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Could you elaborate please, Steve?

I always cringe when clubs make such threats to the fans. Seen it at Newport with Mallett nearly every week begging for more fans through the gate and it honestly usually made the crowds for the next meeting worse. Clubs should be able to provide everything required to operate without making threats. An insult to the paying fans who have attended all season.

Pretty alarming that some folk can't distinguish tribalism from abuse and violence.

I still remember "The War Of The Roses" meetings against Sheffield as kid.. Brilliant racing? No idea, can't remember, but what I do remember is the several hundred Tiger fans in attendance making for a tremendous atmosphere.. Wolves in the early 90's too always brought many away fans to Kirky Lane, and we the same to Monmore... Was the racing brilliant? Again, don't remember, but the events themselves were... The lower number of tracks, and the constant sharing of riders, has diluted rivalries to almost nothing these days, with a decent away fan following now being a rare thing at most meetings.. The Scottish Derby is often mentioned as being "fierce".. So "fierce" in fact that Edinburgh's best rider guested for Glasgow a few weeks ago.. That cannot do the sport any good if you want to build up some rivalries that actually engage fans.. I've said before, let away fans in for free, or a very nominal fee, and provide them with a section of their own for them to sit or stand in.. Travel costs are high these days, streaming is available too, so let then in for nothing and, hopefully, some atmosphere can get generated that ensures more regular visits from more of the home fans going forward, and, who knows, word may get round that a night at the Speedway is "a good night out"...

Back in the 70's I can, as a Bees supporter, remember having many heated arguments on the terraces with rival fans, especially Leicester folk. In later years it was Cradley and then Poole. But never did I or any of my family feel threatened and I took my kids into the standing areas from a few days old. There's nothing wrong with rivalry. I'm not sure I like the term tribalism but having some emotional attachment to your club is natural and good for the sport. I know we've talked it to death but the lack of a consistent team of riders from week to week let alone from year to year does not foster this sense of attachment.

I will give Scunthorpe credit for making a signing, far too many clubs just use guests.

He said it after the last meeting in the club house post meeting and he said it again in yesterday's programme. How many times does he have to say in 2028 he will not be in charge of the Scorpions and the EWR. 22 years as Promotor and at the same time running his own garage business, not many in the sport have been involved in Speedway for that long. Apart from that ,spending countless hours doing the track work and Chairman of the BSPA, think its up to him when he calls it a day. Hopefully sells it as a going concern and Scunthorpe Scorpions continue and thrive.

The FIM are a bunch of woke cowards.

As an aside to all the tribal discussion, just seen the World Championship banger meeting starting today at 4pm at Ipswich is sold out and the only way to watch the meeting is on Spedeworth TV. I guess the stadium holds circa 10k and if Spedeworth can organise an event like this then no reason why Mayfield cannot fill the stadium for the GP.

Did the big home crowd give a good round of applause to Harrison on his final Scunny home meeting?

Cairns appears to have a clear disregard for sportsmanship given his ongoing carry on at the start line. Maybe he will grow out of this behaviour.

Room Replacement?

At the risk of repeating myself, surely the starting marshal has a part to play here. He could not be completely oblivious to what was going on and could have brought it to the referee's attention. Yes, maybe the referee should be aware anyway. But all officials have a responsibility to ensure fair play.

It was "Guest" room!!! 😁 Baddam Tish!!!

Speedway is a strange sport. Garrity is naturally getting all kinds of negative press because of what he did, and rightly so. The fact is, if he did come back and did well for a club, a lot of people would put his past to one side.

Yeah I wouldnt watch it, waste of your valuable time. Hopefully like you many BSN viewers will give it a miss so we dont have to put up with all the moaning.

I think Poole win comfortably. Even if Lawson is struggling with engines after losing a couple lately. Can’t see Scunny winning any races bar Picko and maybe Harrison? Poole could get 60

That doesn’t really make sense given the failing attendances year on year. Not enough people go to speedway for the racing these days.

He wasn’t excluded

Well done Nick. Hopefully the same next week.

I agree. It should be Artem, his brother and two of his cousins who make up the 4. Emil at first reserve

Links for Lublin v Leszno: https://vksport.vkvideo.ru/live-53550004_456242895 https://vkvideo.ru/video-234681448_456239439

Want to know what the GP will look like at Ipswich, check out the crowd for the stocks at foxhall today https://www.facebook.com/share/r/1Es2VMGVVy/?mibextid=wwXIfr

I’m not fussed either way, if he comes back then great if not then great also, he definitely has the talent

Jan apologised for getting it wrong. Don't know why you need to get personal.

Am hearing spec savers have sold out of rose tinted glasses 😂

Because they are cheats

Should his 3 points be deducted and the match score changed ahead of the second leg given the clear and unrefutable video evidence of rule breaking?

Don't think Jody is allowed to ride NDL even if he wanted to, his Championship average being over 4, if that's still the rule. I'd love to see him next season in any league

I don't think it was alleged, it was clearly evidenced on TV with the clouds of smoke from burning rubber filling the air. Unless BSN used AI to create it......

Yea kemp very unreliable and unpredictable a lot worse than batch was pre his worky days, where he has been mostly brilliant. So batch is the 1st name for me

That is absolutely awful from Plymouth.😂 I’m laughing, but that’s so poor. It’s the biggest meeting of the season and Gladiators’ fans will already be gutted about the first leg, but instead of a galvanising article, it’s: we need £46K or you’ll have no speedway next season. What a prospect, walking into the Coliseum; about a 2% chance of winning the trophy and faced with the prospect this will be the last meeting at Plymouth. P*ss poor from the powers that be at Plymouth and a prime example of why British speedway is in the state it’s in. In other sports, sensibility prevails. In British speedway, it doesn’t. Remarkable that’s been given the green light for release. At least two grown adults have read that and thought “yeah, that’ll do”.

He's still got an average over 8. And he's pure box office. He might not win as many races as in previous years but when he does the crowd go home talking about it. Any rider who brings fans through the turnstiles is worth considering, surely.

The cad. And dangerous too with these tyres. According to Lightcap, the track was really slick so maybe Will was just trying to wear away some of the nobblies so his tyre would slide across the shiny surface?

LINE-UP: Joe Thompson, Danny King, Sam Masters, Tom Brennan, Kye Thomson, Scott Nicholls, Cooper Rushen, Zach Cook, Max Fricke, Tate Zischke, Justin Sedgmen, Anders Rowe, Josh Pickering, Slater Lightcap, Nick Morris, Luke Harrison. Reserves: Harry Fletcher, Charlie Southwick.

Ablitt showed tonight why no team were willing to give him a chance in 2025 and Hook showed why no one gave him a chance until August.

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Decent watch that was, slick but well prepared track that produced some good racing

How the hell is hook at n3

Say what you like about Rob Godfrey but he knows how to prepare a good racetrack

I would've said similar...until my club shut down. Watching a very good meeting as a neutral is good, but watching an average meeting in a stadium with 20k people and an electric atmosphere is miles better. People absolutely care about it.

Ask the Indians about the benefit of the British Empire. Next time you throw stones at Russia, take a closer look in the mirror.

I attend few domestic meetings, but do attend the play off finals that the Aces are in.. Why?.. Not because I see the winning of a UK Team Speedway title has any major relevance in its current guise, but the finals do provide some atmosphere which you associate with a team sport... In short, they are something worth attending if you like live sport... 400 or so Aces fans at Sheffield, stood on turns three and four, a few years ago, meant a superb night of watching sport, with the racing only being "OK" at best... Standing with 200 or so at Leicester a couple of years ago on the first turn also made the evening a great spectacle... Plenty of banter between rival fans, plenty of pee taking of the opposition managers, and riders, and no malice in sight... If UK Speedway had that many away fans at EVERY meeting then it would be in a hugely more successful position..... Your Team. Your Riders... Win, lose or draw, that is how a team sport should be if you want people to emotionally engage with it... Glad the Aces got Sheffield as several hundred will descend on Owlerton next week... Should be a great atmosphere...

And I bet they used somebody else's room while they were out🫢

How utterly boring, last winter was far more interesting than the actual season which is about to conclude 🥹. Putting fans of clubs through torture should be an essential ingredient of the sport, after all what will there be to talk about for 4 months if everything's cut and dried by end of November?

Not quite right. The Chairman for the majority of the National League's (extremely successful) independent run in the '80s was actually Danny Dunton. Mervyn Stewkesbury took over for the 1988 season -- elected after a contest with Martin Rogers -- but was promoter at Poole by then, having moved from Weymouth in 1985. Mervyn headed the NL for three seasons, before engineering the re-amalgamation of the two leagues for 1991. This moved Poole, Ipswich, Berwick and Wimbledon (who became Eastbourne mid-season), up, but left the NL in bad shape and led to the disastrous "one big league" of 1995/6. History thus warns us of what can happen when the top league pulls successful clubs out of a well-run second division. In conclusion, were the current Championship to go its own way, run its own affairs, this might not be a bad thing at all.

Because they know you need that tribal emotional attachment to your team, if you want a team sport to be successful... Injuries happen, and bad luck happens, in all sports... Jeopardy and consequence being fundamental to any successful sport.. Bringing in guests would see fans, sponsors, and TV all disappear rapidly...

Could you ask Poole why they scored 57 points against Edinburgh? I would have liked a 8-10 point lead for Poole to make the second leg more interesting.

I think the fact Berwick have a 100 percent record at home proves fans will turn up to watch a winning side at home. Throw in a cup final after knocking out the league champions elect as well and its no wonder the crowd was big. Fans dont care about the racing on the whole , they want to see their team win. Exeter were proof of this, great spectacle of a track with you being so close to the action but mainly gate and go, heavy home wins every week and they had good crowds right up until they shut despite usually being rubbish away from home. Morris will be one of the signings of the season next year I am sure, he has been flying the second half of the season.

They're not new rules - have always been there regarding goods coming in from outside the UK (outside the EU when we were members). Another Brexit benefit..........