the hobbit

Surely it’s now time for the officials to call time on this dreadful Stoke promotion and eject them from the League. That might allow Buxton to sign some riders and keep them going. At least the Buxton promotion want to run a team and want to fulfil their fixtures. Unlike this shambles at a stoke year in, year out .

Just shows how with it the Eastbourne management are. Their new official green sheet averages are effective from today 01/6/18. Edwards is in the team

Forget the final score Coventry fans and praise your team for its efforts last night. coventry gave us a really hard match despite the final score line. They certainly came to win and were so determined early doors. We were given a gating lesson early on and so much so that several Bees rides were pulled back for jumping the start whilst several other got away with fliers Luke Ruddick in particular impressed. Tried his socks off. Some superb battles between Hume and Mountain. once we stopped throwing away silly points by needless falls, we were always going to win but, I felt you gave us our hardest match other than Mildenhall As for choosing Stephen Whitehouse, THANKS!!! We at Brum, have seen more of him than most have and frankly, he’s NEVER going to make it, not even at this level. Embarrassing lack of speed and technique. Over three quarters of a lap behind in each race and going backwards!! Having said that about Whitehouse, it just shows the stupidity of the rules. We snd others have deliberately scheduled all our league fixtures late do as to keep “star” reserves such as Flint and Kemp / Edwards, at reserve until late June, early July!! How stupid is the rule where National Trophy and!, KOC cup matches don’t count towards Official Green sheet averages? As suggested by Sings, there are not many options you could have used at number 7, but all of them would have been better than Whitehouse!! A good meeting, some great races and a really good show from BOTH teams

Yes via the internet radio WM is covering it on their digital service. Believe it’s listed on the BBC Sport app as a download

Let’s not knock Jayne so much folks. Anyone who reads the Buxton thread regularly will know that she regularly interacts with fans, giving them information and insights into the what, why and wherefore of many situations. She has always come across as someone with the fans best interests at heart and, I wish more promoters were like her. I am a Brummies fan but due to work, wasn’t there on Sunday so I don’t know what really occurred but I’m sure that whatever may have been said by Jayne in the heat of the aftermath of the event, that when things have calmed down, she will do the right thing. I’m sure this will include making sure no fan is left feeling ripped off or, out of pocket Anybody who puts their heart and soul into an enterprise such as Buxton which let’s face it, is never going to make anyone rich, should be applauded so despite the rights and wrongs of yesterday the sport needs promotors like Jayne and, clubs like Buxton, If the comments attributed to Josh and Jayne on social media and on their official club website, are a little one sided, can any of you really say that your club has never been guilty of this, has never seen things only from their point of view? any real fan who has been around speedway for any length of time, knows how these things work regarding re-admission tickets, and the risks taken when attending meetings where there has been a prolonged period of inclement weather. yes, that’s probably why so many fans don’t bother taking the risk these days so ALL PROMOTORS should bear this in mind before they take people’s money and admit fans into the stadium if there is even the slightest chance that the meeting will be called off. The sport can’t afford to lose any more fans and at this rate, not even the hard core fans will bother attending away matches in anything other than the middle of a heat wave. Away fans are becoming as rare as rocking horse droppings at most meetings these days. what really concerns me most about yesterday is that it seams that Jayne was saying that the track would be ok after a few races which implies that it wouldn’t have been ok during those races!!! With there being several very young and very inexperienced riders in both teams, this could have meant one of more getting seriously injured. It only takes half a lap for even an experienced Grand Prix rider to get seriously injured JUST ASK MARTIN VASULIK If there is any risk to these young riders, their safety should always come first and the meeting should ALWAYS be cancelled Even if Josh and Jayne got it wrong yesterday, this Brummies fan is prepared to forgive them as I’m sure that when push comes to shove, they will do the right thing by the fans who were left feeling so annoyed and disappointed yesterday

Yes there was a trainee referee however he was being overseen by one of the most experienced referees around trouble was, the experienced referee was once again useless!!!! He ruined our first meeting of the season by continuously holding the tapes too long and last night, he was even worse. Riders from both teams were furious with him as they were held under the green start light for so long on, full engine revs at the start, that they were risking damaging their engines. There were some choose “expletive - delitives” being used to describe his performance by several riders after the meeting and in fact, during it as well!! At one point, he was loudly booed and heckled by the Home supporters It was almost as if the ref wanted to be the centre of attention he was but, simply because he once again showed his gross ineptitude !!! He’s bloody useless

See me about ten yards first bend side of the start / finish line and I’ll give you a race card we stand right next to the little gate that they use to get onto the dog track Bilbo .

Just check out the official Brummies Twitter feed for the most blatant hint you’ll ever see

Shane Hazelden was at the Birmingham press and practice today and looked sharp. He said he was on about 5.4 but thought that might be reduced to around 4.9 due to missing last season due to injury certainly looked to be over the injury and could do you a good job

The club FORGOT to remind people via the official website and twitter feeds that season tickets didn't cover last nights meeting. As a result, it was decided that they had no choice but to let season ticket holders in without paying. I have no doubt that the fact that people thought they had got to pay, combined with the poor weather, contributed to a sparse looking crowd. Still feel that season ticket holders were shafted at the end of last season and that like me, many people haven't forgotten nor forgiven the club.

Hopwood us for JPB Rider rep for Roberts. What points we lose from JPB, we gain from ridercreo for Roberts. Missing JPB, is a major blow snd takes away any chance we had if winning

Just wanted to point out that tonight's Brummies versus Stoke meeting was completed in an hour and three quarters and this included a ten to fifteen minute interval Maybe instead of blaming all things Brummies for falling foul of your curfew YET AGAIN, maybe your promotion at Kent should analyse where they are going wrong and learn from their mistakes as this was by no means the first time and, unless they get their act together more, it will not be the last time the rediculous curfew comes into play

any chance you could post a link to the article in the local paper PLEASE ?

I think what happens, is that team team is re-declared with the incoming rider being declared as a "temporary / sort term " signing, specfically to cover for injury. what this means is that the average of the injured rider, is "protected" within the team . Tom Perry's average is above that of Josh Bates, so it doesn't matter what average Josh achieves, when Tom is fit to return, he comes back in on the same average he was on before his injury. It would be different if Josh permanently replaced Tom, as Josh would then come in on whatever average he had earned. This would only possible because Josh would have started on a lower average than Tom. If Josh upped his and thus, the teams average, that wouldn't be any different to any team member upping there average during the season

You can keep the Elite League. I don't know a single Brummie's fan who wants to go back there. Many of us would be more than happy to stay in the National League whilst many would prefer the Premier League because of the larger amount of meetings

I asked the same question on the Brummies Forum. The reply that came back was that the funds had been raised to assist in the rebirth of the Birmingham Brummies. As Tony Mole has now achievyed this objective, the funds are to be handed over to Tony. The people running the fund have assured us that all the money will go directly into helping the rebirth of the Brummies and that none of it will be used to help Cradley settle into Perry Barr. The people running the fund and, everyone donating to it, deserve the highest degree of praise possible and we can All feel proud that we have helped this great club survive. One major factor in whether or not the 2015 Brmmies survive, will be how many stay away fans return This includes those such as you Martin who sprout off on here and criticise others yet stay away from your supposedly beloved Brummies and choose to spend their time and money watching speedway in Poland and Sweden Many people in Burmingham and its surrounds need to decide if they are speedway fans or maybe football or rugby fans. If you decide you are Speedway fans then put your money where your mouth is snd support the Brummies rather than stay away yet still post on here as if you care about the club and the team Is National League speedway below you Martin or will you be on the terraces with us, supporting our team?

Get real mate for peeps sake!!! Last year, most National League teams charged £11 per meeting whilst a few charged £12. I don't see any way we'll be paying less than £11 per meeting and having seen plenty of National League meetings, I can assure you that that will be good value for your money.

crazy jack, on 25 November 2012 - 08:18 AM, said: . None of the midland clubs opposed it but Panthers said it would affect their business. rubbish horton said he voted against it and so did everybody else Graham Drury said the worst decision of the entire AGM WAS TO NOT. Admit Leicester Peterborough threatened to walk if Leicester came in. Birmingham and. Coventry definitely wanted them in. To admit Leicester, ALL the current promoters had to unanimously agree. Given the choice of seeing O Peterborough walk and a winter like the one two years ago,when they and Coventry threatened to walk, the current promoters opted to keep an established Elite League Club rather than admit a new one. It's possible they were motivated by self interest as most of them probably wanted to keep on the good side of Peterborough as they probably want to sign various of the Peterborough assets. Cynical but highly likely. Whichever way you look at it, PETERBOROUGH were solely and entirely responsible for Leicester being kept out of the Elite League

It has come to light that the reason that Leicester were refused entry to the Elite League was that Peterborough felt that having Leicester in, would have been detremental to their business and, said that if they were admitted, Peterborough would WITHDRAW from the Elite League. The other promoters didn't want to lose an established club and, for Leicester to be admitted, the vote needed to be unanimous. hence there was a unanimous vote against Leicester. Coventry Promoter just confirmed most of thses details on their radio phone in tonight without naming Peterborough but I can assure you, it was Peterborough who threatened to walk away. Can't reveal the source but 1000% correct. I think it's disgusting and yet again Peterborogh throw the toys out of the pram and threatened to walk away. Maybe it's time to tell them to sod off and replace them with a forward thinking, progressive Promotion like Leicester as opposed to a club like Peterborough who openly admit to making heavy lossses and being liable to close or sell up at the promoters whim. Disgusting.