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Can’t recall Cloughie using that term, but I get it and it is funny 🤣. That’s got me wondering what Cloughie would have been like as a speedway team manager. I can see him walking around the pits in that green sweatshirt wagging his finger at under performing riders and of course in front of the referee’s box!

Thanks for sharing 😂

Pardon my ignorance, but who is Jigsaw?

Yeah, all the best davieb1. Could you please now go back 15m and post again 😄

Interesting. I know nothing about the technical side of the bikes, but was reading an article in this week’s Star with Hans Nielsen who said that ‘lay downs’ were here to stay and that nobody would ever go back to ‘upright’ engines.

Good for Phil, this could be right up there with his innovative coloured start mats at the pit gate for televised meetings.

Lawson has a higher average than Cook 😳

Speedway has been around for generations in this country, along with other sports. Unlike other sports (cricket is the best example I can think of), it has done nothing for decades in terms of serious and ongoing marketing to attract newer followers and most importantly, sponsorship. Money that riders can make in Poland is hardly reliant on attendances. Yes, there are more choices for spending your disposable on than there was years ago, but the same can be said for all sports in all countries. I’ve been surprised that the few Polish people I’ve met in this country know nothing about speedway (football is their national sport), but the people running the sport over there are obviously still doing something right!

2026? Think you might be getting a little ahead of yourself. Whilst Ipswich may be a very forward thinking and a well run club, things change very quickly in British speedway. change by the

The article in this week’s Speedway Star would suggest that he only intends to ride in the Championship next season.

Ipswich Belle Vue Sheffield Leicester Kings Lynn Oxford Birmingham Play offs? Depends on who can get Bomber to guest and who wants to take an end of season punt on Lambert.

You missed the possible 50p increment between the £1 & £2 increase. Regardless of your budget, the nominal price increase will not determine whether someone will attend or not. Most people will accept what they’ve been served up previously or will have walked away from the sport before now. If all tracks were to reduce prices by £2, how many more spectators would that attract each week?……. Exactly! That isn’t going to bring back the ‘Yes I remember going to speedway years ago, what happened to the sport’ brigade. Tweaking admission costs are the very least of the sports problems in this country.

I hoped that was the case😆

According to my memory and subsequent research, Zagar only did two meetings at Leicester. Scored 9+1 from five rides and then 1 from four rides (failed to finish in 3 races). Pretty sure that he made his dislike for the track well known and was absent from the Aces line up on their later visits. To say you are easily pleased would appear to be a massive understatement!

Tasty looking line up that. The last two in the list will surely provide some serious bottom end (eye watering) fire power if called upon to deliver, should the established likes of ketchup disappoint on the night.