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Had I realised this was tonight before now I'd have come but won't get out of work now, Aces to win at a canter again.

Edit. Wrong thread. Should be one that Brummies can win.

In terms of a contest that's the best meeting I've seen at NSS this year. Zach Cook take a bow. Only win from the gate was his defeat of Fricke in heat 5 other than that did it the hard way, including facilitating Lidsey to get past Masters in his third ride. Then curb crawled in heat ,15 giving Fricke no opportunity to move of the inside which allowed Kurtz the freedom of the wife line to eventually overhaul Fricke. For a 16 year old Cairns is a not a small lad, other than the tall Kemp he must have been the heaviest rider on show. Wasn't quick enough to compete with anyone other than Thompson tho evening but didn't disgrace himself. Ref was holding the tapes too long at the start which led to the two tape exclusions. Zishcke showed a little more tonight, but Kemp was the star performer in the reserve berth gating really sharply in his first few rides. Bewley, Kurtz & Lidsey were a little off the boil didn't have answer for Fricke, fortunately for Belle Vue Douglas had a poor night by his usual NSS standards.

Looking forward to seeing Cairns but hope Mulford isn't badly injured.

My last NSS visit until August BHM I suspect as Belle Vue are away the final two Mondays of July. Fricke should give Bewley & Kurtz something to think about. Douglas & Masters (Becker too had he been riding) should be capable of troubling the other Aces. Hopefully Zischke can find some form, Aces certainly need the reserves to do more.

Are Belle Vue np longer putting the post meeting interview from the Peter Craven suite on social media?

How are you going to get 4 riders to represent Cradley? They're all long retired.

Jason Doyle... tut tut Nikki Pedersen would be proud of you.

Already covered, had mechanical issues on third ride... certainly gave Bewley something to chase in heat 4 & kept Kurtz honest for two laps in heat 6. Musielak versus Cook in heat 15 was the best race, other than Bewley & Zagar. Heat 14 was decent too but so predictably one sides... Aces problem is obvious, the reserves will cost them the title this year. Hopefully Leicester will give the Aces more trouble next week.

Just noticed the video screen from the GP is still here.

Good. South issues were around Crewe, well after Stoke.

That's normally the best way but my Sat Nav sent me a completely different way tonight... not a way I've been before I assume to avoid crawling traffic and it did until the last few miles. Longsight was absolutely blocked when I got here but it looked Ok 15 mins ago. One of the 7 Brummies doing the track walk did look like Jack Smith but I couldn't be 100% sure. Zagar, Musielak & Castagna were the only ones I genuinely recognized. Hagon's van was stuck in the same M6 traffic around Stoke that I was earlier. How was M6 south looking? It looked bad earlier.

Yes I heard on the radio, assumed that was why traffic was bad. Seems Ok now near stadium.

Manchester traffic is much worse than usual... tok me 35 minutes to do my ast 2 mile to the stadium.

Anyone from West Midlands about to set out the M6 is bad! And there are big problems on the M60 too, possibly causing issues on M56 just had pitstop in Altrincham so I'll find out how bad soon.

Yes... and they must!

I'm going to come up for this, despite Brummies being pathetic against Sheffield at Perry Barr on my first visit of the season a few weeks ago and despite being completely certain Aces will get 60+ with relative ease. Hoping Zagar can perform as he did when he was at Belle Vue in 2022 so Kurtz & Bewley have something to worry about. Musielak & Rew should hopefully give the rest of the Aces a race too. Voulas v Zischke.. I'll take Voulas from what I've seen of both!

I was going to come to this but after enduring Brummies v Tigers on Monday night I'm thinking twice about it, that was enough to put anyone off Speedway for a month!

Riding regularly for Ipswich, Bydgoszcz & Västervik is surely enough along with SEC. Unlikely... Torun & Västervik look well set for the end of season play offs.

It was worse than that... it was 80's TV game show theme tunes.

There were more than 2 or 3 Sheffield fans, there were probably 15-20 (maybe a few more) in the second stand on the first bend.... if they made any noise I didn't hear them, the Sheffield fans were louder for the pairs at Leicester a few years ago.

I was going to leave after heat 10... but I bumped into a guy I used to work with. 11, 12 & 13 really were predictable. The fact Musielak won the coin toss but chose gate positions in heat 15 was absurd! Get to heat 15 in contention! I've seen enough of Castagna to know he isn't ever going to be more than a steady reserve in this league. I haven't seen much of Rew but I've seen enough to know he is better than the effort put in tonight. Jeppeson & Hagom looked out of their depth and probably are. The RR was badly utilised, Rew & Zagar both got it immediately after a programmed ride.

Well only one word to describe that, abject. Tigers didn't need to get out of reverse to win easily. Waste of time & petrol. That was enough to put anyone off the sport for life. Minimum effort from the home riders, Musielak aside. A track which offers nothing other than an inside line. And absolutely no atmosphere.

Well only one word to describe that, abject. Tigers didn't need to get out of reverse to win easily. Waste of time & petrol. That was enough to put anyone off the sport for life. Minimum effort from the home riders, Musielak aside. A track which offers nothing other than an inside line. And absolutely no atmosphere.

It's not on TNT is what I meant