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Did not expect that, really thought we would win around 12-18 points but it ended up an Ommering. R/R really did effect KL from the off but nothing could stop the force that came in 7 waves over 15 heats! Only 1 heat where a Heathen didnt win and no last places! Well done, a real statment to the rest of the league!

http://www.ommerum.co.uk/2014/04/preview-cradley-heathens-v-kings-lynn.html My quick preview for tonights meeting, full heat by heat review tomorrow morning. Should be a good 2 leg fixture this!

SCB STATEMENT Tuesday April 08, 2014 THE Speedway Control Bureau have issued a statement following an incident at the Scunthorpe v Redcar League Cup meeting on Sunday April 6. The statement reads: Premier League: SCUNTHORPE v REDCAR: Sunday 6th April 2014 A racing incident occurred in Heat 7 of the above Meeting in which Josh Auty (Scunthorpe) and Richard Hall (Redcar) collided and both fell on the track. The Meeting Referee, Peter Clarke immediately indicated the disqualification of Auty as being the primary cause. However, Hall after removing his bike from the Fence went over to Auty, who was lying on the track and kicked him in the stomach. As a consequence the Referee ordered that Hall be excluded from the remainder of the Meeting, imposed a fine and sent a report to the SCB. The SCB received a statement from Hall by email early on Monday morning which both admitted the incident and expressed deep regret at his actions and stated that he will be making a full, public apology to Josh Auty, the Scunthorpe public who witnessed his actions and his own Team mates. Taking everything into account the penalty is that Richard Hall’s SCB Registration will be suspended for 30 days with effect from Monday 7th April.

Buy Batchelor 5 Buy Kasprzak 5 11 Neils K Iversen 6 Fredrik Lindgren 6 Andreas Jonsson 4 Martin Smolinski 25 pts = Holder / Batchelor

Here my heat by heat review for anyone who was not able to make it or for anyone intrested in what happened! http://www.ommerum.co.uk/2014/04/heathens-48-storm-40-match-review.html OmmerUm!

You serious! was a cracking meeting, we was winning then Coventry pulled it back and was leading! Heat 3 with Cleggy piping Ritchings on the line, Williamson going wheel to wheel with Nielsen in heat 11! Closest match at Monmore Wood for ages and you say it wasnt a good meeting! No-one came that close last season and I think were in for a few tough matches at home this year as Coventry looked very strong and pushed us all the way till the 5-1's in heat 11 and 12!

Ive put my prediction on my website...www.ommerum.co.uk Should be a belter tonight!

When i saw the scoreline I can honestly say I said to myself I might give that match a miss. However I pay my money to watch NL speedway and follow a National League team so I should give these guys a chance and actually support them by going to watch them. Its a problem that the NL will always have, stand alone teams and development squads together only mean a differnce in qaulity in some teams but if this EL draft works then it will create more opertunites for the young kids and a bright future for British Speedway

Have to say I did enjoy watching speedway but it didnt really provide the best racing, and to be honest the rider who gave us the best entertainment was Smolinski who looks like he could score healthy 6-9's in the GP's with good machinery and riding. The comentator was poor, but someone needed to tell him that one team are in White and Yellow and the other Red and Blue and stop discribing the bikes. In some of the heats he was quite good, and in what seemed his first speedway meeting he seemed to enjoy himslef. If you listen to the final again he actually discribes the race quite well, its was a new pairing and give him his due if he has never comentated on speedway before he did quite a good job...If anyone was at Coventry last friday night then I know who I would rather have. #TerryRyan-Daley Turbo Twins at it again tho as they seemed the only team to be riding as a pair...Hence why they won a pairs meeting!

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Good luck in staging tonights meeting!

Not the way you want the season to start but to be frank the meeting was right to start in my opinion, Greaves flew around the track and looked at ease I was truely shocked at how fast he was going, heat two wasnt to bad but then you started to see the problems arrive with track. It just rutted up badley on the corners and the riders by heat 5-6 were going round the corners upright and when Worrall tried to race a speedway bike the way it was ment to be rode he ended up getting very dirty! The problems were the way it was handled, the wait for anything to happen with a tractor was stupid...nothing happened for 10mins and then it was annouced that it was about to begin but that was 25mins later and then there was no point in grading it as it just made the track slick in the corners and really soft after churning it up. Should never have got past heat 4 and if I dont get a return ticket I dont think I will ever see Brandon again because they have just taken the Micheal with how we have been treated

Yes Confirmed by club, Paul Starke is away with Somerset for the weekend so Ashley Morris will be our guest at Brandon tomorrow! I know Starke isnt really racing but with Paul and Steve in all three leagues, Perry, Clegg and Williamson in PL and NL i can see us using R/R and guests alot this season...which could be a torn in our season!

I think this win for the Kings really emphasises that they are going to be pushing for all the honours in 2014!

www.ommerum.blogspot.com for my latest blog post which is the National League season preview! Dont think were going to win it this year...

£200,000 is a figure ive read! He got paid half and then the rest was suposed to be paid in this coming year. He shouldnt be that bad off if he is earning that sort of money in Poland and now hes with Tourn surely they offer big money too. I think the manager has his hands tied and knows that the money from Russia sponsers is so vast and with there not being a GP or the SGP being televised in Russia he making sure that hes fit for SEC and no running the risk of injury or the huge expense from the GP series! All in all, he should look after number one!

Turbo Twins...Surley, even now they are called Team Forkrent Racing!

Too True and a Speedway rider who cares about £ over becoming World Champion is not one who I want to watch! (As much as he was fantastic last year) Its Crazy but the only thing that may give him some leeway with me is that he is still reported that he owed money by Czestochowa. So disapointed!

Yes they have but he is on record saying that entering the GP's costs him much money and that the rewards he gets back from it are massively out favored but the cost.

Be intresting to see how many meetings he would have missed untill his first ride in a league somewhere! I still think this has something to do with the cost of entering the SGP and what is returned. Even though a return could be becoming World Champion which he was close to last season!

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Yeh fully agree, I love watching NL Speedway and really am thrilled with Devon Devils and Scunthorpe Stages are now involved. As much as many of Cradley Fans want to see the team win and be sucsessful I seriously enjoy watching the young lads enetering the sport and over the season developing into PL riders within one or two years in some cases. I really hope that the EL Draft continues into next year and the supporters of the EL teams enjoy what they have to offer and make the EL a very exciting league to watch. I think the Stags will have the highest average gain in the league this year as Scunny have a great hostory of developing riders!

In total agreement, the fans that call it that are just playing on the old days. As much as I love The Heathens I am a fan who is not old enough to remember the Dudley Wood days, I've only ever watched Dudley Heathens till now. I don't mind the name change but wish we would keep our history but look to the now and the future without bringing the 'Gud Ol Days'. I support Cradley Heathens through and through but we ride at Monmore Green our adopted home until we can find our own track and even then I wouldn't want the track to be called Dudley Wood again...why look to a troubled past, I know it has success but it also gave the majority of the fans heartache. Onto the Stags, bit confused by wanting to bring riders through but why not for British Speedway and not just Scunny and Poole?

I feel it's old fashioned, cluttered and also hard to read. Some of the content is in very thin articles down the side of pages and then a huge headline on each page. I'm not a fan of it at all, only buy the first big issue for all the predictions as it's a good read. Really looking forward for the inside speedway magazine which will be on digital format. The magazines were very good and stylish, but they we not frequent enough!

Buxton with an air fence is a much more inviting posibility to the riders. I went last year and that fence had me nervous and to be quite honest not one rider went of the one line rut in the track that had developed! Its a great place and the track was good, just need to get another good team in the hills and they are in good stead again! 2010 was brilliant but since then not much has happened. I expect big things this year for the Hitmen!