THE DEAN MACHINE

Looking forward to the great experience tag line dished out by maggie vatcher in the star next week

But if it’s a rule he should stick to it because if it happens to anyone else now he can’t exclude either

Stop the watering

Can’t believe his pit cap is being shown on tv live around the world

Well is it a rule or not ?

Just seen it

1000s turn out in the town of Toruń to cheer on their team but nobody goes to the SON

Double that of the other nights

Is not Joe Thompson a better pick than Luke Harrison or Luke Killeen ? And what about William cairns or Cooper Rushen?

What did happen that has any relevance to the Buxton hitmen or bulls ?

I think the SON2 is a good indicator of how good the team GB set up really is, bewley lambert and woffinden are already proven top riders so let’s see how good our next in line are against our equivalent counterparts

What went on in Manchester this week ?

But there is the point, why upset anyone at all even before you start just for the sake of changing it

Yes it is because the sport is run by the riders for the riders

If it’s still 2 leagues and I think it will be then who are the promoters pandering to?, if the majority of fans want 1 league and I am one of them then clearly they are pandering to themselves and the riders, I understand it’s not straight forward as just merging the 2 with riders, money and dates but quite frankly I was sick of seeing the same teams last season, we can’t keep doing the same thing and expect things to improve, but I’m told there is radical change planned but nobody will say what it is and the riders don’t know either

I do have one gripe, changing the name to the Buxton bulls, I get they want to stamp their name on the venture but fans can be fickle, remember Reading changing from racers to bulldogs, some fans refused to support it, there is no point changing a name and upsetting a few, get everyone onside from the outset

This is a little story from the year after I finished, Buxton had a home match and had 2 riders missing as I think 1 was injured and the other rider had a match for his championship team on the same day so Buxton booked a guest,and used RR for the number 1, this guest was no superstar but it was the only rider really available, he wanted £35 per point plus Tavel plus a tyre plus fuel and he wanted a hotel for him and his Mrs as he was riding somewhere else the next day so was not going home, he was booked to ride at number 4 but on the morning of the match the championship match was called off so the number 4 was able to ride,so Buxton told the guest he would ride at number1 to which he said he wanted an extra £5 per point, for what exactly? ,the meeting was rained off anyway but he still wanted his hotel paid as he was still riding the next day,that was the sort of thing which killed off Buxton, well that and some teams paying gaurentees of £500 for their stars, I’m blowing my own trumpet here but when they had the chance the bspl should of put me in charge of the national league the day I retired.

This is what he wants but this is either going to happen in 2026 or not at all or at least at its current location and the longer it drags on the less hopeful I am that it’s going to happen

The soul of British speedway is back, it’s a stain on the history of this British speedway that it was allowed to close in the first place but it’s back and we move forward, good luck to all involved up in them there hills

The reason Buxton closed was because the likes of cradley and Kent and others were paying stupid points money to riders to ride in the national league and Buxton simply couldn’t do that and it became impossible to field a competitive team, until the last couple of seasons Buxton were pretty much the only team sticking to the pay scales and even when they went over them to compete it was less than half what others were paying

It’s an ashtek GM

Well that lacked any real excitement, like last night it had the practice day feel about it, hope the final is better

The soul of British speedway is back, should never been allowed to close

Not my beans to spill

Laurence is already involved elsewhere next season,,all to be revealed soon, tolley wants to be somewhere that unfortunately has huge stumbling blocks to overcome and that’s looking unlikely for 2026 so he either has Sheffield or Leicester for 2026 or gives speedway a miss until his desired choice happens