Birmingham ductair Bulls v Kent eagles

[Petecc]

Save your money, don't go to belle vue, stay in Birmingham and support the future riders.

[M.D]

Teams: (in alphabetical order)

Birmingham Bulls: Arran Butcher, Max James, Sam McGurk, Eli Meadows, Darry Ritchings, Thomas Spencer, Senna Summers

Kent Eagles: Jamie Etherington, Nathan Hargrave, Luke Harris, Freddy Hodder (Guest for Nathan Ablitt), Ben Morley, Ashton Vale (Guest for Vinnie Foord),Charlie Wood.

Edited July 6, 2025 by M.D

[Petecc]

1 hour ago, M.D said:

Teams: (in alphabetical order)

Birmingham Bulls: Arran Butcher, Max James, Sam McGurk, Eli Meadows, Darry Ritchings, Thomas Spencer, Senna Summers

Kent Eagles: Jamie Etherington, Nathan Hargrave, Luke Harris, Freddy Hodder (Guest for Nathan Ablitt), Ben Morley, Ashton Vale (Guest for Vinnie Foord),Charlie Wood.

Darry Ritchings ?

[M.D]

31 minutes ago, Petecc said:

Darry Ritchings ?

Bit picky on spelling, I do apologise most profusely.

[Fozzie4388]

That's a new one a guest for a rider whose guesting in another meeting 🤣

Edit: According to Kents site Foord has signed for Ipswich as their RS while Jenkins is out but Ipswich's has him down as a guest

Edited July 6, 2025 by Fozzie4388

[szkocjasid]

2 hours ago, Fozzie4388 said:

That's a new one a guest for a rider whose guesting in another meeting 🤣

Edit: According to Kents site Foord has signed for Ipswich as their RS while Jenkins is out but Ipswich's has him down as a guest

That should not be allowed. Vinnie has signed for Kent Eagles, so should be riding for them. If he can't be bothered to race NDL/NDT he can get a 28 day ban.

 

EDIT: I see Foord has signed for Ipswich, so I take that back.

Edited July 6, 2025 by szkocjasid

[Petecc]

14 hours ago, M.D said:

Bit picky on spelling, I do apologise most profusely.

Only an observation 

[Sings4Speedway]

I understand Kent re-introducing Charlie Wood but unless Clouting asked to step down it makes little sense that he was the rider to be replaced.

[SteveLyric2]

Foord NOT now riding for Ipswich!!

[bluejam]

14 hours ago, Petecc said:

Only an observation 

Yet another sad f****r.🙄Have I got enough stars in my spelling to sum you up?

[HGould]

Quite an enjoyable evening.

Decent racing from those you'd expect on both sides. Etherington looks a fine prospect. A couple of the riders, Hargraves (spelling might be wrong sorry) no where near NDL standard I'm afraid.

Two obvious talking points

(1) the Superheat exclusion of Hodder, I don't think anyone in the admittedly sparse crowd saw why?

(2) the Shroekesque team management decision to run Hodder in 15 and Superheat and not Vinny Forde (unless there were some mitigating circumstances we weren't aware of ?)

My last look at NDL at Perry Barr, it's starting to dawn now that the likeliehood of us ever seeing Speedway again in Brum is pretty minimal.

Unless the SGP can revive enough interest to may be utilise the new City Of Birmingham Stadium(s) planned for the old Wheels site, apparently a 65k all seater big enough for T20 cricket  / Birmingham City FC and an American Football Franchise - (with reduce seating 45k for the cricket) or the smaller 20k Stadia next door for Birmingham City Ladies and also to try to attract major Athletics or Global Sports Events with a Training Athletics track....but that is not likely to be ready until 2032 - way past my likely bedtime I'm afraid!

 

 

 

 

[M.D]

9 hours ago, HGould said:

2) the Shroekesque team management decision to run Hodder in 15 and Superheat and not Vinny Forde (unless there were some mitigating circumstances we weren't aware of ?)

 

 

 

 

 

According to the Kent Eagles match report on their website, Vinnie Foord had been feeling unwell all evening.