stevebrum

I very nearly stopped off on the way home from work, think I heard heat 2 as I passed. Trouble is time is running out to watch a dreadful team get battered every week.

It always looked like an away win. Yet bizarrely some people thought they still might make the play offs! 🤣

Sheffield by 16.

Should be a comfortable Lions win.

Agree. Top 4 won’t be different.

Dreadfully dull track, very little passing. Gotta love a bit of Bubba. Impressive.

Speedway has often been gate and go and devoid of proper action even in the 70s. I remember being bored as a kid at some meetings feeling proper strung out. Think that was common at most tracks to be honest. Every track has its moments whilst those well prepared are likely to offer a little more.

Let’s see what he does this season then.

Suppose they had to make a change whilst they could. Morris will depend on how quick he can get up to speed. Etheridge can only ride the NSS so don’t think he is an improvement on Sedgmen.

The expected result.

I thought it had changed to 90 seconds now?

The Brummies passing 30 points must be an achievement for this woeful side.

First chance I’ve had to watch this match. Pretty decent from the perspective of the closeness of the scores. Last 3 heats were great value. Fricke really is dynamite around BP.

Updates has Rew 10+2. But just seen official scores.

Updates has Musielak on 2 wins. Rew scored double figures, paid 12 points, what more do you expect? The expected result. Oxford are awful but Brummies are beyond woeful. It was billed as the battle to avoid bottom spot. Brummies had secured that spot before that match.

I think the issue that most West Midlands speedway fans have is that the track at Birmingham is dodgy to say the least and not great from a viewing perspective. There were always quite a few Cradley fans at Wolves but then Monmore was known to be a well prepared race track and had a team that was likely to be racing for honours. Huge difference between the 2.

I know that Tolley said the amount they want to rent the stadium is completely unviable. Im sure if they came up with a plan to run speedway, sidecars etc it might be viable if all parties paid towards the rent. However im sure they wouldn’t extend the deal for more than 1 season even if the viability was workable.

Wolves had the final meeting of the Olympique with a big send off from Porkie, CVS and PA. Traditionally the last meeting of the season and a fitting finale. Huge sentiment to anyone that was there so not sure how you are comparing the 2.

The expected away win. Oxford really are awful.

Well done the Stars on that result. Congratulations. the Witches have more pressing issues all firing for September. I can’t see past them for the aggregate win over any team in the top 4. Some of them had a proper wobble tonight. save it till September.

By running one league at a lower level isn’t going to cut costs that drastically. Whoever rides in the heat leader role is always going to demand more money for that responsibility. So granted it might be cheaper for an established heat leader versus someone like Emil, Doyle etc however those costs are often offset by sponsors picking up the tab of the big name. Im sure running Speedway isn’t the lucrative product it was in the golden eras of the sport however we live in different times now. speedway isn’t the credible far reaching sport that it used to be. Tracks aren’t closing because of lack of attendances at all. The demand for land and the long standing tie in with Greyhound stadiums is the cause of the closures. Nothing else. speedway has failed to look after its interests as a whole for many many years and hence why we now are in the situation we are in. promoters have for too long used self interest as their primary motivation, Thats why you have to applaud the NSS (which many said would never happen) for what it’s achieved in more recent times and the likes of Workington reopening. with the right backing and promotion the sport can still survive as it is. Council protection can also be vital (and there is a glimmer of hope for Coventry). Thats why keeping 2 leagues is vital because a watered down one level league isn’t going to work and has been pointed out there isn’t enough decent standard riders without the big boys from abroad to fill all team spaces. Let clubs run when they want, give them back some ownership. Or maybe the top flight can have a break away league under NORA and perhaps form a smaller league and join the Polish league like Germany does. Plenty of Brits travel to Poland to watch proper high standard teams perform so it’s not too hard a task to make happen. UK teams could have a squad system for Polish league meetings.

Poole have always been one of the better run clubs and financially in a decent place for years. Who’s the WE? It’s well known outsiders or sponsorship deals pay for the top boys.

Let Poole keep Wednesdays (they have never had a problem racing on a Danish league night, and they have had plenty of Danes through the years) and get them to move up along with Glasgow. Let them have a Scottish trophy (with Edinburgh and Berwick) and allow them to build down to championship level for those. The protected UK nights are a farce, Poland can take any Thursday they want and if they really wanted a Monday they could have it. Time to let teams run on whatever nights they want and have Monday as the TV night for the broadcaster. BSN will continue covering both leagues anyway to give viewers plenty of options. 1 league I doubt will happen. Plus it isn’t the answer.

Well pointed out. Would have been a bigger win then if he was there. The expected result really.

Now the Witches are back at full strength I except a fairly routine win. Probably 50-40