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Anybody who thinks Etheridge and Hagon are good guests for Gusts and Knudsen should apply for the position as Peter Shroeck's assistant.

No I haven't... he's never there when I go to get one!

Should be punished with promotion to the Premiership 😉

I'm sure he'll be fit enough to miss Plymouth's next home fixture...

Is this the Anders Rowe who blitzed the current world number 2 last night? Certainly didn’t show signs of lack of fitness

Think it’s great that they want fans to turn up and watch it at the Stadium considering the effort they have put into the Stadium and Facilities.

So should a rider be ill in future then they should cite a (much easier to fabricate) ‘family emergency’ - not suggesting for a minute this is what KH has done btw. This rule needs looked at.

This will be a heavy defeat, nothing to do with the track more to do with our engine room and reserves not being able to support the top two away from home. Changes should have been made, apart from Bewley and Kurtz getting out the gate i can see the home riders reeling in the rest and Dan and Brady have been passed at Foxhall when making the gate as well. Bottom line is we arent as a good a team as Ipswich.

65-25 end the season

Stop taking the bait.

Etheridge a good guest. Hagon blows hot and cold. Should be a close meeting again the way we are riding. Sizzling hot today and tomorrow. Need to flood the track tonight.

Easier to find out than to ask! Kvech will be 24 in October. It's easy to forget how young Kvech is when he always looks as if he's in his 30s.

Lemo has had all year to change it.

Oh ffs

'The scb letters to the Poole clerk of the course and Poole Promotion asked for the start marshall to be thanked for his prompt and speedy reactions to allow racing to continue and reach a satisfactory meeting conclusion despite the referee's lack of action.'😂

Worth a listen https://open.spotify.com/episode/0WzQp6Fj5xXXPIGCCYbL13?si=tIyz0OeVRbCFnBnMFqQpIQ

Monarchs have an 8 point lead , but they are without Grahn at reserve but have Jacb hook who did well at Glasgow last week with Workington, Will they have Victor or a guest? Will Glasgow have a full team, seems to be a rare thing for Glasgow at the moment. It is doable for the tiggers to go through, they did win 50-40 in the bsn series, it should be a cracking meeting regardless as the Monarchs can ride Ashfield as well as the tiggers, but they haven't came against our Danish rocket, Villads Nagel who rides similar to Ben Basso, without fear.

Absolutely agree Spoken to Dan a few times at Ipswich always got time to have pics after the meeting with my kids and speaks well He has said to me he likes Ipswich and he said the home riders are dialled on and he likes the challenge of where to put the bike to get the best out of it ….. Yes he flies around his home track but a truely top rider wants to learn all tracks and skills and he certainly does that including winning at Cardiff twice Chatted to Kurtz too last time and he came across a decent guy to be fair would be good to see him win the world championship

Ahh speedway...... ....If its not rained off its dusty

start list for tomorrows Swedish U21 final which is held at Kalvholmen track in Karlstad. 1. Adam Carlsson, Westerviks MSK 2. Jonny Eriksson, Rospiggarna SK 3. Noel Wahlquist, Westerviks MSK 4. Erik Persson, Gislaveds MK 5. Melwin Glimfjäll-Johansson, Nässjö SK 6. Sebastian Glimfjäll Johansson, Örebro SF 7. Casper Henriksson, Gislaveds MK 8. Alfons Wiltander, Gislaveds MK 9. Linus Claesson, Nässjö SK 10. Harry Lundahl, Karlstad SK 11. Daniel Hauge Sjöström, Målilla MK 12. Milo Sjö, Nässjö SK 13. Leo Klasson, Mariestads MK 14. Albin Sigvardsson, Gislaveds MK 15. Oskar Evertsson, Nässjö SK 16. Rasmus Karlsson, Kumla MSK 17.

jye been pritty good recently but hes also injured still did a good job saturdy

Prob cos he is so average this season you don't even realise he is missing.

Spot on and as good an argument for one lap dashes being adopted by UK speedway as I’ve ever seen.

They are not allowed to go back on it he must get the full 28 days

7 day ban as he missed the Oxford meeting at Kings Lynn last week due to illness.

TBF they weren’t entirely sure when Jenkins was going to return and they gave Edwards a 28 day deal. They’re not the sort to go back on that so Edwards (rightly IMO) will get the full 28 days.

Take heart Aces fans, Kurtz can beat the best at Foxhall IF he gates, Zac Cook had a blistering meeting when riding for Wolves the other year so it can be done. I think the Witches will win but it won't be a walk in the park. I think something like 50-40 - looking forward to it anyway and plan to be there.

Announced as a 'family emergency'!

Went to Sheffield last night to see the Shambolic performance from 4 of the Aces, who scored less combined than Flint (even if you use Dan's 3 points for the tac sub win in the tally). That said, thought it ended up being a decent meeting after the first 6 races, and track prep looked decent. I don't blame Mark for giving Tata time, but he has left it too long, we should have been looking at a double change before the deadline, with him and Blodorn who is also struggling of late. I still feel Norrick could turn it around in the playoffs, but our reserves are a sitting duck and will ultimately cost us in the semi final.

Dont forget they dont change their team mid season and apparently this gives them some sort of solace when they lose heavily. I would prefer my club to change if they can to improve the team.

Earliest I can find is (interesting team names): 2 June 2018 Gillman Zielona Gora 38 Zaine Kennedy…………………. 2 4 3 FX – – 9 Fraser Bowes…………………… 0 1 1* 6 0 1* 9+2 Declan Knowles……………….. 1 0 R 2 1 – 4 Declan Kennedy………………. FX 2 1* 2 3 2 10+1 Rider replacement……………. Aaron Jackson…………………. 1 1 1* 2 1 – 6+1 Dayle Wood…………………….. 0 0 0 0 – – 0 Edinburgh Monarchs 57 Justin Sedgmen……………….. 3 3 3 3 – – 12 Kane Lawrence………………… 1 1 1* 0 R – 3+1 Robert Medson………………… 2* 2* 2 2* 1 – 9+3 Ben Cook………………………… 3 3 3 1* 2 3 15+1 Rider replacement……………. Matt Pickering………………….. 3 3 R 3 3 0 12 Arlo Bugeja………………………. 2* 2* 2 0 – – 6+2 He also rode for 'Swindon' and 'Leszno' in meetings at Gillman that winter..

Well spent, then!

Looks like the draw for the QF’s is live on ESS play after tomorrow’s Indianerna v Lejonen match. Time for the draw is 21.30 local time.

Given that these days riders often peak in their 30s and that 3 or 4 years ago the concensus seemed to be that Brady Kurtz had 'reached his level' I think that is a brave statement.(

Dust was terrible towards the end of the meeting. Shame because the first few heats had some good racing.

It's tricky deciding how long a rider can be a "rising star" for. Although the age limit has dropped since it started. Many people say the RS are too weak & out of their depth etc. Others say Jenkins & Flint have been RS too long & shouldn't be any more. But once you limit the amount of seasons, you make the standard even weaker, which leads to even more RS out of their depth! I personally think they've got it about right, Flint has come on a lot this season & his average will prevent him being an RS next season.

Thoroughly enjoyed my first trip to Iwade. The site is a bit rough round the edges but its a very friendly club with everybody we came across polite and smiling, you don't get that at many speedway venues. The track was kept in pretty good nick on a very warm and breezy day by an interesting 'water cart' although the old blue groove put in an appearance later on. Racing mainly FTG mainly down to the Young Stars' dominance but there were one or two decent heats with Coops getting past the Kent riders in heat 12 the pick. Jordy Loftus looks a real talent and Jody Scott has come on leaps and bounds this year. Thanks to Jason for getting the team over to the back straight to thank the travelling fans after the meeting, looking forward to celebrating the title on Wednesday evening.

No about 10! Yes it was and the best was yet to come in heat 12... Rew v Harris was tremendous. Sadly that was the last time the outside line worked because there was nothing out wide in the final 3 heats. Kvech gets passed by Barker in his 3rd ride then comfortably wins heat 13 in the quickest heat of the night.

It’s more follow the leader at Sheffield …. Not denying that it’s skilful but to me it’s about bravery as well Lemon clearly stated his riders didn’t attack it and even in that interview Anders Rowe said ‘didn’t want to get too wide’ where as Jack Holder said just got to get out wide …. Some riders are braver than others

I agree when I have seen him at Oxford he looks a good prospect

That was my first time seeing Micth McDiarmid in person, and I was impressed. People on here go on about William Cairns constantly (mainly the Poole fans, to be fair), but McDiarmid is only a year older and looks a proper talent.

0 Heat Wins on the night compared to Chris' 2. But yes you could've made a case for Picko to take Chris' spot especially after Ht 13 just to try something different.

For the meter..

Spanked tonight just a warm up to an even bigger hiding on Thursday. Half a team in any sport and the writing is on the wall.

Out of Blodorn , Cook , Mulford and Tate the only Sheffield rider any of them have beaten is Etheridge … that is shocking

Don't mean to be nasty but Zischke's a joke at this point. Makes more mistakes than Andre Onana.

Excellent listen. A must for anybody who has an interest in retaining/bringing back speedway tracks. Reassuring to know that there are people with planning knowledge involved with these clubs. Brian really knows his stuff and sounds like he's working very hard!

He did. What actually happened was: tried his 2nd engine at Glasgow which had been good previously, but after first heat it wasn't good, so swapped to 2nd bike with his usual Workington engine. After his 3rd ride that engine blew up immediately after the race snapping its camchain. Back onto first bike for heat 13 with some big changes and managed to get a win whilst feeling slow. For Workington, now only had one bike so borrowed an engine from Jacob Hook ( as his workshop is in Workington) that was "strong" so that he had 2 bikes (the alternative was a 20 hr round trip to home to collect a spare engine, but only had 19 hrs before the next meeting). Tried Hooky's engine in the first 2 heats but struggled to get out of the starts with it ( heavier flywheels than normal may have been the difference? but jumped back onto the underperforming engine again for the last 2 rides and made some radical changes again and managed to win heat 13 again with a massive cutback off the first turn and a defensive ride. Was out after the meeting on that same underperforming engine trying some other radical changes to see if they helped it to perform better. So a frustrating weekend some high points, some low points and no doubt a big bill to come too. Hope that explains what happened

thats not what he saying though youve been caught out so take it on the chin

And then if Thomsen finishes top 7 Vaculik will be promoted to SGP, and if Vaculik also gets top 7 Cierniak will be promoted to SGP 😂😂😂 but then it doesn’t finish there… because Woryna, Madsen, MJJ and Lebedevs are all in with a shout for SEC but I would assume Dudek will win it! If however, Dudek comes second, it’s noted on SGP page it won’t go down to the next person who isn’t in the SGP, it will be a fourth wild card, which I would like to think would be given to Dudek anyway. The line-up is completed by three permanent wild cards selected by the SGP Commission. If the SEC winner finishes inside the Speedway GP top seven, four permanent wild cards will be chosen.