Plymouth Gladiators v Glasgow Tigers Saturday, May 10, 2025 7:00 pm Cab Direct Championship

[Catch Me If You Can]

4 hours ago, TheWellBehavedWorrall said:

Off the top of my head, we had to endure a 15 minutes wait between heats 3 and 4, then a 32 - yes, 32 - minutes wait between heats 12 and 13.

I actually thought BSN did their best to plug those ridiculous gaps.

An utterly dreadful advert for speedway, that circuit. No wonder Plymouth can’t find a main sponsor. Who wants associated with that?

It was an age between 12 and 13 yes

An Absolutely ridiculous gap

[InTheDeepStuff]

19 hours ago, bringbackHalifax said:

Klimt probably does not want Plymouth now he has a Polish deal

He’ll more than likely have the same rolling one month contract like Kildemand has at Berwick, can drop Championship speedway when it suits 

[Fromafar]

2 minutes ago, 4BenMoran said:

He’ll more than likely have the same rolling one month contract like Kildemand has at Berwick, can drop Championship speedway when it suits 

What’s Kildemand got too do with it.Nobody really cares.

[InTheDeepStuff]

Just now, Fromafar said:

What’s Kildemand got too do with it.Nobody really cares.

Just saying that a lot of the riders now have the one month rolling contract rather than signing for the whole season, know at anytime the club can bin them off but this gives rider more control if they either don’t fancy the league or get a better deal to ride in Poland after signing a Warsaw contract 

[lewy]

22 minutes ago, 4BenMoran said:

He’ll more than likely have the same rolling one month contract like Kildemand has at Berwick, can drop Championship speedway when it suits 

No he hasn't. 

[Catalan]

I'm a bit pissed off with the bad press Mark gets.

He almost single handedly keeps Plymouth going.

I know he's a bit marmite but personally I have a lot of time for the guy.

[Chef1]

Cluff needs to start scoring more points as a heat leader.

[j2ohh]

5 minutes ago, Chef1 said:

Cluff needs to start scoring more points as a heat leader.

As does Batch

[Gladiatorphil]

2 hours ago, Catalan said:

I'm a bit pissed off with the bad press Mark gets.

He almost single handedly keeps Plymouth going.

I know he's a bit marmite but personally I have a lot of time for the guy.

He does get bad press greed. However he really doesn't help himself sometimes with team decisions, track preparation and some of the comments he makes about riders and even some fans in the media.

[allthegearbutnaeidea]

3 hours ago, Chef1 said:

Cluff needs to start scoring more points as a heat leader.

How on earth is Mitchell Cluff a heat leader? He’s on an assessed 5…?

[LisaColette]

13 minutes ago, allthegearbutnaeidea said:

How on earth is Mitchell Cluff a heat leader? He’s on an assessed 5…?

Because TM's confuse some fans when they started putting second strings at no3! 

[HGould]

I do wonder how many of the keyboard warriors attacking a 30 minute break were actually AT the Meeting on Saturday.

I have to admit I wasn't, and I'm not keen on extended breaks BUT my Grandson and 3 of his mates went, 2 of the 3 mates for the first time and the newcomers , indeed all of them took part in the traditional Plymouth interval Running race.

He sent me pictures, and very proud too that he has inducted 2 new fans to Speedway and plans already for my Daughter (who lives in North Devon) and the 3 other lads parents to take it in turn to attend matches in the coming months.

These lads are primarily soccer and rugby playing kids with a "summer sport" needed to fill their time.

It would appear from social media that pLymouth had another bumper crowd, another reward for Kids going free and another opportunity to build a fan base for the future.

Another point, given the issues PLymouth have again had with break in's. Don't attack an Owner desperately seeking sponsorship for engineering an extended break when his paying and non paying customers will be encouraged to spend money in the Bar, in the Cafe and in the Track Shop, all delivering much needed funds.

I do wonder if some keyboard warriors would love to see Plymouth / Birmingham and one of 2 other Clubs close, just so that they can gloat. 

Maybe they need to gloat on the fact that if the sport loses 2-3 more Clubs that the current crazy barmy model becomes a step closer to extinction.

The dinosaurs of this forum may have been bored but a whole new generation of fan weren't and are being created.

 

 

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[MB723]

16 minutes ago, HGould said:

I do wonder how many of the keyboard warriors attacking a 30 minute break were actually AT the Meeting on Saturday.

I have to admit I wasn't, and I'm not keen on extended breaks BUT my Grandson and 3 of his mates went, 2 of the 3 mates for the first time and the newcomers , indeed all of them took part in the traditional Plymouth interval Running race.

He sent me pictures, and very proud too that he has inducted 2 new fans to Speedway and plans already for my Daughter (who lives in North Devon) and the 3 other lads parents to take it in turn to attend matches in the coming months.

These lads are primarily soccer and rugby playing kids with a "summer sport" needed to fill their time.

It would appear from social media that pLymouth had another bumper crowd, another reward for Kids going free and another opportunity to build a fan base for the future.

Another point, given the issues PLymouth have again had with break in's. Don't attack an Owner desperately seeking sponsorship for engineering an extended break when his paying and non paying customers will be encouraged to spend money in the Bar, in the Cafe and in the Track Shop, all delivering much needed funds.

I do wonder if some keyboard warriors would love to see Plymouth / Birmingham and one of 2 other Clubs close, just so that they can gloat. 

Maybe they need to gloat on the fact that if the sport loses 2-3 more Clubs that the current crazy barmy model becomes a step closer to extinction.

The dinosaurs of this forum may have been bored but a whole new generation of fan weren't and are being created.

 

 

As Glasgow fans we are used to our kids races (we do 2 now) the issue is that it looked like after that had finished there was a further 15-20 minutes of nothing happening on track at all, not even a tractor going round. Maybe BSN missed some stuff or if there were multiple interval entertainment sections spreading them over the other intervals instead of just one would have helped. My guess was a sun delay that BSN wasn't told about but have no clue if the sun was even out.

[Gladiatorphil]

1 hour ago, HGould said:

I do wonder how many of the keyboard warriors attacking a 30 minute break were actually AT the Meeting on Saturday.

I have to admit I wasn't, and I'm not keen on extended breaks BUT my Grandson and 3 of his mates went, 2 of the 3 mates for the first time and the newcomers , indeed all of them took part in the traditional Plymouth interval Running race.

He sent me pictures, and very proud too that he has inducted 2 new fans to Speedway and plans already for my Daughter (who lives in North Devon) and the 3 other lads parents to take it in turn to attend matches in the coming months.

These lads are primarily soccer and rugby playing kids with a "summer sport" needed to fill their time.

It would appear from social media that pLymouth had another bumper crowd, another reward for Kids going free and another opportunity to build a fan base for the future.

Another point, given the issues PLymouth have again had with break in's. Don't attack an Owner desperately seeking sponsorship for engineering an extended break when his paying and non paying customers will be encouraged to spend money in the Bar, in the Cafe and in the Track Shop, all delivering much needed funds.

I do wonder if some keyboard warriors would love to see Plymouth / Birmingham and one of 2 other Clubs close, just so that they can gloat. 

Maybe they need to gloat on the fact that if the sport loses 2-3 more Clubs that the current crazy barmy model becomes a step closer to extinction.

The dinosaurs of this forum may have been bored but a whole new generation of fan weren't and are being created.

 

 

I would say you are wrong on a few levels here. Plymouth is a well supported family track.  They have ALWAYS had a children's race,right from it's relaunch. Mark does a good job as far as it goes.  Fans of any sport are allowed their opinion,and majority of any fans negativity  is aimed at the owners. In plymouths case,a little more honesty and openess wouldn't go amiss.

The sponsorship issue is a separate matter.

There is absolutely no justification for the vandalism at the track. I have previously suggested a fund raising page to help with security.

[szkocjasid]

15 hours ago, Chef1 said:

Cluff needs to start scoring more points as a heat leader.

He's not a heat leader though. Putting a rider at number 3 doesn't make them a heat leader.

[szkocjasid]

12 hours ago, allthegearbutnaeidea said:

How on earth is Mitchell Cluff a heat leader? He’s on an assessed 5…?

 

11 hours ago, LisaColette said:

Because TM's confuse some fans when they started putting second strings at no3! 

Edinburgh have their 2nd highest averaged rider at 4, 3rd highest at 2, 4th highest at 5 & 5th highest at 3!

[Weeyin]

1 hour ago, MB723 said:

As Glasgow fans we are used to our kids races (we do 2 now) the issue is that it looked like after that had finished there was a further 15-20 minutes of nothing happening on track at all, not even a tractor going round. Maybe BSN missed some stuff or if there were multiple interval entertainment sections spreading them over the other intervals instead of just one would have helped. My guess was a sun delay that BSN wasn't told about but have no clue if the sun was even out.

Glasgow adopted the kids race from Plymouth, they did it first and hats off to them as it has increased family attendance at both our tracks, when we started it there were lots of moans from old guard fans but to see that amount of kids at speedway can only benefit clubs as they are the future

[HGould]

1 hour ago, Gladiatorphil said:

I would say you are wrong on a few levels here. Plymouth is a well supported family track.  They have ALWAYS had a children's race,right from it's relaunch. Mark does a good job as far as it goes.  Fans of any sport are allowed their opinion,and majority of any fans negativity  is aimed at the owners. In plymouths case,a little more honesty and openess wouldn't go amiss.

The sponsorship issue is a separate matter.

There is absolutely no justification for the vandalism at the track. I have previously suggested a fund raising page to help with security.

May be you should read before replying...

 

"indeed all of them took part in the traditional Plymouth interval Running race".

[wessexboy]

I do not know why Plymouth get a hard time. Most matches are close matches with something going on. May not be a lot of passing but close racing and track may be bit rough.

I think the biggest problem with speedway is this winning at all costs. I would say Plymouth have more excitement win or lose good or bad than lot of other clubs.

We started the kid race at Weymouth Speedway in 2006 just saying glad other teams have adopted it.

[IainB]

I don't know about anybody else but all I want from my Speedway is to see a close match, preferably (but not essentially) with my team winning, a sprinkling of good competitive racing, run in a timely manner and to not go home covered in dust. It's not too much to ask is it?

These days not all of those 5 key things are consistently met. I don't think that being branded a "Keyboard Warrior" when saying when any one of those things has not been met is the right way to address it. It's the type of statement a Speedway promoter makes and has gotten the sport into the state it is currently in.