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You could argue that. You could argue anything. You could even argue that Russia's war in Ukraine is in "self defence". Fill yer boots. Argue what you like. At the end of the day, who cares? If Birmingham only has 4/7 riders in a team, you could even argue that there's nothing wrong with having only 4/7 posts relevant to the Brummies team themselves.

See what I mean?

That was the theory - once. Trawl back through the 82 pages worth of posts and if more than half of them bear any more than a passing resemblance to a relevance to Birmingham, I'd be amazed.

UEFA have withdrawn the Champions League final from Russia, and stopped any more matches being played there. FIA have cancelled the Russian F1 GP The IOC has requested all governing bodies to withdraw events from Russia. And what are the FIM doing apart from sitting on their thumbs? No news yet about the destiny of the SGP in Togliatti. Will it go ahead, or won't it? When will we ever know?

Great News... Tai Woffinden is making a key announcement at 6pm next Tuesday

Oohhh...investigative journalism in action Wonders will never cease. I guess that any rumours that Birmingham were about to sign Artem Laguta and Emil Sayfutinov have gone up in smoke now. As for that photo of the track, is it an optical illusion or does that look like steeper camber around the inside and negative camber around the outside? Have they just built a second Rye House?

They also charge huge amounts more in their equivalents of National Insurance that fund their "generosity"

Yeah, I've seen that before - Other Polish tracks do it as well. I'd forgotten about that until you reminded me. You'd never get away with that in countries where the Politically Correct Thought Police have got a foothold.

Great News The Brummies fans can carry on using the One Shop Stopping Centre car park. Better still, access to the OSSC car park has been improved thanks to the road works which aren't far from being complete. Just as well really as the capacity at the stadium car park has been significantly reduced.

Yeah, one of the reasons why he may be free to ride in the UK. Those are the kind of scraps that we have to feed off in this country now.

Out of interest, does anyone know the availability of Marcus Birkemose, the 2020 European u21 Champion? I know he's a squad rider in Denmark (same team as Ulrich Ostergaard) but I've not yet seen that he's signed for anyone in Poland or Sweden. Another rider without too many "foreign" commitments would be Oskar Paluch, the almost 16 year-old Polish junior, and 2021 250cc European Champion. One for the back burner should Birmingham's season get past June when Paluch will be old enough to ride in the Championship. Mind you, that really would be showing ambition, wouldn't it?

29 days to sign 3 riders...

Whatever happens in the UK, are we the only country in Europe to offer concessionary admission to students and OAP's? I don't recall seeing anything other than Childrens and Adults prices on my speedway travels in Sweden Poland and Germany. And by adults, that includes OAP's.

Any truth to the rumour that he's not cutting his hair until the Brummies win the league?

If the Brummies have signed a title sponsorship deal with Red Bull or Microsoft then it may be possible to think that they can afford to sign the British Champion. Right now sponsorship deals seem thinner on the ground than riders, and they can't cut the cloth that they don't have.

How bad must a team of 7 riders be to finish below a team of only 4 riders?

Just imagine how exciting the sport would be to watch if the late Dan Maskell or the late John Arlott had been doing the commentary. Sales of sleeping pills would have plummeted.

Great News! There's another Josh Auty story on the Brummies website this weekend. Something else to tie the fans in to their favourite stars.

Never mind...6 weeks to go til the opening night against the Coventry Bees team that currently features 4 less riders than the Brummies team. Might even win that one! Plenty of time for more rider announcements, the news of who the title sponsor will be and many more sponsorship announcements too. Reasons to be cheerful!

The 4 main parties were introduced to the fans at a meeting a few months ago. LR wasn't one of them.

I always did wonder why he was not part of the consortium that took over.

They have less and less each year as the die hards actually die out. That's the hard facts of life with a fan base of "that" generation.

Who would have been the "we"? Who was lined up with cash to splash on buying the land, getting planning permission, building a stadium, providing the car parking, transport links and other infrastructure etc etc to these "brown field" sies? Granted if it was a field in the middle of Somerset it may be possible, there land is comparatively cheap. But inner-city land, with the cash and competition from industry and commerce, that's a different ball game.

Out of interest, who else has signed up to the Brummies' own "TOP CashBack" scheme? You too can help raise the funds for one of the three remaining riders simply by signing up for it and shopping online as normal...it says here...

One would assume from GiveusaB's comments that in comparison to Perry Barr, Redcar is some utopian paradise, or that Ashfield is a carbon copy of Shangri-La. These places are what they are. You play with the cards you are dealt and get on with it. Perry Barr is the subject of a £700m reinvestment programme and in addition a long-term regeneration and improvement plan that will build on that investment. https://www.birmingham.gov.uk/info/50253/perry_barr_regeneration/2388/perry_barr_2040_a_vision_for_legacy If the Brummies were to get merely a one hundred thousandth of that sort of investment by way of the first sponsor, they may be able to persuade someone to take up one of the 3 remaining sits vacant that they have.