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It wasn't the fans either there or at home that risked breaking their neck, so with those guy's being the ones who went around the track, they and they alone knew how the track conditions where. I for one don't rate these temporary track. They start to look like a ploughed field after only a few races and no amount of track work can alter it. They just have not been bedded in long enough. You only have to look at the track last night at Monmore Green to see what a track looks like that has been laid and raced on for years. There is no comparicance been them. For something that is aqiviilent to a F1 GP I don't think you would see them holding a GP on an old Airfield. It is well time that they started to use proper track, rather than just using places , where they dump a few hundred ton's of shale a couple of days before, just to make as much money as they can. It was a brilliant stadium, shame they went and spoit it with a track, that was no better than having a meeting at the bottom of some ones garden

No idea. They have not posted who is going to ride. How long before Mickleson comes back and has Pederson called it a day. If so it will be 2 guest again with the Lions losing another meeting.

Now't wrong with the music. I am 64 and have moved on from the days of Elvis and jailhouse rock. Bring it on or should they open with Acker Bilk's stranger on the shore. Which would be quite fitting for British speedway with all the overseas riders.

I still say that they have over developed the engines and bikes. Lighter frames that have got be be flexing to the point of breaking as we saw with Woffy. The engine tuners are the ones who will be saying that the engines are no problem. The tracks all over the country and the world are far to slick. It needs to go back to deeper shale and a new engine and stronger frames again, to slow the riders down and get back to actually controlling the bike and not trying to fly out of the stadium. I don't mean having the riders going around the track with a man with a red flag in front of them, but a bike that needs to be riden with true skill. We would see far closer racing than the gate and go stuff we have now. I know we still saw this in the 60's and 70's, but we also saw some good team racing, something we see very little of these days. Can't see it happening, but I hope it does because the start to this season has seen a lot of top rider going out for long spells, with one or two clubs now really struggling to find riders goos enough to fill the slots.

All I can say is. What a bloody shambles.

It is now getting ridiculace and it is not just young inexpeianced riders that are coming to grief, it is riders with years of experiance under thier belts. Lost count now of how many are out and not just for a week or so after a nasty spill, but some who's seasons are already over for this year. It has got to be time for someone to take a close look at things and see where things are going wrong and what is causing these acidents that are happening once, twice or three times a week.

I wonder if the border acencies will issue him with a visa when the time of his ban is over. I am sure they have already looked into this, but there has never been any mention of it. At least they have a couple of months to get their house in order, before he can race again.

I can't believe they are all being as quite as little church mice. Makes you wonder if someone has stuffed a sock in their gobs, after all the trash they where spewing out a few weeks ago. Maybe he has come to his senses at long last and listened to someone with a bit more sense than the ones he has been listening to in the past. Just ride out the ban and then start riding again. No problems as he has not got that much longer to wait now anyway.

White Knight, I don't think your very far from the truth there, I look at the SCB webpage and nearly every day you see one or two riders added to the list of riders that are going to be out of action for 6 weeks or so. It will not be long before some boffin starts looking at the NHS hospitals traetment lists to see just how many riders are being treated on a weekly basis. It is starting to get very silly now.

And still the injuries keep piling up with at least 2 or 3 a week. This can't be right, the way things are going the H&S execative will be stepping in to see what is happening. If this was in a work place the firm would have now been fined if they had this total of accidents. Do they not look and see what is happening with the speedway riders or do they just put it down to being a dangerous sport and people will get hurt. At the rate things are going this season we will be very short of riders soon.

There comes a point where they can only go so far with trying to lighten the speedway bikes. As a plater welder by trade, it looks like the fault lies with the frame work tubing being so thin, that there is no integrety left in the strength. It looks like the frame was so thin that when he hit the rut, the frame just snapped in half. If that is the case, than how many other riders are using frames, from the same manifacturer. Was it a one off frame or one off the shelf, what ever the case may be, there will be some very sorry people with egg on thier faces. Time to think more on the saftey of the riders, than trying to cut coners by making parts for the bike that are not up to the job. I am sure we will find out soon, what was the cause of the frame failing. He was very lucky.

No I was on about the BT sport site. They where on of the broadcasters that where interested in doing the coverage last year, but Sky won it in the end again, they are making a terrible job of ity this year. Not sure how many meetings they are planning on showing throughout the season.

Can't for one moment understand what was wrong with Staed on Saturday he put in some tremendace meetings for the Lions last season. Maybe he was is just a bit rusty after the winter lay off. I think he will do far better for BV than he did at the weekend. Even so he had some real bad meetings too, not sure what really happens to him when he fails to perform, bad bike set up, or just a bad mind set on the night.

I would be very suprised if we ever see the speedway GP'S back on Sky sports. The only reason that they didn't renew the licence for the GP series was because the huge drop in veiwing figures, who fault was that the buck must lie with Sky, failing to let folks know it was being shown in the first place.The coverage they are giving to British speedway this season is nothing bar terrible, with one meeting being broadcast then a few weeks gap between the next, no longer do we get our weekly broadcast's. Personally, they would be better giving up showing speedwat altogether and let either Eurosport, the BBC or BT sport take over, we could then ask if we could get a twice a week showing one ELmeeting and a PL or NL mid week. we can live in hope, because what Sky are showing us now is a total disgrace and they don't deserve to have the TV rights.

The whole SGP circit is now nothing but a huge money making circus. At the end of the day, there is someone out there making an awful lot of money out of it. That sadley is not going back into speedway. If the BPSA staged the British GP, I very much doubt if any of our clubs would see any profit from it. No doubt it would go into the coffers of someone elses pocket and they would say thank you very much. See you all again next year. That has paid for a good holiday for my family. Because if run correctly, with TV fee's, ticket sales and all the rest that comes with the event, there is a lot of money to be made. But no way on this earth is it going to help any British speedway club. If they get anything it will be peanuts, compared to what they take on the day.

It is totally wrong for Norrie to go clap trapping his mouth off to the press. What he really needed to do was get all the riders together somewhere nice and quite, before the meeting tonight, and as a good team manager should do, tell them all what is expeted of them. Not a very nice thing to see when a manager slags his team members off to the press. Maybe he hasn't got the nerve to stand face to face with them. What this could really mean, is that Norries days with the Lions are now numbered. I was suprised when he as asked back this season, not the best speedway manager by far.

The SCB, should be the ones when they put something in print, to get the fact straight, as they are the body of people who are looking after the sport. Looking back at what was said, it was what Voldrh, stated that had happened to him in the accident, so it was the riders comments that where at fault. I supose though when you have just crashed and broken your leg in 2 places, things must go through your mind what happened could be rather different to what actually went on.

I think gone are the days when a fan turned up to a meeting to see his team, only now to find that there is only one rider in the team riding and all the rest are guest riders. SCB if your software really does what it says on the tin, then then you should get in contact with the SCB and BPSA and tell them what it does and then hammer out a decent price for it. Funny though I bet they don't even care that this is happening week in week out. It is a case of well the fans will turn out to see the meeting no matter who rides, it is time to say if they can't give a monkeys then we will stay at home until you sort things out and get a full team every meeting, bar injuries that is.

No mater what league they race in they should all show that they have the knowladge on how not only to ride the bike but what to do if someone comes off in front of you. I know that at times they are so close that a pile up is inevitable, but when you see the rider behind who is a few yards back go into the rider on the floor or his bike then it just comes down to not being taught what to do in that situation. We get riders coming over from abroud and coming into the EL, who are less skilled than some of our NL lads and only last for a few meetings before they have the heave ho and go home. I think that a lot of riders today are being put into league place that they are not skilled enough, or good enough to ride in. Perhaps the promoters should run the clubs a bit like a football team with mid week practice, but that would be a no, no as riders are here there and every where and they still seem to get no better for it. But I must say that they are doing something positive with our young under 16's with them getting together for practice setions with riders there to show them how to ride their bikes and race properly. So come another 4 or 5 years we may start to see some very good young British riders start to come through, at least I hope so as we have gone down hill the last 10 years or so, with the BPSA giving nothing to help them, I think they have seen that something was needed to get some good British riders into our top leagues in the near future. So if that happens, the Poles will be no longer needed to fill up the places.

Another legend passes away, one of those people we will never forget, a great character. R.I.P.

Only wrote what was put out on the SCB website. So it was they who got it wrong in the first instance.

I started a thread on the amount of riders being injured this year and folks have stated that is no worse than any other year. I disagree, we are losing 2 or 3 riders a week at the moment, some with very bad injuries, just read today about Voldrh, with 2 compound fractures below the knee, why are we getting so many accidents, are the riders trying to hard at the start of the season after a few months on thwe side lines, are they not getting in enough track time before the start of the season. are the bikes now to uncontrollable, or are the air fences far more dangerous than the ols style fences. That is what caused Voldrh accident when he bounced off the air fence into the bike in front. So yes Darcy is saffer sitting it out, only hope he is getting some track time in and staying in shape for when he gets back on track, should hate to see him come back and crash out first meeting and be out again for the rest of the season. It could happen, if he thinks that he can just get back on his bike in June without, spending a few weeks on a few tracks to get back into things.

Sorry but it isn't the ref who has to ride the bikes around the track. It is up to the riders of both teams to ask for the track to be graded to make sure that it is safe to race on.

And another one bites the dust. Just read about Voldrh crash, where he suffered 2 compound fractures below the knee, after the bike lifted and he bounced off the air fence into the back of the front bike, he has had to have pins, and it looks like he will miss a big part of this season. So are the air fences a saviour or are they more of a danger hazard to the riders, than the old board and wire fences.

Like that. The way things are going on this thread it will reach an all time record. Good old Darcy. Now all we need is a good silly atatement from one camp, or the other. Then it should really start to heat up here.Come on lad lets hear one of the stupidest staement of the century.