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Even though if he never signed for Glasgow he would’ve had a spot at Edinburgh in the NDL but okay. 😂 If you can point out where I’ve said local lads are unwilling to ride? Like I said in my post Mark isn’t riding this year, Liam has decided to move to Glasgow rather than staying where he’s been with the academy, Lee is taking a step back from NDL this year to rebuild his confidence a bit. So please suggest options for who the academy should’ve signed that are up to standard instead of who they have signed. Edinburgh are a club who are trying to bring through local riders and are doing a lot more for the youth than probably most clubs in the UK. Are there any other clubs out there who have a training academy for kids wanting to start out, then can progress when old enough to the NJL then again if good enough to the NDL then again potentially Championship? There’s not. So let’s not try twist things.

Myself and 2 mates ( one of which went to Broadmoor, but enough of that) ran a mobile disco for a couple of years in my late teens with 2 Garrard SP25 MKIV decks running through a Marshall Valve amp and 2 Marshall cabinets, no sound to light in those days, lots of lights powered by rotary columns of microswitches on different dwell cams, all taken from old Xerox copier mechanical timing arrays.

Seth Norman completes the team.

Whilst i very much agree its hard to argue that more opportunities at a development level creates bigger competition in league speedway. Quick scan of 2015 shows 10 teams and 70ish riders. Around half of those went on to rider NL and several higher (some were already NL at the time). It certainly shouldn't be league places for all but it should be a case that those with enough ability can showcase their talents in the MDL/NJL and if they are fortunate to get opportunities from there so be it. The MDL was shrunk down to pointless numbers, those competing lost interest, for any starting out its hardly an inviting option leaving the majority of newcomers being the cream of youth rounds whilst the rest get discarded. The NJL is great with the focus on current and next generations but then fails to offer variety of racing across a night. The solution is to get a lot of kids into speedway, supply plenty of opportunities to get on track and learn how to race and hope from there BUT certainly easier sad than done.

The mind-numbing game of throwing balls at a line inside of the track during the interval should do it. So very 21st century.

This is why it would be mightily helpful if team building average green sheets were generated. Keeping Mulford as the example finished 2024 on 4.38 signed for 2025 on 4.27 (2.5% brit reduction) so assuming same again has happened this winter (although on that basis i make him 8.5ish)

Or this: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KvosxyowuEk&list=RDKvosxyowuEk&start_radio=1

Significant reduction in prize money for each squad in 2026, courtesy of Sportowefakty:

Well if it all comes off at Northampton I wish them luck .

more music like this 😎

stop hating on British speedway 🤣

Sorry to be a part pooper. Anyone who thinks that you could drive from anywhere west of Coventry (e.g Greater Birmingham, Black Country, Staffordshire, Worcestershire or further west) in anything under 2 hours to remote Northamptonshire is living in cloud cuckoo land. It can take an hour to get from Wolverhampton to Birmingham or Birmingham to Coventry. The only way a Track in Braefield can attract any fans further west than Coventry would be to run on Saturday night or Sunday. Fans would literally have to take a day off work / school and fork out £40 / £50 in fuel. They may do it once or twice for novelty value but that is all. Its a financial disaster on the Perry Barr scale waiting to happen.

Various roads surrounding the stadium may get parked, but may upset the locals, track is only a few minutes walk from the main A57 road with lots of buses, maybe able to park a few mile away and get the bus. Think the road outside the stadium gets closed for the GP, for league meetings plenty of parking on here.

Mulford averaged 4.37 for Redcar. So doubled equates to 8.74 🤷‍♂️

We’ve had Pjiper’s and Harrison in various Berwick junior Teams but somehow not persuaded them to stick around for Bandits.Tell you something.IMO

I think you are getting a few crossed wires here. The first meeting back at Odsal was under covid restrictions with a crowd limit of 4,000. This sold out as we had been waiting nearly 25 years to get back there. Later that year the F1 World Final was held with a crowd of possibly 10k, but that was not the norm. As I said in my other post, F1 meetings would pull crowds of 3-5k on average. The other meetings that don't involve F1s have much smaller attendances. F1 drivers do not pay to enter, they actually receive start money and also each driver gets 3 additional mechanics/family in free. The other formulas 'pay to race' but these are the meetings with the smaller crowds.

We generally book parking at the school next door for the big meetings. You can book this on the ticketing website. The access looks tight but we've never had problems getting away quite quickly after the meeting.

At last three, and probably more, riders get to "Double Up"... The key reason for two leagues...

I just cannot, and will not be able to square away the fact that a track can be opened where nobody is calling for it, yet there have been multiple clubs that it would have been much easier to save but weren't rescued over the last let's call it a decade or so. It's compounding years of bad business with some more bad business.

Must be cheap 🤪 been about for years and got no better, yet still gets signed up, where others show promise but don't get signed 🤔 my conclusion is less £ than someone else

Free exit before the end of a painfully boring meeting or no charge for sugar with a hot drink unless it is soup. Alternatively, how about a second half with NDL riders to give both punters and riders some optimism that the sport has a future.

Good idea.... If that doesn't pack 'em in, I really don't know what will...

extra sweets from chase the ace

New format in 2026. Challenge is in Pardubice on Saturday 18th April - which is actually a fancy name for the 2 semi’s at the track in 1 day. Meetings are over 22 heats and teams have 4 riders plus an U 21 rider who ride in heats 9 and 18. Last four heats are nominated( heat 19 lowest scorers, heat 20 3rd highest etc etc The final is on Saturday 9th May at a venue TBC. 2 winning teams in the Semi’s and highest 2nd qualify for the final.

Take your point. If they start charging it is not going to go down well. I would rather watch Mildenhall if that charge is introduced. I use to avoid speedway meetings when the tendency was for six man teams with that guy using the pseudonym of R/R. Now they want to charge you to park, an exorbitant amount to get through the gate for which you get just fifteen minutes of entertainment, a programme that no longer fits the board bought twenty years ago and the current cost of a cup of tea use to buy you three pints of Watneys Red Barrel or two and a half pints of Double Diamond back in the early seventies. What is the world coming to, I need to get me coat and get back on the trolley bus to New Cross.