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Unlucky Aces, started decent and thought we were in for a long night but we turned it round after heat 8 and kept the foot down to get the job done. Tough conditions for both riders early on and not as big crowd as I expect but weather might had played a part. I want to mention this though… my Polish mother in law came over and she has a close friend who was diagnosed with cancer recently, and she has an operation next month. Her favourite rider is Bewley so today after the meeting we waitied to see if he would give us a minute of his time. He was very polite and listened to the story of her friend, he put his bags down and wrote a message out directed to her, wishing her all the best and signing it. For me, it’s something he didn’t have to do especially after that meeting and not the best performance but he was still willing to be a kind human to help another out and make her day. I wished him all the best for the weekend and off he went, sometimes you can get caught up in the racing but these guys are just humans like us and whether Ipswich won or lost tonight I would remember that gesture of kindness over speedway. Good luck Saturday Dan B.

I hate that we are going into one of the major meetings in our season with 3 guests, one is necessary because of an injury to Max Perry but to have two of our riders missing because of international duty is crazy. I want to see my 7 riders no offence to the guests but you never know what you are going to get. If we lose a meeting and it is our 7 riders then we all accept that but 4 riders and three guests is too much of a gamble.

Never settle for the point

Does it make any difference!!!!! Let's not turn this into 10page debate about nothing ffs.

Tedious, but I suspect it will rumble on until we can fight it out on the track.

I don’t care if a rider has a bad night and doesn’t score or gets 1or 2 points as long as he gives it his best and that didn’t happen with Kurtz last night, in his first 2 rides he was shutting off down the straights, it wasn’t till his last ride he actually looked like the rider he can be, in my book that’s unacceptable, we paid over £120 with petrol to watch 14 riders give their best and Kurtz and to a point sayfutinow didn’t give it, zischie was had a poor night but at least you could see he was trying and pretty much riding to his ability,I feel sorry for any BV fans that made the trip last night, you were short changed, also considering the size of the crowd and it was big the atmosphere felt flat

I do think there are solutions but nobody brave enough to implement them

Some of the riders with certain attitudes are a cancer in our sport and like all cancers they need removing. To have riders minds (and often bodies) elsewhere is not what the fans pay to watch. There's no buy in from many of the riders and if they don't buy in why should the fans? Come and support your team... but your Captain is really only interested in another competition, your number 1 earns more money on a Sunday in another country so won't be riding on the Saturday night... and there's far too many examples to continue to list on here, we all know what goes on. I DO NOT blame the riders, they have to do what is right for themselves as self employed participants but in effect they are competing businesses! But are there any other team sports that operate with self employed participants? Like I said in an earlier post, riders should be salaried employees it's the only way to get buy in. I know it will never happen and for that reason team Speedway will probably die a lingering death. The days of understanding that your rider had bigger things on his mind are now unfortunately a luxury of the past and has probably, in part, led to the dwindling crowds we see today. It's just not acceptable in todays age of league only Speedway.

Bomber! Going for a world championship next weekend, hit the deck tonight, has had a poor night but still fronts up in front of the camera with a very honest assessment... meanwhile we're still waiting to hear from the Belle Vue captain after last night 🤔

Grahn snapped chain when in front

All these rain offs and you run an individual on one of the free nights you might need to use

There you go. A 5-1 to Glasgow in heat 15 and only a ten point defeat. Easy to make up.

"He's getting pumped in front of the Glasgow Tigers fans"

Between the depleted Glasgow line-up and this track, it just makes a mockery of the sport. Abandon the meeting and replay it on another date. I couldn’t make it due to work, but this even renders my BSN subscription a waste of money.

Or the Jubilee Trophy option....

Additional link for tonight: https://vk.com/video-220089063_456247349

Rain in vojens, whoever could of predicted that

“These fixtures are only qualifiers we’ll be there when it really matters” ”Let’s wait until September” Well Belle Vue stank in the “qualifiers”, and then they stank in the play offs too. Who’d have thunk it! Where is Acebelle and Ouch by the way? They seemed to have disappeared..

Also begs the question, if everyone knew this would happen, why was this the first set of play off's to be staged with two riders going for podium places in the GP 2 days later, with a poor forecast. Decision was announced 3 days after the last GP round so it wasn't a surprise that 2 of the Belle Vue team would be up for some serious silver wear 2 days later

After 26 years of failure, Kurtz has been instrumental in winning the Aces TWO titles and played a huge part in getting them to play offs year on year... He obviously can be bothered then you could summise...

Perhaps the novelty factor would lead to more interest then? I know that's probably naive but I'm trying to be hopeful...!

my pennies worth first of all massive congrats to Ipswich, won easily and deservedly so, wont blame the track as it was the same for both teams emil 5 points, bewley 4 points yet its all Brady this, Brady that, wasnt good enough from any of the riders that have more important meetings coming up, sadly british speedway is what it is, the lowest standard league in the world, i dont blame any 3 for being to cautious, but also emil wasnt gating, brady wasnt gating, dan wasnt gating, and if you wasnt gating you wasnt doing anything. we have been bad all year at ipswich with kurtz and dan being poor then so not sure why the shock now tbh. again well done ipswich, belle vue need wholesome changes next year which i think we will get

Quite a bit of quite frankly ridiculous criticism of Kurtz & Bewley, the track was treacherous and if you didn't gate it was game over. Don't blame any rider for not taking risks let alone those two. Well done Ipswich, boooo to the weather.

Hate is a very strong word and a bit over the top imo. Suppose it’s the world we now live in nowadays. Plantpots coming out with trash like that.

Don’t they say Something is only worth what people are prepared to pay for it and clearly not enough people think the product is worth what they are being asked to pay

I'm intrigued to know what people think they should be paying to watch professional sportsmen, including some of the best in the world ? As well as watching speedway, I am a regular at stock car racing and football. My football team are in League 1 (3rd tier), and the match day ticket price is £30. Stock car racing, depending on the formulas racing as there are different levels, varies generally from £20-25. When it is a bigger meeting, such as the British Championship or the European the the prices is closer to £30, and this weekend is the World Championship with advance tickets at £42 and on the day price of £48. In comparison to this, I don't think that £25 is too high a price for top league speedway, and would expect an increase for the play off semis and final.

No wonder they blew their lead. 18 pints is a bit much for anyone!

Long gone are those days... Whisper it, but watching Brady and Dan howling around the boards can actually now be "average" to watch given they do it so often.. I stopped going to Kirky Lane when watching Jason Crump howling into the bends quicker than anyone else by miles, also became "average" to watch, as he did it so often... When I watch (UK) speedway it has very little riding (pardon the pun), on it given the Mickey Mouse rules and lack of credibility, therefore it is only the racing that gets me to attend... And I attend the play offs as usually it feels like an "event" you are attending with decent crowds... Monday night was a dreadful spectacle in front of a half empty grandstand, and tonight's offering on track even worse... Anyone watching at home who are non speedway fans, but casually watching due to its Semi Final status would have done well to get to Heat 10 tonight, let alone Heat 15.. Sad to see the sport in its current state, but not sure those running it have the capability to turn it around, given they are responsible for the current state in the first place..

You haven't rode in the top flight since, so hardly surprising 🤣

And right there is why I will always want zmarzlik over Kurtz to be world champion, zmarzlik would never of put a ride in like that, he would of busted a gut even for a single point, Kurtz didnt try

As a Poole fan and who went to the meeting. I sat in the big stand and didn't hearing anything, but that didn't mean this didn't happen, if it did then yes it needs to be dealt with by the club, as people shouting that are not welcome in our sport, this isn't football. We have young family's attending and they don't need be exposed to this. But this needs to be dealt with behind closed doors and not aired in public now after a number of press releases from Glasgow, it only adds to the fire of some and it will cause incitement. Speedway is struggling as it is and does not need further bad press in my opinion! Need to draw a line under this now and the club deal with any supporters caught will be thrown out the stadium going forward. Lets make one thing clear this isn't the Poole club I have supported for 35 years! we welcome all traveling fans to Wimborne Road!

and as if by magic one of the people who is a massive part of the problem (head in sand) comes along with a laughing reaction those who run sponsor and are involved just cant see the damage thats being done to still be running semi finals of all three competitions in mid september is gross negligence

Edinburgh must be commended for having a light on their tractor... unfortunately it's not flashing as per the requirement of SCB Reg 05.1.8 It maybe Glasgow's last chance if they were to point this out to The Weasel

Final scores 1st Parnitskyi 52 2nd Przyjemski 42 3rd Andersen 36

Scoring system shines again!

There is always the Kings Lynn option!!

The actual event? I had seen that qualifying was cancelled.

Yes i dont get, its like Brady has ridden for the Aces for 5 years, been a great captain and delivered on many occasions🤔. Now if he'd done all that id forgive him for 1 meeting in horrendous conditions right before the biggest meeting of his life. If only hey.🤔

But you wouldnt know what was being said from the stream so its all speculation and by the amount of times Brown has now mentioned it you have to wonder about his motives. I think he thinks it is his way of giving the meeting more spice and consequently more interest in an attempt to increase crowd levels.

It does if people start trying to look for it on BSN lol. Not sure if you can still buy the stream or not 🤔 Possibly if it is a 30 day time limit.

Looking at previous visits to Ipswich this season, it was an expected easy win for the Witches - which they deserved as they were the best team over the 2 legs - even with Emil being below par. I like both Dan and Brady but you could see they weren’t interested last night (which I understand), but if I was a BV fan I would have been very annoyed that they didn’t give 100% to at least try and get my team to the finals. The wet surface didn’t help but it was the same for everyone. You could say it was very poor scheduling to have this leg a few days before the biggest meeting for both Brady and Dan - surely it would have been better to have the first leg of the other semi last night and then we would have seen the best of Brady and Dan - as we usually do! TV schedules and SGPs are obviously more important than the dwindling fan base in the UK and that is why British Speedway is going through a slow, lingering death.

the riders are a big reason the sport in this country is the state its in. cant make it pay without doing two leagues, everyone doubling up, its all a big mess at this point with basically no solution.

I would love to have seen how the armchair experts would have fared off Gates 3 & 4 in their opening rides. Delighted that Brady came through the meeting unscathed and look forward to him being back in 2026 to lead the Aces into battle, hopefully as World Champion.

Northampton, a mere 5 miles away has a population of 240,000+.

I don’t see how any Belle Vue fan can back what Kurtz did tonight ….. that’s not what a captain should be

I'm sorry but I just get this rider over club mentality from some fans. I pay my money to watch my club in the British Speedway league, although it's nice to watch the SGP series and a rider from your club do well, I couldn't really give a toss what they did elsewhere tbh.

Until tonight I was looking forward to Saturday as I wasn't bothered who won, but after the utterly disgraceful and embarrassing non effort from Kurtz tonight then I'm all for Bartosz now. If Kurtz (and to an extent Bewley too) was never going to try tonight he should have withdrawn after Tuesday so that a heat leader rider replacement could have been brought in. He's let his manager, team mates and fans down tonight and should be ashamed. GO BARTOSZ!

Was a track like this in Glasgow a few seasons ago, and bartoz was very average

without pointing fingers or blaming anyone jn particular british speedway as a whole should hang their heads in shame that this fixture should be going ahead with two riders elsewhere an absolute joke, guests are a cancer of our sport if this is the best they can do then decide the title by league position

Squads for SoN and SoN2 : 2025 FIM SPEEDWAY OF NATIONS SQUAD LISTS: SEMI-FINAL 1 (SEPTEMBER 30): GERMANY: 1. Kai Huckenbeck (captain), 2. Norick Blodorn, 3. Valentin Grobauer, 4. Jonny Wynant, 5. Patrick Hyjek. Team Managers: Mathias Bartz / Sascha Dorner. GREAT BRITAIN: 1. Robert Lambert (captain), 2. Daniel Bewley, 3. Tom Brennan, 4. Adam Ellis, 5. Leon Flint. Team Managers: Simon Stead / Oliver Allen. ITALY: 1. Paco Castagna (captain), 2. Nicolas Covatti, 3. Nicolas Vicentin, 4. Nicolo Percotti. Team Manager: Alessandro Dalla Valle. LATVIA: 1. Andzejs Lebedevs (captain), 2. Jevgenijs Kostigovs, 3. Daniils Kolodinskis, 4. Olegs Mihailovs, 5. Francis Gusts. Team Manager: Vladimirs Vagels. NORWAY: 1. Mathias Pollestad (captain), 2. Glenn Moi, 3. Lasse Frederiksen, 4. Truls Kamhaug, 5. Jorgen Lystad. Team Manager: Kenneth Klipper Smith. SLOVENIA: 1. Matic Ivacic (captain), 2. Anze Grmek, 3. Denis Stojs, 4. Luka Omerzel, 5. Sven Cerjak. Team Manager: Gregor Arnsek. SWEDEN: 1. Fredrik Lindgren (captain), 2. Kim Nilsson, 3. Jacob Thorsell, 4. Timo Lahti, 5. Philip Hellstrom-Bangs. Team Manager: Linus Sundstrom. SEMI-FINAL 2 (OCTOBER 1): ARGENTINA: 1. Fernando Garcia (captain), 2. Cristian Zubillaga, 3. Facundo Albin. Team Manager: Claudio Schmit. AUSTRALIA: 1. Ryan Douglas, 2. Jason Doyle, 3. Jack Holder (captain), 4. Max Fricke, 5. Brady Kurtz. Team Manager: Mark Lemon. CZECH REPUBLIC: 1. Jan Kvech (captain), 2. Vaclav Milik, 3. Adam Bubba Bednar, 4. Daniel Klima, 5. Adam Kamenik. Team Manager: Zdenek Schneiderwind. DENMARK: 1. Mikkel Michelsen (captain), 2. Leon Madsen, 3. Michael Jepsen Jensen, 4. Anders Thomsen, 5. Mads Hansen. Team Manager: Nicki Pedersen. FINLAND: 1. Jesse Mustonen (captain), 2. Anti Vuolas, 3. Tero Aarnio, 4. Otto Raak, 5. Roni Niemela. Team Manager: Aki-Pekka Mustonen. FRANCE: 1. Dimitri Berge, 2. David Bellego (captain), 3. Mathias Tresarrieu, 4. Steven Goret, 5. Tino Bouin. Team Manager: Laurent Sambarrey. UKRAINE: 1. Nazar Parnitskyi 2. Marko Levishyn (captain), 3. Roman Kapustin, 4. Stanislav Melnychuk, 5. Andrii Karpov. Team Manager: Sergii Latosinski. FIM SPEEDWAY OF NATIONS – SON2 (OCTOBER 3): AUSTRALIA: 1. Mitchell McDiarmid, 2. James Pearson (captain), 3. Michael West, 4. Tate Zischke. Team Manager: Mark Lemon. CZECH REPUBLIC: 1. Adam Bubba Bednar (captain), 2. Jan Jenicek, 3. Jaroslav Vanicek, 4. Bruno Belan, 5. Matous Kamenik. Team Manager: Zdenek Schneiderwind. DENMARK: 1. Bastian Pedersen (captain), 2. William Drejer, 3. Mikkel Andersen, 4. Villads Nagel, 5. Nicolai Heiselberg. Team Manager: Hans Andersen. GERMANY: 1. Norick Blodorn (captain), 2. Jonny Wynant, 3. Patrick Hyjek, 4. Mario Hausl, 5. Hannah Grunwald. Team Manager: Sascha Dorner / Mathias Bartz. GREAT BRITAIN: 1. Daniel Thompson (captain), 2. Luke Harrison, 3. Luke Killeen, 4. Sam Hagon, 5. Jake Mulford. Team Manager: Neil Vatcher. LATVIA: 1. Nikita Kaulins (captain), 2. Artjoms Juhno, 3. Damirs Filimonovs. Team Manager: Vladimirs Vagels. SWEDEN: 1. Rasmus Karlsson, 2. Casper Henriksson (captain), 3. Erik Persson, 4. Ludvig Selvin, 5. Noel Wahlquist. Team Manager: Linus Sundstrom. POLAND: 1. Antoni Kawczynski, 2. Kevin Malkiewicz, 3. Kacper Mania, 4. Wiktor Przyjemski, 5. Damian Ratajczak. Team Manager: Rafal Dobrucki. FIM SON FINAL (OCTOBER 4): POLAND: 1. Patryk Dudek, 2. Dominik Kubera, 3. Piotr Pawlicki, 4. Wiktor Przyjemski, 5. Bartosz Zmarzlik. Team Manager: Rafal Dobrucki.