THE DEAN MACHINE

I was only on loan from stoke,,I did 18 meetings for them and went back to stoke in 98, as much as I enjoyed my time there,met some fantastic fans and picked up a sponsor that sponsored me for the next 20 years I can’t remember the circumstances behind the closure

Yes I rode for long Eaton that year and we definitely finished the season

Is not tarmac it’s shale, it’s called Northampton shaleway

Another point which I suspect and I have been told it too is that it is mayfield putting the money up for this too aswell as Ipswich so what if they do lose their arse on Northampton Where does that leave Ipswich ?but then again if Northampton fails so too will the premier league

Well it’s a good job that they have been announced early and have been heavily promoted and already have advertising around the area so as the potential fans are aware that a new speedway team is coining to town and you can already get any club merchandise ready for their first meeting in 5 weeks time 🙄

Do they still exist ?

I don’t hate him, I don’t like him but I respect what he has achieved and as much as I dislike him he would be the first name on the list if I was putting on a big individual meeting because he is a headline generator and gets people talking and is vastly underused by British speedway as a marketing tool, the less said about his music the better though

I just don’t know where they expect the fans to come from, a few from Peterborough and maybe a few from Coventry and there will be some novelty fans at the first meeting so unless they are bankrolling it somehow this has Skegness written all over it and the sport was a lot healthier then

Northampton to withdraw from the league in June, saying just not enough fans supporting the venture

Yet again stringing supporters along, utter contempt for the customers

Speedway deserves better than this, it’s a shambles and nobody can defend anyone involved

I have said it for years the national league should go their own way with the blessing of the bspl, ultimately the higher leagues don’t and never have cared for the NL unless there is some sort of financial gain for them, they get jealous of any NL club that has any financial success and set out to penalise that club, the fake outrage when a Nora league was mooted was speedway in a nutshell, our way or no way, the likes of Barry bishop understand the bspl mentality, don’t expect any help because they don’t care

It is possible but I don’t believe Louis would do that, there is definitely beef between the bspl members despite rob godfrey saying they are all friends and they all get along but them not liking each other is a healthy thing if there was an independent body running the sport but there isn’t so it’s to the detriment of the sport

Speedway was a massive sport in my school even in the early 80s, we had a huge 15ft speedway painting on the wall above the science block that was painted by a pupil years before, 2 of my teachers were speedway fans, we had quite a few cycle speedway riders as pupils who raced for the Wednesfield aces and pretty much all of my mates rode it, although we had a couple of lads who dabbled in either speedway or Grasstrack I think I was the only one who went on to actually race it, we also had a few motox riders too,we also had a school classmate who went on to play basketball in America, his name was Spencer dunkley he went on to have quite the career over there ( Wikipedia’s has his career )though but on the whole I would say speedway was massive in my school and although I played football for the school I didn’t really notice that football was really big but maybe I was slightly blinkered by bikes and I have told this bit before but on my last school report it actually said Dean could do a lot better if he learnt that there is more to life than 2 wheels, oh how wrong they were 😂

The fixtures have been released to the clubs, so expect general release soon, some riders seem not best pleased at the gaps in fixtures