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Let’s be honest, ‘Speedway Star’ is probably the most credible thing associated with the sport in the UK. A superb publication doing its best to make the sport appear to be more professional than it actually is!

You do have to seriously question the sanity of anyone who tries to open up a Speedway team at Northampton, don't you? Established, historical, top league tracks often dont even get just 1500 a week, so what type of crowd number would a new venture get? Especially one, "outside of town"..... It cannot be a realistic option surely to open a new track, and go straight into the top league with all the costs involved of trying to be competitive at that level?

I find it absolutely astonishing that people think this piece of dirt should be allowed back into speedway. There are lines between crimes and getting pissed and jumping on a bike, whilst completely irresponsible, is not in the same league as smoking crack and holding up an old woman at gunpoint. He is the lowest of the low. People need to hang their heads in shame comparing him to a rider who has failed a booze or drug test. It is crazy how he didn't get banned before he completely and utterly ballsed his life up. Have heard many stories about his behavior and drugs etc from well before he got banged up.

But only if they know what’s going on and I beginning to have my doubts

The Leicester info is for 2025. It’s just not been removed/updated for 2026 yet.

Ffs this is getting like The Prisoner. Who is Number 5? Who is Number 6? Ipswich is Number 5! No! Ipswich is Number 6! Who is Patrick McGoohan? Who is the all-seeing Controller? Round the Boards? The Top Drawer? (or they actually the same person)? And what is the giant white bubble that comes out of the sea? Why - of course - it's Northampton, complete with Brady Kurtz at Number 1!!

Gotta admit all this cryptic nonsense does my head in as well. If you’ve got something to say, spit it out. Otherwise, don’t bother saying anything at all!

Remind me never to go to a casino with you 😂

So he has equipment & backing/guidance from Havelock & Sean Wilson. Let's hope he gets the opportunity to get on track somewhere & finally takes the opportunity he is being presented with. Nobody wins with the alternative.

Dean Barker? Cos if it's Ben that would give an even weaker number six than Kemp.

In summary seems Minimum of £100k needs to be chucked at any potential venue whether or not its a former speedway venue to satisfy the BSPL. Our AGM is on the 6th January, so get your skates on please. No late payments of membership fees will be accepted. On the granting of our licence , then you are guaranteeed a season of 8 maybe 10, or 12 maybe 15 home meetings in a league for 5 or 6 teams. We havent yet decided the number of teams allowed in our league , nor the exact fixture format. Fixures may be erratic and not run in some months at all , please bear that in mind when negotiating rental deals with your track owners. Please bear with us. Please don't try and run any other speedway meetings on your track without our permission or you will be expelled. We usually run meetings on Mondays or Thursdays, but as you are the last track to join the league you will have to fit in around either day to suit the existing tracks. Previous seasons have shown no clubs have turned a profit in this league, even with generous TV sponsorship which is not forthcoming this season. There are still some riders available to hire that have not been employed by the other clubs in the league. You will ahve to haggle with them to agree terms and as you are the last team to join the league you wll have to take what's available.

Stop being pedantic. Don't need to look that far above to find 'I'm happy with that team posts'.

Could you provide a list of who 'slagged him off' and those who are happy he's in the team so that we can cross reference please?

He does look class act on the bike.

Surely if there are only five teams you could only do either of the two options, run the league as a championship so the final standing are the results and scrap play offs. Or if they are hell bent on some kind of play offs at least lessen it so for example 1st position gets automatically placed into the final and gets to choose where to have the first/second leg, and only 2nd vs 3rd races for a chance to play the winners of the league. I see no point in 1st-4th being placed in a play offs, personal opinion which may be an unpopular one, I don’t know everyone else’s feeling.

Yep I think thats thr crux of it, Lawson or NKI would have meant a very long tail. Personally I think an injury free season for Cook and he can improve on 6.whatever he is on but we shall see.

Maybe because he is better than most on his average and with more chance of improvement.

Prison is there to punish and rehabilitate. He's done his time, now we've got to hope the rehabilitation works. He has experience in two things - Speedway and crime. If we don't want him to return to crime, we need to push him down the path of an honest future. Sadly it seems the "Holier Than Thou" brigade want to push him down a path of crime, so they can say "I was right".

He’s not the only rider to have known *sniff substance issues

safe in the knowledge that there's no possibility of a PLor CL track opening within 100 miles of Old Bobs manor ... the out of season entertainment on this forum has reached new heights this close season. Thread of the year has to go to 2026 Premiership is Go! - At least 5 teams by Round the Boards

We’d better get some decent rider development going then. Tracks first though

Just over a week and we’ll all know what’s going on thankfully. Possibly..

Yup check out google earth IainB ....... amazed that the GoKart track remains in place tbh. Maybe Lewis Hamilton practised there as well as Rye House 🙂

You may get some joy if you post in the forum announcements section under support. I posted a topic on here a few months back about the state of this forum and the need for moderators... and he removed it 😂😂 So don't hold your breath on any improvements... I'm not sure why the guy that runs it does it, it must be costing him money and he never contributes or even seems that interested in speedway anymore. It's a shame if it ever went because there's 20 odd years of content and resource on here.

Not strictly Poole related, but glad to see Ben Cook still in British speedway with him back at Kingslynn next year. If Poole were to ever move back up would certainly hope he’d be one of the first names on the team sheet

Kemp wouldn't be too bad if he stopped the packing up at the back thing. What other experienced reserves are around that are guaranteed to be better? I think the RS position is what's really been the killer for us.

The Premiership needs some teams for any new/returning faces to ride for...

MD is your Eastbourne man

Someone else who made a mistake in his youth, but was given a second chance and went on to become a world champion. Sounds like a good mentor.

I'm getting muddled in my old age Bagpuss so the Jubilee cup is still as big a myth as bigfoot and ufo's ?

Sometimes you have to do things you don't want to do to do the things you do want to do, and if that means paying off somebody else's debts to be able to run Speedway on a ready made, proven successful, track then so be it, this is hardly Russia vs Ukraine or Jews vs Arabs, it's Speedway and with no track running any meaningful Speedway in the south east and that be sat there doing nothing is an absolute scandal with the sport being at an all time low at this moment in time. There's more chance of Eastbourne happening than asking Peterborough to run PL when they don't even have a track... and whoever asked them to do that shouldn't be anywhere near our sport!

The made up BS and lies on this thread are now reaching Starmer levels... 🙄

I wasn't happy with the Cook situation last season, and said so, or "slagged" him/ the Poles off if you like.. I've not said im happy he's in the team this season either, so that's me off the flip flop "list" hasta la vista if you thought i was one of them It's great to have Local boys Coops and Jody in the team, Although would rather have Cooper on a 2 . Jan and Bomber back, and a genuine No.1 is great. If Cook rides a whole season, i would expect him to put a bit on his average, i will say that..

The meeting at Lynn was the second leg of the Play Off final: https://speedwayupdates.proboards.com/thread/21410/leicester-poole-championship-final-2022

Would love it to happen Iain but M.D has said many times its not going to happen and he should know better than 99.9% of the population.

You also missed off the jubilee cup where from memory leg 1 was staged at kings lynn and leg 2 is awaited in the same breath as "the godfather part 4" and 'the long good friday part 2"

All KL fans slagging off Cook last season now reading in this thread all seem happy he's in the team. Would say you couldn't make it up but with speedway fans makes perfect sense....

I think hausl will go well

Yes they have, you would assume the £150,000 is the cost of getting the track fit for speedway

They will indeed. If Belle Vue retain Kurtz, Lidsey will be squeezed out. Lawson seems another, as does Becker. That’s without picking the bones out of Oxford and Birmingham although not many stand out granted. Musielak, Rew, Janowski maybe. So even a team that hasn’t even started to team build yet whether that be Ipswich or a mythical team that nobody knows about, could still build a competitive team almost by default.

Think everyone would take Lawson over Cook, but that would have taken Lynn over the limit if my maths isn’t off (usually is tbf). A few will be squeezed out due to a 37 limit instead of 40 for top 6.

Glasgow will be top 4 with their seven. Hagon will soften the blow of losing Nagel. Big improvement in Flint's average and top two will be tough to dethrone around Ashfield.

Neither Pollestad or Rushen were ever signing with Ipswich. Some of the stuff on here is so fanciful.

Well done to Workington if they signed him,everyone deserves a second chance.

all this suspense and intrigue.... it must be good for the speedway media to get some publicity and boost sales of the Speedway Star. But oh no this is speedway ..... don't use this as a publicity opportunity to spark interest in the sport to get the name Speedway into peoples minds ... KEEP IT A SECRET.

Anyway we have 9 days to wait to find out what shambles is being presented to us to part with our money, I’d like to say I can’t wait but that isn’t the truth

Cooper loves his speedway. Shows when he is racing and with interviews during meetings. Good luck and can’t wait to see you in action again. if it is Paco - I don’t know much about him but he seems to want to entertain. That ticks a big box for me. I like to go home talking about the racing. That’s what is important.

Welcome Coops. An incredibly exciting side being built, I love the idea of a reserve pairing graduating from the Young Stars. Especially if one of them is a Norfolk boy. McDairmid would be my choice at 2 personally.

Let's try another way. See if mods actually look at this thread: Bum titty bum

So premiership 2026 thread is pinned, are there no moderators for championship threads? Can we not get some new moderators in place ? On second look, it says 2026 but is actually 2024, what a farce this forum is becoming.