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He was fantastic wasn’t he? Had an aura, the X factor. His form dipped in his final year here by his high standards but it wasn’t through lack of effort or commitment. I’m sure I wasn’t alone when he first signed wondering how many meetings he’d miss and how much effort would he put in, but I needn’t have been concerned! Class act.

Santa Claus you c#nt , wheres my f@cking team Kevin Bloody Wilson

line up now announced, not as good as previous years but still a pretty good line up Tickets HERE Peter Craven Memorial 2026 | Belle Vue Speedway Brady Kurtz Dan Bewley Freddie Lindgren Max Fricke Jason Doyle Rasmus Jensen Jan Kvech Chris Holder NKI Nicolai Klindt Tom Brennan Charles Wright Zach Cook Peter Kildermand Norick Blodorn Tate Zischke

The monthly contract is for the full season its just spreading the cost over 7 payments for a small uplift instead of paying the one off price. That's how i read it

Rip off

They could just go along to a track and enjoy the speedway and ignore all the "faff" around the sport. It's still 15 heats (weather etc permitting) 4 blokes (typically) doing 4 laps (typically) and the team with the most points at the end wins.

Yes his three year work visa expired and it was apparently very expensive to renew. He done the three years of his visa, won medals in both the Cup and Premiership, so things all came to a natural end.

A sport, in the UK, simply set up for a few dozen riders so they can earn money... And set up so some people, with enough money, can have an expensive hobby which they love being a central part of... The fans being invited along to help subsidise the costs, and keep them within reason for the person whose hobby it is... UK Speedway is no more than this.. The BSN package looks excellent value for money for "generic fans", who just enjoy watching Speedway without bothering too much who wins and who doesn't.. Hope they have a good season with plenty of subscribers.

Agree with the ‘live’ sentiment but that is becoming increasingly more costly and those with limited disposal income will forsake that and frankly with the way some meetings are drawn out, I would suspect many would rather be at home than standing on a chilly terrace in stadiums with poor facilities, expensive food and drink plus toilets that are some of the worse you can find and you can have all that for an entry fee of £20+. That’s probably why some people no longer attend because the supporter is a secondary inconvenience to the people who run the sport. Just look at the way they have conducted themselves in the close season.

Its cheaper than I expected, so for breakfast I'm going to have some humble pie 🥧

Didn’t they say that last week? and the week before and the week before and the week ……. ( you get the idea )

They didn't even have to be up to the job... just British (ish) and willing 😂

It's March 1st on Sunday. If we don't hear nothing by then, I think we can presume things are not going to plan...

I was actually rounding it up with you in mind 😃. You boys with super inflated pension pots will take no harm. As a former British Steel deferred pensioner I was seriously shocked at the size of the transfer value amounts some of you boys at TSP had . I have already tipped Andrew off to work on you as a possible Premium Sponsor 💰🤣

Expensive week... good job BSN got in first, £270 for my season pass, £693 for my GP tickets... will I have enough left over for my Northampton season ticket? 🤔

I think its funny, adds a bit of light heartedness to this mainly negative forum. Just ignore it if you dont like it

Those were the days , for music, fashion, massive crowds at speedway, everything. Top tune Everlasting Love. I remember when Joe Johnson from Bradford became world snooker champion in the 80s. He brought out a cover of that song. It wasn’t bad to be fair though obviously not as good as Love Affair.

A great song... along with another classic of theirs... "Everlasting Love" They don't make 'em like that anymore... and haven't for a long long time...!

Unfortunately the 1-6 is true. Forum member has posted a reply from facebook in regards to the BSN PREM Pass and TV rights for the forthcoming season. Safe to say that the BSPL are in a hole that they can't get out of this time.

So Mr. New Speedway Fan......hope you had a good Christmas. I bet you are very keen to see your first speedway action. It's late February, as you know, and the wheels will be spinning very soon...wow bet the excitement is difficult to control. So what's in store for you?...Well the top Division (Premiership) is still, as you were informed months ago, based on 5 teams - yes just 5 with lots of talk about Northampton making it up to a mind blowing six participants, but that could be a load of cobblers. But if true 6 teams in one league must have you aching to see your first speedway. If you want more variety of teams the Championship can offer you the choice of a massive 9 teams - be warned though a few riders will be competing in both divisions it's a speedway thing. No other sport offers such double dealings. Anyway before the season starts teams will be sorting out how they can be made up via the well loved 'averages' system. If you are keen enough to read this forum you will seen very many budding Einstiens or Newtons doing the maths to aid their team make ups. Hope you understand this ' averages' stuff it's supposed to stop any one team dominating the season. No sorry I can't explain much more on that issue. So anyway roll on to tapes up my friend, bet your even more excited after reading this. Choose which team is local enough to support and get your £25 ready....oh and bring a friend. Happy Speedway.

He’d made a home here for sure. People will always be a bit suspicious when riders say they won’t ride anywhere else though. We all know money talks. Pretty sure we’d have been his priority though. Still think we might see him later in the season…

I also liked the new faces with Steve Marriott.

I could be wrong but I thought Doyle announced he wouldn’t be racing in this country well before Kurtz and Bewley were announced. And he’s never really been a one club man has he . Like Danny King etc … and Bomber 😁

Why am I getting images of a courtroom in my head with Hamish festooned in wig and gown, pacing hands behind his back during a cross examination

I don't think theres anything to read into there. They will probably just do a prem play offs pass in September 🤷‍♂️

That does seem good value for 48 meetings and being able to spread the cost will encourage a few more punters. Well done to BSN

Yes, King Edwards just about sums that team up🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔🥔 😂

I hear you. It’s beyond boring, but we have people looking in on a daily basis so just trying to put people in the picture as best I can.

Credit where it's due, he did help bring home the big one... but it was hardly a job that was eating into his time.

It’s been a total pi**take.

But if so.. You would be talking about going to see people who are the very top of their field of work, known around the globe by millions, and performing in an industry that generates billions of pounds... Not a tiny, minority sport... The standing admission fees seem OK... At the highest end of the scale I would suggest, but OK, (just)...

That's only £346.50 a night though Iain.... Take five hundred quid out with you, each night, and you will still have enough for the bus fares home and twenty Woodbines...

Never mind the Bollocks

Team GB boss is barely a job these days... what will it be? 1 meeting? Possibly 2?

Yes definitely. I think he does odd things with Paul Weller too.

Think he lives near Norwich so Ipswich suits him down to the ground - unless there was significantly more money he'd not want to join BV.

The perfect example of an overseas rider that adds something to UK Speedway, and will be greatly missed.. Unlike so many overseas journeymen down the years, and still the same today, who will hardly be noticed, never mind missed... Yet will have blocked medium to long term UK rider development... Edit. His Heat 15 at the NSS a few years ago, with Doyle, Kurtz and Bewley, when Ipswich knocked the Aces out of the PO's, was one of the best races I have ever seen in Team Speedway..

My favourite former group.

I'll start.... I see your £15k and raise it by twenty pounds... Could be a long thread this... I seem to remember the bond has changed down the years with the last I heard it being £50k.. However, I also seem to remember it changing into assets also being part of the bond, rather than just cash, hence new promoters in particular were encouraged to make riders into their assets.. (Which also often meant more, unattached in the UK, overseas journeymen coming over who became as asset. Great for UK rider development!!).. Obviously, there are no assets anymore, so if a track closes the BSP no longer inherits the riders and are, therefore, no longer able to either loan or sell them to other teams to help pay the debts of the closed track.. I can't believe the bond is £50k though anymore to be honest, given so few people seem interested in coming into the sport to promote... £15,025, my final bid...

Come on, what are we talking then? Or are we going to have to guess? 😁

That’s being very generous. It has many similarities to the way the country is currently being run and both are shambles. Government wants more taxes, promoters want higher entrance fees, riders want more for less, benefit claimants want more for doing nothing and in both cases those in charge are ostracising the very same tax payers/punters who feed them by increasing the costs for the few simply to placate the rest.

Well I have just paid up. £38.99 a month for 7 months is a no brainer as it’s the only way to watch UK speedway other than attending. It’s far better than Eurosport for production and the commentators know what they are talking about. Looking forward to seeing what the first batch of matches will be.

As in Scott working for BSN? Don’t think that’s going to happen.

I don't understand your problem. Ipswich Speedway Promotions Ltd is the company that holds the promotion rights to Ipswich Witches. Chris Louis is the sole shareholder. Chris Louis didn't want to continue, so his options were to pull out altogether (and have a near enough worthless company) or sell the company's main asset (the licence) to someone else. He chose the latter, and agreed to sell the club. Businesses change hands all the time. I might win the Euromillions this week and offer Buster a million quid for King's Lynn. I buy the club and its licence, and things carry on, just with a new owner.

This rumoured 1-7 with lawson and jeppesen i dont see as any worse than Leicester built the same way?

He was walking back to the van with his bodyguard Vinny 😀

Think there was 48 thou there the year I went to the world final in 86 when Gundo won it.

You certainly gave 100% for Berwick,that’s all most fans wanted in them days.Nowadays 1 bad meeting and they want changes.