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Don't mention the title win... I mentioned it once but I think I got away with it

Er I think we were still reigning champions when racing resumed in 2021 I'm glad you agree it wasn't mentioned though

Hopefully the new owners will be more local and take more of a proactive attitude in actually actively promoting the club to the local community. While the Bates have brought success to the club, the club did nothing with it in terms of promotion and once the title was won in 2019 it was barely mentioned again, then of course there was the debacle of last years final. Let's hope that the Bates can go out on a high with victory in the Jubilee Trophy!

I found it interesting that "security" immediately suppressed the victim and not the aggressor... shows what you can get away with if you wear any kind of uniform

What a terrible advert for Speedway racing tonight, it was like watching speedway from Poole

How on earth is it that the people involved in bringing the sport to us know so very little about it? It's utterly astounding!

I'm guessing it's because in the past the local guys have ballsed it up and they don't want to trust them, not at Wroclaw but certainly others. It also doesn't help having practice so close to the actual meeting, it definitely didn't help when the SoN was last held at BV

It's OK for marketing, social clips etc... but it adds absolutely nothing to the coverage of a meeting, in fact quite the opposite, it's just a gimmick What a terrible track

No I won't... I'm going to stop before it descends into a Monty Python sketch

Apparently Sam "forgot" to take the test before he left the stadium... but offered to take one the next morning after he'd remembered

No he's not

Sam Ermolenko apparently according to the Speedway Tavern podcast he missed a drug test at a test match at Hackney back around 1987 and was suspended until it was overturned on appeal Only in Speedway

I don't think Harris covered himself in glory the last time he rode at this level, no doubt there's 40 pages of hate on this thread:

That's exactly my point but in Neil's original post he suggested that his thinking would be different because it was a TV meeting

Because Speedway in Poland is all about the team, when "the team" isn't involved you get crowds like you do in this country. it's why their league Speedway works, no made up the day before teams, full of guests, R/R's and double uppers. It's what the BSPL just don't seem to understand

It's not just about face fitting though it's about making yourself available for selection to ride for your country. Scott Nicholls was approached apparently but declined to carry out Tv duties... though was strangely absent tonight. I assume that the journeymen Brits have been offered GB team spots in the past to broaden their international experience but have also declined

Bar the top 3 all of the others are of a very similar standard. You look at who rides for GB in these European team meetings held throughout the season and its always Brennan, Ellis, Harris, Kemp and some of the other young kids, so I'm guessing and it is only a guess based on what Allen has said that the likes of Wright, Lawson, Worrall et al decline to ride in these meetings and rightly or wrongly or very much counts against them for selection for the big meetings

+ practice

There's some real OTT reaction on here tonight for a meeting we won! People seem to have got it into their head that Woffinden gave Brennan his ride with absolutely no evidence to support this (that I'm aware of). The manager(s) surely made this decision. Yes argue the toss over team selection, personally I wouldn't have selected Ellis but listening to Allen on a podcast the other day not all riders show as much willingness to ride for their country as some but I believe Adam Ellis must/does.

As big a fan as I am of Harris he just doesn't have the equipment/setup for such tracks as has been shown many many times in the past. Got to be Brennan at 4 for me with A.N.Other at 5

The people doing the graphic captions do realise it's a team event don't they?

I wouldn't imagine the TV companies care what the racing is like it's just about filing airtime for them, what they'd probably be more concerned about is the lack of a crowd as they are also the promoters, otherwise its just about viewing figures

Even on Sky Q?

I suggested this years ago... some Football clubs operate like this also