THE DEAN MACHINE

Doyle in ambulance again 😔

Doyle got to go, Jensen has got him and Doyle knows it but won’t give in

You can only wonder why lampart gets the nod over helstrum bangs in the team

You have to respect a rider who gives it out but then proves his salt on the track

Can’t believe that was the same guy who turned out for Birmingham last season

Częstochowa fans making madsen feel welcome

Brilliant racing so far

Madsen winding up the Częstochowa fans, love it

I thought all 3 riders crossed the white line there and Hampel was unlucky to be singled out

Happens to us all eventually sadly ,the first meeting he did as pundit he was clearly busting his buttons on his shirt and the next match he kept his programme board infront of his stomach

What a race that was, the leszno pair literally threw their bikes at sitek from all angles but he seemed to read every move perfectly and get the 2nd

Kevin Malkiewicz has come on this season

Graham dury, once you understood him and the way he was, if you didn’t get him he was an arse, good rider, promoter and team manager who cared deeply for the sport, had many long chats with Graham over the years about the sport and had the privilege of him as team manager at long Eaton, while promoting at Birmingham he offered me the team manager job which I refused and he said he respected me for not taking it just for the sake of taking it

It would be boring if riders were the same characters but drabik and czugunow are weirdos

Rybnik are the Birmingham of the extraleague and that’s being unfair on Birmingham

Sick of these slick bone dry tracks, put some dirt down, wet it and put some holes in it,let’s bring back rider skill instead of engine tune racing

It’s a rumour certainly doing the rounds, him and one of his curry night mates who is currently involved with Sheffield

Getting sick of dusty tracks, it’s heat 1 ffs

Scoreline flattered Birmingham, musielak was brilliant after 2 duff rides and castanga is earning his points too but rew seems to be going backwards, jeppersen after a promising start to season is really struggling, Edward’s is ok but is getting beat by his reserve counterparts regularly and zagar is just zagar, they have the riders to do it but I just can’t see where the first and probably only victory is coming from

This is the point I am getting at, we have to see them as one of us or we don’t form a connection and without that connection you don’t get a following and it goes for teams too, we have to feel they are our club otherwise our loyalty is fractured, football and even polish speedway understand the concept but British speedway doesn’t, my Mrs is a season ticket holder at stoke city FC because it’s her home city and she has a bond with that city, she doesn’t follow any other teams or even watch any other tv games or even follow England when they play and I’m not sure she even likes the game of football but she loves stoke city, it’s the bond without it you don’t have a following

a social gathering is what made speedway and all this pro althlete garbage just doesn’t wash with the public,at heart people crave reality despite fake being pushed on them and bonds are formed between competitors/teams and the public partly because they see themselves in their heroes and that bond has been lost along the way. Speedway is an amateur sport and there is nothing wrong with that, the reason promoters close ranks is because like in most sectors of society it’s about money and they don’t want anyone coming in to take their slice of the pie no matter how small that slice is

I’m working class scum and proud of it

While I agree that the cost is a major factor in people going or not going it is not the difference between it being a Woking class sport or not, there is an unwritten bond between riders/teams that has been severed over the last 25 years, this is why I believe stocks have retained their fan base because they still see their hero’s as one of them

It is and will always be a working class sport but unfortunately those running the sport or taking part in it think it’s something else and the public are not buying into it

I despair 😞