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Sounds like a Swindon swiz to me... promise a track, get the stadium knocked down then pull the rug leaving Speedway high and dry!

Tom B is probably the bottom No1 in the league... A league of just six number ones... Meaning he rides against his opposite number three times per night, if he takes Ht15... Out of those six Number Ones, three are World Class GP riders, and one is a Polish top tier HL... And then you have No5's like Bewley, Doyle, Kvech, and Pickering with C Holder at a three.. Both Brennan, and also Lidsey, made great progression riding at No3 with two World Class HL's at one and five in their teams.. With just five teams to race, and three of them having top level GP riders at No1, being a non top level GP rider, and riding against them several times a night, can be both an average and a confidence killer.. And Ryan Douglas as the other No1 in the league is a very solid rider... With so few teams you won't be getting too many "easy" rides to increase your confidence should you need to... And not riding in Poland regularly won't help... Can a Championship side fit him in?...

Brennan is a class act & will continue to have my full support. We already have one eye on 2027 & he’ll be a key part of that

Let's all get behind Tom Brennan and not post any negative comments about his bad run of form, I'm sure that he feels down right now and that he could do with some support from the fans. He will get out of this rut, It's just a case of WHEN and not IF.

Unfortunately, some will require their heads to have a wobble. This team was put together in a couple of weeks through necessity. There are simply not enough riders to support British Speedway and that's a fact. At this rate the sport will have a day of reckoning if they don't listen to the likes of Richard Coleman. Mediocrity is not acceptable but the owners simply had to put together a team so deal with it.

It’ll be when Lawson swaps with him in positions. Lawson will be number one next time around with averages. Bydgoszcz isn’t helping his confidence.

We know who his first choice is, don’t waste your breath.

https://www.redcar-speedway.com/2026/07/02/club-statement-charles-wright/?

It’s tiresome but very cartel like that as soon as a club gets four wins over Northampton, seeing themselves nicely into the KO cup final and very well placed for the playoffs that they want OTHER clubs to help out Northampton for wins. Do as I say not as I do. Self interest at its best. It’s just the same with helping other teams be competitive as the only time this becomes a talking point is when they think they can have a pop at Belle Vue, the club that has done and does do more than any other. It’s pure defection for their lack or participation in making our league more competitive. Two riders over 8 is fine whilst your club have such a luxury but as soon as it’s gone then stop all teams. Self interest and yo yo ethics once again, ethics that is and has slowly killed this fine sport of ours. Predictably but sad. Anyway, I hope Matej returns soon, it’ll be Ace.

Leicester did the right thing, for the good of speedway of course, and handed the Foxes their only win of the season... the rest of you should hang your heads in shame 😁

Never a truer word said. Up the 'Bees'. How can you trust these people. Their past history says it all.

It's the same Planning Organisation involved (DPP Planning), so the similarity with the Swindon situation is as plain as day.

of course it was, theyve been doing stuff like this in the off season for years.

Really? They seem pretty consistent to me. Consistently crap! 😜

Bet you believe in fairytales. Have you considered that Doyle may have had a say in all this? Maybe he’d only race over here again if it was at Belle Vue. Slating Lemon and Belle Vue is obviously your agenda.

We all know where the Foxes stand, Mark Lemon I understand is part of the Foxes setup? Co opted as promoter or something yet as soon as Doyle became available, did he try to get him in at Northampton? Oh no, he made sure to look after Belle Vue first. Its just like I said it will be, we need another club, not to be competitive, but to make up the numbers, same as Arena Essex circa 2004

Why only a proposal for a possible Speedway site. Why not build the Speedway Stadium first, then do the landscaping and play areas, finally build the homes.

Attended this meeting on Monday as my first visit to Northampton and to play devils advocate here I absolutely loved it from the first impression. One of the promoter’s out the front greeting supporters was a really classy touch and made a world of difference. I entered feeling already valued as a spectator. The food was of a decent quality. The drinks whilst on the penny side come with a nice souvenir Foxes cup which is a nice touch. Merch is of a decent quality and I understand they are constantly refreshing and adding to it. The team is obviously sub-par but they’ve not exactly been pushovers, they could have easily won this meeting if Batchelor (get rid btw) & Jeppesen showed up a bit earlier. A quality rider up top and a better effort from Jeppesen and this team will win its home meetings which is vital to keeping good crowd levels. Yes the track needs work; and it is always going to struggle after Stox & Bangers meetings but it isn’t far off being a good race track as was shown in the latter heats. This has made me a fan and is a better option to me as a Coventry fan than visiting and supporting Leicester. I will 100% be back. Well done Northampton.

Yeah probably Kennedy

This thread is full of mongs. Absolutely clueless. Both riders being slagged off are in heat 15 for the Foxes.....

Regardless of points scored today, from comments sounds like Pedersen had a lot of fight today. Can't make same mistake again, we have to sign him up right now

Poole keith is one of the good guys mate

Sun break. Racing now resuming

Garritty/scumbag has been given a 6 point average for the championship, so unfortunately/thankfully he won't fit in the pilots team

I can’t think of a single foxes fan or for that matter, any other knowledgeable speedway fan who would keep Batchelor above ANY of the other team members. a total waste of space.

Good luck Foxes for tonight. A home and away double would be nice and a couple of you are literally riding for your jobs with Zagar about to return!

They were brought in to stop riders underperforming, and then suddenly improving again once their reduced average had allowed a significant strengthening up for the team... So, a laudable idea... With so few meetings though, 20 is probably too many now for the top tier, as it is almost a full season for a team knocked out of the KO Cup in the first round, and zero chance of a PO place.. (Does the KO Cup even count to the averages?). Maybe 10 matches, (half a season), would be better and, as an add on, the team with the highest collective average becomes the new target? Struggling teams, (who we will all accurately have agreed who they are going to be before a wheel is turned) always stay struggling when they can only replace a rider with an equal or lower average, or still have to run with the team average decided for the season.. Eg. If 42 is the season average and the top team is running at 45, then the struggling team will still be well behind the one at the top if all they can do is reset to 42, meaning their season will continue to be one of struggle, (and hardly worth the changes).. Letting all teams match the No1 team, at say the half way stage, would mean a very competitive second half of the season, rather than the usual "game over" we regularly have as the PO teams stroll into them.. And a half a season contract may attract more riders who see an extra 10 matches as something they can work around..

Jason Garrity? Average fits and Havvy was supposedly trying to help him make a comeback and get a team place?

Anyone with multiple aliases will be favourite coz they can keep on talking to each other, then again they wont be the last one standing with multiple aliases🤣

Zagar returns to track this weekend, once the 28 days cover is over he will be back in for jeppeson

Must admit after three and a half hours the old legs were ready to give up on me.....😁

Couple of weeks to convince Beau Bailey to come over for a few months. Guess depends on his schedule and any clashes? 👀🤷‍♀️🤔

Hope the pilots management will ease Mr Bowes pain by making him Poole's 1st signing for 2027 😜🤣

Didn’t fancy the stick he would get at Workington end of this month 😶🤣

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Well, Lemo is the sole shareholder but as Belle Vue CEO he beat, erm, himself to Doyley's signature 🤔

Actually it isn’t. From a fans point of view, absolutely. But I’ll tell you now there’s an awful lot of riders that hate going there. Doyle is one of them! Until now of course.. Doyle has admitted he missed racing here and wanted to come back. If Mark Lemon said to Doyle there’s one vacancy here, at Northampton, and he offered him the same deal he has for riding for Belle Vue, then he’d now be riding for Northampton it’s as simple as that. Can you imagine the impact the former world champion would have had at a new club trying to establish themselves?? It would have been HUGE for them and their gate receipts. But that didn’t happen did it? Why? You’ve even got supporters now saying they want Northampton to win their home meetings “but not this week” (sorry Phil”) so there’s always going to be self interest across the board from the top to the bottom. We all want our teams to win of course we do, that’s only natural! But we also need a creditable league so that’s a league worth winning. Belle Vue are already sure of the play offs, would it really hurt to see Northampton win a home meeting to help with their next home attendance to keep them going rather than see your team extend their lead at the top of a meaningless table? Im not saying lose it deliberately, we can’t have that nonsense either, but hoping to inflict another home defeat on the bottom club? Come on we need Northampton to succeed as well as try and entice others to join. If those lower down think the likes of Belle Vue, my own team Ipswich, and Sheffield will just hoover up all the GP riders available then they’ll have no interest in joining if they won’t be competitive. Bring in a one rider over 8 rule for next year.

Belle Vue's track is a massive draw for tempting riders over/ back over.

I seem to remember prior to the current bunch stepping in Flagrag mentioned polish connections so it could be something was afoot similar to what's happening at Ipswich. (Correct me if the old memory is off Flagrag). Re the old big promise of help we all knew it wouldn't be coming when the crunch came , Doyle is probably the only world class rider who could have been persuaded back this year given based in the UK and he's been loyal to British speedway for years. They really need someone in the Anders Thompson mould he's never going to be world champ but should be a 9-10 point man in UK league and equally doesn't seem to be a rider who only fancies it 50% of the time. Its a shame Tolley isn't involved as there does look to be a fan base to build on at Northampton which wasn't the case at Brum and he clearly has the kind of deep pockets needed to get a top liner over who would probably want 5-7k per meeting.

First visit for me and I didn't like the look of the steel posts behind the fence which had foam blocks over the top of them. Did wonder how they got away with the Mildenhall debacle with the protection they were going to provide to their posts. But then I remembered - they needed another team in the Premiership.

Expecting this to be a mauling. Leicester 57-33

Money doesn’t always buy you happiness, sometimes you’re left with a dummy spitting Aussie

Just out of interest, Ove, who is now 93 and no.1 on the list has just been for a motor bike ride, starting from his home in Tranås Sweden, first to Karlskrona for an overnight ferry to Gdynia Polen, made a short break in Mragowo, then to Kaunas and a night stay, next Vilnius and Riga, where he had planned to spend the night, but the forecast was for a bad rainstorm the next day so he carried on to Tallin. He then woke up to terrible rain and got to the ferry terminal very wet for the ferry to Stockholm He said afterwards, "After a most enjoyable trip I loved every minute on the bike. Now I am home and my wife Ioana is happy as she worries when I am away on my bike ride." Just to repeat - he is now 93 years old!

i am not having a go at Lasse just showing current averages, with the new gsa he would have dropped to reserve so who knows he may have done well. But i can see Berwicks dilema with the way Jordan has been riding, and no doubt other clubs would have taken notice as well.

Nice to hear the so called big clubs can't always buy success by splashing the cash. Well done Berwick and jj

This is really tough to call. Glad Kevin Juhl Pedersen is in the 1-7 again (Let's make it permanent) and Dane's normally take a liking to the AFA so I think he could shine. Tom Brennan holds the key as to which way this meeting goes.

Mate, credit for messaging me with your number, although the message was a bit passive aggressive, so I will not be calling you, especially now you've made your private message public (classy), maybe I should make your mobile number public should others wish to call you? As far as I'm concerned you can save your breath, I've heard it all before, I've just been going to Speedway for far too long. There were obvious concerns with the track last night. Maybe you should share the "facts" with everybody, many people won't come on here to point out the obvious basics that need sorting, they will just stop going... but as usual it's my fault for pointing this stuff out and not the management's for getting the basics right. I went to Aldi last night to pick some coleslaw up... they didn't have any! Basic, coleslaw... I went to a different shop who did have some! I await the facts.

Don't telll Buster but there has just been a short light shower in Ipswich and there's a possibility it's heading Morth as I type Everyone Shhhhh!!

Here’s the first running of heat ten last night. Cooper Rushen doesn’t kick Etheridge at all, just outgated him and Etheridge falls. All four back fair decision.

I thought it was Adrian Stevens.