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From what I hear transport was arranged to take the bikes to Poole, but the rider forgot or did not want to arrange transport to get himself to Poole. So no fault of worky . Also the ban is meaningless as the season is over, why can't it be rolled over to the 2026 season

There's a lot of Brits in the crowd... we really will turn up and watch any old crap 💩 😂

If Max and Freddy were to continue improving at this rate they will have good careers ahead. Max is steady whereas Freddy can't gate but battles past riders when possible. Too many young Brits have chucked it so don't see what unwarranted criticism achieves here. We finish top of the league and make the play off finals. That's plenty good enough for me thanks.

It might be an odd question, but is there any point to all this !!!! It's like watching the funeral of speedway. One last ride before we go, so to speak !!!!

good god give Brennon a ride.

The winner of the SGP2 should definitely be nowhere near the main SGP series, it's generally years before they're anywhere near the level required to be in the main series if ever at all. The last WU21 Champion currently in the series is Max Fricke who won it in 2016, it's taken him 10 years to get from that level to his current level and he's still relying on wild cards to qualify.

Organisation and a strong hand on the tiller, no rearranging matches because a rider is a reserve in the Timbuktu Open Championship.

They have completely ruined the world cup week format. back in the day it was a brilliant spectacle , even if the racing was gate and go it was still exciting and well attended. this new format is absolutely pathetic. why oh why do they change things that arent broken but any thing broken they do nothing about?

All that ‘racing’ when it was always obvious GB and Sweden would be top 2 and Germany and Latvia would be 3 & 4. Could have just had this one off race.

GB, Sweden, Denmark, Australia should be direct in final with Poland. just have 1 off race off if required for the last 2 places.

That my point about riders whose ambitions are in Poland even if your decent over here your just “used” in Poland.As a lot of them have found out. Bowes has attended meetings in Poland missing fixtures in GB and has just sat in the pits not being used. His last match in Poland was 4 rides 0 pts hardly inspiring stuff.

Poland has always been where the money is ,but getting them to hand it over has been a problem for a number of riders over the years.

Generally speaking, the winner of SGP2 is way behind a regular GP1 rider. After winning GP2 series and GP after GP getting beat by top riders could demoralise the young lad and set him back. When Martin Vaculick came to GP1 he did well initially....but then didn't bother with GP1 fora few years to give himself time to mature as a rider. He came back into GP1, with more experience, came 2nd in GP1 just couple years ago. Sadly this year not performed too well, maybe he carrying an injury or something. Just after Fricke winning SGP2 came Drabik and Smektala, between them they won 3 GP2 on the trot. Neither of them yet in the GP1 series full time, Jaimon Lidsey the same. I think Jan Kvech was 2nd in GP2 just 3 or 4 years ago, he will come back in 2 or 3 years better then he is now, hes picked up the experience.... it was just too soon for him.

Because they want us to see what they want us to see not what we want to see. There are those who say, if you don't like it don't watch it. Therefore they don't watch it and they don't come back.

Why are Poland hosting it then?

Well said ! Your are the best informed member of this Forum on what's going on in Polish speedway. Keep it up!

Looking at the crowd and I use that term loosely, it seems the only nation to send some fans are us

Tatum is earning his money tonight talking this up!! Made me chuckle when him and Louis were shouting the odds on how GB were on fire in beating Italy 🤣🤣

theres such a gulf between the ability of the teams makes for very predictable riding results

Do they? It's tucked away on TNT9 for a reason and they should count themselves lucky with that!

What this crowd needs it a Mexican wave

The criticism wasn’t aimed at belle vue it was at discovery and the FIM who clearly haven't learnt any lessons

Think this was to be predicted,rubbish format and Competition. Just to try and stop Poland winning everything every year.

Record crowd of nobody

Workingtons problems had nothing to do with money,steve was very clear in the "star" about that.

Who'd of thought it? In October as well? It might be "pie in the sky" but for 2026 how about - BSN Final by end of July - KOC Final by the end of August - League meetings complete by end of August - Play-off Semi's and Final in September.

Oh dear, so that rules him out of the...*checks notes* Premiership PO final. The guy has explicitly told everyone his season is over and they've responded by banning him for 28 days. Shambles.

I don’t think you can underestimate the pressure our team building put on those two young men. The number six - Hodder to begin with and now Perry - had a remarkably tough gig, especially. Neither have had the protection of an even slightly more experienced reserve partner - a Grahn, a Starke or a Hook, for example - to bear a bit of the weight and afford them to the time to develop. I’m not sure what I’d do next season. I think a lot of that depends on how the month of October goes.

Not for me, it has to be one or the other, especially with nothing other than pride riding on it, the "LCT" would become nothing more than an end of season fixture filler.

What are peoples views on the Sprint Races? Do you think they will be dropped in 2026 or expanded to feature at more Grand Prixs? * From a personal point of view. I see little point in them unless you could incorporate them in some form into the main meeting on the day itself.

Will fit in well at Poole then 🤪

Almost certain there will be a big crowd Saturday and a big crowd in Warsaw next year. Both SoN eents at Manchester were superb. Love WTC, Love SoN (except for the terrible name) For those complaining, there are a 1000 other channels you can switch over to...

There aren’t insufficient riders. There are insufficient riders of sufficient quality. Granted it all amounts to the same thing, bad news for British Speedway and its fans. That lack of “good enough” riders is at least partly a result of the doubling up doors being jammed wide open for all about 15 years ago. A short sighted decision at the time that is now coming home to roost. At that point there were more than enough riders to go round. Rider power probably drove that one. Recently it’s been exasperated by the tighter visa rules post-Brexit it seems. It’s definitely a case of a best case scenario out of the current mess. One league seems to me to be more of a ballsy attempt to give the sport a long term future, not without massive potential pitfalls. The standard would drop, it’s unavoidable, but it could be the only way to repopulate the domestic rider pool in the mid to long term. Otherwise we end up losing clubs annually, dropping to teams of five (horrible idea) and before long there’s nothing left. Carrying on as we are seems to be agreeing to continue with death by a thousand cuts. It would be just another sticking plaster.

blodorn will let them down i recon

And British speedway has shut down gor a week whilst this shambles goes ahead

I don’t think grim is the word, embarrassing covers it

Thanks a lot.

The first four are the last isn’t

Not sure about Fricke. But think Dan, Brady and Doyle are. There was a time when Lambert was living in Germany? But feel like it could be Poland now 🤷‍♀️ So do Poole, so that is mainly to do with winning rather than GP riders, if that is what you meant.

Then why act an idiot over here then.

No, no and no

Never liked double meetings personally.

As we go into October, yet again various finals are still to be completed and the weather is changing. Yet their is talk of one league with more fixtures to cram in !! How will this work out ??

There’s already 5 teams from this years prem for 2026 - The top four of 2025 plus Stars & Oxford although as the Cheetahs. But you may be correct that three other promotions may join the top flight to give an eight team Prem

Your problem here is that Poole and Glasgow are run by very successful businessmen who have no interest in losing lots of money just to keep the dying Premiership going. Where would you get the very large sums needed to persuade them to move up from? The Premiership has been living well beyond its means for years and is no longer sustainable. If the top level of British speedway is now to be roughly Championship level so be it, still a lot better than no speedway

My answer is Wayne Brown and Steve McDermott away to Stoke in 1980. 29-48 Berwick win.

What will 2026 UK speedway bring? A Headache

Owlerton doesn’t really have straights and what it does are very short

Plymouth in the prem? lol. Can't wait to see Emil rock up and say wtf is this?

More to do with the fact that there are a further six better riders in the PGE averages (both Pawlickis, Drabik, Cierniak, Woryna, and Przjemski) In the GP qualifyers Janowski finished 16th in the Polish round (Golden Helmet) wheras Woryna went and qualified for the GP Przem Pawlicki, Drabik, Cierniak, Woryna and Wozniak are all in top 12 of Swedish averages The less said about Janowski's British form the better. In the Polish Champ Janowski only finished 10th I'd rank him somewhere in the region of 10th to 12th best Pole. Maybe that's why he hasn't been picked?