Deano

No9 has been a problem since 2007. Speedway fans are a fickle bunch on so many levels. Tell them to stand in a place they don’t like standing to get a view doesn’t help. Then the stadium owners build a bus shelter blocking one of the few viewing positions. The opening years people would stand 10 rows thick in front the starting gate unable to see through the tall geezers at the front as the ground is flat. The stadium just isn’t designed for speedway and it erodes away the enjoyment of those first experiences for new fans. I’ve introduced four regulars 14 year olds they do love it. They go to Arthur Terry Four Oaks Sutton Coldfield. There are glimmers of hope. Get some bikes in the school, they must talk about it.

That we are “imminently” about to find out who our final rider is.

Great news finally! I’m getting fed up of waiting.

Me and my brother used to help out on practice days at Weymouth Cycle Speedway. I think it’s gone now, it was a nice outdoor shale track at the athletics track in the shadows of the old railway embankment.

I think there’s a big display board covering the view of the one bend at Nottingham. Rendering it difficult to adapt. edit - my bad… it’s a lake!

It looks like it could produce some amazing racing lines.

Then tell us who it is and not who it isn’t. Simple question.

Just come out with it!

It did. My own mom and dad talk fondly of the moment Big Arthur touched/fenced* Ole Olsen at PB once and Browning got excluded. The place went into orbit! *view depended on whether you were a Brummie or bee fan.

As a Brummie watching the Wolves v Cradley in the Black Country derbies was surreal. Standing on the terraces at Monmore Green in between the two, listening to two sets of fans abuse each set of riders, each other and Brendan Kearney in some kind of foreign language was amazing.

This is why I have a dislike for doubling up. Fans lose out of some talent and get overdosed with other.

Great news! We need more Facennas in speedway.

Agreed. Rumours of tracks closing seem to hold more sway than the written word of one opening these days.

Surely it’s not that easy to get things kicked out of local government! Everyone would be doing it.

The location of the pub maybe a red herring. Someone in the picture maybe a relative of a former or current landlord or even customer. I think it’s a question to someone behind the bar.

https://maps.nls.uk/geo/explore/#zoom=16.8&lat=51.43224&lon=-0.18613&layers=170&b=1 hopefully it works.... use the slider on the bottom to flick between the two stages in history.

I know 67!!! Have you google mapped his business address? He's certainly done alright in life if it's his.

That would pee me off if he's going to be missing!!! I'm trying to get new people through the gate. Three kids now go every week, my daughter wants to go more regularly and her boyfriend fancies going as he can't stand footy.

https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/03308648/officers Definitely the same guy, that company in the article is in administration... and guess who is the director.

same guy? https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/officers/6ZD_el_iJwOR-sVHMGXhnVfJjCg/appointments

John Downer is the “Individual Benefitial Owner” who lives in Monaco according to companies house. Just download the pdf of the last accounts https://find-and-update.company-information.service.gov.uk/company/OE006467/filing-history

Wouldn’t it be cheaper to flatten and start the grandstand again? It could even be re-built using factory unit material.

He’s that fed up with the lies, he goes into business with him again.

let me take your car away, help me look for another one once I’ve crushed your current one. its f’ing ridiculous.

What planet are those people living on! To think one of them is a credible speedway promoter beggars belief.