IainB

Rumours of his demise are greatly exaggerated! Was glad to see him riding in the Swedish League last week, as I mentioned earlier I think a spell in leagues with less pressure will do him the world as good as he's still very much a quality rider with years left in him yet

Then send them round on a bike, it's so easy to do Are you referring to the Mark Thorpe incident at Swindon around 30 years ago? I believe a rule was introduced after that, that a rider couldn't be on the track at the same time as a tractor... nothing to do with helmets and parades. 2019 at BV the riders used to come round without helmets on and line up in front of the grandstands so the fans could see who they are and what they look like, more important than ever these days with them all wearing the same race suits, or they may as well just be robots. The parade at Leicester the other week saw all of the riders wearing helmets with the exception of Josh Auty... bizarre!

at Peterborough and a few other tracks I've noticed when they're lined up being introduced in front of the crowd, the first riders introduced can't be @rsed to wait for the final riders to be introduced and start to be pushed away while the last couple of riders are being introduced to the crowd... totally amateurish and an insult to the fans really. Some of these riders really need to wake up to what's going on!

You've hit the nail on the head there Pieman72. Take Leicester for example, current league champions (2019), I followed them home and away over a complete season and most fans still haven't seen the league trophy that they paid for to watch them win. If the promotion can't even be bothered to make a big deal about winning the league why would the fans? Look at the homepage of the website... would you know Leicester were league champions... for the first time ever! Last Saturday at home to Redcar... rider parade, all riders come round wearing their helmets, a hard earned home victory with an outstanding match winning performance from Dan Thompson... no victory parade! None of this costs anything to do and is free promotion... and yet it's not done

Maybe a find for you... But we (Lions) found him a couple of seasons ago, was one of the riders of the season for me, signed him up and then decided to bin him off in favour of Josh Bates!

He's not been the same rider since he stopped jumping the start

Quite poor excuses if true, no reason to doubt it.. Would have taken 2 minutes to come round on bikes and wave to the crowd

I thought the Lions were going to be in trouble after the first few races and was very impressed with Anders Rowe who looked like he was going to go through the card after his first race but then the Bears seemed to drop off as the Lions raised their game from the gate and it was pretty comfortable by mid match. Why was there no victory parade after the match?

I may have missed it as I didn't attend the Berwick match... But has the Championship League Trophy been paraded around in front of the fans yet?

It's both

Oh that's a shame... Best part of last week's match was watching him try to stay on his bike

Anybody going? Looks like the sun shouldn't be a problem, rain could be from 9pm though. Will Josh Bates be taking the knee or attempting to in every race?

Is that cash and/or credit card do you know, or just cash?

A criminal record used to be compulsory to get into Aus lol

I should put in a FOI request to see what happened to the taxpayers money

I see Damien Bates on the website complaining about ticket sales for tonight and worried for Saturday. I can't comment on the cubs as I have zero interest in them but I thought the crowd was quite healthy last Saturday and that was a dead rubber that had zero promotion on the website. If it's on I'll be there on Saturday night!

It was difficult to see who the r/r rides were taken by work everybody wearing team suits, you being so far away from the track and the numbers on the riders race jackets being so small

Blimey! That long ago! Guess I'm getting old lol

It wasn't around the time they were giving the converted Honda's a go was it?

Loans have to be paid back... In theory

My first visit to Kent (as a neutral) and what a fantastic setup it is. Reminded me a little of Stoke with the size, shape and positioning of the track. A lovely big grandstand, everybody was polite and friendly (a few tracks could learn from that) and it was a typical Len Silver production with the track being watered in the right places at the right time to keep the dust down... Only downside was the PA system was inaudible

Is this potentially good news for British Speedway I wonder. The headline news says it'll be easier for under 35's to move to and work in each others country's. Could we see an influx of Aussie 2 pointers like back in the 80's

Do these Polish/Russian youngsters/reserves ride in the lower leagues in Poland doubling up at all? Because most of them this season seem to be way out of their depth and borderline dangerous.

I think they announced last week that you can now pay at the gate... check out their website

Does anybody know where the QR code is located at Peterborough so we can all check in with our NHS Covid app for contact tracing?