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"Thankyou for that very moving Eulogy"... "And now, can I ask the congregation to all stand and join me in singing Psalm 23, The Lord is My Shepherd"...

When they erect his headstone, we should all go round and knock it down, and place a little speedway track on top .

Got the great news today .. one of the biggest Scumbags ever to grace the sporting world . i hope he rots in hell to be honest

Leicester, you had one job 🙄

No need for psalm 23 where he’s going.😆😆

Considering what's happened to the other two, I'd imagine Mr Park is sh1tting himself right now!

Arlington has been saved!! Spedeworth have taken a full lease of the stadium from the Dugard’s and will invest to do all of the remedial work required to reopen. Given that Spedeworth are friendly landlords of speedway at the likes of Northampton and Mildenhall, surely this is a great chance for speedway to return at Eastbourne

I wouldn't mind betting there will be a minimum of 3 changes to that line-up! Watch this space.......

Great stuff. I hope the money was worth it for him, what a legacy to leave behind.

Hi everyone, apologies, but it's a bit of a call to arms and we are asking the speedway community to help us on the current Birmingham Local Plan. So Birmingham Council have issued for consultation "The Birmingham Local Plan Regulation 19 Publication Plan" which closes 24th September 2026 This plan is designed to hit their housing targets for the next 18 years. In that plan is Policy GZ14, within that policy is paragraph 19.10. This paragraph references the the demolition of Perry Barr Stadium. It states "Efforts are being made to develop replacement speedway provision at an alternative venue" and "The long term lease holder is exploring options for the future of the site". This isn't water tight enough to keep Birmingham Speedway. We need to stop this plot of land being made available for redevelopment in housing. This is where we are begging for your help. We need to get the wording changed in Policy GZ14 19.10 and unfortunately they don't have an email facility, it needs to be through the Birmingham Council Consultation Portal. Portal found here: https://consult.birmingham.gov.uk/kse/ So, when you have a spare couple of hours, it's easier on a lap top, a phone can be a bit more clunky (not impossible) using the portal. Click the link above Click "Go to Event" on the Birmingham Local Plan Regulation 19 Publication Plan. This will open a 180 page document. There will be lots of add comments on the right hand side. If on a mobile press the word "Proposal" to view the document and not the headings. Press on of the "Add Comments" and register on the protal. Once registered it'll take you back to the document. You can either scroll down very laboriously until you get to GZ14 and within that section the paragraph 19.10 If on a mobile you could look for "Perry Barr" in the contents and click the ">" icon, to zoom to GZ14. Dont press anything else, you come out of the document and have to re-press go to event again. If on a laptop press the word Perry Barr, not the ">" as again it'll push you out of the document, it really is that user friendly. Look for the paragraph 19.10 and click add comment, one the next screen the paragraph contents should be displayed at the top. Populate your Name, Email, Commenting on behalf of myself, agree to the terms and conditions, agree to the private policy. Press "Next" First Box, Do you considered the plan to be legally compliant. "Click Yes". Second Box, Sound. "Select No". Please provide details of why you consider the local plan is not legally compliant or is unsound. Here you need to add something like "in GZ14 19.10 you must not develop Perry Barr Stadium to anything other than a venue or facility for the Birmingham Brummies to race speedway". Next box is Please set out the modifications you consider necessary......... Here you need to add something on the lines of "Perry Barr Stadium must not be redeveloped unless an alternative venue or land is found, and Birmingham Speedway are using that alternative venue to race speedway. Next select no to participate Select Save Then press submit Thanks for reading! To help this was a draft google ai prepared for me, you could draw inspiration from it. I am writing to formally object to the proposed site allocation of Perry Barr Stadium for housing development within the Birmingham Local Plan Regulation 19 Publication Plan. The plan as currently drafted is not sound because it fails the tests of being justified and consistent with national policy regarding the protection and replacement of community sporting infrastructure. · No Evidence of Surplus: The historic Perry Barr Stadium—a vital community hub hosting the Birmingham Brummies Speedway alongside other sports—is demonstrably not surplus to requirements. It remained highly utilized, and there is clear, ongoing demand for speedway racing in the city. · No Equivalent or Concrete Replacement Provided: The wording in the Publication Plan explicitly states that "Efforts are currently being made to develop replacement Speedway provision at an alternative venue." This is an admission that no replacement venue has been identified, secured, or evaluated for viability. The Allocation is Not "Justified" Relying on an aspirational statement that "efforts are being made" does not constitute robust evidence. Allowing the allocation to go forward without a legally binding, identified, and allocated replacement site creates an unacceptable risk that a major regional sport and heritage asset will be permanently lost to Birmingham without any alternative ever materialising. It fails to guarantee the continuity of social and sports infrastructure required to sustain healthy, vibrant communities. 5. Please set out what modification(s) you consider necessary to make the Local Plan legally compliant or sound. To make the Birmingham Local Plan sound and consistent with national policy, the following modifications are necessary: 1. De-allocate or Defer Development: Remove the housing allocation for the Perry Barr Stadium site from the current Local Plan period, OR defer its allocation until a comprehensive, legally binding alternative site for Speedway provision is explicitly identified, assessed for viability, and formally allocated within the plan. 2. Strengthen Policy Safeguards: Amend the policy wording to explicitly state that “No development shall commence on the Perry Barr Stadium site until a replacement Speedway facility of equivalent or better quality has been fully delivered and made operational at an alternative, approved location.” This brings the plan into compliance with Paragraph 103 of the NPPF.

Deane Wood of Spedeworh seems very much a general motor sport fan and a business man, If the right people approached him regarding speedway we could possibly see it return to Arlington sometime next year. I don't know if he has the full lease at Ipswitch but speedway runs alongside Spedeworth there, Mildenhall and Northampton and if Arlington got added to the list there could be a nice partnership in the making. 🤞👍

It's Poole of course they should.

Live updates on Saturday https://live.baansportfansite.nl/event/1322/european-under-24-team-speedway-championship-final-grudziadz.html

It may have something to do with Coops originally being only the reserve for the team gb meeting, but now in the team proper due to Harrison's injury? Having to make 'last minute' travel arrangements without the assistance of his dad (as he explained when interviewed last night) may also have some effect?

Our latest episode previews Monday's crunch clash with the Witches and we even had an Ipswich fan on the show 👀

Found mine this morning!

And Lawson could have a nice easy average watching night.

Just add it in here once again for anyone who laughed at my post before. Ellis should have replaced Lawson.

It’s getting that way.

As of last year, the ACU re-entered Flat Track racing with an official competition, the ACU British Flat Track Championship, in the realisation that, whilst licensing FT riders for entry into the FT World Championships, they had no official domestic route to develop and mentor riders to international level. Along with their Championship, embracing 9 classes including Youths, PRO Lite and an exclusive Ladies class, an FT Academy scheme was also introduced. All this in parallel and unconnected with the DTRAs Nationals, which continue unaffected. https://speedwaychampions.yolasite.com/flat-track.php

A season long request!

With that comment I presume you are talking about Lawson! as I know Zach will be there.

Grateful thanks to all those who want to help. We should all stick together and help each other in circumstances like this. We have lost too many tracks to the redevelopment merchants and none of us want to lose any more. I know there are people who have worked long and hard for a long time to get something moving at Cradley Heath and they deserve to succeed if only for the length of time that they have been trying and the setbacks which they have had. I wish them and the other campaigners well and will support them whenever they need helping.

Thank you for your response to Birmingham Local Plan Regulation 19 Publication Plan which has now been submitted to Birmingham City Council. Submission reference: 4 To view your comments, click on the link below: Only to happy to help, I may submit a similar request soon.

So should Poole be allowed RR because Rushen has opted out when others haven't?

One wonders what the point is of announcing the line up in that case.

Around Poole I’d agree with Cairns, I think you could make a case for any team, Pickering capable of going unbeaten, it’s just whether Harrison can back him up

I saw that, but only 3 competitors. Hats off to the Isle of Wight for giving the Women a chance. Perhaps the mid-week date and geographically remote location was a problem.

Easy home win.

The parent company of Gaming International is called Toklon and the transfer of control of this company from Clarke to Susan Thomas and Eloise Osbourne was registered yesterday. There has previously been a substantial amount of debt noted in the group of companies which largely seems to have been satisfied. As at the end of June last year, the total assets of the group were a meagre £44k

And Poole where they are the leaseholders

The Street / Crump dynasty took another Championship this week as 26 yr old Tayla Street won the NORA British Women's title at Smallbrook, IoW. She travelled to Croatia last month to finish 4th in the de facto Women's World Championship, i.e World Cup, and has been touring UK tracks since. With little more than 4-person fields for both NORA and BSPA/ACU Women's championships the latter is today seemingly dead. Notwithstanding, the ACU have established a Ladies Class in their newly established ACU British Flat Track Championship, - set up in parallel to DTRAs Nationals - , won in the inaugural year 2025 by Skye Adams, former DTRA F/T Hooligan champ in their mixed gender Nationals. https://speedwaychampions.yolasite.com/women-champions.php

I did hear that there is going to a minutes applause for him at every Speedway Stadium across the uk next week for his outstanding contribution to the sport.

So if Cairns and Rushen are in same meeting, why is Cooper not available and Will is?

It’s that time of year again when mr Lawson manipulates his average, but when your team mates are that good it’s a bit easier to do, in all seriousness though i think the fords are going to have some big decisions to make in the winter as this team will have to be broken up,as I’ve said before I’m a Plymouth fan but you have to take your hat off to Poole as year after year they get it right, well at home anyway some of the managerial decisions from your team manager in the away meetings are a bit baffling any chance he can manage the team when we come to town next week

So Pirates scored 60 and Cluff got 0, who’d have thought it?

Free entry fir anyone bringing a programme from the 1951 season Shame I didn't know earlier - was up in the loft this morning and moved about 50 seasons worth of programmes about The required publication is now 3 rows and 3 layers from retrieval 😔

That is probably why riders should be drawn at the start of each week to ride for whatever team that has matches that week. No longer any reason to consider any rider belongs to a particular team. They are all self employed journeymen and the authorities should stop pretending that it is a true team sport. No it is not the same as it use to be and it is a league with an overall squad system in place. They wonder why you cannot sell it to TV, but it needs wholesale change. This anniversary at Ipswich is a milestone but will not generate the same level of interest it would have done ten or more years back with local people in charge and custodians of a truly local team. The local team support with local people you can relate to has long gone. Good luck to the witches for tomorrow night and those providing the second half racing but sadly it is not the same Ipswich it once was.

Guesting in this league now is quite literally like pass the parcel. What an absolute sh1tshow!

There must be a god after all !

Anyone know when the party is? (I mean "wake". I definitely meant "wake", not "party")

Apparently he has, I have been told.

As in Mick Norris?

Dan is only 22 and could ride in under 24 in Poland

I think riding all types of track makes you a better all round rider and Cooper can ride the tighter ones, he's shown that at Plymouth, Leicester, Northampton, Oxford etc. Hes arguably better on the big ones and obviously has struggled at Armadale but I think gating and bike set up probably feeds into that too. I'm sure he'll want to master that track but ultimately if his goal is to be a GP rider and a staple in the Extraliga then its probably not vital. I think what was most impressive from him up to the final was his composure, intelligence and the way he handled the occasion. He is without doubt a superstar in the making if his career progresses smoothly.

My lads Sunday league team had a similar "curse" last season.. They ended up just second in the league because of it... But did, thankfully, win two cups... The "curse" has now been officially recognised as being "The Curse of Deansgate" A popular street, which is full of bars in Manchester... Some Sundays we were down to a bare eleven as "The Curse" struck... It struck usually around 9am when all the lads who had been out till 5am in the morning cried off on the WhatsApp group.. On the WhatsApp group it got very personal with the lads who went out each week, but still turned up, even questioning the sexuality of those who didn't make it... I showed the comments to an ex player of the team, and he said he was glad he had no idea what WhatsApp was, but added, he would have gone out and just arrived at the game from the boozer in his day... The fans of the club were devastated by last season runners up spot with literally dozens of people effected, particularly as the prize giving at the Town Hall includes a buffet .. Let's hope "The Curse" doesn't hit this season..

I don't think it makes much difference, certainly not as much as it used to. There aren't many technical tracks in Poland or the GPs now. It appears that being small + lightweight is a big advantage these days.

Start time for the final on Saturday 22nd August is 7.15pm UK time. PPV from https://www.tapesup.tv/fixtures/upcoming

I expect the pairs being held at Poole will get a much bigger crowd then if it was being held at the NSS so it’s a sensible business decision.