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Jesus Christ 10 heats into the season and the glory supporter wants a change already.

Can you give me the time of heat 6 please. I missed it.

Simply the greatest speedway rider I had the privilege to watch, and thankfully meet in person. He won the first race I ever watched in the First Division at Belle Vue in 1972. He looked unbeatable that night, and a huge contrast to the other riders, from the leathers through to his dominant armchair style. Ivan was a star and a lasting one, not just a few season wonder. Later I was to have the honour of commentating on his British farewell meeting at Hyde Road and very nearly was assigned to cover his home New Zealand leg of his farewell tour. Sadly that wasn't to be but at least I can say that I have attended a business meeting with him. He was equally a class ahead in that arena. i was lucky enough to meet many world champions in my time, but only one mattered, only one was I star struck by, Ivan Mauger O.B.E. The best in so many ways. Rest in peace, free of that appalling illness that also claimed my mother, the death before death.

And that comes from someone in the Ipswich area

Blame their team manager then, not the ref. And there was no need to destroy the tapes, pure petulance.

Don’t believe his spin. Shovy’s gutted. It was only a couple of weeks ago that he was telling BV fans he was looking forward to Poole stuffing them at the NSS! They couldn’t even beat a patched up BV!

Hi, I read you comments with interest as I do with as much as I can on here to gather feedback or to look at how we can improve our night of family fun. However, one sentence in your post set my alarm bell ringing.... "come October the fans feel that they have had their monies worth." Now, from my point of view not one fans has ever said to me "Barry, change the team line up - we have to win" or "Barry, I dont feel like I am entertained..." in fact, reality was quite the opposite. Fans we saying to me (because I do try and say goodbye and hello to as many as I can) thanks for another great night of racing we will win next week or "loved the racing, we were unlucky tonight"..... you see winning is great, but its not everything. Feeling entertained vice disappointed because your team lost are too different things... I was gutted (and always will be) everytime our team loses because I want to win... but more important to me is that everyone has a great time, are entertained, feel valued, love the Warrior Way, know that Martin and I along with all our volunteers do the very best for our club. So, I dont agree that come October fans will feel any more value for their ££ as they did last season. We put on a great family show from start to finish and this is the future of speedway. I hope that comes across how I meant it to be and if anyone doesnt feel they have value, write to me speedwayontheisland@yahoo.co.uk and tell me why.

Nobody rode wider than Richard Lawson so if 14 points is going backwards, bring it on. Adam Ellis hunted down Rory Schlein and eventually caught him on the line by riding the wide line, and I don't recall Danny King, anywhere near the inside getting his 12 points. I agree the Tac Sub is a waste of time but I would have it dropped altogether. The public don't pay to see riders of the calibre of Scott Nicholls and Danny King take a TR against reserves where they win easily, as happened the last two weeks.If we must have a TR it shouldn't be heatleaders replacing reserves, it should be in other heats where they have to make a race of it.

First time on the track for the Diamonds. Not a bad effort. Why people winge after one meeting baffles me. Give these lads a chance. My best years following the Diamonds was when we were the Federation Specials and they didn't win much.Just be glad we have speedway . Keep the faith.

In this age of technology, is it possible to open a book of condolence that can be linked to Ivan’s family? It would be great if they could see just how highly regarded Ivan was by so many people. I saw him many times at his peak and he was an object lesson in how to conduct himself on and off the track.

It is a measure of his standing that if any 'non speedway' person was to be asked (even now) to name a speedway rider then it would be Ivan more often than not. A true legend of the sport - RIP Ivan

Sad news to hear the passing of Ivan Mauger. A true gentleman who became a legend. I have always regarded him as the most complete rider I ever saw. He took professionalism to a different level. and showed lesser riders the way to win. His degree of detail was beyond limits. He more than any other paved the way for the sport as it is today. A truly tragic lost..... RIP Ivan...

This thread is dedicated to the memory of Brandonbee 48 It looks as if this season should be a bumper year of televised Speedway from around the world. I will update this OP with what Matches are being shown- the details will be found in the relevant section. .

RIP to a true sporting legend.

Pardon, check the score again.

Never knew Josh had dirty riding in him. Totally fence max in heat 15. Rode straight through him.

Well what on earth went wrong for Poole there? As predicted Belle Vue missed Worrall big time, Tungate isn’t in form and Gappmaier did nothing yet Poole couldn’t take advantage. Kurtz needs to step up away from home and be a real number one but it’s early days from him. Your number one can’t go missing away from home. Surprised Woryna hasn’t got going yet this season but again he has time. What a great result for Belle Vue just imagine what they could do with a fit 1-7. Cant understand why Hans and Newman were ever let go. Sundstrom is no world beater and you know exactly what you get with Hans. Still Poole rode Belle Vue at the right time I guess

How many 'Heat Leaders' do you want ??? you have 4 already...

10 point away win

Pathetic from us so far 17-7 against a team who are missing 3 regular riders.

Any truth in the rumour he didnt even have the head of the costume on ? Just a normal Berwick face

I feel guilty if that helps

Probably due to the bspa allowing Swindon to race on a Thursday rather than the two fixed nights

..and the most serious crashes seem to happen in Poland - Darcy Ward, Lee Richardson etc. So the Poles can't really take the moral high ground!

He has had to work hard to get where he is but he does have natural ability and to say Auty has more natural ability than Cook and Doyle put together is ridiculous.

I fail to see why it's any concern as to who is involved because it's Coventry's business - maybe the poster is just setting up a case to get people to have another go about something. The bees are on track and looking good - be nice if people were just satisfied to watch their progress and not pick all the time.

Seems a great idea. Can see the track going slick rather quickly though I think it should be open not only to home riders, but to the away riders as well, all except when Poole are visiting...

Makes it easier for the riders to communicate with fans. Edit: Apologies, gmuncie, couldn't resist!

With Ivan's sad passing I, and a great many others now call on Peter Collins and indeed the club to end their differences. It is a cliché, but as we all know life is too short.

Ivan Mauger. Surely one of the first, maybe really the first rider to take a professional approach to racing. He certainly raised the bar for the rest of the speedway world. Many others modelled themselves on him and achieved great things as a result. Ivan was not just a good rider. The record book proves that. He left those of us who saw him race in no doubt of his greatness. I did have the pleasure of meeting him at the Sheffield press and practice day about 15 years ago and I was struck by his quiet unassuming character. RIP Ivan. Thanks for the memories.

But he is not ineligible Proctor has his visa and cleared to ride in the other league, going by what is being said here there has been a hold up with other paperwork hardly Workington's fault.

Sad to hear of this awful news, although it has been expected, it's still a shock.I was at Brough Park to see his first home ride for Newcastle on 15 April 1963. This ended in an engine failure, an inauspicious start. A second and two wins, all on borrowed bikes completed his first match. He did improve!!!! RIP the ultimate professional.

RIP Ivan, the world's greatest ever rider. I was lucky enough to see him ride in the great Aces team from my first meeting back in 1971 when he rode to a flawless 12 pt maximum at home to Halifax. I was hooked on the sport from then on. A great ambassador for the sport, he will be sadly missed.

The rain actually forecast was worse than last week. It did have heavy rain between 2pm-5pm at one point. I'm quite sure once we get a meeting with no threat of rain more than enough will come to watch. The Cradley meeting will boost the attendance no doubt about that.

The lack of regular meetings is certainly not helping the team, but that's what the championship promotors wanted. Hopefully they will realise their error and go back to home and away twice next season.

I only live 7 miles from Lakeside, but the meeting on Friday sums up why I would rather drive 60 miles to go to Ipswich than watch at Lakeside where the dirt is still lacking. Riders trying to go wide just went backwards as there was nothing to give them any drive. Why they decided to water the outside of the track during the meeting baffles me as there was nothing to water, and this led to the two riders coming down in heat 8 as it was like an ice rink. Both riders should've been put back in. Congrats to Lakeside on the win, and to Connor on his impressive showing. The tactical substitute rule is a waste of time, better than the double points but you should be able to use it more than once.

Really sad news, an absolute colossus of our great sport. RIP

2meetings and your classing judgement on them now your a class clown,how about we judge Ipswich on there start to the season with there flaky Italian,unreliable heeps and over rated German rider,do 1 u twit!!!!

Its 1 meeting. Nick has hardly started well TBH but Im not worried. Him and Kurtz will be in the top 5 of the averages

of course i do L . i support speedway @ workington all the time . but the number of people that were ,how do i say this ? , were almost unhealthy from certain outlets was quite a lot. i hope things have been put right and will support this cafe as much as i can . there is nothing better than a good cuppa , chips n burger to make going to speedway a brilliant night out . on a final note . i had my youngest with me all the way from Hull. he asked for something to eat and drink . being a cold night . we all trundled around to the cafe . but as we all know now . things were not going according to plan . we came away dissapointed, no food and missed 4/5 heats of racing due to something or other . will we be back OF COURSE WE WILL .its a great sport, but we need more water on the track for grip ! always,,always, ALWAYS supporting a great sport @ workington . i go , i moan . but i love it .

That would be a shame as it's added entertainment. I like you can see protests coming. Maybe 2 riders from each team doing hot laps would be fairer and far better than losing what in essence is a good idea.

Poole signed a rider until Holders paperwork was cleared what Workington should have done. Last week he was declared to ride against Glasgow twice still no paperwork a week later [first time I have agreed with Mr Blobby ] got a visit to the doctors sorted

Are you sure it was more wonga or was it the knowledge they would get paid what they were due and on time. And pray explain what Chris has been saying about the long drive

A great rider who brought professionalism to speedway, he was way ahead of his time, I feel so lucky to be able to say I saw him in his prime, a true legend. If the GP system had been about in Ivans day he would have had numerous more world titles as his consistency was unbelievable. Rip Ivan and condolences to the family.

RIP Ivan. I travelled with the great man on his farewell tour to Poland in 1985, when he treated me like one of his family. There will never be another rider like Ivan, who took the sport to another level.

He was offered terms as was Harris, but the draw of more Wonga from the garage owners just swayed it, it will be interesting to see who fancies the long drive next year, Harris already seems annoyed with it according to his twitter and it’s only just started.

Speedway has never been able to make up its mind about whether it's a team sport or a circus for daredevil showmen. For my money, they should drop the pairs, the fours, the league riders' championships and all the other window-dressing events (which are just meaningless dross). They should concentrate on a single league of 18 - 20 teams and a regionalised cup competition. League play-offs should be consigned to the dustbin, and the simplified structure of a single league and a cup competition could guarantee all teams a solid programme of 25 home matches per season, potentially a few more for teams with a good cup run. Speedway could learn a lot from those other "dying sports" of cricket and rugby. Through sharpening up the presentation and encouraging greater partisanship they have turned around their fortunes and crowd numbers have gone through the roof. I remember as a lad going to Bramall Lane to watch Geoffrey Boycott bat for a day and a half. By the third day of the match there was no-one left in the ground. Compare that to a Twenty/20 match last summer at Headingley when the terraces were packed, alive and buzzing. Speedway needs to ask itself what its own version of that looks like. Trust me - there are solutions, but it needs people with vision and ideas. Rationing the sport to reduce financial losses is a losers' charter and, if that's the best the promoters can offer, they should be hounded out of the sport.

Ty applied for both papers needed for the 2 leagues before the season started he recieved his Premiership papers in March and was expecting his Championship papers to come at the same time.

You really think so ?? you're more deluded than I thought

I understand the logistical difficulties which forced them out of the second tier in the first place . I think back to the Chris Holder inspired side which knocked us out of the play offs in a terrific meeting at Glasgow in 2006 . They would be a tremendous asset to our league , but the northern bias in it would probably prevent that from happening .