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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.

I feel like Belle Vue signed the RS they felt had most potential to be a future GP star & Prem no 1, rather than the rider who would help them win the league this year. Currently Joe Thompson, Jake Mulford or Ace Pijper could be considered stronger options?

Frazer needs some track time

ANY top flight team replacing two none double upper heat leaders with RR & MPT would be way under strength. It a result of injuries and has happened many times before and will happened again, unfortunately.

Line ups: Start list of the competition in Krakow (promotion 5) 1. Filip Bęczkowski (Krakow) 2. Oskar Kręglicki (Krosno) 3. Jakub Breński (Świętochłowice) 4. Radosław Kowalski (Krosno) 5. Paweł Caban (Częstochowa) 6. Jakub Żurek (Rybnik) 7. Kacper Halkiewicz (Częstochowa) 8. Paweł Wyczyszczok (Rybnik) 9. Krystian Gręda (Wroclaw) 10. Krzysztof Harendarczyk (Wroclaw) 11. Kacper Zieliński (Łódź) 12. Marcel Kowolik (Wroclaw) 13. Bartosz Jaworski (Lublin) 14. Bartosz Bańbor (Lublin) 15. Adrian Przybyło (Rzeszów) 16. Dawid Grzeszczyk (Lublin) 17. Jan Heleniak (Toruń) 18. Maksym Zientara (Kraków) Start list of the competition in Gniezno (5+1 advancement) 1. Patryk Budniak (Gniezno) 2. Eryk Kamiński (Gdańsk) 3. Kamil Witkowski (Poznań) 4. Mikołaj Krok (Gdańsk) 5. Kacper Andrzejewski (Bydgoszcz) 6. Antoni Kawczyński (Toruń) 7. Maksymilian Pawełczak (Bydgoszcz) 8. Mikołaj Duchiński (Toruń) 9. Jan Przanowski (Grudziądz) 10. Oskar Chatłas (Gorzów) 11. Dominik Baryłka (Piła) 12. Kevin Iwański-Helt (Grudziądz) 13. Emil Konieczny (Leszno) 14. Nikodem Łuczak (Ostrów) 15. Maksymilian Kostera (Leszno) 16. Marcel Juskowiak (Leszno) 17. Gracjan Szostak (Ostrów) 18. Filip Gano (Leszno) Starting list in Opole (5+1 promotion) 1. Dawid Rozpędek (Opole) 2. Szymon Ludwiczak (Częstochowa) 3. Alan Ciurzyński (Częstochowa) 4. Bartosz Rudolf (Zielona Góra) 5. Igor Kordun (Gorzów) 6. Bartosz Derek (Toruń) 7. Nikodem Mikołajczyk (Wrocław) 8. Kacper Sobkowiak (Gorzów) 9. Kuba Wojtyńka (Leszno) 10. Adam Putkowski (Bydgoszcz) 11. Kevin Małkiewicz (Grudziądz) 12. Emil Maroszek (Bydgoszcz) 13. Filip Seniuk (Ostrów) 14. Karol Szmyd (Lublin) 15. Paweł Sitek (Ostrów) 16. Dawid Cepielik (Lublin) 17. Filip Kumaszka (Wroclaw) 18. Franciszek Dymowski (Ostrów)

That's what I was saying too but when I thought about it, All it acheives is putting more pressure on Tom's shoulders @ No.1. With King riding the way he is, It takes the pressure of Brennan somewhat knowing that the No.2 is scoring 8/9 a meeting. Nicholls for me is now a carbon copy of Hans Andersen's last season with Peterborough and in the end he got replaced with a heavy heart, If Mayfield are serious about retaining the League then I don't think Nicholls will last much longer tbh. Be a shame to see it end on a sour note however it has to be taken into consideration that Scotty isn't likely to score a point around Belle Vue or Sheffield so if the struggles continue at Home on a track that he should be scoring well on, Then a replacement is inevitable imo.

Wot and give pilots some of my money 😜 will be getting enuf of it when worky are in town 😃

It will be available to stream via pirates tv I'm sure.

No defence of labour at all but ipswich town centre has been in serious decline and is just like you describe long before they were in charge. Sad really nothing like it used to be.

Really. Haha.

Sorry but there’s more important things for the council to spend money than on a parade for coming second. It’s not as if the council will get any of the £150 million, that is going to the football club and them only. I’m not taking anything away from them getting promoted but it doesn’t warrant a parade

Kildemand broken collarbone from crash at Edinburgh. Iversen advised not to fiy 🙄

You can have Bowes!

Bewley won in Wroclaw (think in 2022 after winning Cardiff) with 8 points. Think its been done 2 or 3 times (Bartosz won the Torun GP and world title with 8 points in 2023 or 2024).

He really enjoys the GT Tyres Arena and when in the mood which he has been on every visit so far I would back him to beat anyone in the Championship even if he didn't make it to the first corner in front. Kye Thomsen seems to have stepped up again this season, could also prove an inspired choice.

HUMPED

Totally agree. The fact is that many riders participate in different leagues and if you can see the likes of Dan Bewley riding well in Poland and they see him on ITV 4 and it is mentioned that he also rides in the UK then floating followers may seek out where he is riding. It use to work in days gone by when if you knew where an Olsen or Gollob were riding in the UK then you would turn out to see them. It applied to many other riders and that was the beauty of international meetings and top individual meetings that use to take place in the UK. It is not impossible to recreate a similar scenario to the Daily Mirror World classic Series that took place many years back but it takes vision and sponsorship. Most speedway followers would turn out in serious numbers to watch an international meeting in the UK involving Poland, Australia and the UK particular if the likes of Dudek et al turned up. The trouble is no one can bring together the sponsorship and the T V rights to make it a success. Poland dominates the current era of top class speedway and to show it on UK terrestrial TV might just ignite a new following that the sport so badly needs in this country to raise the profile.