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Any idea of the TV coverage for the second half of the season?

Bad night. Scott, king and Ellis didn’t perform at all. Feel sorry for Emil carrying the team and it isn’t the first time (Oxford). Positives is that Rew done well. That’s the only positive.

Brilliant news and total support for The Bees and for speedway in general! Good luck from a witches fan!

Yeah that’s true! There isn’t a summer in England nowadays anyway! Yes I’m gutted she would have loved to seen Ipswich as a polish fan and only seeing Ipswich on TV. SoN was actually great (maybe as we won) although she didn’t appreciate the Zmarzlik DQ! She was also shocked about the empty temp stand but as soon as I told her it was £80 a seat she soon realised why. Back to Ipswich, it’s a shame tonight isn’t on and maybe the TV may look at this again negatively due to the fact they must fill a spot now and can’t guarantee TV scheduling, who knows what the future holds for this sport but I hope a bright one. I would however be frustrated as a forgeign rider if I flew over to see so many meetings cancelled and getting straight back on the plane home! Must make riders who fly from Poland think twice about signing for a season?

Couldn’t agree more! A sport that is already slowly dying doesn’t need things to happen like this. It is a shame that the sport has to rely on weather. The weather in England is shocking quite frankly, my girlfriend flew over this weekend for the SoN and I told her to stay and we will watch Ipswich vs Belle Vue, (we drove from Ipswich to Manchester) she stayed and flies tomorrow. The promoters and TV can’t predict weather, granted, but it was an early call which was bad. It never said rain all over the 19:30-21:30 period on the weather map. I guess moral of the story is don’t book a flight for English speedway and rely on English weather haha! Dammit !!

You need to scroll down to the weather map and use the quarterly time increments to scroll and follow the flight path of the weather. That hourly weather forecast is just a generally weather assumption.

Surprised it’s been called! Looking at Met weather it’s changed to zero rain until 21:30. I live in Ipswich so it’ll be interesting to see what the weather turns out to be!

Rain likely to hit hard for an hour between 16:00-17:00 and then missing Ipswich just about until 22:00… latest from the Met.

My guess is because he rides tomorrow night at SoN. If he came to scope the British tracks out whilst over I think we all know his decision now after that weather !

I’ve just watched him race and beat Emil once in Toruń vs Lublin and he rode as normal, no issues, so I assume he is all good. Holder got schooled and got 4 points. Both rode though!

Like Tom Brennan guesting for us and coming up with pretty much nothing! That doesn’t always work I guess haha

You can’t compare polish (carpet) tracks to English tracks, maybe make a case for Belle Vues track but the others are different. He also had an extra ride tonight in for the absence Tai, although granted 14 is still a great tally for a meeting! I’m not just saying it because I’m Ipswich but Emil is a freak how good he is on our tracks! Although kvech is doing well!

Anyone heard if Richie is paying for the phone he flung against the wall in anger haha that was my same feeling after hearing the exclusion. Red was poor last night. Anyone else thought it was a weird decision to bring back a possible heat advantage to Ipswich when Ashton impeded himself with his false start?! But when he moved in a previous heat they let it go and he won the race!

Tough night! Some questionable referee decision but in the end we got the job done (mostly thanks to Emil). At one point I thought the meeting had gone from us. They done well to dig in. Especially after the Belle vue meeting so it’s a good night for the guys for sure!

Crazy right! I go to many Gorzow races as my partner is Polish and from there. Not sure on Thomson and Vaculik wages but every top rider is similarly in the thousands of pounds per point plus a basic club wage. Tried to figure out last night whilst at the Gorzow vs Lublin match how much they get on the gate. Average attendance in Gorzow is 10,000. Last nights ticket was 80 zloty = £800,000 zloty. Then obviously sponsors and every match in Poland is live on either Canal plus or Eleven TV. So you can kind of see how they make it work! Also, bear in mind weirdly in Poland. 8 teams in Ekstraliga. 8th relegation. 7th nothing. 1st-6th have 3 stage play off equalling another 6 matches for every team (home and away). Partner said the three stage playoff was new for last season and brought in to push the revenue up. Make sense when you think how much money is involved!

Zmarzlik wouldn't ride in Ipswich just for money. It would be to have more time on the bike, this is why he is deliberating if it's worth the risk IE. bike time vs injury. He is the superstar of speedway and rightly so. Although, this offer from Ipswich probably would be the most tempting time for him to come to England and test his skills back in England. To get rough Pound sterling divide by 5. Polish Media translated to English: According to Puka's information, presented in "Kanał Sportowy", our best speedway rider collects over 10 million per season. Of course, the exact amount depends on the results. However, the lion's share of it comes from the club. As the journalist informed, Motor Lublin pays Zmarzlik six million zlotys per season. In addition, there are another two million guaranteed by a sponsorship contract with Orlen. Another million is a matter of other individual sponsors, and half a million - a contract with Lejonen Gislaved. In addition, there are prizes that the player can win during the season. It is 600 thousand zlotys for the Grand Prix series and about 150 thousand for participation in other tournaments.

Not sure why you would speak about football humour. To be fair I’m wise enough to realise after how he spoke on the interview and that last post that it is banter. I’m saying some of his decisions are random, like wheelie mid race. He probably did just joke around. I felt last night was more banter from him and light hearted than when he actually spoke on the microphone and said “f!ck off”. Sport is what it is, I’ve had my say, people will disagree and have their say. If you aren’t allowed to have an opinion then it’s pointless having a forum. I spoke from my probably passionate frustration last night. Today I woke up and couldn’t really care less.

You’re deffo on Tai payroll haha he can tell me to f*uck off back to Ipswich but I can’t laugh at him. That’s a boring sport then ain’t it!

If it was a bad accident then it wouldn’t be funny granted, but the fact he was fine is karma as far as I’m concerned. Even kids in the pits after the meeting were shouting “tai you’re an idiot” that tells you everything. In Poland he would have been suspended for going back into the track and doing what he done mid race. In England we treat him like he is untouchable and that’s not true. Also, as a person, did you actually hear about him wanting to be allowed to fight other riders after the races? Also what he did last week to his LOYAL polish mechanic is not something a decent guy would do.

Tai held his hand which I think he was implying Scott or Emil hit him as they were close. He knew he wasn’t in the race so pulled off the track. Only to cut back in whilst the race was ongoing and the started doing wheelies. Once the race finished he came to the grandstand and started doing a burnout. This guy is random to be polite! Funny when he fell off though!

Probably because their football is about getting relegated after promotion haha.

I don’t think in foxhall Sheffield fans were getting physically abused unlike in Sheffield. That’s the reason most people despise Sheffield in general.

Maybe you should check his polish and Grand Prix stats and come back to me with a rethink !

After their antics and Tais beautiful words about the witches I’d love to see them go home with nothing at all. The difference between how we reacted when we won the cup at home vs how they reacted when they won the title at home basically shows the maturity of the teams. We won with grace. They won with arrogance. I hope Tai gets the reaction from the crowd he deserves. I think karma this season has caught up with him.

All talk of Dan Thompson but no one slightly concerned that Freddie is in the team and could change the outcome for Birmingham favour (unless you’re a brummy fan then all is good!)?