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The ultimate answer is stop complaining about what other countries/businesses are doing and focus on what you are doing wrong and strive be the best at the job and then that problem goes away

Should have gone it alone at least a decade ago... I was bored the other day, (retirement can do this to you), and found myself looking at the British U21 Final Results from around a decade ago, as I was curious to see how many riders are left in the sport... As "there are not enough riders to have one league".... Very, very few from around 2014 - 2018 (I didn't check any further), are still riding.. Some of the names, quite high up in the scoring, were unknown to me, and had beaten some of the riders still riding, and doing "OK" today... These lads would now be 28 - 33 ... Surely a fair % of them would have developed to the required level (they definitely weren't " wobblers"), if they had been given team places, rather than giving those places to journeyman foreigner after journeyman foreigner, who have ridden over here using a "revolving door" system... The GP lads are great to watch, but even that can get boring, and certainly are not cost neutral over a season when you measure the revenue they bring in.. UK Speedway should simply have cut its cloth accordingly and opened their businesses on days that their potential highest amount of punters would come through the doors.. Probably too late to sort it now, ssdly...

Thursday May 7th - everyone's chance to make the change.....

Guess you’ve never been to Ipswich in recent times 🙄 unless you wanna vape or get your haircut in a Turkish fuc*ing barber then don’t even bother going in to “town”. Sh!thole. well done Labour.

Interesting bit of research. of course there's lots of variables like injuries but I reckon a fair few will just not have been able to make it pay and so you get into this ever decreasing circle where a small pool of riders can only make it pay only by taking all of the opportunities to make it pay. i.e. riding in multiple leagues. I reckon you could do a similar analysis on the Polish U21 riders and lots of them will have disappeared from the sport. Probably more to do with how competitive it is over there though, in terms of how many U21 riders they have. I've said on here before if you want to get rid of doubling up in Britain there seems to be a load of Polish kids who are left without Polish clubs each season. Short term fix and probably not possible after Brexit? whilst I don't disagree about British speedway sorting itself out I do think the world governing body need to do more to both protect the existing territories and expand into new territories. ultimately if everything becomes focussed on Poland that's what the sport will become... a Polish sport that nobody else is bothered about. easier said than done of course but I do think FIM need to look at how they assist the current pyramid and develop new ones. for a start stop dragging all sorts of riders all over Europe for all sorts of qualifiers that conflict with domestic leagues and appear to be costly for the riders. look at the cricket franchise system where those competitors often play of a number of franchises because the competitions are staggered to allow it. Have a month long event with 8 franchises with the top international riders supplemented by local riders. Have the UK one in June after the GP's. Have a Scandinavian one in July and a Polish one in August. Take it to the USA and Australia over the winter. Like a travelling circus just without the clowns.... ....hopefully. Then eventually look to expand it into new territories. Spain, Asia, South America. There's loads of kids into motorbikes in those regions. They can't all make it to MotoGP but some could make a decent career as Speedway rider if the infrastructure and opportunity is there. The raw materials are out there but at the minute the flagship SGP series is reliant on the Poles developing talent which is more and more likely to be Polish... ....and so the ever decreasing circle continues. It's basically a business with zero product development.

What, for the reform or tory clowns? 14 years of their rule has left the country in tatters, and well done Nigel for brexit, what a disaster.

Cant Bowes move to 8!!

Stars wait a few years for a proper No.1 only for him to have his worst season in a while lol. Ipswich 2 passengers but won with a bit to spare again, Witches really are 1 team change away from potentially retaining the PREM title imo. The Brennan, Musielak, Lawson & King core with Edwards as the Rising Star is strong enough to compete for silverware when you look at the amount of points they put up as a unit.

Although I would point out that Lawson was wearing an older pair of Witches kevlers with Heeps on the back.

I would say Jonas Jeppesen if the points allow it with May change in averages. Regardless if he likes Ipswich or not, your no. 2 should not be beaten under any circumstance by the opposing rising star.

Posted by Peter Kildemand on Facebook. BROKEN THE COLLAR BONE Unfortunately, Peter was involved in a crash on Friday night when his club Berwick faced Edinburgh Monarchs. Already in the first heat of the evening, Peter crashed and broke his collar bone. After a few days of waiting in the British, Peter landed yesterday again in Denmark and has today been to check up on OUH. They were going to operate on his collarbone within a week, but of course they are going to try to do it as soon as possible. So we keep our fingers crossed that Peter can have his operation soon, we hope to see him back on the bike again soon.

Possibly 18 to 22 depending one way or another. The British league really has no option but to go along with what Poland wants. We have run our league structure into the ground while the Poles have made theirs something that people want to invest in. I am hopeful that Mayfield might be the ones to stop the rot & turn the fortunes of uk speedway around but it’s a long road.

Come oop north great racing at Redcar worky and Glasgow 😜

With a stunning performance like that I'd accept a lot arrival every week.

... or carry on as we are 👉🙄👈

Delayed cleaning his bikes? Or finishing off plastering a ceiling somewhere 😂

Fricke from 15m. Jenkins did well to stay strong on the last blast!

If ever there was a rider who could win a semi final/last chance from the worst gate it's Zmarzlik. I don't think it disbenefits him at all. I think in all of his title wins he'd won a good few grand finals anyway. I don't think he's ever relied on his heat scores to win a title. As I say I think it was because they didn't like the concept of the winner of the grand final not being the top scorer on the night. Tbf there probably wasn't enough riding on making and winning the final in the old system. Didn't Loram win the title without winning a GP that season? That didn't bother me as he was the best rider over the season which is what the GP series was meant to reward as opposed to the old individual one off world final where a Szczakiel could end up being World Champion the only one day ever where he was the best rider in the world. So we've kind of gone from the jeopardy of the world champ being someone who was the best over 5 rides on one day, to a GP series which rewarded the rider who was consistently the best over the season, to this hybrid where you only have to be the best rider twice per gp across the series.

I thought it was going to be a lot closer tbh. Rob may have to think about replacing Kvech in a double change because he's very limited on who he can replace Paco with considering his GSA is so low imo. Granted the King's Lynn faithful are fans of Kvech, But at the end of the day, It's a Team game and it's clear that King's Lynn aren't going anywhere with the current 1-7. Back-to-Back 50-40 defeats at Foxhall and using a Tactical Ride on both occasions.

Good observations and I agree, I don't think a 10 point win told the whole story. I believe this was effectively won after 6 or 7 heats. Being honest that's the poorest Lynn performance at foxhall for some time and I can't imagine Rob Lyon would be happy with that.

Nightmare for the Bandits. Not even a month into the season and you’ve lost Battye (a revelation, headed for the main body of the team) and your talisman. You couldn’t write that sort of luck.

I’m not that keen.😂

Wasn't it something to do with the 'them' thinking that it was too confusing when the winner of the final wasn't the top GP points scorer. Especially when compared to other motorsports. I didn't find it confusing and prefer the old system. I don't like how finishing 2nd in one Last Chance/Semi Final scores more GP points than finishing 2nd in the other. Of course the new system does allow the top two heat point scorers to avoid the semi finals. Swings and roundabouts I guess but I feel that there was more competition in each qualifying heat when every point mattered.

Me, my mate, and mine and his lad, will be there next season.. Helping the local pub economy... Always loved visits to Portman Rd... A bit of "old school" proper football stadium feel about it... Unlike that monstrosity in London that hopefully will see West Ham playing Championship football next season.. Good to have Ipswich back....

29-61.

Agreed and I think the bigger issue is our numbers two and six.

Sounds like pretty much every town in England... #moneylaundering... #jobsforillegals... #cashinhand... #notaxpaid....

I think BZ may have been starting to turn left on him but i think it makes it good to watch, talking points are what we need.

When promotion is worth around £150 million I think you can understand the celebration! It does highlight the stark reality of Speedways finances when the flipside is that it could mean a reduction in the crowd at Foxhall that is the difference between a break even season and a large loss The usual 1500 would traditionally be raised to 5000 on a good weather bank holiday If that is down to 3000 then the 2000 difference costs the Witches in the region of £40k Peanuts in relation to the football club - a weeks wages for just one player but vital to the Speedway club!

Can’t believe they are having a parade, yes they got promoted but it’s not as if they won the league

Riders should get the points they score on the day, 3, 2, 1, 0, it worked well for years and everyone including the fans could understand it, this constant tinkering, last chance qualifying cobblers should be binned. 20 heats, top 8 to two Semis and then a final, it’s fair and no one could argue against it.

He hasn't started slowly for KL though. Getting double figures most of the time.

He was excellent in the win away at Lynn also, but then very poor at Northampton as well as the two home fixtures. He’s incredibly inconsistent and frustratingly, he’s inconsistent during meetings not just meeting to meeting. He can have a couple of fantastic rides where you think he’s on it, then can run a couple of lasts of third places and look all at sea. Hawkins was singing his praises last year and tipping him to go to the very top and challenge Bewley and Lambert as top Brit in seasons to come, but the lad turns 25 this year so he needs to start getting a move on pronto. He’s not old no, but he isn’t some emerging 19/20 year old either he’s been around a while now and he needs to sort out the inconsistency in his riding. He looks miles off GP standard at the moment.

Much like Birmingham, for the last couple of years, they're a rider short, everybody is riding a place above where they should be... there's no way on this earth that Nicolai Klindt is a PL number 5!

They are saying on the shoot some shale watch along thing about Leicester vs Northampton, during H8 that Gilkes is not anywhere near race fit and they think that race will make Poole keep Newman.

He's not replying to you

If you're going to use the qualifying heats to decide who comes 5th and 6th then why not just use the old system? If the current system is about awarding most points based on where you finished in the last three heats then the riders who finish 2nd in the semi's are equal 5th. Just cleaner to award both 12. They might actually have identical qualifying scores anyway. I also think that heats 16 to 20 in particular are a dead rubber for anyone not going to make the top 10. Where in the past winning your last heat meant 3 extra points to your championship total. Now winning your last heat might get you 1 extra championship point. Or if you're not going to make the top two but are going to make the top ten then your last qualifying heat doesn't matter especially if there's no great advantage in gate choice or you're not getting first pick. Doesn't really matter but I just feel that there was something riding on every heat for every rider under the old system.

Yes Chris Moorcroft. Chris run the company who does the BV streaming.

Belle Vue again showing they won’t be beat at home with the top two and solid back up …. Trouble is Blodorn and Cook and Tate can’t ride away at some tracks Is Mulford still on the rising star list ? Would be a much better bet than cairns

Didn't you go to see the Witches at the Cornhill? If it was big enough to warrant a full parade Speedway would've got one as well....

But on match days the pubs & restaurants are packed. Even more so now they have been promoted with more away fans coming. Its great for the town

By my reckoning, Hodder outscored Max 41-34 head to head last year. He was also much stronger at home, where Max struggled (he had a higher away average). They definitely kept the right rider IMO. It seems other teams agreed, given Max didn't pick up a spot until Workington replaced their #7. His championship average has progressed, but his national league average hasn't. To me, that says Max has hit his level. Freddy's average progression has been slow, but it is still going up. That said, when I watch him ride, I'm not convinced there's a lot of progression left. He often chooses the wrong lines and looks tentative.

It’s quite ridiculous that someone who scores 6 from 5 rides could get 20pts for winning the final.🤔👎

Glasgow showing that top heavy teams with gash reserves very rarely work.

Pathetic from Lambert actually. Embarrassing behaviour from a pro

Tuesday’s Matches line-ups Smederna v Indianerna- live on Premier Sports 1 Smederna 1 Pollestad 2 Nilsson 3 Chugunov 4 Janowski 5 Lebedevs 6 Andersson 7 Henderson Indianerna 1 Wozniak 2 Becker 3 Huckenbeck 4 Berntzon 5 Prem Pawlicki 6 J Grahn 7 R Karlsson Vargarna v Lejonen Vargarna 1 Vaculik 2 Blodorn 3 Lidsey 4 Przyjemski 5 Jakobsen 6 Hjelmland 7 L Selvin Lejonen 1 Cerniak 2 Henriksson 3 Chmiel 4 Woryna 5 Przedpelski 6 Bock 7 Tornblom Vastervik v Piraterna Vastervik 1 Lambert 2 Brennan 3 Thorssell 4 R Jensen 5 M Hansen 6 Palovaara 7 Wahlquist Piraterna 1 Smektala 2 Milik 3 O Fajfer 4 Kolodinskis 5 Paluch 6 Persson 7 Ejnermark

Basically double what it was last week, which is mental. Or was that only because last week was a trail run. Anyway probably a fairly comfortable home win as our reserves will make their no very good reserves look like Dan Bewley and Robert Lambert.

Looked like a proverbial gating tart to me 👀

Based on my 2025 world rankings (which include both his Torun and Pardubice high points) I had him at number 37 in the under 19 rider rankings just above Luke Harrison and Jody Scott (who are both a year younger). He's no Mitch McDiarmid (17th in under 19s), and he's not even the highest rated German (Tyler Haupt and Janek Konczak are the names to watch out for). On that basis I think a 4.00 average is a reasonable aspiration for Hausl, and given the need to settle in to a strange environment even that may be a challenge.

Nice. She is actually very good at her job if you've seen her present other sports. She has made it clear she will do her homework and we have to give her a chance. I'm sure Abbie wasn't knowledgeable when she first started...