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The big problem at BP for DH is that he doe's not own the land that the stadium sits on. We know that Coventry have tried to work out a track share, that seems to have come up against a brick wall. The SCB/BPSA knew that DH would not even think of paying a fine they gave him. If it comes to the crunch at the end of season, that is if the Lions make it there. The they take away his promoters liceince and the track loses it raceing licieince, he would have very little to sell, bar a track you couldn't race on a wooden fence and a few buildings. In jump Coventry and make an offer well below the £650,00 that DH is asking for the club as it would be useless. I am afraid unless he pays up he is in a catch 69 here.

This is a great shame for our sport and a great shame for a club that managed to rise again after 20 years away from the sport. I will be an even bigger shame if the club closes and the sport is lost again at Leicester, because if that does happen I doubt very much if it would ever start up again, I think that some times even a Pheonix dies. I know the SCB/BPSA where doing thier job, but this seems to be very poorly thought out, with the club having enough problems at the moment, without hitting them with another nail in the coffin lid. A total disgrace, if things at BP go from bad to worse then I just hope that the SCB/BPSA, have a plan B already lined up for a new promoter to take over,

One of JD's reasons for leaving the Lions was it was to much, rushing around to get across to Poland, so what doe's he do he comes and rides a Saturday night against the Lions. Totally disgraceful what he did on Saturday. As fo a couple of new team members, It would be nice now that Rulla is team promoter, that she could have a few kindly words with some lads from Russia, the Laguta's or Emil spring to mind, now they would be a decent signing.

The Robins always go away from BP with thier tails between thier legs at BP, not seen them win there yet, but this year they have Doyle. So they could just pull off a win. Doyle sahould not be riding though on a Saturday as he always said it was to much trouble having to fly over to Poland after the meeting, I think it was just a mater that Swindon where offering him more monet that he would have been getting if he stayed at BP this year.

The top names in speedway are now just to greedy and are asking for silly money, money that the promoters, bar a few clubs are unable to pay them. When they all rode over here last time, with thier demands, they nearly managed between them to close down a few clubs, the promoters kept paying them until it was almost to late, when the clubs decided to put a limit on what they would pay the riders, we saw a mass exodus of riders, most of them will never ride here again, unless they get what they ask for, the likes of PK who wanted £4000 plus points money. How many clubs could pay this sort of figure to say 3 riders a team and still be running at the end of the season. You need an awful load of bums on the seats to even break even.

There are quite a few children who support the Lions and they have done since the club started up again, to lose them now, then you are losing the fans of the future, If they raced on a Friday then there would not be a problem other than Coventry also race on a Friday. My grandson comes to the Lions with me and it would be a no,no if they raced mid week as it would be far to late by the time we got home. It is usually after 11.30pm by the time we get back, and for a 10 year old to get up for scholl the next morning, it is not the best way for him to stay awake at school. There are a lot of family members who bring along son's and daughters. We should be looking after these kids, because in 10 years time it will be them that stand here with thier wives or girlfriends, with a new generation of Lions fans to come. Lets think about the future of the sport. It is time we stopped bowing and scraping to Poland and Sweden. So be it if we have to run British speedeway with Brititish riders, I would rather see that than the rubish they have dished up this year and they still dare to call it Elite.

A question I have raised on here before, is about the big name riders, which the Lions never seem to be able to sign. Is it a fact that they don't want to spend the money to sign them, or is it a fact that they just have not got the money to do it. I don't know what the clud has got in the kitty, but a few seasons ago they said the money side of things was very good, where does it stand now ?????????

This is disgraceful, the way his Polish team suddenly want him back again. At the start when he came over here they said they wanted him to learn to ride the British tracks and also to gain more experiance. It looks like the time has come now that he is just starting to become a far better rider then when he first came. Time that someone stood firm against the Poles, they have now gotten to big for thier boots. Such a shame because he was a pleasure to watch riding and a great lad to talk to. Hope he gets over there and tells them where to go stuff themselves and comes back over here, just depends how much he thinks of his Polish side and what sort of powers they hold over thier riders. Bad show Poland, you deserve an award for the worst PR of this year.

Just looked on Sky and yes it is on, not sure if it is not on Sky Sport2. Don't hold me to that though, but is is listed on the TV schedual.

Hope it is better down your way than up here in South Derbyshire, we have just had some very heavy rain falling, stopped at the moment, but we had 3mm in less than a half an hour, that could play havoc on a slick, hard track. Nowhere to go but stay on the top and then turn into a sludge pit.

Nice to see Davy Join the Lions. Just hope that if he starts to do well, that the same does not happen when Jaason started to pick up his act and when he did Swindow decided that they wanted him back again after giving hime the elbow. Davy is a great rider and he deserves better than the way he has been treated this year. Lets hope he has a long stay with the Lions and Poole don't decide when he gets going again that they will have a place for him again. Still not got to a meeting yet this year, has I still have a huge hole in my toe. This could be just what the Lions need, sorry about the pun.

The EL has been in a mess for well over 10 years now. The big decline in the sport started in the 90's. They where just to stuppid to get something done to bring the sport into a new era. Instead they have just bummbled along until most of the clubs have about as many fans on the teraces as there are in your local pub, on a week night. What will happen next year, I dread to think, this has been the worst EL that has been macled together since it went from being an amatuer sport. With teams have nothing better in some of them than if they where in the PL. For the sake of keeping the sport running, they need to scap the league system, and start again from scratch. Because after this year fans will not be going to mettings with second rate teams and being expected to fork out £18 to go and watch a dying sport. Lets hope that they can do something to bring the sport into the 21st centuray, another couple of years of what we have put up with this year and the EL will be gone for good.

Best wishes to the Tompson twins in Poland this weekend.

Hem lives about 15 miles away from where I am. He is as far as I know still living in Derby

If you go back to the 50's and 60's speedway was very much a working class sport and people turned out in huge numbers to watch it and even 20 or so years before that. I have a few photos from Tamworth and the fans there in the early 50's would make the promoters wet thier thier pants if they could get them many on a race night. The advent of the 80's still saw quite a decent following, but then the sport and lesiure industry took a great big U turn, with folks going to the gym etc and then the home computer and mobile phones came along. People just found different things to do and the speedway promoters failed to move with the times. If anything they went backwards, advertising of the sport is now almost non existant. I can remember going along to Long Eaton stadium in the 60's and there where posters every where telling you when the next meeting was on, how long ago is it since you saw one of those. Until they get to grip with things and come in the 21's centuary, and push the sport into the publics eye again, then things are only going to get worse.

So far I have not been able to get to any meetings, due to my toe playing me up again, I now have another large hole underneath my toe and sitting out in the cold is just to painful, It was even worse last year even when it got warmer. It looks like we missed a good nights racing on Saturday, it looks like it will be a few weeks before my toe heals up enough for me to venture out again so My grandson and I can get to watch the Lions. It is now getting very boring having this same complaint evry year, this year was the first time since the track opened that I never even got to come to practice day. I may be wrong but I think there will be some team changes made very shrtly, from what folks have been saying about Mrs H's out burst on Saturday night, but they only have themselves to blame in the team they chose for this season.

Yes Sam did come and lay out the track, as soon as he went away on holiday to the USA. DH pulled up the stakes he laid down and put them how he wanted the track, the rest is history. All it needs now is for turns 1/2 to be ripped up and I hope Glyn gets around to doing it as he wants it. Then we may see some real speedway at BP instead of the gate and go we have now.

Can't really say that the changes to turns 3/4 have made the racing any better than before. It needs turns 1/2 altering as soon as possible. The straights are still to long and at the speed they get up to after turn 2, they chances of them getting by are now no different to what it was before.. Yes you can see how much has been added to the bottom bends, but it still needs those first 2 doing and before the season gets much farther along. Nice win for the team though, they all tried thier hearts out. Symonz rode like a hero againt Jason. Just hope they can continue in that same vien for the rest of the season, just watched it on SKy Rossiter spits the dummy again, they have lost every meeting at BP in front of Sky sports and he was in a foul mood every time.

If things carry on the way they are now, even more fans will drift away from BP. It is such a shame that so much was done to bring the sport back to the city. Not actually sure what the problem is. Have the club got the money but they will not even think about paying any of the top riders the amount they would be asking to ride in the EL. Or is it that they have not got the money and as we can see from this years line up they are having to make do with riders that other clubs would not even look at.. The way thing have gone since they joined the EL it as only gone from bad to even worse, they would have been far better, to have gone back down to the PL. Keep th Saturday night race night and hopefully bring back a few fans that have walked away. Because if they don't sort things out soon, there will be very few turning up to watch and it could be that unless someone else buys the club, it will be be the end of the line for for Leicester again. I hope not, but it needs someone running the club who knows what it means to run an EL side not thry to run a side with nothing better than what they would have had if they where in the PL. Come on get things at BP back on track,, before it to late.

It is just Tai's way of saying. I am not wasting my time riding in this, there is noone in any of the British teams who can beat me, I am just in another league to them, so why waste my time coming over to race in it.. One thing, it may just make it a bit more interesting as there are a number of young Brits now coming through the ranks. Be n ice to see just how far along they have come.

Thanks. I would rather keep all 10, if I can.

Over the last few seasons he has turned his back on almost anything to do with British Speedway, When the SWC comes around you will see him spending more time with his Aussie mates than he will with his British team mates. What ever happened the other year when he threatened to pull out of British Speedway full stop if the BPSA and SCB didn't listen to what he had to say and do what he told them to do, did they tell him to go away in no polite terms. Would not be at all suprised if he decides to call in a sicky a couple of days before the SWC, and go to Aus for a month holiday due to stress problems, he has just gotton to big for his boots. Noone is biggter than the sport or so they say. Will he come limping back to ride here when he starts to get older and the Swedes and Poles no longer want his services. If that was the case I would tell him to take a long walk.

The year has been spoiled for me already. I have problems with the bone ifection in my toe starting up again, unless the weather is nice and warm then it rules out any chance of comiing to sit and watch a speedway meeting, because the pain in my left foot is just to much to bear. So it looks like my grandson and I are in for a long wait, before we get to BP, or I live in hope that the tablets I am on now clear it up again, if that fails than the only other option I have is to have my toe ampulated. I have grown quite fond of my toe, so they go go and take a run, before I let them cut it off. Best of luck to the Lions, just hope we can get there soon.

I tried to sort out the Supporters and the Clubs web sites last year, got in touch with the clubs office but they said no thanks we have got everything sorted out here and will be putting things in action soon, it is still just a as it was 2 years ago.

Never been in that way only know of the one way in there as I don't live in the area. Will have to take a look on Goggle maps. Just taken a look and yes I can get in from the turn off before the one by the Police Station.