Brummie Kev

Villa's average home crowd is very slightly UP this season compared to last. Surprising considering how rubbish we have been this season. Last season the average crowd was 33, 874, this season its 34,350.

Only an inter-league challenge I know but hope the lads put a good show on. Have no idea on the Brummies riding order but my guess is: King Doyley Ricky Josh Ben Nico Smoli Stay Safe lads, ready for the Bee's tomorrow!

Thinking of going down on the train this year and coming back after the meeting. Moving the start time really helps, as the last train from Cardiff Central to Birmingham New Street is 20:50. Theres one before it at 8pm, that I could catch if I leave early, the stadium is fairly close to the station so that is possible.

I think it varies from club to club, I generally have not found a problem when Ive gone to Birmingham. I only live a 10 minute drive away and most of the time I'm back in my house about 9.30. There are occasions when there are delays due to crashes or weather but usually they go straight through in that case. I remember a rain affected meeting against Somerset a few years back, the meeting started at 7.45 and was finished way before 9. When I go to away tracks, alot of them run meetings at a much slower pace which I don't like. One way of speeding it up is not open the pit gate when there is an unsatisfactory start, as you are always waiting for that rider which slows the meeting down. I think its ridiculous that they are allowed back into the pits, when its only been an unsatisfactory start, good to see many riders now just go back to the start line but there's always one!!

EL Worrall Janowski Bridger Schlein Covatti PL Ellis Mellgren Kus R Worrall Stefan Nielsen

Round 3 results, Brilliant Nico!! Results: Nicolas Covatti - 15 (3,3,3,3,3) + 1. A place in the final Lisandro Husman - 13 (2,3,3,2,3) + 2. A place in the final Matija Duh (Slovenia) - 13 (3,2,3,3,2) + 3 A place in the final Jonathan Iturra - 10 (1,2,2,3,2) + 4. A place in the final Norbert Magosi (Hungary) - 10 (3,3,2, -, 2) + 5 A place in the final Matej Kus (Czech Republic) - 8 (1,1,0,3,3) + 1 place in the final B Fernando Garcia - 8 (2,1,1,2,2) + 2. place in the final B Guglielmo Franchetti (Italy) - 8 (2,1,1,1,3) + 3 place in the final B Julio Romano - 5 (0,2,2,0,1) + 4 place in the final B Alejandro Ruiz - 6 (1.1 in, 2.2) + 5 place in the final B Cristian Carrica - 7 (2,3,2, -, -) Mariusz Fierlej (Poland) - 6 (3, d, 3, -, -) Facundo Albin - 5 (1,2,1,0,1) Maximiliano Westdorp - 4 (1,1,0,1,1) Clemente Sebastian - 2 (1,1,0,0) Santiago Martinez - 1 (0,0,0,1,0) Gustavo Curzio - 1 (0,0,1,0,0) Fernando Donnay - 0 (0,0,0) Elena Diego - 0 (0.0) Run the race: First Magosi, Husman, Ruiz, Albin, Donnay Second Covatti, Carrica, Iturra, Romano 3rd Fierlej, Garcia, Kus, Westdorp, Martinez 4th Duh, Franchetti, Clemente, Curzio 5th Magosi, Romano, Westdorp, Donnay, Curzio 6th Covatti, Duh, Kus, Ruiz, Cattaffi 7th Carrica, Albin, Garcia, Martinez 8th Husman, Iturra, Franchetti 9th Covatti, Magosi, Franchetti, Martinez, Donnay Fierlej 10th, Romano, Clemente, Elena, Ruiz (in) Duh 11th, Iturra, Albin, Garcia, Westdorp 12th Husman, Carrica, Curzio, Kus Duh 13th, Magosi (ns), Fierlej (ns), Carrica (ns) Iturra 14th, Ruiz Martinez, Curzio 15th Kus, Garcia, Franchetti, Albin, Romano Covatti 16th, Husman, Westdorp, Clemente 17th Kus, Magosi, Iturra, Clemente 18th Franchetti, Ruiz, Westdorp, Elena Covatti 19th, Garcia, Albin, Curzio 20th Husman, Duh, Romano, Martinez Small Final: 21st Kus, Garcia, Franchetti, Romano, Ruiz Grand Final: Covatti 22nd, Husman, Duh, Iturra, Magosi (u)

My main wish for 2013, is for promoters to stop bickering and to work together, sick of it this winter!!

A shame there will be no Perry, as a neutral that goes to occasional Heathens matches at Monmore, hes one the reasons I go. The fun usually is when Tom misses the gate, he knows that track so well that it takes him no time in reeling in opposition riders then to pass them, alot of the time on the last bend. He's box office, and a shame if he's leaving.

I think you have him confused with Bjarne Pedersen

If Leicester go Elite I reckon: 1. Kenneth Bjerre 8.18 2. Bjarne Pedersen 7.35 3. Edward Kennett 6.22 4. Ryan Fisher 6.02 5. Lasse Bjerre DU 4.91/??? 6. Ricky Kling 3.97 7. Linus Eklof 3.00

Apparently Coventry are entering a National League team next year, thats what I read in the 2013 thread in the EL section.

Really sad that Lee has called it a day, he was a rider that always did well at Perry Barr in our Premier League days. Some of his battles with Jason Lyons were a sight to behold at times and, as you say bigeddiecheck he was a crowd puller. Look at his performance in the Gary Stead meeting at Sheffield, a meeting he won beating many top riders. He was quality that night. I would like to wish all the best to Lee for the future in whatever he decides to do.

No Bjarne Pedersen as he has an ankle injury which has caused him to pull out of this weeks Brummies meetings. Confirms it himself that he wont ride again this season in the article below: http://www.birmingha..._medium=twitter

First Time I've been able to go to a Dudley Match all season and I thought it was a decent match. Excellent crowd, I go to Monmore a few times to watch the Brummies and Ive yet to see a crowd anywhere near that last night, good number of Potters fans aswell. I'm not a massive fan of Porky on the green but I amazed how he keeps warm by just wearing a green heathens t-shirt all evening!!!. It was Freezing last night All the credit must go to the Potters for that battling display but I did think the Heathens threw some points away with falls and engine failures. I was a bit disapointed with Joe Haines, I thought he would have been untouchable at this level and he knows the Monmore track well. In fact he didnt gate all night, and found it hard to pass the Stoke riders although he did give it a go which was the case in the race he fell. Joe's night was summed up in the Les Pottinger Memorial Trophy race , when his bike reared up when the tapes went up and he fell off the back. The best Heathens rider was Tom Perry, afterall he was the only Dudley rider that didnt have an EF or a fall, he was brilliant. Ashley Morris started well but packed up on the line in Heat 8 and wasnt as good after that. Ritchings was impressive at reserve scoring 10+2 but even he had bike trouble when he packed up whilst leading in Heat 14. Dan Greenwood and James White Williams were poor, both suffered from falls,glad to see they are okay. For the Stoke Potters, very impressed with Ashley Birks, nobody good get near him untill we saw a Tom Perry special in Heat 15. On another thread, I had Birks as NL rider of the year, glad I did after last nights performance. Wouldnt mind him riding for the Brummies in the EL next year in a doubling up role as he's scored plenty of points at PL level aswell. Some good performance from the rest of the side, Cockle and Reade gave good support to Birks. Must admit I had never heard of Lee Geary before last nights match. He certaintly made an impression with a battling display at reserve. I thought Atkin would have scored a few more, but struggled a bit. Overall though, Stoke did really well to only keep the Heathens to a one point lead going into tonights return

You have done a great job this year Dave , doing the Swedish League on Premier Sports. Much better than the guy they had doing it last year, he seemed to know nothing about speedway. Hope the Swedish League returns to Premier Sports next year and we get the Polish Extraliga shown in some form, with you commentating on both.

I too like to thank TNT for organising this predictor game, enjoyed it and I hope its back in 2013 Freddie Lindgren Jason Crump Chris Holder Greg Hancock TOP 8 1. Chris Holder 2. Nicki Pedersen 3. Greg Hancock 4. Tomasz Gollob 5. Emil Sayfutdinov 6. Jason Crump 7. Freddie Lindgren 8. Antonio Lindback

Said somthing similar in another thread on the forum, but I cant believe most Speedway clubs charge admission for young kids. For a 6 year old kid, they could be charged as much as £7 at one PL track!!!, with others charging upto that. So is Speedway really a family sport, I think some promotions need to wake up tbh, no kid upto say 12 years old, should be charged in my opinion. In these tough times, its even harder for famililes and these kids are the future fans of the sport.

Looks like Bjarne is a doubt as he has a Shoulder Injury.

I think it would be great for the Heathens to move up to the Premier League, you only have to look at the support they have to realise the National League is not the right league for them. I really hope they get a stadium of their own as its what they deserve and once they do, a move up to the El with big derbies against Wolves should be the aim. A move up to the PL would act as a stepping stone and it would help them to build up their asset base in preparation for it. This all would be subject to Dudley Council giving the go-ahead for a new stadium. The only thing which is stopping them moving upto the Premier League seems to be stadium availability of Monmore for a full PL fixture list. Perhaps with discussions with CVS and the stadium owners, a solution could be found?

Michael Jepsen Jensen Greg Hancock Freddie Lindgren Jarek Hampel

Whatever we think about the rules, I would just like to wish Joe Haines all the best with the Heathens. He's had an awful time with injuries in recent years and hope this is short spell with Dudley is successful for him.

Says on the Brummies site that Ben is 'taking a few days off' ,Dont know whether its from last night or after tonights match. Only sprained his wrist, so thankfully its not broken.

Reckon he;s already signed up for the Brummies side next year, not surprising given how impressive he's been so far. Left Fast Freddie in his wake last week!!

Emil Sayfutdinov Martin Vaculik Nicki Pedersen Tomasz Gollob

I'm the same but at least he provided one of the funniest things I have ever seen at Speedway meeting, he tripped over the tapes last year and fell flat on his face. Chris Durno lifted the tapes just as he was about the leap over them, the whole stadium erupted with laughter!!