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Cami has lost a lot of Weight, always knew those special Slim fast drinks you got down at Abduls cash & carry on Mayhill Road were potent. Only £1 for 200 sachets bargain, cant read the instructions of use though its in a language i don't recognize.

What they should do is write this as a response: The local council acknowledges the thoughts from our locals and would like to counter the proposal of a speedway stadium, if the locals would prefer a different type of community feel we are much for this and to reduce the count in traffic volumes we would like to announce that the speedway stadium will not be built in this location and instead, a new hotel will be built in its place to house migrates. The hotel will bring more jobs to the local area and we very much back this idea. Goodbye!

As I have mentioned before... Just ask TR and CO why don't they just use the Abbey given their low projected numbers... Car parking too shouldn't be an issue using their crowd projections... A perfect sized stadium has been built if those numbers are correct .. So just use it...

Yes despite some horrible teams you can't fault Tolley's commitment to the cause his other business must make an absolute mint to cover the speedway losses.

Excellent piece in the Speedway Star about the Brum closure... Nigel Tolley has put in two thirds of a million during his tenure... An incredible amount and he deserves great thanks from everyone who were able to keep attending... Crowds of 500 were the main issue and he said it costs £12-13k a match to run a home meeting... And then had the away costs in top! He said that having more UK based riders was vital for the sport, given the cost of flights, hotels, etc... Exactly what's been written in the letters pages of the Star for about three decades, and on here for 15 years or so...!!! If only promoters had realised that...! BZ wanted £7.5k a meeting so didn't get signed... A good interview with Brian Buck too, another who deserves great thanks for playing a huge part in the resurrection of the sport in Birmingham.. Another excellent publication this week from the Star team...

And that was just the women.

I thought it was Lucy,,,, Lucy in disguise with diamonds

If he's spaffed well north of half a mill during his tenure to get the results he has then he's either completely mad or has been very poorly advised!

I always look back on the 1978 World Final at Wembley with great fondness.. Heat 4... Ivan Mauger... did he fall or was he pushed... Ole Olsen... my favourite rider at the time winning... Gordon Kennett... the captain of my team, White City, finishing 2nd... and on his birthday! The GP's will never be as good as those one-offs...

He certainly has cost the Cheetahs a few wins due to not using inform reserves adequately

On the same subject I have just purchased a pile of old speedway stars from an antique shop ranging from 1967 - 1969 and the memories they bought back are brilliant. I found the the report for the very first speedway meeting I went too. Wimbledon v Swindon, where a Swindon side with Briggs, Broadbanks, Ashby and Kilby won. From that moment I was hooked. After that meeting we went to Wimbledon regularly until 1968 when Canterbury started. There is report of a meeting at Canterbury against the best of the league with 9,000 watching. The reports of all the meetings make good reading with all the star names of the era riding every week,(all for one team) Briggs,Mauger,Boocock,Ashby,Wilson, Betts, and a couple of promising new comers, Olsen and Michanek (I wonder what happened to them?) the list goes on and on with all the new riders in the new second division. If only we could return to those days.....

He was just as bad when he was at Rye House. Half the fans went bald pulling their hair out at his mismanagement.

Think the stars may have this one,,

Don’t think the rules of only 1 tacsub and riders having to have 3 rides give the Team Managers a lot of leeway and options bar tactical use of reserves in most cases.Schroek seems to make some strange decisions though.We don’t know what’s going on in the Pits.

Crickey. That meeting must have dragged on 😁

Doubt Tungate would notice if he's been paid or not this season going by his scores 🤣

Do get the impression that this is a”going through the motions “ exercise.

SHEFFIELD: Jack Holder, Anders Rowe, Josh Pickering, Nick Morris, Chris Holder, Jye Etheridge, Leon Flint. LEICESTER: Max Fricke, Luke Becker, Ryan Douglas, Kyle Howarth, Sam Masters, Drew Kemp, Joe Thompson Anything other than a home win would be a disaster for Sheffield morale wise going into the play offs. Leicester have beaten us twice already round Owlerton. last visit Kerr and Sedgmen scored a shocking 1 between them, and in my opinion were rightly replaced with Morris and Etheridge. Kemp and Thompson scored paid 12, they’ll do well to do the same tomorrow. Becker back in the team makes Leicester weaker as an away team but still are the form team for me going into the play offs. Sheffield to win 50-40. If the tracks as good as the BV meeting should be some good racing

A good night's racing and a confidence booster for the Tigers with the play-offs looming and Leicester looking the likely opponents in the semis. Embarrassing comments in this thread about Steady though. His record as manager of both Sheffield and Great Britain is pretty decent with Championship, Premiership and KO Cup, plus 2 SON titles. Just imagine what he could have achieved if he knew what he was doing !!

Adam could be at reserve according to the averages on the British speedway website. Think you should have some scope to have your top 5 wherever you want.

According to the BSPA averages after tonight,Lawson's average is too high even for the one at Ipswich.

He wasn’t allowed lol

Really enjoyed tonight’s meeting. Good win for Sheffield, should really give the team confidence going into the play offs. Holder and Fricke both showing why their number 1’s tonight great riding by both Aussies. Sheffield 1-7 looking good round Owlerton Chris Holder struggling out the starts need him to do abit more from number 5 but all in all positive signs. thought Leicester reserves deserved more for their efforts and Becker getting through 4 races has to be a positive for the lions, even though it was his usual type of Owlerton performance (abit naff)

Naughty! 😏

Get back in your box ffs after the dross your lot served up for donkeys years until you were lucky enough to have the council build your super track 🙄

A couple of times Harris has whinged on TV (TNT or BSN) about how badly he thinks a track has been prepared ... obviously that's coincided with him not having a great meeting. However, you wouldn't expect a rider with such huge knowledge and experience to not be able to adapt to differing conditions ...

Was great racing the other week watching Emil carve through your top two and Ellis flying round Bewley …

Every team every year prepare their track for home advantage why wouldn’t you? Clubs with great tracks can easily say it’s entertainment first because they will generate better racing that’s a given for them But one million percent Glasgow make the track to Bombers liking Trouble is if Ipswich put dirt down Bomber will love it but Lawson and Kvech are better on slick

Be interesting to see what the boys do tonight, what mood they are in and if they go for every inch or are now preparing for the play offs and will back out of ‘iffy’ moves. Remember it’s Ben Fund so everyone bring a few quid 😁

Gerry Facenna in the Star this week talks about how the racing is paramount to the sports future success... As it brings the punters back... Preparing tracks just to win, and not to provide entertainment, is something he simply doesn't agree with... He must come on here looking at the ideas he has to improve his business.......

Let's not forget that (somehow) Schroek was manager of the year last season... the ultimate example of quantity over quality...

Completely disagree, Jenkins had a bad crash last night and he was not riding well before the crash, definitely stick with Jason Edwards.

They say that it's better to be lucky than good... Having seen what has happened in a number of Cheetahs meetings this season... sadly Schroek is neither...

I have been told by a Premiership Clerk of Course that he often appears out of control during the meeting and is a nightmare to deal with.

It's odd isn't it? Simon nearly always looks miserable on TV and at times has that "rabbit in the headlights" look. But he came to the Nuneaton Speedway Supporters Club meeting a while back and he was a completely different person. Chatty, friendly, he even smiled a few times. I must admit, I changed my view of him that evening.

So the rule saying riders must sign to say they've been paid for the previous meeting obviously has no teeth whatsoever.

The story of our season Iam afraid ☹️

It seems nearly every meeting, Schroek has the opportunity to use Killeen but doesn't. Jenkins was an obvious candidate to be replaced in heat 9, but not old Schroek! Two reserves score 8 and 7+1 nether get an extra ride!!!!

I used to go to meetings with soldier boy met him when i was staying in the union jack club in london as i was going to Kings lynn v Belle Vue by train, he was going along too we missed the last train back and had to thumb it remember him eating all the drivers sandwiches. 🤣

heat 1 curse! last year and this heat 1 is not a good one for him.

When my old man passed away in 2022 I found a load of old camera slides of meetings we had attended in the late 80s and early 90s - it brought back memories for sure! One thing that stood out was just how much more packed the terraces were!

Not quite on the same lines as the other posts but I bought some photo's off Vinted from Newport that were taken on the corner I used to stand with my old man after a few too many sherbets last week. The lady kindly put in a host a of old programmes that her uncle had left, opened the package at my old mans and they turned out to be his old programmes dating back to the early 70s and up to 2004. He'd sold them on just after Newport closed and I've somehow managed to get them back. Great Sunday afternoon reminiscing over lunch

Waiting for tales of all the great meetings/memories from the Manchester dog track to flood this topic 😂

I’m flattered but they couldn’t afford me. 😆

Probably a stupid question, but could the way of getting speedway to new foreign audiences be in the way of holding many events over the weekend? Flat track is popular in USA and Spain. Could we have both a speedway GP and flat track GP over a weekend along with other motorcycle events within the weekend? Almost turning it into an X-games style weekend?

Could this be another Stars victory?

Ha Ha...that made me lol ..the reason is i said exactly the same thing .Osbourne Clark the opposition v his own planning application. The old saying never a truer word said in jest. ..springs to mind

I reckon it was R87.....

The biggest plus for the Brummies this season is that it seems like they will fulfill their fixtures. Not the best way to round off their final season, with the bare minimum level of dignity. Hard to believe that the two biggest cities in the country don’t have a team between them.