Marksman

I think you just summed up life in general in 2025, not just speedway. You could argue in this case however that riders professionalism has took a huge upwards curve and therefore expect a return, whilst some promotions have not followed suit. Bringing a disparity in expections of what the sport is. Morrissey famously saw it coming way back when he wrote "I decree today that life is simply taking and not giving, England is mine and it owes me a living" I can't comment as I wasn't around in the 80s but I can only imagine what a different time it was.

Stuff like this is purely nostalgic and will not work in modern day speedway. 4 Team tournament alone wouldn't work because where are promoters going to finance rider costs for 3 extra away meetings for top riders going by the old format. It's the same crack as people saying there should be a one-off final etc. Speedway needs totally re-invented from the top down just like domestic Cricket has with the Hundred. The only way to do this and keep the top GP riders riding in the UK is to have a separate summer holidays competition, a 'Super League' with maybe a modified format. Team names do not matter one bit, I was always sceptical but franchises work. And people soon find a team to support. 6 Teams would be based around tracks with large followings/finances and the ability to draw big sponsorship and fans in from other teams, 5 man teams (squads with no guest system) sticking to the usual Monday and Thursday priority race nights from mid July to end of August. 30 riders required with plenty to choose from. Example (recognisable to other sports fans) team franchises would come from; Glasgow Manchester Sheffield Midlands/Leicester London/Oxford Bournemouth A normal 14 team league ran at championship standard would be ran alongside this as usual from March to October for your weekly speedway fix. I don't think the standard of rider correlates to the size of the crowd. The rivalries and standard of racing builds this. How else can domestic speedway survive? It can't keep going the the it is! Unfortunately, I don't think some of the people running the sport would have the foresight to come up with a 5 year plan to incorporate this 'Super League'

Fraser Bowes is guesting for Glasgow on Wednesday night at Poole, Nagel must be missing again!

You know what is painful, reading your comments. The Comets are fast today, what do you think is going to happen if we get out in front and are fast. The Comets riders have had no problems passing today as seen in the last few heats. Stick to being an armchair fan and it’ll do us all a favour. Plenty of proper Glasgow fans here btw. Kudos to them 🫡

Hopefully Ace Pijper is on standby incase Vinnie can't ride

He also praised Vinnie’s efforts despite not beating an opponent, the problem is he never learns from his mistakes

7 points between 5 riders 3 of them scored by beating Loftus and Palm Toft 1 scored because of Palm Toft being excluded 3 of them scored by beating a team mate in 5-1 defeats. Remarkable to only get beat by 20 points, we’ve had much worse results this season but none feel as bad as this one.

Credit to Jacob Hook and Batch, can’t believe it’s only 20 points we are down 😂

You’d think it was some of these lads first time on a speedway bike tonight. All started with Vinnie throwing away the 5-1 in heat 2

Just throwing away points in this meeting after 4 heats 🫣

Took this photo of the Red Arrows yesterday

Sounds like you have an itch to prove people wrong, I know what that is a trait of and it all matches up now, which is why people probably just ignore you. The reason I said what I did is because you can’t go on a single thread on this whole forum without you chirping up and doing the exact thing I mentioned. Or quite often it’s telling everyone what team changes the team manager should have made during a meeting. The mute button is good advice Captain Hindsight.

Not a bad effort from 3 of the riders, didn’t expect Trigger or Morley to score any. But a poor night from our No.5 cost us the bonus point, which would have been a decent result with the team we had out. Plymouth had 6 riders scoring good points throughout the night which was the difference. Good racing tonight, the widened track seems to be doing the trick

Bore off quoting everyone with stats, it’s getting massively boring. Do you even watch speedway or just follow results?

Antti can be a real let down away from home at times, he was great in the latter stages last night. But was always going to be a waste of a r/r ride tonight. As Alfie Bowtell says you have to attack this track and he doesn’t on some tracks for whatever reason.

Said on commentary all night that he wouldn’t be getting any tractors out. Then decided otherwise at the interval. Godfrey was quite funny on the commentary tbf, as he was in the BSN booth the other week

Harrison wasn’t unbeaten? Antti and Batch got a 5-1 over him in heat 9 too, wouldn’t have made any difference tbh.

Robbed the bonus point in the end! Well done Antti and Batch, both gave it a good go all night when behind

2 points between 4 of our riders so far

Blown the 26 point aggregate lead after 8 heats, what a disaster!

Not a good start, is the track always this bumpy?, geez! 🫣

Grahn in for Mulford is a big upgrade for Redcar

Of course, follow all his meetings over there. Has a nice style and consistency, could well become a top rider in this league

Fraser has been fab again 🫡 seems be on whole different level after the enforced break

It was just what Zach Cook mentioned in the meeting report article, not that it matters much to anyone now!