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Lots of comments about "the track"... don't like the sound of this

What Troy Batchelor wouldn't give for the average BSN have him

Somebody's have a mare on the captions!

Can't see far beyond Charles Wright adding the Championship League Pairs Mick the Miller Memorial Championship Trophy to his Championship League Riders Some Random Dead Person Memorial Championship Trophy

Ah... as long as it was unsurmountable problems, that's ok

Will it involve Rob Godfery?

I've only seen him Live twice and both times he was underwhelming. Seems like I've caught him on a bad day... looking forward to watching him progress and hopefully hit the top

Of course you can... I'm just wondering what the lads pedigree is, I genuinely don't know... it's not like he's got a string of titles to his name is it? I don't know. To say he can be world class soon is very premature... he may be the next Max Clegg

I don't know why you'd say this, the kid only has a 7 point average in the NDL, naturally I hope you're right but there's far too much being expected from this lad and I really can't understand why?

Manchester City Football Club is not viable!

I'd say he's had a very lucky escape!

Makes sense

Don't know, but the rumour was 7,500, would think it would be more than that though, last year's looked to be around 20,000 based on the 40,000 estimate from 2019, can't think there'd be more than last year based on last years fiasco

Fortunately for you there's not going to be 40,000 Speedway Fans clogging the place up, so you should be ok

When Lions don't make the pay offs, I wonder whether we'll see a Jubilee Trophy Final

Can't understand why this hasn't been cancelled already, Peterborough always cancel on a forecast... and Rory Schlein is set to appear

I stand corrected... what a talent though, came from a grasstrack background, don't see that so much these days

It still sends a message on the strength of feeling for any backers that may want to get involved. If the numbers show that nobody gives a toss... nobody's going to give a toss

An hours practice followed by 23 races?

Good point, I was forgetting that

I think the GP series only works when there's more than one rider competing for the top prize, look how good the 2021 F1 season was and how dire it's been since then with the domination of Verstappen. Same goes for Speedway, pretty boring no there's no real contender to Bartek. At least back in the day of TRick's dominance he had real challenges from Gollob, Crump, Pedersen, Hamill, Hancock etc. How good would it have been to watch Nielsen & Gundersen battle it out over a GP series! It's all about jeopardy, Bartek doesn't really have any, he can miss a GP and still end up winning, a one off final adds that jeopardy, one rash move and you're toast... assuming you've even made it through the qualifying rounds. Same with the GP series, if you've got a close challenger, have a bad round and you're toast

I'll do this today... But I'm wondering if the current petition standing at less that 1,500 signatures could actually do more harm than good. Any developer would surely use this as evidence that there is no appetite for Speedway in Peterborough?

Back in the day, I could regularly go to Wolves on a Monday, Milton Keynes on a Tuesday, Long Eaton on a Wednesday, Sheffield on a Thursday, Peterborough on a Friday, Coventry on a Saturday and an open meeting/world championship qualifier on a Sunday... all from my Leicester base. These days I get to Leicester on a Thursday and Peterborough on a Thursday/Monday when Leicester aren't riding... or Leicester away and that's it!

The trouble is the riders feel they need super tuned rocket ships, wheel rims with their names on and a chair in the pits with their logo on and all this costs, so they have to be professionals. Standardised equipment also needs to be looked at... but we've been through all this before and it's all getting rather tiring now

No, it was back in the mid 70's when Aces ran at Hyde Road... it then switched to a Sunday afternoon for a couple of decades, probably because crowds found it difficult to get on a Wednesday night, back then you could draw from Coventry, Wolves, Birmingham, Cradley, Leicester, Stoke, Oxford, Reading, Swindon and pretty much guarantee a sell out