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Would suggest that's well understated. The subsidy has been two or three times that amount in the years prior to lockdown and is no longer shown in the abbreviated accounts.

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The problem is that with current H&S regulations the kids games and the mascot "act" can't take place while the tractor is going round. This makes for a long and rather boring interval

Do the Danes ride on Tuesdays?

Do the Danes ride on Tuesdays?

Agree with you that team managers often have little impact on meetings. As you say this year's team seems well up for it, but not sure that has always been the case in the past. Cami is in an invidious position not being a promoter or owner so has little "carrot" and no "stick".

I think BSN plan for each Championship team to have two home league meetings streamed this year. As our league meeting against Poole is no longer on the list, will BSN cover our league meetings against Plymouth and Berwick or does the Brit U21 event count as one of them?

Not convinced Connor is doing much better at Redcar than he would have done at Ashfield this year. Nowak and Vissing seemed too good to pass up on with 5.00 averages.Would we have a better balanced side with Harris, Nowak, Vissing, Hume, Basso , Bailey and Pijper? Perhaps but it would be a brave move to release Brennan, though he does seem to have plateaued this year.

Don't believe the team manager makes the "hire and fire decisons" and reckon he plays a minor role in team selection each year. This stuff is way above his pay grade.

BSPL site shows him to have had five meetings, though only four for the Tigers. Not sure how this is arrived at. His average is shown as 3.62 being 19 points from 21 rides, so 6 from one meeting and 4 in the rest would take him to a 4.00 figure, assuming four rides in each.

Surely it depends on how they score in these meetings. If the July cut off is around the 23rd, then we have four meetings to be counted - Redcar (H), Plymouth (A), Birmingham (A) and Oxford (A) and possibly Oxford (H) if it is rearranged in July.

Let's hope it's not a repeat of last year! Interesting that Edinburgh ran four heats on Friday and are letting supporters who attended in to a following meeting for £4 - ie a refund of £16+! Quite a difference from Glasgows measly £4 discount albeit they managed six races.

Andy Meldrum got one midway through the 1970 having sustained some shocking facial and jaw injuries at Ipswich when wearing an open face injury. John Berry remembers in one of his books that he was in no hurry to see the extent of the injuries.

Glad you liked it Salty. It was written by Mark Sawbridge to whom the thanks should go.

Now a year since the last Classic Speedway magazine. Still hugely missed but I hope the on line mini version fills the gap to a limited extent.

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Thanks and Happy birthday Billy who turns 53 on Tuesday but I only do "big " birthdays ie 50, 65, 70, 75, 80 otherwise there would too many to mention

Poole have a blank on June 28 and Glasgow have nothing on June 30 so they seem obvious dates, although Glasgow are due at Wimborne on July 5 in the league

Really poor that with no rain forecast the track was so dusty.

From the Berwick website When the fixtures were planned, May 6th was just another date on the calendar. No-one could have appreciated how a greater proportion than expected of the population (and therefore a greater proportion of the potential speedway crowd) would decide to celebrate the Royal day with a knees-up, and give our attraction a miss. From Wikipedia The organisation of the coronation was the responsibility of the earl marshal, the Duke of Norfolk.[8] A committee of privy counsellors arranged the event.[9][7] On 11 October 2022, the date of the coronation was announced as 6 May 2023, a choice made to ensure sufficient time to mourn the death of Queen Elizabeth II before holding the ceremony.[10][7]

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He's certainly one for the future but not sure that he gained anything from four match races where he finished more than hald a lap ahead. Really we need all competitors to turn up.

He's not 16 till late August which precludes him from riding in the Championship until then.

Not sure that the duration is a selling point, though 30 heats certainly is. Did you think the crowd was far better today. I guestimated between 200 and 300 but might be wrong. We need to consider whether we have classes where there are four or fewer entrants. Only two showed up in the 500cc class today.

The Glasgow promotion have made a rod for their own back. Right now there's a similar forecast for Sunday afternoon when the Brit Junior event is scheduled and possibly they need to be careful for the youngsters. Are crowds down because of the lack of fixtures or because of the aftermath of the heat six abandonment ?