IainB

Can I interest anybody in a League sponsorship package? You'll get your company noticed by all the earthworms and grasshoppers in Leicester...

You don't like talking about money do you... if IoW were doing as well as they said they were a ferry price increase should have been coverable, I suspect it's more to do with crowd levels outside of the holiday season.

Please elaborate

Okay, if that's what you want to believe...

Ended up on his arse in the first one... just like the mascot before the meeting 😂

And attack Bomber! How Bomber stayed on there I do not know he gave him a right old clout 😂

The ferry thing sounds like a bit of a red herring to me, more likely just waiting for the holiday season to start and their captive audience to arrive, and who can blame them... just as the rest of British Speedway goes on its mid season break. 7 meetings does not a Speedway season make.

IoW is a better analogy... and look how that went 👎🏻

#PrayForNorick 🙏 #NorickStrong 💪

Good to see TNT showing this on a main stream channel after not showing SGP3

They may as well have put Terry Betts, Michael Lee, Ian Turner etc. etc. It was either incompetence or just laziness to not state there were major doubts about 3 of the KL riders

I think young Mr Cairns is going to be a bit of a divisive character in Speedway, he's had the money thrown at him (kit & Hancock and all that) but has served his apprenticeship on the 250's and NDL, he seems a cocky/confident (take your pick) character, a bit in the Woffy mold without the effing and jeffing... did he have a little dig at Boughen? Or was it just a poor choice of words? At the moment he's backing his confidence up with performances (Audi estate in Poland excused).

Thursday is not "our night" though... that's when Mr Morris has to step in and try and negotiate

For first timers and noobs... you can't fail to be entertained (at a normally run meeting) just for the spectacle of 4 riders blasting around on 500cc bikes with no brakes. It's only when you've been to a few and that initial awe has worn off that you suss out that this really ain't very good at all... but if you stick at it you'll see a belter of a meeting, or a consistently winning team, that might keep you coming back for more. Define young fans... most "young fans" I've seen at Speedway couldn't really care less what's going on out on the track, they're normally just running around in circles causing a nuisance to everybody, but who cares the parents can come along and the kids only cost a quid. By the time the older "young fans" have developed an actual interest in the sport they are fast approaching a 2000% price increase and when they hit that they are lost to the sport for the next 20/30 years or so while they're out chasing boys/girls and drinking themselves into a stupor and maybe getting into other more mainstream sports.

You have to wonder what the value (point) is in declaring your team 72 hours before the meeting if there is then no sanction for then changing that line-up with no further Speedway injuries incurred in that time... I assume it's just for Programme printing purposes, not a great look though

How can everybody on here know the situation yet Leicester still publish a press release? And then less that 24 hours later publish another release with the actual teams... the Sport really doesn't help itself at times! It's almost as if they don't know what they're doing 🤷‍♂️

Richard Lawson 15 point maximum and 4% of RotN vote!

I'd rather see the introduction of pre- meeting practice sessions myself, that's 2 top of the table clashes that have been televised this week and both have been rather underwhelming not really getting going until heat 11 at the NSS and heat 13 tonight. It's no good, in 2025 with the intricacies of bike setups etc. for half the meeting to be over before anything meaningful happens on the track.

She's even training the next generation of referee... the sport is in safe hands 👩‍🦯

WRONG! and WRONG! Who would have thought the parade lap and heat six!! 😂😂

Wasn't Woffy forced to ride injured by Wroclaw? I'm sure he said as much on socials... and I'm sure I don't need to remind you that the most recent cases of riders losing their lives and suffering life changing injuries on track have all happened in Poland.

I'm not sure they're trying to win something with very little kudos, I think it's more like they're trying to win races to get noticed by Polish clubs. If it were down to me, it'd be ultimatum time, riders commit to this country in something like a 40 match calendar or clear off and earn their bacon elsewhere. Our clubs need to be riding on the nights that suit them... not the riders.

You can't, so don't even try, just do your own thing, you can't please all of the people all of the time. People will be crying out for individuality when everything is being presented by a Max Headroom (1980's reference) style ai bot 🤖.

Not a classic is it.

You take £12,570 out without paying any income tax, you have your wife as secretary or something, another £12,570, your mum as admin or cleaner or something, another £12,570 etc. etc. You could be on flat rate VAT meaning you can keep a portion of the VAT you charge your customers, if you're brave enough you can put pretty much what you want through expenses, I used to work with a bloke who put a Caribbean holiday through as an expense on the pretense that he was looking to do work out there and it was an exploratory trip... it all comes off your profit that you're paying just 20% Corporation Tax on. I run a limited company myself but I play it straight down the line as the last thing I want is a call from the tax man and any investigation... I'm probably too much of a coward but I've known others down the years who have really taken the pish. And of course if the ** do go up you're not personally liable.