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Emil look into my eyes Your at Rye House

Cheers - sadly having to move to the wilderness that is Norfolk. But no possibility that I'm putting any money into the pockets of that scumbag in the north West of the county.

Exactly. Speedway has changed, to a large extent it has itself to blame for the small crowds and its no longer a sport where riders can just battle through wet conditions to get a meeting on and people have continued on to that. Too many times we have stood around watching the track being sorted after a downpour and then seem the riders either go through the motions or refuse to ride, meetings trying to be run in those conditions don't do anybody any good whatsoever. I believe it's treating today's speedway customer best by giving them as much notice as possible that a meeting won't be on, and as screamer says the riders will appreciate it too.

I think its quite possible the GPs will be a step too far for Cookie, but after the effort he's put into BV, and British speedway in general He certainly deserves his crack at the big boys, wish we had more riders like him

Ipswich riders moaning about track time and looked rusty... meeting all over by 9.10pm ... curfew at 10pm... but not a single Witch used this time to practice kerb crawling. Hopefully just the lack of dirt ... but track changes seem to be for the worse! Peterborough sorted it out.. . Off throttle going into corner and make sure you stay on kerb coming out. All the passes tonight were done this way... And all by the Panthers! Lakeside will love it....

Not guilty m’lud! Came as a surprise to me. But a great choice. I reckon he’ll be motivated to do well. He’s currently brushing up on his Scottish/English/Polish/Danish/Swedish dictionary!

We have not turned a wheel and some people are not happy. I think it is fair that the Redcar fans have a chance to see their team at a reduced price, because the match last season was not up to scratch. If home fans go every week i don't see a problem. It just seems fair that the Redcar who usually bring a few fans have the chance of the reduced price. But that only me. utt.

Is that where Taps lives or is that bell end? Sorry that's a bit naughty but it followed so naturally, much like Panthers will tonight

Done

If you didn't know better you'd have thought that you'd stumbled on an Ipswich WI forum

Please see an update below regarding th half price offer from last season's match against Redcar which will noot be valid tonight When Redcar Bears hit town on April 26, fans who hold entrance tickets from the meeting between the teams at the end of last season will be given admission for half price.Tigers co-promoter Damien Bates said: “There were suggestions the half price offer was for the opening night, but because the Redcar meeting was far from satisfactory at the end of last season we wanted to give the opportunity for their travelling fans to take advantage of it.“I don’t think anyone can argue with this decision, we believe it’s in the best interests of everyone

Wayland Prison (Griston) I believe. Last time I was in the area, there were helicopters and police all over the village as some inmates had apparently escaped and were hiding in the village somewhere. May still be some vacancies there...

Make sure you get your shots Scotty

Welcome anytime - good luck wherever you end up We will raise our wagon wheels and give a toast to you

Man City will create their own history and the club has class in abundance, anybody who is bitter towards them because of their money and doesn't appreciate the football they play needs to get a life. They aren't the only club with a rich owner. I don't think their supporters will be attacking the Liverpool bus next week either.

In todays speedway star young mr sarjeant has a pop at the track last year saying it was never anygood and cant wait to see what reception he gets ,lets lift the roof with boos everytime he appears on track to show him what we tbought of him last season .

This is exactly right and is the point many have been missing when commenting on the early call offs all around the country. The weather on the day is almost irrelevant to decision with so much damage done in last few weeks

I don't think it was postponed just because there was a chance of rain,it probably had more to do with the amount of rain we had in the week leading up to the match.

Steve's comparison of Manchester and Poole is very selective to say the least. Comparing Sandbanks to a council estate is not representative of the 2 areas. My sister lives just outside Bournemouth and they are a lot of extremely deprived areas in the centre of Bournemouth and parts of Poole. whereas my daughter lives in a place called Woodford on the edge of Manchester and there are some very expensive houses there where some of the professional footballers live. Also interestingly, Ivan Mauger lived in Woodford and Bramhall, very nice areas when he was riding for the Aces.

I'll point out again that Jonsson had an official average when he came back to Lakeside but it was reduced by the BSPA because he was no longer as good a rider as when he got that average. Can you not see a precedent there that should be applied for reassessing riders who's form has improved or deteriorated during their absence? Governing bodies are supposed to be consistent in the application of their rules otherwise the system is unfair and lacks credibility.

The post has been removed by either you or Admin, which means it's tasteless. You clearly don't know enough about Muslims in big cities if you think they all obey Islam. I'd say they are in the minority. If you dislike Islam then you disrespect Muslims who follow that religion. Although I'd say 100% of Muslims on BSF think your weather forecasting predictions are rubbish.

What's happened to freedom of speech your democratic right ?. Thought it was just Scotland that has Sturgeons nanny state with her storm troopers kicking doors in if you say something she doesn't like. Looks like it's spreading.

THIS week, under the direction of Editor Andrew Skeels and Art Editor Mick Smith, we start a process of a facelift for Speedway Star both in terms of presentation and content.

At certain things like working and attending Armadale.

The second meeting was just a few days later on Wednesday evening where another 16,000 turned up to see a Dirt Track meeting under floodlights.The promoter had taken on board some of the criticisms from the first meeting.This time all races were flying starts,the main handicap race was over 4 laps instead of 3,to give those riders starting last a chance to make their way through the crowd, and the racing was much more exciting than the first.It was felt that an average crowd of around 8,000 should be achievable once the novelty wore off. From a press report at the time a party of riders from Manchester were leaving on the 02.07 for Hamburg including brothers Arthur and Cyril.Wilcock,'Ginger' Lees,George Corney,Rex Kirby and Rex Trickett.I think all,as well as most riders that followed during the season came from the northern,English Dirt Track League and stayed for a few meetings.I guess they all had some practice on the new track before the first meeting.A couple of the german riders, Stölting for one,had a fall and ended up missing the first meeting due to injury from the session.It was also noted that a few of the german riders were known to motorcycle racing fans,so I guess they were racing at the trotting tracks like Farmsen in Hamburg In his first heat Lees broke his own track record and took it down to 76,6 and the German record was taken by Fritz Niss,knocking a second off of the previous record.Count Strachwitz once again showed he was no push over.In one of his heats he was leading the English riders,Cyril Wilcock and Jack Wood for quite a while until he injured his hand and was praised for his courage to even finish the race.The second meeting also saw the start of a 'Golden Helmet' competition for the german riders,which would be run as a series over the season,collecting points along the way to the title.5 points for a win......In the first final Fritz Niss won the 5pts beating Count Strachwitz,who it was said rode far too wide and made it easy for Niss The highlight was the main handicap final where 'Ginger' Lees was giving away seconds to his rivals.Morian Hansen and George Corney had 2 seconds,A.Jackson,A + O.Hansen(in the first meetings there were 4!!! Hansens riding,which caused a bit of confusion)received 4 seconds.Lees passed one after the other to finish 100m ahead of the next rider after 4 laps In the British press it was stated the track is extremely wide and the start line is just before the first bend,so the inside gate has a big advantage and the racing is boring,but from the german press reports this really doesn't seem to be the case.They are full of praise for the organisation and after the first not so great meeting,for the racing as well

Bit of fun for sure Panthers missing agent Greaves tonight Used to like going to Ipswich, better memories for sure in the Donkey days even had a witches jacket for when i made the trip in the old division one days.

You did, you wanna watch that taps.

It's a "HE" so that kind of narrows it down a little...

Bloody Hell Jenga, that made me laugh ...he be under so much pressure on Saturday lets hope he goes through the tapes every time he comes up to them and that Mason whoops his backside in heat 2, and he better lookout for Kyle as well for that matter "hardly ever got past the start gate".....Hilarious

And Caramel wafers

Interesting suggestion. With my luck my prison would be in Norfolk! Did Jeffrey Archer not do most of his time there? Brutal.

I see Chris Holder is praising Matt for all the help he has given him with all his issues, don't think it will be long before he is back in the team

Thank you..

Knew it would be on as soon as I saw the track in good nick from Taps’ crystal clear 4K photo yesterday

How very true Steve

The sun has got his hat on hip hip hooray. Think it'll be chilly tonight though so wrap up warm, and see you all there

So you are quite happy for the promotion to pay out for airfares for both teams when given the appalling weather for the last few weeks all right minded people realise there is no hope of a decent meeting being staged. Remember this isn't any run of the mill meeting, this was the first of the season where they hopefully would pull in a few newbies and therefore want to put on a good show. Not only that it was also the meting when quite a few regular fans were going to judge the quality of the 2018 season and the way meetings would be run. Bridges had to be rebuilt with those fans and a late call off or prolonged display of tractor driving skills would simply alienate many of them, possibly forever. As I said, I'm no fan of early call offs, but given ALL the circumstances in this particular case, the right decision was made, both as regards fans and as a business. Later in the season and given better overall weather, I agree call offs should not be made until the day of the meeting.

I said I would reserve it for you for when you need it - give me a while to save up for the shovel though

Flippin eck, that looks terrible - the person doing the video is a few steps up and they're still losing the rider below the neck on the 3/4th turn. God only knows how messy an accident will be if someone comes off on one of the straights..

I believe he is not taking up his SDL place so unlikely to feature in the MDL too. Speedway is a family and ripping people off is poor form

went through town tonight and there is a electronic display board opposite the curwen or what ever its called now it was advertising the glasgow meeting this saturday now thats a posotive

As long as its not Jim Lynch the boys should be motivated enough.

Will be nothing cracking about this big home win...

You are so predictable Steve get it all wrong and still argue black is white lol

Clubs need a website nowadays,Social medium is everywhere not just speedway forum ,if comments are negative they need looked into and responded too if found to be harmful to the Club.

One of the most comical threads on Poole for a long time. Shovlar completely showing himself up on here over about 6 pages makes for very comical reading. Firstly telling everyone that the meeting at Wolves should have gone ahead because from his home in Dorset he knew the weather in Wolverhampton Secondly then telling everyone that this meeting would be on because guess what 'technology' said it would be Thirdly the meeting is off because guess what...'technology' got it wrong. Shovlar can tell what the weather is in Wolverhampton form 180 miles away but cant get it right when its outside his front door!! Surely he must be sick of everyone laughing at him on here

Can't be off surely? My wonderful thing called technology (copyright Steve Shovlar) says Poole is currently experiencing a 30 degree heatwave & is being assessed to be classed as a desert.

The water table is currently very high which means that ground is already very waterlogged and only a small amount of rain will just sit on top and not drain away. It's about sensible risk management

Perhaps you should understand the difference between a forecast and what actually happened in post event rain radar traces. Education, eh?