MAKE money, not lose it or scrap the barrel every season.

To be fair it was probably at its lowest immediately post covid when the Poles imposed limitations on "their" riders, since this was relaxed and Mr Morris has been running the show I do feel as though things have improved (despite his pay off clanger). The sport has not been helped by the sudden loss of Wolverhampton and the not so sudden losses of Peterborough & Brum but I don't think these were down to operational speedway issues but stadium owners wanting to cash in on their land. The clubs that have replaced these lost clubs have really struggled to be competitive. Whether speedway did enough to invest in its own future during the Sky years is a different question (the answer is no they didn't)

These guys are professionals. They will earn hundreds of pounds if they win Heat 15. A big hitter will be unhappy to be "rested" from the race in case he gets hurt.......

Why worry about planning permission - were going anyway.

Steady there, lets' see a few away meetings.

The Golden egg was laid in the early days of Sky TV. It’s a real shame that the promoters & everyone involved didn’t embrace it & use it as a relaunch pad. That money spent correctly to improve the product with the viewing figures at the time could have been transformative. Also don’t forget at the time the sport had Column inches in the national tabloids & featured on the back page several times. In terms of race day if the product was want people wanted & was desirable it wouldn’t matter what day the racing was on.

Poole get better attendances than when last in the Prem and no GP stars. They are not the be all and end all imo. They are great to have but you cannot hold other clubs to ransom for sake for 4-6 riders.

I don't think anybody is happy about it, but if you only have 5 teams that are willing to pay out for the privilege what is the answer? Run a 5 team league? Surely you can see that's not credible.

Can't see him coming back. Not sure if he races still in his homeland.

1. So what, 1 point each and move on 2. So what, 1 point each and move on 3. The play off TV Schedule

For a team of Wroclaw quality 18 points from 10 heats is embarrassing, no matter who they against or what track it’s at

I tend to not watch Motor Lublin meetings anymore. They are so strong it is totally boring! How can the Lublin fans enjoy watching this?

I'm sorry clubs should not be calling meetings off over 24 hours in advance based on a forecast of showers... in the middle of July! https://check-for-flooding.service.gov.uk/location/king's-lynn-norfolk We're currently having a cloud burst in Leicester with torrential rain, after a lot of rain earlier in the day and even with Leicester's questionable drainage I fully expect tomorrow's tv meeting not to be called off tonight.

Brilliant move. Ipswich have built their team so brilliantly & now even their second choice RS is a strong rider, something other clubs couldn't manage. Really should be favourites for everything. Even after the aggregate loss to Lynn, still think Ipswich look the strongest team on paper. But they'll need to do it on the track over the final 4 matches.

There seems to be something very wrong with the drainage at King's Lynn these days... Lynn idioted up the whole leagues fixtures last year and are being allowed to do exactly the same thing again this year! When is the sport ever going to learn 1 point each and move on to the next meeting.

Really hope dunstal fails but it won’t because the worlds runs on money and morality doesn’t come into it,great to see even the greyhound fans are moaning about how far the new track is from the stands and are realising it’s dog racing simply for betting and not for fans of the sport

I think I was one of the first, of not the first saying the move was okay and that Witches fans would see it that way if it was their rider doing it. Glad to see a video proving me right. I'm a witches follower that doesn't wear Rose tinted glasses

8pm UK time today for Tuesday and same time tomorrow for Wednesday.

Saved quite a lot last night tbf

They can’t possibly claim they can’t run an extra meeting because of costs when the reason given for the club ending is down to the stadium? Does that mean had the stadium been available in 2026 Birmingham would have continued or is the stadium issue just a smokescreen for the fact Tolley can’t run a bath let alone a speedway club.

Morning All! Yesterday morning a meeting was held at Stal Gorzów for the future of the club and the 2026 team. These are the decided riders that are wanted by the club for the 2026 line up. These riders have been contacted and finance is now being finalised with the agreement between all parties, if Stal remain in the top league: 9. Jack Holder 10. Piotr Pawlicki 11. Andrzej Lebiediew 12. Jakub Krawczyk (u24) 13. Przemystaw Pawlicki 14. Oskar Paluch 15. Adam Bednar Thomsen prawdopodobnie do Leszna

He doesn’t ride in Poland.

That’s amazing and has to be applauded. When you take into account you had the best crowds in the league back then, to increase them without the top stars, the cost of living crisis and many other factors impacting the sport, Poole really need to be coaching other clubs on how they increase crowds from an already healthy level. Well done.

And we keep getting told that "sponsors" pay for them.. So, what's the issue in keeping them? The reality is that there are various ways the top riders get money... Not all get 100% fully paid up for home and away meetings... Some part sponsor, part club payments... I presume the concern is that if "some stay" riding for just a few clubs, then the others won't have top riders as they cannot afford them., One thing is for sure though, if your business is struggling and you need to lower head count... Getting rid of your best people first is a hugely risky strategy....

I can understand your frustration. However any form of final meeting comes with a massive cost, All riders involved would have to be paid by the promotion then you have the problem of attracting the best riders to bring in the crowd. it's a tough choice but Birmingham speedway has lost enough money all due respect to the promotion but even they have to admit it's just a bridge to far to host a farewell even.

It is time for one league. One of the reasons why I've only been to my club Leicester once this season is down to the lack of variety, it's the same riders every other week. There is zero incentive for me to watch Ipswich one week when I know in a few weeks time we could be facing them in the KO cup or the play offs. People will say there isn't enough riders and that's it, but is that my problem to fix? No it isn't. I don't go to watch speedway for GP stars, I go for the speedway. I love watching Fricke every week at Leicester, but I also loved watched the Thompson twins come through the ranks taking on the senior pros. That was just as exciting for me as watching a GP star. Let's be honest we only have a few GP stars anyways? Were missing Lambert, Bartosz, Laguta, Lingren etc. We only have the riders that are allowed here by there polish clubs lets be honest. They just come here for fun some would say. Let's not forget how expensive they are as well. Costing thousands every week! We can manage one big league, how? Maybe look at what some of championship clubs have done this season, some brand new riders to the league and promoting the youth from the NDL. It would lower the standard but I don't care, let's back the kids and give them plenty of riders and pay them a reasonable wage so riders like Sonny Springer can get back into speedway.