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Barker busted a gut to try and get past Chris but its not his fault the track is so narrow, it makes it very easy to block, but the way Baker acted after is typical of the petulant attitude he has always had when he does not get his way. Bomber acted totally out of character so whatever Barker said to him, must have been out of order.

Track was slick but produced some great racing, Zach's passes on Batch in heat 13 and 15 were top drawer.

Bomber has had so many brainwashed for years, as the ultimate team man and ride through fences for the fans, been making good money out of this persona for years, seems in his old age he’s forgot the camera and the fans could still see him. His statement just makes no sense when you watch the video, he’d of been better of making no statement at all just made himself look a bit silly.

Nothing wrong with the racing; hard but fair. Harris went over the top afterwards and should face consequences for it. It was described as 'loutish' earlier in the thread which feels bang on.

Christ no Bomber would mean the end of both leagues given the struggle for riders.

No, you only get banned for not turning up... Plus... Any ban for Bomber would mean about five teams short of a rider...

Back in the day riders turned up with bikes strapped to the boot of the car and poor Terry Stone regularly turned up at Rayleigh with dirty bikes seemingly having some sentimental value for the dirt of Bradford, Canterbury, Eastbourne etc. Eventually he took on board the point and eventually turned out for each meeting with spotless bikes, you could eat your dinner off the mudguards. Those were the days because as you said they rode in addition to the main job and it could earn them good additional money. For anyone old enough, after a meeting at Rayleigh the riders all met up at the Blinking Owl Cafe on the A127 and many a supporter joined them. It was a better time for the image of the sport and while the racing may not be as fast and furious as today, it was competitive and young riders were given chances that only today’s youngsters can dream about. Some made it others battled through but you got to see an aspiring young newcomer take on a heat leader and my abiding memory is Rayleigh versus Boston and Ivan Miller a grass track rider beating Arthur Price a heat leader for Boston. Compared to today’s homogenised offering the sport in those days offered opportunity and a chance for success on a level playing field with bikes that were basically the same and anyone old enough will remember riders winning a race on the ‘track spare’. It just would not happen today and more is the pity.

59 actually, you seem to have misremembered!!

Think that was Lewis Bridger not Barker

He did not stamp on him you idiots stop chatting complete sh*t! I saw the whole thing I was at the meeting.

The bit about him not stamping on Barker could be true, hard to see with the camera angle, but he purposely rode into him, hard to deny that.

Plus the likes of Silver and Thomas, and probably more... These were "Promoters" who genuinely reflected the definition of the word... Rather than nowadays where "Owners" would be a much more suitable name.. The real "Promoters" knew that getting locals to attend regularly wasn't always the major priority, (if they did then great), instead fhey wanted volume every week, even if some fans only visited once... The logic being that that even that one visit meant that person knew that the sport existed, and keeping the team in the local public awareness meant more chance of more visits further down the line.. In short, the more who read about you, the more who know about you, and therefore, the more likely they are to take a look at what you do... Todays Social Media world would be seen as perfect by some of the "old school" operators of yesteryear.... (If they avoided getting banned!!!)...

Wrong again Nellie. Cami personally or through his company has been a sponsor in the past but never a major one

Not sure if you saw this on big screen Thursday night so thought I'd share on here. Absolute legends and Doyley 😜

Well Paul Hurry on Radio Suffolk yesterday said guest for Nicholls is Lewy Kerr for this meeting plus Olly Allen had arranged for Team GB riders to meet in Poland on Thursday evening for team bonding meal ahead of practice on Friday for WTC. Paul and Richard stated that as the Aussie riders would be riding in Gb on Thursday night and flying out Friday morning that is what Tom would be doing.

Well I enjoyed myself, there were plenty of passes, riders were riding different lines, no particular gate became a graveyard. The track did deteriorate over the evening but then which track stays great all the way through? Complaining about the track seems to be some people's standard reflex post, regardless of the racing. They are of course welcome, but it never adds much interest. Poole finish top of the league, regardless of whatever other teams do. Two things are significant, first the points difference Poole's is over plus 200 while other playoff teams are around 50, the second fact is that Poole won all available bonus points. Bring on the play-offs.

There is video evidence of what bomber did and fans at the meeting saw it live There is absolutely zero evidence of what barker did or didn't say yet everyone takes it as gospel that what bomber says is the truth when it could be an excuse to justify even though there is no justification for what he did stamp or no stamp he still deliberately knocked barker off his bike.

Show us this evidence you have then. There is nothing that I've seen on the live stream or online that shows anyone kicking or stamping on anyone else

Maybe not as high scoring as usual due to average manipulation 🤔 good luck Plymouth 😄

You are correct Plymouth mathematically could have caught Scunthorpe had they got all 6 points last night and tonight and Scunny got no more points. very unlikely but possible

But not running when a World Cup of another sport is running 😄

Barker told Harris he ate the last burger from the snack bar.

Second leg of the Jubilee cup still to be run.

Banned for what exactly, he didnt stamp on him as some are claiming. Bomber has stated what happened, hand bags, nothing more.

Will Bomber get banned for that? He should

And Peterborough would always turn up at Arena missing the Dryml brothers when they had them and used small track riders as guests.

Clubs actively agree to meetings taking place (usually away from home), knowing their riders will be missing but will already have lined up a track specialist ringer, or two, or three, to step in.. I remember BV once riding at Arena with, I think it was, four missing due to Zagar riding in his National Championship and three others in GP Challenges.. They brought in three ex Arena riders and ran RR... They had their best performance there in years!!! NB. It goes without saying that any proper sport, one with credibility and integrity, wouldn't have countenanced such a thing taking place and the governing body simply wouldn't have sanctioned the meeting to be ran..

9.2 with bonus points... With age comes experience.....

Who are they going to get in though ? the cupboard of anyone wanting to come to the UK is absolutely bare.

Lawson gets grief for either being late or just on time, and for bikes not being spotless.. Yet holds down a full time job and has a young family... When the sport was in its halcyon days the minority were full time professionals, with the majority seeing Speedway as a very decent second income, with many able to earn in one night of Speedway what they earned for a week in their "main job".. Nowadays we have reserves trying to be full time professionals... It's total madness from a business and operating plan perspective.. Especially as winning any of the comps has no real value or worth...

Tbf the only people defending him are Glasgow fans (on here anyway).

No worries Bagpuss very kind of you but at the moment I have a backlog of about 20 books for various holidays all be it would be interesting to get his take on what was a time when he seemed to be spinning plates and fishing down the back of the sofa to keep the Stars afloat.

Add John Berry to the list Mike and Russell Lanning.

Barker is a danger to himself 😃

Certainly looks like it

Trouble is finding promoters like Johnnie Hoskins to PROMOTE the sport.

Now on TNT Sports 4 at 5.45pm as well as HBO Max- WBD shamed into doing it no doubt. Lol

I think it’s over now .

That's certainly my biggest pet peeve. I've had holidays planned, only for a meeting to be postponed & it wasn't due to the weather. I feel like current promoters only plan for home fans only.

Now live on TNT Sports 4 as well as HBO Max. Can everyone use the 16 page SWC Location thread rather than this one- all links from Stewmac will be put on there( i did try and contact Ozzie to edit his title without success).

Wasn't the cunning plan that the cups were done and dusted "early" in the season?...

That's harsh on Lawson as a Lynn supporter back in the day Lee was truly terrible for reliability.

A few thoughts on the tac sub situation, if Berwick had used Battye (not as a tac sub), they wouldn't have been able to give Morris the t/s in heat 9 as they weren't 6 down. That would also have meant having to give Smith a 4th ride. TM probably would've got grief for not using a TS as Battye could go in any heat. So the choice was between Palovaara & Etheridge, in hindsight they made the wrong choice. But at the time both had started with 2 second places, using Etheridge would've given him three-on-the-trot, although Battye ended up having three-on-the-trot later on, I can understand the Palovaara decision. I wouldn't call it a howler by the TM.

knocked him off and then stamped on ben while he was lay down on the track, bang out of order

Bomber is a hard charger we all no that brilliant to watch still but as Plymouth is such a small track to me I think he was a bit to over zealous and tried to put him in the fence, I imagine the fine was for what happened after the race when Ben b went to say something and bomber turned the bike deliberately into barker and knocked him to the ground, bit of handbags really , the worrying think for me and I never thought I’d say this as for most of the season he has been brilliant is Danny kings form, not putting him in heat 15 , or the super heat. Troy batchelor though was so good a brilliant guest.

The Facennas need to get rid of CALAMITY BROWN, He has no idea WTF he is doing,but they wont as he is a YES MAN. Bring in someone who knows whats required for next season, namely RITCHIE HAWKINS.

Will need to be a fookin big bucket 🤣

You just don't know what Troy will do, period I'm actually doing a bit of a mini southern tour. Plymouth tomorrow, Poole Wednesday. Hoping for two good meetings. Do you want me to bring a bucket of shale on Wednesday?