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If you gonna screw em over timing is everything 😃

Is this purely a time suspension bearing in mind that was Workingtons final fixture. If it is then it is no penalty at all really.

Went along to this fully expecting an exciting meeting and the Bears to push the Pirates all the way, somewhat inexplicably neither materialised. I have never witnessed a meeting at the Ecco Arena without a pass in 15 heats after the second bend. For whatever reason it was gate and go and invariably the Pirates were sharper in that department. Congrats to the Pirates who seem to manage to do what is necessary when it counts the most. Sure the Bears will be determined to regroup for the KO Cup meetings.

Not what I heard Steve. My view his he treat Worky with disdain because he had already been tapped up for next season with the Pirates being chief suspects.

Rumour was he had cleaned out his workshop at Worky and moved his bikes to Poole 🤷‍♂️ unverified I must add.

You may well be right .

He was riding in the amateur meeting last sunday, looked good.

Reading between the lines, from the club statement it sounds like financial viability is the major contributing factor to me. If someone comes forward to buy the club and I hope they do then I would think a new promotion would want the club to be more financially viable. The reset is coming it quite simply has to.

A close result on aggregate but the result I expected. The Monarchs quite simply didn't have the heat leader power to see them home. Victor Palovaara is a shadow of the early season rider we witnessed while you could have bet money on Sedgy being last in heat 15. MPT never looked up for the challenge at any point which must have been a huge disappointment to the Monarchs faithfull. It would have been harsh and hugely disappointing for the Tigers if they had failed to reach the final after finishing top of the league so well done to them.

Well done the Bandits, lack of recent racing for some of the Comets was obvious early on while the 44 points from an impressive Berwick top 4 sealed the day. Some very entertaining races but Comets must have given up on squaring up the meeting in heat 15 to take it to a superheat.

Should get a 28 day ban for next season though if a British club is naive enough to sign a rider who thinks it is okay to treat the club who quite frankly have pandered after him all season with no reciprocal loyalty with such disdain.

Yes

If the Monarchs had retained the 20 point lead they had at one time during the meeting the advantage was with them but I believe the Tigers will overcome a 14 point deficit at Ashfield. The heavy shower spoiled it as a spectacle but I have seen worse televised meetings to be honest. At one time it looked like all the Tigers good work during the season was going to count for nothing mainly because of a heavy downpour and agreeing to ride with a patched up team, thought they really missed Dan Thompson as Nikolai was woeful for 3 rides and then looked liked a world beater in his final outing. The Monarchs will be kicking themselves for letting the Tigers reduce the deficit over the final third of the meeting especially as Bomber rarely looks that uncomfortable.

Good post. I agree that the BSPL with only 4 current active members does not indeed have the wherewithal to steer the sport to better times. It definitely needs the help of professional business, marketing and PR consultants to develop strategies for sponsorship, fan engagement, improved media coverage and the attraction of investment. However this costs money and the BSPL don't have much. Promotions need to urgently think about improving facilities and introducing activities that make Speedway more family oriented and not just about the racing. It also in the shorter term needs to be serious about realigning the costs of running the sport based on current attendances.

Championship definitely needs more meetings imo. Worky recently had a run of weekly home meetings and the crowd held up well even with holidays and the usual many summer attractions in the area. It was good to talk about who is it next week rather than having a gap of 3-4 weeks without a home fixture. Need to change the current model it has stagnated and proved detrimental to British Speedway for too long now.

well they may have to sit down for it then 😃

Feel for you here lot of miles involved. Hugely frustrating especially after all the dry weather this summer.

started to rain in Worky at 2:30pm and was on and off after that sometimes quite heavy. The forecast for today on the BBC changed last night to more sunshine and less showers so it will probably pour down this evening. Weather accuracy is still not great even with all the data fed into computer models.

yeah it is on British Speedway website.

If you get a third party to carry out the streaming I believe the club typically get around 33% of the takings. Seen some rather poor streams that I would be reluctant to pay £12-99 for again. I believe the Poole stream was £13-99 on Wednesday.

Cami critical of the refs decisions which he claims all went against the Tigers, also the Poole fans especially those near to the pits who he claimed verbally abused the Glasgow riders. Shaping up nicely for a battle royale in the second leg.

Richard has always been a consistent points scorer.

Also were outstanding debt exceeds the value of the bond.

Yeah , not paying riders correctly breaches SCB regulations. Rules for some but not others it would seem.

In the absence of Nagel to date guests have failed to score what he would have. He has been very good at Ashfield. If he is missing then Poole are favourites for me.