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He is... a bit too friendly compared to Mr Goatley for my liking. Edie is defending himself quite well though. I'm surprised that as they keep saying the 3g pitch would probably be funded by Sky Blues in the Community, nobody's mentioned that Covenrty City went into administation in 2013, the very argument they are using to argue against the viability of Speedway!

Thank God for Oxford is all I can say... a lot of the SCS evidence points to the success of the Oxford return!

Edie's so defensive he's almost giving his evidence from outside the room

I don't get why Edie's "opinion" can be provided as "evidence" surely the only "evidence" of whether Coventry Stadium was/is viable is the "fact" that it did not go into administration

Yup... you're on a roll

Looks like he's always been pretty useful around Ippo: Brady Kurtz at Ipswich No. Points Total Thu Apr 13th 2023 Ipswich v Belle Vue (PRa) 5 3, 0, 3, 3, 0 9 Thu Jul 13th 2023 Ipswich v Belle Vue (PRb) 5 2, R, 3, 1, 3 9 Thu Sep 21st 2023 Ipswich v Belle Vue (PRPO) 1 2, 1, 3, 1, 3 10 Thu May 5th 2022 Ipswich v Belle Vue (PRa) 5 1', 2, 3, 2, 3 11 +1 Thu Jul 14th 2022 Ipswich v Belle Vue (PRb) 3 2, 3, 2, 2, 1' 10 +1 Thu Sep 29th 2022 Ipswich v Belle Vue (PRPO) 5 3, 2, 3, 2, 1' 11 +1 Thu May 20th 2021 Ipswich v Belle Vue (PRa) 1 0, 3, 3^, 2', 3, 2 13 +1 Thu Jul 8th 2021 Ipswich v Belle Vue (PRb) 1 2, 3, 2, 1, 3^, 2 13 Thu Aug 29th 2019 Ipswich v Poole (PRb) 5 3, 3, 3, 2', X, 1 12 +1 Sat Sep 28th 2019 Ipswich v Poole (PRPO) 1 1, 2', 0, 0 3 +1 Thu Apr 9th 2015 Ipswich v Somerset (LC3) 3 1, 2, 0, 3 6 Thu Jun 18th 2015 Ipswich v Somerset (PL) 1 1'~, 1', 2, 2' 6 +3 Thu Apr 3rd 2014 Ipswich v Somerset (LC3) 3 F, 1', 1 2 +1 Thu Jun 5th 2014 Ipswich v Somerset (PKO) 3 1, 1, X, 2, 0 4 Thu Jul 24th 2014 Ipswich v Somerset (PL) 3 2, 3, 0^, 1, 0 6 He has improved at Wolves, he was far from "useless" though, except for his first visit, which you could maybe excuse: Brady Kurtz at Wolverhampton No. Points Total Mon Apr 10th 2023 Wolverhampton v Belle Vue (PRKO) 5 1, 1, 2 4 Mon May 29th 2023 Wolverhampton v Belle Vue (PRa) 5 3, 2, 3, 3^, 1', 2 14 +1 Mon Jul 10th 2023 Wolverhampton v Belle Vue (PRb) 5 3, 2, 2', 1, 2 10 +1 Mon Apr 18th 2022 Wolverhampton v Belle Vue (PLCN) 5 3, 1, 3, 0 7 Mon Aug 29th 2022 Wolverhampton v Belle Vue (PRb) 3 3, 0, 3, 3^, 3, 3 15 Mon Jul 26th 2021 Wolverhampton v Belle Vue (PRa) 1 1', 2, 2, 0 5 +1 Mon Aug 30th 2021 Wolverhampton v Belle Vue (PRb) 5 3, 2, 3, 0, 2' 10 +1 Mon Jun 24th 2019 Wolverhampton v Poole (PRa) 5 X, 1, 3, 0 4 Mon Aug 26th 2019 Wolverhampton v Poole (PRb) 5 1, 2, 3, 2^, 1, 0 9 Mon Apr 23rd 2018 Wolverhampton v Poole (PRa) 1 2, 2, 2^, 3, 2, 1 12 Mon May 28th 2018 Wolverhampton v Poole (PRb) 1 1, 3, 3, 0, T 7 Mon Mar 27th 2017 Wolverhampton v Poole (ES) 3 3, 0, 0, 1 4 Mon May 2nd 2016 Wolverhampton v Poole (ELa) 6 2, 1, 0, 3, 0 6 Mon Sep 5th 2016 Wolverhampton v Poole (ELb) 4 0, 2, 3, 3, 0 8 Wed Sep 28th 2016 Wolverhampton v Poole (ELPO) 2 0, 0, F 0

Over the course of this season Kurtz has scored 3 points more than Bewley 7 points more over the last 20 rolling matches

I've always said it was a £2.50 sport

It's amazing how quickly some fans turn on a rider... and their talisman as well Looking at his record around Foxhole, he pretty much rode to type Dan Bewley at Ipswich No. Points Total Thu Apr 13th 2023 Ipswich v Belle Vue (PRa) 1 2, 3, 1, 1, 1 8 Thu Jul 13th 2023 Ipswich v Belle Vue (PRb) 1 2, X, 2, 0 4 Thu May 20th 2021 Ipswich v Belle Vue (PRa) 3 2, 2, 2', 3, 1' 10 +2 Thu Jul 8th 2021 Ipswich v Belle Vue (PRb) 5 1', 3, 3, 0, 0 7 +1 Thu Apr 18th 2019 Ipswich v Belle Vue (PRa) 3 0, R, 0 0 Thu Jul 12th 2018 Ipswich v Workington (CP) 4 X, 1', 1, 1, 3, 0 6 +1 Thu May 4th 2017 Ipswich v Glasgow (CPa) 2 2, F, 1', 1, 1' 5 +2 Thu Aug 3rd 2017 Ipswich v Glasgow (CPb) 4 0, 1, 1', 3 5 +1 Thu May 19th 2016 Ipswich v Edinburgh (PL) 7 X, 0, 0, 2, 0 2 I agree with you about the standard of the BL, it's not as easy as some think, if you look through the Polish teams, yes some are very strong, but others are filled with Danny King types, riders who are pretty useful in their own country.

Correct! I'd forgotten what the old place looked like myself... the times I've been in that 1st turn building as well!

Nope

Nope

Danyon Hume reminds me of Chris Schramm a bit, he looks as though he's going to fall off going into every turn!

it's the only argument they've got isn't it really. prove the Stadium isn't viable but a 3g pitch is, this replacing the sporting facility

Yes that's what they've been trying to justify for the last 3 days... in place of the stadium as a sporting facility

To be fair they were trying to justify the need spectators yesterday although rather weakly. At the moment the council seem to have thrown us under the bus, their barrister sat there with what looked like his daughters laptop with childish stickers all over it calls a stuttering bumbling idot as a witness!

seems to me that if they want a 3g pitch so badly, just let them build one in the stadium car park... everyone's a winner!

Blimey, they're pulling the bloke from yesterday apart again... and he's not even there!

We all know the sport is on the brink and is on a downward trend, there's a whole forum dedicated to it here. Yes the sport is mismanaged, we all know that too, but a lot of the downturn is also due to tracks beings sold for development

At last somebody from their side appears as a witness... we'll see how good our boy is when he gets his chance to put this guy through the ringer

It almost broke out into A Few Good Men there... YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE TRUTH!

Old Mr Ford was named as the prospective new promoter at Coventry should it re-open, make of that what you will

But like the chap said not every sport produces attendance figures, there's no legal requirement to do so

I can see the Craig Cook incident being brought up soon... they really are scraping the barrel