kevin bass

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From what i heard he was asked to make his way to the stadium by the management so Ipswich could get him signed off and run IRR, instead he refused and turned round and went home so Ipswich had to use Freddy Hodder is his place.

He was fine last coz gotta paid max for Poole.

Lawson is now at No 1 or aint he riding now or summit🤨

A group of us used to sponsor Ben Howe when he first started riding at Ipswich, i actually bumped on Shaun Tacey a few wks back at a Mildenhall meeting and he still does grass track now and then.

Nigel Flatman emigrated to Oz and was still having the odd spin on the shale over there up to a few years back.

I personally used to enjoy the junior league racing, we had Howe, Tacey, Clouting and Lawrence Hare at Ipswich, and remember Spicer and Fairweather being up at Lynn.

Yeah Ellis rode well for Ipswich round Foxhall last season

Back in the day if a team ran R/R they nearly always had a junior rider named at No8, but then again what rider these days is gonna travel for a meeting on the off chance he gets a ride, and like been said in those days the majority of the teams had a junior team who rode in a fixture after the main match had finished, so the riders were already trackside.

Tbf even Doyle has upped his form round Belle Vue coz he wasnt always scoring heavily when he rode for Ipswich round there, but then again i suppose he aint got Kurtz/Bewley to contend with saying that.

We've just gotta except that speedway in the UK these days is a tinpot sport compared to how its ran in Poland and the money that can be earned riding over there, Poland its very professional, over here its Mickey Mouse.

They wont give up their rides in Poland unless they can get the same payment and perks with their Britsh clubs, which aint never going to happen.

The reality is that most speedway fans are retired/pensioners.

The biggest problem will be available riders to run the so called Premiership if Poland bring in the one league only in '27, not just all the riders that ride in the Polish leagues who ride over here, but also the amount of British senior riders who DU more often then not during the season at some point, their all getting on age wise and cant go on forever. Nicholls 48, Harris 44, King/Lawson 40, Cook 39, Barker 38, Wright 37, Kerr 36, to name a few. Yeah there's a few decent youngsters coming thru but not enough atm to replace those mentioned above when they finally retire.

No we deffo need more meetings rather then less, biggest problem i see is whilst having the top riders riding in the UK is great it means we always end up playing second, third or even forth fiddle to Poland, Denmark and Sweden and alike, and then have to squeeze in the UK fixtures around rider availability, it might all change if this Poland one league rule kicks in next season, and yeah the season does now start later compared to a few yrs back, but still amazes me that we have less meetings to fit in during the season these days but we still end up trying to fit meetings in at the end of the season Sept/Oct yet we've had countless blank wks during the summer months, but yet again that's due to rider availability and playing second fiddle to other countries.