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You seem to be automatically assuming anyone White + Middle aged ,must also be - Racist + Homophobic ( How do you even know forum users are White , middle aged ? ) And what's wrong with being " stuck in their ways " , if they are good ways Plenty of young people also " stuck in their ways" - automatically assuming - Old Fashion =Bad New Fashion = must be good Isn't Age discrimination just another discrimination like racism , homophobia etc. You argue against one form of discrimination , while using another form of discrimination

The good news is that looks like Rory has not broken his thigh as originally thought but will remain in hospital as the muscles are bleeding . Hopefully he will be back on the bike soon

People who take the knee aren't booed because they receive racial abuse but because they do so in support of a decidedly dubious movement, many of whose members are as racist as anybody they protest against not forgetting the whole take a knee nonsense was inspired by the death of a career criminal. I have no issues with anybody wanting equality, everybody deserves it and it should be offered unconditionally by all. However I have always had doubts that the way to gain equality for anybody is for a relatively small minority of a minority to behave outrageously. I would go out of my way to back any individuals right to be treated in the same way as others but that includes the need to avoid the positive discrimination demanded by the more extreme minority groups. Equality will only come from the majority mixing with minorities on equal terms, we have come a very long way in the past few decades because of that but all BLM and the more outrageous Gay pride events do is create further division. Equality comes from people not caring about the race, religion or sexuality of others. Standing up and screaming 'look at me I'm not the same as you' achieves nothing good.

Do youngsters really think that the present day are the 'good new days'? We have so many issues and problems running through society. We have so many movements telling us 'gas lighting us' what we should be doing, what we should be thinking, etc etc. Trying to force people to think a particular way won't get what these movements want, all it does is gets peoples backs up and pushes some people into joining far right movements. Society really isn't in a healthy state at the moment and sadly, it will get worse in my opinion. The 'PC brigade' has gone too far!

Why cant we have debate anymore? Not supporting pride means your homophobic Don't take the knee, your racist Have different views on how to tackle Covid from the government, your a conspiracy theorist Your not vegan, then you like to kill animals and don't want to stop climate change There is only one view allowed now, and you need to support it without comment

the problem is now the view is, if you don't support it you are against it, there is no reasoned debate because if you speak out against supporting anything you are branded as being against things it just seems that there is only point of view allowed now, which is a shame

Liking the BSPL bellenders , however the facts are Scunny can apparently put on this kind of meeting under whatever guise they choose, but the same courtesy is not being extended to the IOW which is threatening the existance of Speedway under any form on the Island, this stinks of dictatorship and has no place on the island of Britain, may i suggest Godfrey moves to Russia or China where his form of Chairmanship is more in line with there way of life. In my humble opinion it should be Barry Bishop leading the BSPL (impossible now they are not members) as he can learn a number of BSPL promoters a thing or three about what Promotion stands for and i dont mean being promoted from Labourer to Foreman. I really hope that the IOW can survive this blatant pressure being put on riders by persons known and unknown, after all its for the good of the Sport that Speedway on the Island survives under whatever guise its able to. Its just a great pity that there is not a sugar daddy out there that could sponsor meetings with enough money for the riders to be able to stick two fingers up to the bullies of British Speedway.

All I can say is that I was glad I grew up during the era that I did.

Unfortunately it doesn’t take too long to realise that the vast majority of users on here are middle aged, white, homophobic, racist and stuck in their ways wishing things would go back to the ‘good old days’. That is why no one on this forum is really supportive of this idea

Good job you don’t know what your talking about haha

On this forum, we are constantly told the average speedway fan is upwards of age 50. Upwards of age 50, is likely to mean they are less tolerant to gay celebration events, so, in my opinion, I don't think it will go down very well with the average supporter. It's a generational thing. I'm 63 and I have no issue with LGBTQ+, but at the same time, I don't want my nose 'rubbed in it', which is what society seems to want to do, with many issues.

Yup I was well wrong. The diamonds put up a great showing.

The last few years the track at redcar as always been well prepared and always will be to produce good racing.

There are disadvantaged people throughout society, whatever their racial background is. The gay community, for goodness sake, has been fully recognised over the years, including marriage, what else can the community want? TV and radio is well and truly represented by the gay community, probably on a percentage basis over 'straights', over represented. It's as though, if you are white, straight, middle-class you are now society's 'nouveau freaks'!

Well the track was great at Redcar on Friday, after many days of hot dry weather. No dust and produced some fantastic racing. (not a dig at Birmingham btw, just a response to saying the pressure was on Redcar to produce a good racing track)

There was letter in my TV Guide where someone was criticising Michael Portillo's dress sense? It was suggested that he should dress 'contempory'...okay dress with shorts that cover the knees or jeans slashed and wearing a branded teashirt plus a baseball camp! Okay his colour co-ordination sometimes clashes but at least he is smart in appearance.

The meeting was organised and run by Scunthorpe Speedway under SCB rules and riders had to get Day Licences if they didn't have an SCB licence. It was racing and I suppose you can under a private hire but the implications of anything happening would I think be quite significant, especially on the owner of the track.

Same here regarding my youth, I was my dad's ticket out of the house, my mum used to say "you can go but you can take 'trouble' with you so I can get some peace", so we were at the zoo every Saturday night, many Thursdays it would be a dash over Woodhead, our holidays were extended or curtailed to fit in a trip to a track on the way home. Yet I can hardly recall any specific meetings, the most vivid still being the run off between PC & Michanek, which isn't a bad one to remember I suppose. Anyway, back on topic, as discussed above, for me Joe Owen would have to be the best from my era, constantly topped the averages in the Star every week.

four of us Brummies fans were supposed to be going to Redcar but the M1 was shut due to an accident and it was mayhem. With our eta going from 17.45, to 20.30, and still being in queuing traffic, 85 miles from Redcar, we gave up and diverted to Scunthorpe. The meeting went through at a rapid rate of knots! It was a cracking meeting. Jordan Palin is an outstanding prospect why are people asking for Aarnio to be dropped? He had a good meeting. Give these lads chance, they’ve had the best part of 18 months off. Give them time to get going before you sack them!! seen a lot of gloomy predictions on here about your final league position but on the evidence of tonight, you won’t lose many at home so no way it’s going to be as bad as the doom merchants are predicting. sit back and enjoy seeing young Palin progress. He was worth the admission money on his own tonight !!!

Sure she will find a way after the Euros. The Edinburgh variant will take hold by then.

Actually you beat what's behind you.

Why would anyone feel the need to have a "Straight Pride"? really sad "what about me" garbage ..

Bit disrespectful to Newcastle just maybe they had something to do with you being awful it might be they made you look like that.

Yeah but they are on a speedway track tonight

Exactly my point. That would be the perception so although there is nothing to say it isn't allowed it would be vilified. I don't give a toss about anybody's sexuality, why do I even want to know? Just seems odd to me that anyone needs to celebrate their sexuality anyway but anyone 'straight' would be by default 'right wing' for doing so.

I don't get the Gay pride thing at all, nobody should be ashamed of their sexuality but being proud of it is like being proud of having dark hair or blue eyes, it's not an achievement. While we are on the subject how come Homosexuals are always grouped with transgender people or those who refuse to identify when it is all completely different things that are not any more to do with being gay than straight in many cases. Are we to assume that every gay person thinks there should be no sexual identification? In which case why would they be proud to be gay? Or are we to assume that all straight people are completely unaccepting of minorities while all gay people are completely tolerant of all other aspects of sexuality and identification? Or, as seems most likely to me, are we to assume it's about the loud minority yet again needing to make themselves feel more important while the majority just want to get on with life regardless of what they think about sex and identification?

What a crock of rubbish.

Why is being gay worth celebrating?? We're all the same, we should treat all as the same. It would also be classed as Homophobic if there was such a thing as 'straight pride'.

I don't think Speedway should go down the 'adopt a trendy cause month'. Other sports feel compelled to display how virtuous they are, kneel for this, stand for that, wave for the other etc. Where does it end? Colour blind awareness month (No red, green lights) Left, Right, history month, where riders ride clockwise, then anticlockwise in alternate heats. Empathy for loosers month, where the rider finishing last gets four points? Enough of this wokery.

And Kemp will end up the best

A good meeting , still pretty much gate and go around Shielfield, Leon Flint has really stepped up a gear and Dany Gappmaier really is electric there, Leicester top 3 are something else and good job for Bandits that Ty Proctor struggled, fantastic race by Jye Etheridge to hold off Kyle Howarth , lost my voice after that one. a few Glasgow fans there tonight supporting the Bandits, well done to them for getting the points. Was wonderful getting to see my first live meeting, and nothing beats the smell of methanol

I hope that a way of funding legal action is found to fight the Speedway authorities. What they are doing is undoubtedly illegal and was proven so in the 1970s (maybe very early 80s) when the ACU were taken to court after threatening the withdrawal of ACU race licences of riders competing in AMCA mx events. Didn't stop the ACU just making threats they knew had no bite for years after the decision until it got to the stage everybody just ignored them. Remember how they threatened the licences of any rider practicing at Lydd not so very long ago? I can't remember it ever happening because they knew it was an empty threat. In addition if they are treating riders as professionals then their contracts should come under employment law, no more asset system, the addition of sick pay, holiday pay and pension schemes, no dropping riders to bring in somebody else because the numbers fit unless you're willing to keep paying the dropped rider. Put all that under threat and I suspect they will withdraw their threats to riders.

Some years ago, the potential promotors of Bristol did seem to be making slow and steady progress after identifying a possible site for a new track in Avonmouth, but perhaps the development at Somerset was part of the reason why this was not persued. I'm not sure how far apart Highbridge and Avonmouth are, but I'd image that speedway at Somerset relied a good deal of support from the Bristol area? Perhaps now that Somerset has sadly been lost, this might be a good time for those who were working to revive Bristol to have another go?

25% crowd out of stadium capacity of 150%

I would suggest barely any team places as he would only be able to replace another HL.. You would suspect PBoro is a no no and KL definitely.. At his level that leaves a max eight positions for him.. Batchelor/Holder Kurtz/Bewley Crump/King Schlein/Masters. Maybe Ipswich and Wolves will take a look and get him to cover their injured riders? Lets hope the BSPL dont allow him to cover both through guesting for both teams..

Panthers can have BWD, with Tofty coming our way, for Ty or Bridger That would still see us under the limit, so if Ty/Bridger who ever is left don't work out, we have a bit of scope there as well. Time to get ruthless, and i don't mean Robert.

Pleased for him that he scored well last night, was concerned that whatever affected him at Lynn might have been a wider issue with his racing mindset but obviously not. There has been lots said about the contrast in team spirit after the last two meetings so perhaps that is the crux of it but I hope he gets a team spot in the Premiership somewhere as he is too good not to have one. And of course that Lawson carries on in the same vein

Have to agree with Yerbs. Fantastic nights racing, on a superbly prepared track (well done Jonny Swales). Praise has to go to the Brummies team who fought back, after a tough start, like a lot of riders (probably all), they felt comfortable on the Redcar track and it showed in their performance. There really is no home advantage at Redcar and a lot of visiting riders, get a bounce effect, when they come to Redcar. Once again a great nights entertainment and fantastic value for the decent crowd. I don't know where this leaves us, with the tie situation, but I am sure it will be sorted eventually. I even think, some of the Brummies riders, would like a second leg at Redcar. Oh and just to say, on a red hot night, the water bowser, did not come out once.

Maybe early days but I question why the promotion let James Sarjeant go and retained Willie Lawson.

Think Bradley Wilson-Dean will come in for Proctor. I’m told he’s back in the UK with two brand new bikes. Probably just waiting for visa to come through. If it’s anything like some of the others, it will be through just in time for our last meeting.

I would agree with that. With so little time between the start of the stream and the 1st heat and after the failure of the cast option it didn't give long to sort out the problems so I ended up with a crude mirror of a phone screen on my TV with peripheral icons via Google home app. It did the job so I stuck with it as experimenting further meant missing more of the action. If it hadn't been for the unfortunate lengthy delay I would have missed half the meeting. Having said that, I too was impressed with the production and will certainly purchase again if I can resolve the casting issues. I can't believe the comments on social media complaining about the cost of the stream though.What do people expect FFS ? After putting on a meeting at considerable cost with no paying spectators in the stadium, coupled with the production costs of the stream. "Too expensive" "short sighted" they are all moaning It cost me £38 for the takeaway we ate while the 4 of us watched it & only £11:95 for the stream. I know which I enjoyed the most!

From a neutral fan was not a bad meeting to watch, no stopping Craig cook, will take some beating around ashfield, Sam Jensen looks good, Ricky wells looks a weak link, for Poole Ben cook looks a very good prospect. Thought the stream was good

How many league pts did the Budgies get tonight please ????

What a prospect Ben Cook looks

Who is Glasgow's man of the match ? Craig Cook , Sam Jensen or Gary Havelock ?

We fall into the same rider availability trap every year.Give them the ultimatum,fully commit to Uk or forget it.Declare line ups by end of year.Then you will know where you stand and what format the league (1 league) should run.These riders that are mucking us about are no superstars,junior riders replacing them would give just as much entertainment and would progress quicker.The standard MIGHT rise again given the standard we have fallen too.Is there really as big a shortage of riders.Entertainment is the name of the game.The riders that give us the biggest headache are the guys taking the money out of UK speedway.

How good would it be if there was a fully functional speedway track available with a promoter willing to put on regular meetings for the NL riders, rising stars etc to practice against each other & improve their skills. Sure the BSPL would be massively in favour of that seeing as there are so few meetings in the NL.

In all honesty if you pay your money you could run a match at scunny between the Godfrey Gits and BSPL bellenders if you wanted too

But clever enough to know that somebody having a different point of view and expressing it politely takes more intelligence than name calling!

If the company who have bought it are not going to use it as a clubhouse, then I doubt it could be used as one on an adhoc basis one day a week. Maybe it will be offices, or a training centre for certain trades. Maybe she meant it's a no brainer to take the money offered for the clubhouse. IMO the Hancock family probably got fed up with working in the inner sanctum of a body that show so much ineptitude and self interest, instead of the greater good of the whole. Even though that body is way behind the current leaders in the I'm alright Jack World Championships The Cabinet If they've been offered silly money they'd be daft not to take it.