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Premiership CEO spotted overseeing track operations at Ipswich last night...

I’m afraid I would not entertain them in Uk in that case. They are helping to send the sport into obscurity with their attitude. Speedway is hardly a no risk sport.Wait till this situation arises at Northampton and see how the newcomers to the sport react.

Some people don't appreciate a bit of fun 🙄

Update on former Berwick rider Connor Coles posted on social media today. Lovely news from Kirsty Coles about Connor A little update on Connor Connor has now been transferred from Stoke to Derby and has officially started neurological rehabilitation in a specialist centre. Although there is still a long recovery journey ahead, this week has brought some really positive steps forward. Connor is becoming much more aware and engaged, communicating more, remembering conversations and slowly getting more like himself each day. He is now eating food orally again with thickened drinks, has started rehab exercises including the exercise bike, and is walking short distances with support and a frame. Seeing these small milestones after everything he has been through has meant so much to us all. There are still many challenges ahead with speech, swallowing, fatigue and weakness down his left side, and recovery will take time, but we finally feel like Connor is taking important steps in the right direction. Thank you again to everyone for all the continued love, support, messages and kindness shown to Connor and our family

The most positive news so far has come out today. Very good news arrived from the Poznań hospital on Friday morning. The process of waking Patryk Budniak from a medically induced coma has been completed. The Ultrapur Start Gniezno athlete is responsive to contact and responds with simple phrases. He faces further tests. 09:29 After a gruesome accident in Gniezno, Patryk Budniak underwent two very serious surgeries. The first involved his spine, and the second involved his lower limbs. On Thursday, the process of recovering from a medically induced coma began. On Friday morning, we received excellent news from the hospital. As we've determined, the recovery process is complete. The speedway rider responds with simple words. 09:30 The patient has been awoken from a medically induced coma. He is communicating with others. He responds with simple phrases. Remember, he was intubated, so he's communicating as best he can. He's still undergoing diagnostic testing, Zuzanna Pankros, spokesperson for the Poznań hospital, told us. "Regarding sensation, it has returned, but it's too early to say whether the patient will regain full mobility. A number of tests are necessary to determine this. The most important thing is that the recovery process has been completed and the patient is breathing on his own. His condition is not life-threatening. He's a young, strong boy. You can see he has the will to fight," adds our interviewee. 09:31

most of the more senior riders dont want to risk getting injured. they should have at least sent a couple of riders out to do a few laps to test the track. it was a bad look

I think there is definitely a market for streaming at the right price... One of Speedways weaknesses also can be it's strength... Due to the team model it uses, you don't have the same tribalism that other team sports can engender, however the sport does have a large proportion of followers that generically follow the sport, and very closely.. Meaning any meeting, regardless of the two teams involved, will attract their attention.. I watch Swedish and Polish meetings on Tuesdays, Fridays, Saturdays and Sundays, but won't lay out £14 or so for a UK stream.. Make it £7-£10 and I probably would, at least once a week... In the Speedway Star, Gerry Facenna mentions how surprised he was by how many fans from overseas have purchased their streams.. It could be a big market if the price point is set well, and clubs don't just think that the fans of both teams are their target market, (or might not attend and buy the stream instead).. Glasgow say they only streamed due to crowd increases in the stadium, and, once again, are using their own fans to help drive bigger crowds with free tickets.. That's the key... If a promoter thinks "I won't stream as my fans will stay at home and watch", then they either are not promoting well enough, not providing enough entertainment, or the competitions they run are not engaging enough people... Do their day job properly, and streaming should be the icing on the cake..

Rushen now in the team, shame it’s took an injury for them to get too the correct line up.

Yeah, imagine what the score would have been if he had been there!

Agreed. The boys will need to be on it tonight and have their gating gloves on. Jeppesen can fly round Ashfield as can Cook on his day and Batchelor can pop out the traps for an occasional win as can Zischke. Perry can sometimes gate well and hold a front position. Much will depend on Hausel and Jacobsen’s performance imo.

The Board of Directors....

Unfortunately she's about as real as the Premiership CEO 🤔😂

is this the title of the new bspl rule book 😂

It's possible to believe Oxford have a poor lineup without there being better options. If the poster had said "why pick these riders" or "there must have been better guests available" then you'd be right to question the post!

6 broom sweepers, 5 male and one female. Each with the objective of brushing the standing water to the kerb and ultimately in to the drain. One decided to brush the opposite direction to the others and brush the standing water out all over the track. Guess which one it was?

Latest update, which is positive: We have the first, still cautiously positive, news regarding Patryk Budniak's health. Our athlete is gradually emerging from a medically induced coma and responding to contact with loved ones. The first signs of feeling in his legs have also appeared, which gives hope in his continued fight for health. Patryk remains under the constant care of doctors, and we will provide further updates as they become available. Thank you for the overwhelming support for Patryk and his family.

With all the rider shortages tonight it’s criminal that this stalwart of the sport is not guesting for someone? is his average too high?

Loved watching Craig round Ashfield tonight. He’s still a brilliant rider.

Not your fault so nothing to apologise for and you together with Racers & Royals provide all us luddites with an excellent service and if it was not for the hard work of both of you we would not be getting a d3cent regular speedway fix. Cheers.

and theres the title of the follow up book

They should have held an impromptu practice session, any second half riders invited to, would have soon scrubbed the top surface off without having to race flat out under pressure. But as others have said, A blade is a part of the equipment that a club has to prove they have in order to to get a track licence. The main issue as I see it is that you have some riders who are just too afraid to ride on anything less than perfect because they fear if they get hurt here, their Polish club will throw the book at them.

With our lack of consistency in the 2 and 4 positions we will remain vulnerable at home and tonight is no different.

Easy win for the Glasgow Tigers tonight, Workington are a weak team and using Mickie Simpson for Vinnie Foord is going to leave them seriously short at reserve.

was you the rabbit or the Leprechaun?

Live on HBO Max programme starts at 3.45pm UK time

And that's why it's crumbling as a sport. Riders have too much power.

It really a joke now.They don’t even want to get the Kevlar dirty now. Why not give a couple of riders a couple of laps to test the track turn the dirt over( if there’s any).Been there too many times now,I certainly don’t leave the house now if there is cloud in the sky.

Wasn’t this fight in Manchester Co-op live though!? Another reason why fans can’t go to speedway in manchester, too much going on in good ol’ Manny! 😉 They even pack out a boxing arena and sing “oh Fabio Wardley”! From us in Ipswich, thanks for your support!

Just listened to Paul Hurry and Danny King on BBC Suffolk. No mention of any blades. From what I saw on bend 3 I agree with the picture, it looking like the leading edge of the grader was doing the scraping.

How is it an asset to society atm though? It get's a few pensioners out for a couple of hours every week or so? Or it allows semi wealthy businessmen to avoid some tax? Of course you're completely correct it absolutely should be but it isn't, How does it become an asset to society? Well how about trying to reduce some of societies woes? There's lots of anti social behaviour involving youths and motorised bikes and/scooters. Why not work with the authorities to give these kids an opportunity to channel their need for speed and danger? You'd probably attract grant funding towards equipment and training costs. Sounds like wokery and to be fair some of these kids just need to be disciplined but maybe just maybe some of these kids just need an opportunity. Teach them bike maintenance, transferable skills, The GB Newsers will scream rewarding bad behaviour and/or training them to be more of a menace etc but if speedway gets some social benefits it makes it so much more difficult to be removed. Hey you might even end up unearthing some talent or at least some future supporters.

Well the Pirates defied the odds to pull out a great win, without Coops and Bowes. OK we benefitted from the loss of Fraser but zero points for Coops rides. Have to say that Cairns has come on leaps and bounds from last season. Looks a seriously good young rider. The addition of Rushen has given the two lads an extra internal battle to come out on top. Thought Redcar were poor especially Jenkins who was woeful. They just didn’t have the same battling fire under them that Pirates did. Special mention for Kyle who never knows when he is beaten.

Madsen team riding masterclass.

Crap racing but great atmosphere in gorzow, madsen if I can’t beat them I’ll just ram into them

The Gorzow v ZG stream is infuriating.

Good old Poole!

Taken the sensible option, got a long future ahead of him, no point riding in these circumstances.

Either the ref got it wrong, wouldn't be the first time a ref got something wrong, or Hurry is referring to the leading edge of the grader that was being used to do whatever it was they were trying to do? 🤷‍♂️

In this weeks "star" gerry says crowds are up this year!

'They will again be without Fraser Bowes at number two as he is still recovering from a freak accident in which a spring hit him in the eye whilst working on his bikes in his workshop on Tuesday. He will also miss the second leg of the cup under the seven-day rule for a non-speedway injury.'

If you don’t get an answer from someone who has been there recently, you could try emailing the club. I’m sure they will be efficient in replying. sekretariat@speedway-prague.cz

I think redcar riders will be fired up looking for a good start from their below team effort at poole, can see them winning the meeting in another controlled showcase and with some luck off the speedway gods , the overall. Revenge is sweet especially on home turf , should be a great night wishing all the riders a safe nite

Live on TNT Sport 2 programme starts at 5.30pm UK time. qualifying and also meeting are on HBO Max- qualifying is at 1pm UK time.

You really are an insufferable prick 🙄

McDairmid riding for Zielina Gora in the Extraliga on Friday. Not sure he should be riding in the Championship if other leagues have priority over him on nights when Championship teams race.

Which guests would you choose out of those availabe ? Take a look at tomorrows fixtures before replying.

Hmm, not so sure, Leicester have always been a bit dodgy on a wet home track, we'll never know now. Hopefully DT will be back for the re-staging though.

Bowes is no standard

I refuse to ignore this subject. It’s one of the more interesting topics on this forum

Surely the only people saying that 'speedway at the Abbey was financially unviable' were Osborne (the stadium owner - who also ran the greyhounds) and the previous speedway promotion of Russell and Park. Maybe there was some sort of financial incentive (brown envelope?) offered to Russell/Park to say that speedway was unviable at the Abbey. And surely it would only become 'unviable' because of the exorbitant rent and stadium costs charged to the speedway promotion by the owner (Osborne)?! Pure supposition on my part of course....!😉 NB, Hasn't Rosco declared he would be in a position to front a new consortium with financial backing, for the Robins to continue at the Abbey - assuming of course that the running costs (stadium charges etc) were of an acceptable level?!