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Richard let the Ipswich management know he was running late and that he would miss the track walk and asked another mechanic to fit a tyre for him as would be there for the parade but then at 6:25 rang back said he was feeling ill and had turned around to head home. They advised him to continue to the track and just get there when he could so the medic could sign him out the meeting officially I assume they could then use IRR but he wouldn’t do that so then frantic phone calls were made to get Freddy Hodder to ride who did a decent job and looked on the pace . I have it on good authority that Richard Coleman was not at all impressed with Lawsons attitude so will be interesting to see if any action is taken against him.

With all due respect, most if not all, meetings this season have been run really well and have been completed by around 9.15pm and well before 9.30pm, obviously as you have not attended this season you wouldn't realise that but feel you can comment witout the facts Unfortunatly last night was later finishing due to several reasons, a couple of heavy falls, several restarted heats plus additional track grading and watering in an attempt to keep the dust down under difficult weather conditions, hot, sunny and breezy, which dried the track very quickly, personally i prefer not to be covered in dust which would have been the case if the extra watering had not taken place, even you would agree that all tjese things were beyond the control of the Kings Lynn promotion !

That was one of the reasons we stopped attending absolutely no urgency to get the meeting completed 15 heats is 15 heats if it’s over hour and a half or 3 hours but on a Monday or Thursday evening keeping the meeting flowing should be top priority but sadly it isn’t - speedway in this country needs a total reset 15 heats for £25 is way to expensive for what’s on offer basically 15 minutes racing - we’ve not been to Kings Lynn since August 2021 v Peterborough have I missed it definitely not and this comes from someone who arranged his whole life around speedway especially Kings Lynn .

And the nonsense of the pre season will not have helped.. I truly have never seen any business or entity commit so much Harikiri on itself as Speedway in the UK has done, particularly over the past 20 years as the digital age has boomed.. Year after year they have made poor decisions which have just compounded the poor decisions from the previous years... Normally a business would fix its issues, even more so when they are so glaring and obvious, and their customers either tell them publicly, or tell them by no longer attending, but still closely following the sport.. I truly would love to know what the promoters vision for the sport is, and where they aspire to take it... As all it currently looks like is this... "Make it to the end of this season, do exactly the same thing next, then rinse and repeat ad infinitum"...

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The riders of a certain level can do what they want, given there are so few of them... They hold down two positions and often are HL's in both leagues.. Meaning they are pretty much "bomb proof".. Those who say we cannot have "one big league" due to the disparate standards between the riders that would need to be used, need to imagine what the next five years or so are going to bring when all the "vastly experienced" DU's have retired... Many teams will be using current NDL lads to DU , and these lads even in five or so years, will still be well off the standard of today's HL DU's..

Years ago you got held up at queues while little old ladies fumbled in their purses for small change, only getting their purses out after they had packed all of their goods, now you get held up by 30 year olds fumbling with their phone trying to find their credit card, "E" ticket, loyalty card etc, just handing over a £20 note is actually quicker , especially if you have the foresight to have the money ready !

Also televised/streamed meetings tend to run for a couple of hours do they not? A three hour broadcast with half an hour each end for build up/analysis? Last night finished just after half 9. Most meetings this year have been done by 9:15, any quicker than that and personally I'd feel short changed.

Tobias Thompsen received help from the BEN Fund after his crash at Poole on Good Friday 👍

"Have you got a charger for a Samsung?. My battery has gone and my ticket is in it.."..

Sack him off now, Richard Coleman hinted they weren't happy with riders being late, missing track walks, wrong kit & missing parade truck (all done by Lawson) and he doesn't fit the team ethos they seem to be trying to install.

I must have watched a different meeting .I found it dull, predominantly gate and go and drawn out. From completing 4 heats before 8 o clock to only get to heat 7 by 8.45 was dreadful

Russian bot farms helping the demise of Speedway in the UK... and they're doing a cracking job! Under the command of Rob Godfrov!

If we can get all the riders to turn up it should be a good tussle over the 2 legs 👍🏻

They don’t strike me as the kind of owners/management that will make changes easily. Bangs was probably an extreme case and you get the impression they didn’t really wanna drop him either. They seem to like/want to back their riders as long as possible which although could become irritating to supporters in the long term especially if certain riders aren’t performing, it’s difficult to criticise.

Only exists for bonus points I believe.

Probably delayed due to cleaning his bike and race suit 🤔

Foxes deserved the win on their performance. One thing I will say is that they have run teams close home and away and for a side chucked together at the last minute they are very credible in their results.

Comedy gold Mike

Turned into a really enjoyable fixture. Hats off to the foxes for their fight back and well done to kings Lynn on track prep

Not really sure what all the hysterics here are about. Riders do get ill, like the rest of us. I have no idea what Lawson's illness was, or the severity of it, but it's quite possible to be ill. Ipswich could have used a guest facility. All they need to do is produce a doctors' note within 24 hours of the meeting taking place. (But this would have resulted in Lawson being suspended for 7 days for a non-speedway illness). With it all being at such short notice it looks like it was impossible to get a guest, and the only cover they could find was Freddy Hodder (who lives 10 minutes from the Leicester track). So it made sense to not use a facility for Lawson, and use the only option available (Hodder) who fits well within the "no facility" criteria. (up to 75% of Lawson's average). That way with Ipswich not using a facility, Lawson isn't suspended.

Just as well the foxes management released jeppesen and not bachelor!

It is very clear that a stadium is the preferred option for the residents, the local authority and the would be owners for this to be a community facility that is led by it's motorsport heritage. All of those parties need to come together to enable a sustainable operation to be permitted, it is not as simple as chucking a Sunday boot sale on the car park. Overall consent needs to open the door of opportunity with the right balance of utilisation it could be a huge success.

Pleased for Northampton.

Trouble is his clubs let him get away with all this nonsense.

Lawson has been "unlucky" recently hasn't he?..... Seven day ban I presume...? Or will Donald Trump give "Arry a bell?...

Wonder if drug testers or fuel testers have shown up

Ditch the adverts maybe many more will stay on !

Another one from the Kings Lynn book of excuses

Cash is king 😜 wink wink

He’s obviously taking the p*ss out of the sport and all those involved in it , fellow riders, fans , everyone. Because he’s allowed to. Imagine Keane ringing Ferguson to tell him he’ll be late. Then ringing him again to say he won’t be turning up at all actually. Hope the new owners turf him out with that attitude and lack of respect for everyone who pays his wages. Let him carry on being a flat track bully with the rest of them down on the south coast.

You don't know just how true that is..

... and it's not just for riders anymore. ... and it's not just for Speedway related incidents anymore. It seems to be quite secretive about the work it does... I know secretive and Speedway, who would have thunk it. 🤔

Think u'll find Doyle will sign another 28 day contract with Belle Vue, and keep doing so till Bewley is fit to return.

I would imagine England's world cup match at stupid o'clock Monday would have meant some very tired people come Monday night affecting Stars attendance. Vintage stuff from Niels and good to see Nicolai score well, both badly missed in Stars colours this season. 5 heat winners in a fairly processional drawn out meeting was never going to be enough. That felt like a point won, not a point dropped in the end

the racing in Terenzano is usually quite mediocre so I'll reserv my judgement as whether it's a bargain or not until after the race, 🤔😉

I feel the same. I’ve already mentally checked out of this season. Even if we finish fourth we ain’t gonna win it so Lynn can have it if they want 😁

Win Thursday or lose Thursday,, does it really matter,, nah

This is Plymouth we are talking about!!!!🤣

I'm sure Northampton would love to find a top heat leader somewhere but even someone who can consistently chip in with 5 or 6 instead of Batchelor would turn some of these near misses into wins.

And what happened to Speedway Futures?

excellent

The lack of any kind of tv deal has killed it quicker than most expected. You need eyes on the sport and a broadcaster that has reach through their various portals to keep the sport relevant in general. If you're a neutral and don't support a club, unless you are on here you'd pretty much never know when there is a match. The thought that very poor quality streams being sold for 15 quid a pop would be good or save the sport was always a ridiculous opinion that came only from those making money out of it...

Not needed. The move is allowed as per 011.2 Except where the MA of the introduced rider is equal to, or lower than the rider being replaced. Troy 4.59 Jonas 4.48

Of course the sport is on its knees here, just look at this forum, a live meeting used to attract a lot of comments because quite a few would see it, now most threads are only two or three pages, and clubs like Plymouth sometimes don’t even have a thread for a home match. And only recently there was a match between Kent and the Thurrock Hammers, no mention of it at all on here and in fact I only found out about it on the day through seeing a post on twitter, I saw nothing in advance anywhere advertising it which is terrible, I probably would have gone if I had known about it. The sport just keep limping along almost begging for it to be put list of its misery.

He will miss Ipswich Thursday. A simple way to fix this would be. If you miss due to illness you miss your next fixture for your clubs.

Lawson is great at working the system last week he was injured for 1day this week taken ill but I'm sure he will be feeling better in a day or 2. The other one he's used was he was waiting for a new passport to arrive 😂for a polish fixture i believe it's quite amusing really and sums up the state of British speedway that he gets away with it.

Nothing compared to these ones, hey. she’s got no wooden spoon either.🤣

The adverts are awful trying to look at the forum on a phone but I suppose are necessary. 😔