cowboy cookie returns?

Personally I’m gutted it’s the home leg on the Monday. I’ll have been at latitude all weekend & will be packing up & travelling on the Monday. So pretty much rules me out of attending

I thought king was just riding that well known Sheffield high dirt line.

This Witches team is certainly performing above my expectations! One defeat at Belle Vue which we knew would happen is pretty impressive. Could be dark horses & I’m still expecting Bangs & Nicholls to get better

Poor Cooper signed for the wrong East Anglian team.

I’m not arguing your general point. All I am saying is the money that will come into the town on match days isn’t to be sniffed at & the money those bars will generate today & indeed over the weekend is significant.

Possibly 18 to 22 depending one way or another. The British league really has no option but to go along with what Poland wants. We have run our league structure into the ground while the Poles have made theirs something that people want to invest in. I am hopeful that Mayfield might be the ones to stop the rot & turn the fortunes of uk speedway around but it’s a long road.

But on match days the pubs & restaurants are packed. Even more so now they have been promoted with more away fans coming. Its great for the town

Probably because most of the players & management will be on holiday. Letd be honest the council will not put back an event that will be bring close to 40000 into the town centre in favour of a speedway match at Foxhall that will attract 4000 & bring no money into the town centre.

A couple of things that always concerned me about this bank holiday fixture. Firsty Lynn visiting for the second time in a month would likely hit the attendance. Secondly of Town got promoted there was always going to be an event in the park to celebrate in the bank holiday Monday. Two years ago I tried to do the football celebration & the speedway and although the main bit finished in plenty of time to get to Foxhall the traffic in town ment I didn’t get there.

If Jenkins does all the May meetings while Bangs is banned he might ride himself into keeping the number 6 race jacket.

2 home meetings in & I have been surprised by the team doing better than I thought. Its also good to see that the new owners are investing with the new big screen hopefully just the start. However it feels like something is missing the atmosphere feel good factor seems lacking. My be it’s the loss of Emil & Jason or the new presenter or a combination of the 2 I’m not sure. I have certainly come away feeling flat after the first 2.

We did better than I thought we would. We all know Nicholls will struggle on these bigger faster tracks these days. I still think we will surprise a few this year however ultimately to stand a chance of winning anything this year we need to be able to overturn Sheffield Leicester &Belle Vueover two legs. Mayfield have a free pass this year & the boys don’t have any real pressure or expectations.

Two meetings in for the new era Witches & so far I’ve been impressed. On track the same professionalism off track things seem to have kicked on a bit with social media interactions. The early signs are that Mayfield will keep their word & build on the Louis legacy. I think we all know this season is probably as season of consolidation before moving forward again in 27. I can think of at least one young rider mayfield need to talk to for 27. Until then I think we are in for an enjoyable 26 & we might even surprise a few along the way.

A great few days for suffolk Stars, canaries, Frick, Harris, Cook, Chapman, Clement, Darling, McLean you guys have taken one hell of a beating!! 😂

At least we know the pit gate is ok

That’s what a professional outfit does…. Different owners but fully professional as always. Well done Ippo

I thought it was a solid performance. Hellstrom Bangs impressed & once he gets dialled in will steadily improve. Scottie will also get better at home so happy with the team overall. Being in the pits afterwards the new owners seemed pretty pleased & encouraged with the crowd level. The track wasn’t great but with the possibility of rain & that rather gusty wind drying out what moisture was in the surface can’t complain really. All in all a positive opening the only negative for me was the announcer…..I wonder what Rob Chandler is up to??

I couldn’t attend last nights meet the riders due to other commitments, it would be interesting to know what was said by the new owners. I did however get up to Foxhall in the afternoon. Hellstrom Bangs looked quick & I think he is going to be entertaining great style. Tobias seemed very relaxed & happy. We all know what he can do when he feels settled. The others have all done more than enough laps around Foxhall so we know what they are about. I am optimistic about the season ahead especially given how late this all came together. The noise around Brennan not being there is amazing. The guy signed a contract in September for his polish club & their dates would have been in the diary months ago. Our press day would normally have been last week but again with the late completion of the take over there probably wasn’t a lot of choice. Lets get behind the club enjoy the speedway & hopefully this time next year we’ll have seen the fruits of Mayfields labour starting to pay off both locally & nationally.

All ready named at number 1

Press & practice day on Thursday for the new look or old look witches depending on your view point. Any way the new era starts. Thoughts on the season ahead? While I can’t see us defending the title I don’t think we will be a poor as some think. Wr are going to struggle at Belle Vue & Sheffield for sure.

Can’t beat a little piece of positivity

No idea however these are the sort of things that the BSPL & speedway futures need to be looking at. Especially if this band extends to other parts of the uk in the future.

Could the BSPL look at putting speedway into the valley greyhound stadium in wales now that wales have banned greyhound racing.

Northampton All Stars

If Tungate is one they will definitely need to find guests when he misses the Stansted flight 😂