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Will the back straight be open at Sheffield for the CLRC next Saturday? If not I think all the supporters on the home straight and bends 3&4 are going to feel like sardines in a can with the large crowd that's anticipated.

Lets be honest that picture just about sums up British Speedway, a professional sport amateur run with a leave it in the corner over there attitude. That pile of tyres represent the problems within the sport where them that rule walk past it every day with blinkers on saying to themselves if we ignore it all will be ok.

selling boxes of matches on a street corner is possibly a better business model than UK speedway at present 🤣

If necessary / urgent repairs quoted are around £500,000, add to that general stadium repairs and maintenance, legal fees, insurance, the cost of buying the lease, general stadium running costs then the total adds up. Spedeworth are obviously looking at a long term future there so are willing to invest but I would not be surprised if they run close to the figure I quoted in the first year, I can also see the steel rope safety fence being removed and being replaced with a concrete and steel one like Mildenhall and Aldershot while the repairs are going on. Obviously I do not know if any of this is factual but seeing how they rebuilt Mildenhall after the fire they show that they are not afraid to do things right and do things once to maintain a long term future.

And very please we all are that you did write the book Norbold 👍🙂

If Deane / spedeworth have taken on the full lease of the stadium under a normal repair and maintain lease and ready to spend and carry out the repairs / conditions required to open it up to the public and racing again then I am sure he would have made sure he can sub-let within that lease. To purchase the stadium lease, carry out the required repairs and then allowing for other costs involved I bet he will not have much change from around a million to get the racing going again and the public back in supporting it

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. 🤞👍

Just set up the Final to record on my Sky Q box and my Mrs said look at that, and at the end of the blurb about the British Final it had ep1 series 1. Is this a hint about possibly more ITV television coverage? We live in hope 🙂

The trouble with fans on here is that you do not understand the minds of those who run the sport. Any rule implemented is followed by the clause " unless of course we change our minds or it does not suit one of the members /fellow promoters or any other reason we can think of ", of course any reason given does not concern the fans because they do not need to know because we are the rulers and they are here just to hand over there hard earned each week. Mind you if Richard and Tom had not raced for the Tigers last night I think the score would be closer to the maximum 75-15

Statements like that from councils is about as reliable as the rule book in speedway, time and money talks. I bet a asset company has already started there phone calls offering big bucks and are ready to sit on the land and a slowly dilapidating stadium until the council has further thoughts on the situation.

As with most decisions and agreements in speedway its more than likely not worth the paper its written on, what happens if a club is sold and the new owners do not wish to run premiership? What if the present owners have decided that they have lost enough money already and don't fancy another season of it? Remember this is British Speedway and its made up of what ifs and maybe's, nothing can be taken as gospel or a certainty.

I think its very relevant myself, Kyle has said that he and many other riders are fed up / sick of racing the same tracks. As a speedway rider (or any motor sport competitor) if they feel pi$$ed of and there head is not in the right place then a break from the sport is needed for there own sanity and there's and others safety. I'm sure a rider of Kyles quality and dedication he did not take this decision lightly.

Going to be a close match, our reserves have got to come to the party tonight and everyone in the team needs there gating boots on and staying out of last place in each heat (leave that position to the lions 😉)

To me seeing that post does not give me good vibes about the future of the stadium, to evict a long term regular income from the stadium there must be thoughts about its future going in a different direction. 😡

"Maybe next season will see" is something that has been quoted by promoters and fans alike for god knows how many years but here we are on the brink of extinction in this country but still clutching at straws that the next year / season might be the one that see's a positive upturn for the sport but in the back of everyone's mind is the thought that the straw we are clutching at might be the one that breaks the camels back.