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You are Clark Osbourne, and I claim my 5 pounds. (one for the youngsters there). Remember the idiots who said Workington would never be back? Remember the fools who thought Belle Vue's NSS could never be built? Remember the dumb-dumbs who thought Oxford would never re-open. Speedway tracks may come and go, but there will always be nobheads like the above.

MAX BROADHURST TAKES THE HONOURS AT THE ALAN GRAHAME MEMORIAL The 2025 Midland Development League came to a close for 2025 at Birmingham with the Alan Grahame Memorial individual with 12 riders contesting it over 9 heats and a final. Birmingham Buffaloes Max Broadhurst took the honours winning all his three qualifying races then remaining unbeaten with success in the final ahead of Ryan Ashcroft and Dylan Huthwaite whilst Eli Meadows took a tumble to end his hopes of remaining unbeaten on the night. With 16 heats in total with 6 junior 125cc demos and a short delay after one of them Cody Smith crashed just before the finish line in his first ride , the pits staff did a first class and efficient job of completing this in 52 minutes !! Cody ended up at hospital with two black eyes, sore wrist and concussion unfortunately. It was a fitting tribute to Alan Grahame who always had time to help the young riders. Heat scorers : Max Broadhurst 9, Eli Meadows 9, Ryan Ashcroft 7, Dylan Huthwaite 6, Harrison Rogers 6, Joe Crewe 5, Jacob Fellows 5, Jack Crewe 3, Bailey Fellows 1, Will Boraston 1, Austin Riches 1, Jake Breeze 1. Final : Max Broadhurst , Ryan Ashcroft, Dylan Huthwaite, Eli Meadows (fell)

Riders get criticized in Poole threads for not coming round and acknowledging the fans. Now here we are having a pop at Cairns for a celebrating a heat advantage with Tobias. Can't win.

. there is no picking FFS, how many times do people need telling 1st v 4th 2nd v 3rd although they were the rules last year also

I reckon the best pass Monday night was Heat 5, when Kurtz drove off the inside of bend 4 to pass both Pickering and Morris. Not close-your-eyes-wall-of-death bravery, but well-calculated intelligent riding.

for the best interest of british speedway, belle vue will face sheffield and ipswich leicester, to leave a belle vue and leicester final again with belle vue winning easily again, all in the best interest of british speedway

I have changed my position on Glasgow streaming meetings. Long live the absence.

Look who's doing it though. Says a lot tbh.

I think it’s great that Lewy is spending his hard earned money to watch Poole. Thanks. He obviously loves us really.

Riders get criticized in Poole threads for not coming round and acknowledging the fans. Now here we are having a pop at Cairns for a celebrating a heat advantage with Tobias. Can't win.

Yeah, that's really sad. The thought of "finally it's over" should never be in your mind as a speedway fan / rider / promoter.

Do they have to pick a play-off team? Imagine Ipswich could pick Birmingham. Leicester pick Oxford. Sheffield pick King's Lynn. Belle Vue seeded to the semi finals. Only the top 4 teams would know they're in the play-offs for sure, so there would still be something to race for. I was joking when I started writing this, but with Speedway you just never know!

To my knowledge trackmen listen to everyone & take their advice on board.... ...Then produce the same track they prepare every other week!!

Does anyone know if the top team picks who they want to race against in this seasons play offs? Anyone?

Is this on BSN?

They should be used to it then after last Saturday.😇

Well hoo bl.. dy ray, just as SteveArena said it would be "easy". Move of the night has to be Kerr's block pass on Killeen,. Killeen taking the wide line out of turn 2, but Kerr making an early apex taking the shortest distance to the exit, plonks his bike in front of the faster moving Killeen, he's just found the drive but has to roll off with Kerr sat in front. Text book. You should have been there Knee-La, it was great.

I'm sure BBC SOUTH TODAY will show some coverage tomorrow.

Quiet tonight 🤣🤣

Rasmus Karlsson is the Swedish U21 champion in 2025. Casper Henriksson 2nd and Erik Persson third.

Yep, a nice over take from cairns on an experienced rider and he rightly gives the big crowd something to cheer, and there’s someone on here calling a 16yr old kid a clown. Comical

Cairns doing a doughnut for coming 3rd🤡

It's a shame that there's a feeling they're being put out of their misery, rather than going out with a bang. They definitely deserved the latter.

And they had to move quickly when he became available before he got snapped up elsewhere and then left us in a vulnerable position at number 7.

Please no one tell him about Workington - the second-best track in the country. It's funnier with the added ignorance.

100% won’t be anything else but 1st vs 4th and 2nd vs 3rd. Phil Morris knows it was a poor decision and said it wouldn’t happen again. What is interesting is the fact nobody really knows where each other will finish, and all face each other still. My money is on a late charge from Birmingham and they take it all 😁

There's nothing like a'nice smooth consistent rack'!!🤣

7.30pm

Made me laugh

Danny Ford reckons track prep will be totally different to recent weeks after frank discussions with all the Pirate riders. Terry the Track - its all yours......!!😄

Vaculik is one of the “boys” still decent but should not get Wilcard.Would like Emil and Artem to be back in.

It’s obvious that Courtney has nothing to do with the CarPark or we would be paying.

You are against a weakened team but it’s Oxford’s own fault for signing riders who ride in Denmark on a Wednesday.

Football isn't viable in the vast majority of places, given most clubs are in debt and use expected future money and sponsorship to cover as much of their losses as is possible... Speedway is no different but just on a much smaller scale with umbrella businesses, benafactors and sponsorship covering the shortfall in income v expenditure... It is though, I agree, a lot of work to give a few hundred people something to do every fortnight or so... And how another team will get enough riders to fill it and be competitive will be a challenge given the level of rider used nowadays to fill the ones we have... One thing to consider maybe is if the crowd levels are expected to be so low, then why not just stay at the Abbey? That stadium will more than accommodate such numbers... Maybe ask those looking to move Swindon out of the town that question?

Surprised it's not, but nope

Robert Lambert again?

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.

For me the top 4 will finish as the following; (1) Ipswich (2) Leicester (3) Sheffield (4) Belle Vue As far as I understand it teams don't pick their opponents. Its 1st v4th and 2nd v 3rd. If this is the case then I believe the following happens. Ipswich will beat Belle Vue Leicester will beat Sheffield. A final of Ipswich v Leicester could go either way, I am sitting on the fence for that one.

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

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.

Zach and Anders (who may be suffering from injury) need to up their performances, particularly out of the gate. I appreciate track conditions haven't been ideal but it's the same for both teams and Workington and Plymouth both were close to us despite injured riders!!! Tobias always tries but is also struggling. Will and Paul are doing their jobs.

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.

Match dates- 1st legs Friday 22nd August Rybnik v Zielona Gora start time 5pm UK time Eleven Sports 2 Grudziadz v Lublin start time 7.30pm UK time Eleven Sports 2 Sunday 24th August Czestochowa v Gorzow start time 4pm UK time Canal + Sport Torun v Wroclaw start time 6.30pm UK time Canal + Sport 2nd legs Friday 29th August Zielona Gora v Rybnik start time 6pm UK time Eleven Sports 1 Sunday 31st August Gorzow v Czestochowa start time 6.30pm UK time Canal + Sport Friday 5th September Lublin v Grudziadz start time 5pm UK time Eleven Sports 1 Sunday 7th September Wroclaw v Torun start time 6.30pm UK time Canal + Sport

Janowski it is. Like being teased Lego for Christmas and then ending up with a lump of coal.

and of course the powers that be may want a German/Czech/Slovak in, that's where can go all wrong.

The crazy thing is.... Oxford is a perfectly good use case to prove what he says is wrong. Yet he keeps saying the opposite. Absolutely no reason why a Swindon return shouldn't be just as successful as Oxford's.

Just go back to the old days if the finals are drawn on aggregate replay the final again

You asked for it...

Regardless of who was winning or losing the deciding race, to allow anyone at all to stand inside the exclusion zone while a race continued is inexplicable. As there has been considerable photographic evidence of this (and, l presume, video coverage) the SCB will have to take action. Not regarding the end result, but because of the blatant disregard of the H&S aspect. Heads must roll.

Jesus! That could have been written by me! The guy needs to stop complaining, get a life, post something positive etc. 😂 Whereabouts on Facebook was this copied from?