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Doyle 200 more please good luck everyone

Strange not to see a Glasgow vs Edinburgh thread today

Never been much of a problem with Ipswich track prep for a long time … it’s just not a good size and shape for great racing This season the prep is awful we know Belle vues track is the best for racing stop banging that drum as for many years you had Kirky Lane which was horrific

Well I’ll find out later this month as I’m at Glasgow, Berwick and Workington over a weekend. That’ll be six tracks for me this season. After that I’ll probably post a crapness scale on rider presentations at the tracks I’ve been to this season so Glasgow, Berwick and Workington now is the time to up your game!

What does it mean? Who came up with the name? In an age where even countries and cities change their name... If you were rebranding it in 2026 what would you call it? All suggestions (serious or not) considered 🤔

Shale on your face! No thanks that stings.

As us all pensioners kick the bucket the fan base will be virtually non existent.

I can only think of one promoter in the Premiership whose sole job/income is from the speedway club they are running. Could be wrong though.

Agreed Mike although the number of semi wealthy businessmen willing to step in and underwrite a speedway track for 50k-100k losses every year is getting very much smaller. I do think the sport is sadly beyond saving in the UK in its current form. That's not to say it doesn't have a future but I'm more and more beginning to think its going to take the current model finally dying before something new (and hopefully better) rises from the ashes. The last live meeting I went to was a world team cup round at Lynn years ago I only went as Billy Hamill had come back to help the USA out and the place was packed to the rafters so support for meetings that generate interest was there. I will say whatever comes next I don't think it will be a team sport maybe 5-8 well promoted individual meetings across the UK might be the future with getting some legends back for demonstration races. That said I think the sport will limp on for another 5-10 years in its current form but sadly the product/presentation will just get worse year on year. Pray god I'm wrong and somehow Mayfield or someone else turns it all around.

Must be the wind carrying it all the way from Workington

The club has already stated on socials that if England beat Norway then 'new arrangements' for Wednesday 15th will be announced.

Only problem with that statement, you do know that the Poole track has very little shale on it, so you definitely won't feel shale on your face 😜 maybe dust early on before the blue groove appears 🤣

Nick Morris sidelined by trapped nerve. Luke Killeen guests. Plymouth have Troy Batchelor at #1 for Danny K, and will use r/r for Ben Barker at #4

Not a classic meeting. Armadale still has people beat before they arrive unfortunately. Edinburgh will never change it for that reason alone. Another factor is that the majority of the fans would rather see a skelping than a close entertaining meeting. Attendance relates directly with success. we’ll see this tonight at Ashfield, big crowd will be through as they will smell blood.

Richard Coleman seems to have pretty much the same thoughts on the sport as many of us on here... However, the challenge I would suggest will be that the clear and obvious issues facing the sport are, in the main, all self inflicted, and delivered by their own design and often done to "fix" the problems that previous decisions have created, (and this ironically then often compounds the initial problem!).... The challenge he faces is that the promoters must all know what is needed for the sport to move forwards, (as it is all pretty clear and obvious), however, the very fact they know this, yet have never shown one iota of enthusiasm in changing anything, shows that "moving the sport forwards" is simply not on the agenda for many... In short.. Many are quite happy with their lot, with few actually running their tracks to make profits, but, instead, it gives them an affordable hobby to enjoy.. "Moving the sport forwards" will mean unpicking so much of what has been done, and also bring greater scrutiny and accountability, neither of which too many promoters will be pushing for I would think, hence "moving it forwards" hasn't been focused on for, at least, a couple of decades.. There are many promoters like Buster who, year in, year out, put their hands into deep pockets and shell out several hundred thousands to their riders, to keep the sport running in the UK... That is the sum of their ambitions...

Always good to see what Bet 365’s under, exact and more market scores are. It’s 20 heats, actual points scored and these are the actual scores they think. Zmadzlik 12 Kurtz 12 Lambert 10 Dudek 9 MJJ 9 Lebedevs 8 Woryna 8 Madsen 8 Fricke 8 Thomsen 7 Doyle 7 Kvech 6 Nilsson 5 Kubera 5 Huckenbeck 4 Parnitskyi 3

Nicholls for Team Manager in 2027 is something that should happen as long as he wants the job. Hurry has to go regardless, Musielak not being picked for Heat 15 may have cost Ipswich 4th Place (Not that it matters this year) but his rant on Stewart Dickson was pathetic imo, Better Team Won and it was that simple. Coleman has put his balls on the line with his choice of words in regards to 2027, He's left himself with no choice but to deliver a GP Rider @ No.1 or a certain Russian who's GP calibre along with six other riders that can compete for the title. If the Team is a let down then he'll have nowhere to hide as he's got everyone's hopes and expectations up, We'll just have to wait until the winter to see what happens on this front though.

Hopefully the speedway goes ahead.

The track seemed to come good toward the end but by that time it was over as a contest and the bore fest had taken its toll.

Speedway for me all day as well, football doesn't even come close

Woffy needs to pack it in, for his own health reasons IMO.

Seriously who's going to watch a football match on TV, when you could go to speedway: to see, hear, smell, feel the shale on your face, and enjoy the banter. No contest in my mind!

Just read that Woffy will be out for 4 to 6 months.

Went on fire,just before Meeting started, most exciting part of the BSN Broadcast.👍

More exciting on the Poole threads than any Workington one's i suppose