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This is fantastic news. Phil said ticket sales are poor, they need to hand out a load of free tickets and pack the place out then because this is a huge opportunity to sell the product at the best race track in the country. Makes a world of difference with a packed stadium and great atmosphere.

British final to be shown on ITV4 on saturday

I'm getting all emulshional due to Glasgow's lack of redecoration.

As I commented on Karlitos YouTube video: “This is a GOLDEN opportunity for British Speedway, something which the authorities need to take with both hands. Just don’t mess it up! Many cynics may say ‘oh it’s only in ITV 4’, but in order to make a journey, first you have to take the hardest step which is the first. Good luck to everyone involved.”

Congratulations to whoever has pulled that off. British Speedway now needs to make it an event that brings the crowds in

Hopefully the start of a longer term relationship... Good to get it on free to air.. Only concern is the optics of it playing out in front of loads of empty seats.... They may to take a hit and do several hundred very cheap seats... "Speedway is that still going?" Will be something many watching will be saying.. Therefore, make it look ultra popular... And ensure every track with a rider there gets mentioned... A "Golden Ticket" to be played..

Credit where credit is due fair play to Poole I’m far from a Poole fan but when you have legends in Hancock giving you pointers you can’t go wrong Poole will win the league now and it’s up to the rest of us to up our games, there obviously a club people want to ride for good luck to them they haven’t done anything wrong

And the one where he and Brian Karger had a dead heat in the final and had to have a run off? Remember Wheels clearly from the 80's and 90's, an Anglia TV production on quite late at night; they used to have motocross, truck racing and all sorts. From memory the three speedway offerings were the 4TT from P'boro, the 16 lapper from Ippo and either the PotE or the Barum Trophy from Lynn. Dave Lanning on comms. Had years worth of them recorded on VHS that we wore out from watching! Great memories.

What a disgraceful comment… brilliantly made though and definitely correct

Or get out tomorrow, Thursday Friday and Saturday into city centre Manchester and flog them... Give 100 x £10 tickets to every track and see if they can sell them... It is a British Final, not a Belle Vie individual meeting, so every track should have a presence there..

Take the announcement on board and let’s hope it turns out to be a success. If you can generate interest then it might just lead to a new opportunity for the sport in the UK and further afield. Just imagine televising a top Polish league match live with English commentary. Just one meeting at that professional level may make viewers want to seek out UK team racing. It has got to start somewhere so for all the doubters, you don’t have to watch, go and sit in the stands or just ignore the meeting and stop complaining when someone somewhere has pushed the boat out to get the sport live on TV on Saturday night.

Hopefully big jugs Emma will be doing the interviews cracking bit of crumpet!

Agree. This is a huge chance. Get a pop up stand with a bike and vids of speedway playing etc, up the town centre, and get rid of plenty of tickets, and fill the place. Look at the bigger picture.

It’s not a Belle Vue event. Ticket sales are currently very poor and they not going to sell many more now it’s on free tv.

At that time under IBA rules regional broadcasters had to comply with producing so many hours of local content which included some sport so 10.30 after the news suited with 1 or 2 ENG type cameras.

Conspiracy theory! Maybe Oxford knew that Kennett wasn't giving his all for them, so waited for Poole to sign a replacement before bringing Riss back? Their way of not letting Kennett take advantage of them?

Poor lad. Gonna be scared off from British Speedway when he rides that rubbishshow of a track.

Some cinics just gone into hiding 🤣🤣

Slater Lightcap makes his Poole debut on Wednesday 12th. And its against the BSPL Chairman's team!🤣😇

Poole have been told that they need to make a signing by Thursday 13th.

the cynic in me thinks this has been planned all along 🤔

The Coventry British final days will live long in the memory. Fantastic occasions, fantastic line ups, and the title meant far more then (or seemed to) than it does now sadly. Great day out and the only day out that came close for me, was the fours finals at Peterborough.

Not every meeting can be a thriller even at the NSS! An average/poor meeting is an anomaly here. But, get rid of the bloody laydowns and bring back uprights 🙄

Thats your answer right there 😁

It has been announced that the 2026 British Final is to be televised LIVE on both ITV4 and ITV X! This is amazing news and fantastic for British Speedway. We cannot let this opportunity slip by to show what an amazing sport we have and love. Hopefully this is just the start.

Hope they don't mention just 6 teams in the Premiership....🤐

I believe you are preaching to the converted, the problem is ww need to convert the non believers. So it doesnt really matter whos ball it is every club in the country needs to do everything to promote the meeting and get people there. A live event on terrestrial TV in a fairly empty stadium will not get potential supporters flocking to the turnstiles. British Speedway needs a hard reset and everyone currently involved from top to bottom needs to get involved. If saturdays meeting is a big success with high viewing figures its a firm foundation to build on. If its a meeting full of delays because theres a queue at the entrance and played out in front of empty stands, then we may as well throw in the towel.

They need to get the stadium as full as possible, maybe with forward planning if they knew this was likely to happen, sell £10 tickets a few months back to GP attendees.

Because Riga finished after Berwick!!

Bloody delays at posting on this forum 🤣 and anyway, when are buses and trains on time in uk 😜

A positive development lets hope we have a great meeting with lots of good racing and maybe just maybe ITV 4 may come knocking for more!

British Speedway has to be aired on free to air television imo. Hopefully they can get PREMIERSHIP Speedway on ITV4 next season as it's the only way to try and get new eyes on the Sport over here.

Yes, that's what I meant.

I believe they only get a guest up to his average for 28 days, then it's a "75% guest".

Difference between when a club declares a change and when they ride, what’s to say Jacob wasn’t going in at Scunny anyway and then Dan was unfortunately injured Scunny then using these injuries rather than performance as the reason for the change in their press release. Same with Poole their new lineup with Lightcap could have been presented to the BSPL on Friday or Saturday prior to the Berwick match, from memory a change has to be decanted three days prior to the rider making their debut although I’d need to double check on that one So in essence if Glasgow had/have redecorated their side prior to Friday then it would be ok, albeit giving the quotes from Cami it would appear that isn’t the case

I think there needs to be some clarity on whether Dan is intending to take part or not. If he is then ticket sales might get a boost. If he isn't, and people have bought tickets based on him being in the draw, then there might be some negative reaction. Transparency required

YouTube show quite a few of them... The ones I have seen had Harrison doing the programme presenting and Steve Rider at the track, and, I think, Dave Lanning doing the commentary... Central used to also do a few meetings from what I can see, covering the fair few Midland teams of the time, a mixture of league, cup and individuals... Regional TV companies must have got decent viewer numbers given some had a decent amount of tracks within their reach...

No, Eddie can no longer be a guest for any club -- he isn't in anybody's 1-7 now.

Which will be Kennett 😂

Yes just like Scunthorpe have, who signed Jacob Hook

I am sure Brady will prioritise the meeting at Foxhall....

I'm sure Kennett knew exactly what he needed to do at Oxford to fit at Poole 👀

Polish press reporting that Gorzow are considering Bomber as a replacement for Jack Holder.

It’s not often Moto 2 is the best race but that was a cracker on Sunday

Mildenhall Fen Tigers are on the road (and indeed boat!) next week with an away trip to the Isle of Wight on Tuesday 11th. August. Supporters Trust Club Chairperson, Kieran Phillips is looking forward to more success at Smallbrook after the Fen Tigers had a successful sortie over the Solent in their comeback year of 2025. “We’ve got James Shanes back in our colours after missing the last two Fen Tigers’ matches due to his Long Track commitments on the Continent. We know how well James goes at the Isle of Wight which is in many ways a track like those large circuits he excels in racing on mainland Europe. "Then there’s our Aussie & NZ pairing of Harry Sadler and Ben Whalley who having been brought up on the larger circuits down under should also do well at the IOW, the largest track operating in the UK. Boston-based Mickie Simpson makes his Fen Tigers' debut - Mickie has been in excellent form this season included joining Shanes in the European Grasstrack Championship Final later this month. "Completing our line up will be Harrison Rogers and, making a track comeback, Fen Tiger of old Scott Campos. I’m confident as I take Team Manager duties again on the night, that we can repeat our win there of last season” The Isle of Wight are one of the other stand alone tracks competing under NORA regulations - indeed they are the club who pioneered the move to NORA and Phillips speaks of the fantastic support given by the Ryde-based club, "We are really grateful to Martin Widman. promoter at the IOW for the fantastic backing that he's given us at Mildenhall in every way. It's been striking this year how the three standalone NORA tracks (us, IOW & our next opponents coming up at West Row, Kent) have worked together whenever they can to provide mutual support. It's the way forward for the sport." The NORA League match Isle of Wight Warriors vs. Mildenhall Fen Tigers (with supporting events in the meeting as a whole of Junior Racing and the IOW Summer Flat Track Championship) on Tuesday 11th. is at Isle of Wight Speedway, Smallbrook Stadium, Ashey Road, Ryde, IOW PO33 4BH - 7pm start time.

Absolutely, a great race track might not get more fans through the gate but a bad one will see you struggle to keep what you have. A promoters greatest asset isnt the riders or the stadium, its the track itself, your whole business is about what happens on that oval, get that wrong and your toast, sooner or later.

For a first-season adaptation from a track used exclusively for stock cars they've done really well. I imagine there'll be more work done over the winter, should they be back next year.

He had only had 4 rides, he hadn't even had a r/r, don't believe him, usual Havvy excuses. Doing a deal to use him in heat 15 and not 14 sounds ridiculous when heat 14 was an easier race for him.

You could have just used the one word, Nothing!.

Couldn't speedway run without the 600-metre wire mesh safety fence?