SilentLurker

Say it every meeting along with the GPs the commentary is truly awful. You can tell Tatum just turns up and wings it he has zero knowledge of modern day speedway aside from what is directly put under his nose.

No worries. I will also ask her to see if an admin can edit your name to the correct spelling. Thanks for the laugh, Spwokit.

Can you post this one more time for me please mate.

Can you post this one more time for me please mate.

More passing in the first 7 races tonight than Edinburgh, Ipswich and Leicester combined have seen in the last decade. Superb.

I am getting to the point where I will pay this man to personally commentate on live speedway for me. Commentary is a vital connection between the racing and the fans it is imperative it is rectified to keep the sport going. Kelvin Tatum just does not cut it anymore.

You are sounding like someone who would lose their temper over the council changing the bin collection to a different day of week. Change is inevitable in life and speedway is absolutely closing in on its last lap as a sport in this country. Change is badly needed and I believe that bigger tracks and more consistent entertaining races would massively help.

This sort of response merits a stupid reply so I will give it one. What can they do? They can win the lottery and buy the rights to the whole stadium, kick out the stock cars and create a Belle Vue/Glasgow/Workington hybrid track. Does that answer your question? How clubs can sort out their track is not something I can speak about but why they should try and change them is. Narrow tight tracks have no place in modern speedway. The track Ipswich have is not even that narrow but the racing line is, a better shape would work wonders.

Not for me this take.. as the sport has evolved the tracks have not. If you watch racing at Belle Vue, Glasgow or Workington it is like watching a different sport to this absolute tripe on display. Riders are flat out pushing the bikes to their limit and have room for slight error with more room. Tracks like Ipswich, Poole and Edinburgh the riders are hunched over the the bikes trickling round like amateurs just happy to get 4 laps in. The only slight exception to this for me is Plymouth but that is more of a novelty because of how small it is. But these narrow tight tracks are holding the sport back.

As the great philosopher and wordsmith Kelvin Tatum would say. This Ipswich track is working overtime to be the worst in the country tonight. No doubt about that.

I used to think Poole was the worst track in the country but this Ipswich track comfortably takes that accolade. Can anybody send me a link to a good race around here? Almost every rider aside from Doyle and Emil look like complete novices wobbling round and in fairness Emil looks like he is massively struggling tonight.

Can anybody tell me the name of this commentator and if he is still involved in speedway? I could listen to speedway on the radio with this guy commentating on it.

As tin pot as it gets.

Tell me you know nothing about a speedway bike in the dirt without telling me you know nothing about speedway. 😄

Contact is irrelevant when the a rider looks at you twice and runs you out of room. Contact is not required to be excluded for dangerous riding.

The Sheffield track makes Pooles track look like Belle Vue on finals night.

Great heat 15 ruined because the camera has the same zoom on it required to see craters on the moon. TNT = tinpot.

Much different? It is better as there have been 0 passes after lap 1. Leicester will be able to sell the DVD of this meeting to at least 500 of their fans at the end of the season.

Roynon with the “working overtime” Kelvin Tatum commentary for dummies playbook in his hand.

Goodness gracious this meeting has been absolutely woeful tonight.

He does understand but unfortunately he does not have the bottle for it.

Nice try Kelvin.

If you want an idea just how detrimental Tatum is to our sport growing look no further than tonight. For what it is worth tonight was great speedway with a bit of everything in there and it was ruined by him spouting horse dung. A protest outside the discovery HQ is required. Tatum OUT Dave Rowe IN.

His whole commentary is absolutely shocking. He is completely out his depth these days and is rambling absolute tripe on free flow for hours at a time.

Lobert Lambert won it while Doyle and Lebedevs finished outside of the points - Kelvin Tatum