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Oh no Geoff has been pinged by the aces lost again app needs to isolate unfortunately for a week at least

One of life's 3 certainies along with death and taxes.......

Do people only come on this forum to have a rant about speedway? Its very sad that all fans can do is moan, always looking for the negative, No mention yet of a great nights racing, pleanty of passing , a great performance by all of the Brummies, no mention of Grobauer being on the pace, ash back to form , a great perfomace by Paco who beat Jake Allen,, Riss with his jaw dopping ride against the air fence in ht 15., come on peeps lighten up.

Only surprise was that it took until heat 14 to confirm the win. Don’t want to sound like sour grapes, but I don’t think it’s fair that Peterborough were allowed a better team than us

It can often be difficult to accurately assess crowd levels at Perry Barr, especially on a night like last night when it was unbearably hot. On these sort of evenings many spectators who normally don't care for watching the racing from inside, will change their stance and go into the bar which is air conditioned and allows them to watch the meeting without sweltering. The same situation also occurs on very cold nights when the bar is centrally heated and much more comfortable. For what it is worth, I thought the attendance was a bit better last night than in the previous two meetings. I'm not saying we do not need more if the speedway is to become viable, but it is at least a good sign, and if the quality of the racing that we saw last night can be maintained, then the signs are positive. I know that the new track curator Dixie Dean, is working hard on the track surface, and it is showing a definite improvement.

It is a rubbishhole though. Went there for a stox meeting in 2018, it was far worse than the last time speedway was raced there in 1986. Also the track is tarmac, the centre green is a total mess and the fence is Armco. The speedway track was only ever any good in 1985 and even then it deteriorated before the end of that season. The stockcars carried on ruining it through 86, then the promotion gave up. It's in the wrong part of Brum too, not exactly dripping with transport links. A definite no-no IMO.

What an appalling site this is! Badly designed and, certainly as far as speedway is concerned, lacking in up to date information. To find out that the Sheffield match is on I had to go outside the site for a search to find what 'British Premiership Round 8' meant - I could so easily have taken this for one of their many repeats. if it had not been mentioned on this forum that match is on then I wouldn't have known anything about it - particularly as it's not in the usual Monday slot. The BSPA were keen to inform us of their tie-in with this organisation now they need to bend their ears to tell them to provide clear information about the sport on the website. It's certainly not doing speedway much in the way of promotion. And if you're reading this Baldyman don't bother to tell me to use the power of Google. It should not be necessary to delve through multiple tv listing sites to get the required information when it should be on the host website.

That was all a match should be, good hard racing, a last heat decider and a bit of atmosphere on the terraces

Is Bomber playing his way into GB's Speedway of Nations Team? On tonight's form, he could still compete at the top level.

Wrist injury indeed , must have been watching porn during his self isolation

Good luck to IOW tonight. Barry has been on Facebook live throughout the day, promoting the meeting, promoting and giving exposure to the sponsors. I really hope they have a successful season

If you were there, you would know it was a far better performance than the points he scored. Remember, he is a CL reserve, so riding at No.2 on a relatively new track to him was always going to a tall order. Ht1.Got baulked on 1st turn ,kept plugging away and was reeling Ruml in by the finish. Ht6.Gated with Schlein and Pedersen. Made nuisance of himself. Only their long standing experience took them to the front. HT8. Was cruising, never threatened, to a 5-1 with Hume. Engine went kaput and sounded like a bag of nails. HT10.Change of bike worked well. Rocket start and on another 5-1 until a small error left Z.Cook to go round him. Could have so easily have been 5 pts or more. Looked far more accomplished than Keleher,Ruml, Bowtell and Smith. Did his job very well. Considering this was only the second ever time he has ridden the Poole track, he acquitted himself very well, in my opinion. I heard people saying that for a guest, he tried hard for us and happy to have him back again. Not sure hed like the 7-8 hour drive from Workington each week though!

The joys of being allowed to DU... One injury means two teams are short of riders... Mind you.. Not always the case I suppose... Sometimes seemingly one injury only impacts one of the two teams involved but not the other, meaning a rider is unfit to ride for one of his teams, but perfectly ok to ride for the other one.. Double Upping... All very strange...

It's a sh!thole.

improved crowd level over the past couple of meetings, think it will go up now the lads are getting back in the groove. you missed a good one, great nights racing plenty of passing ht 3 with Ash and Jake Allen passing and repassing was great.

Nice to see Cradley Heath alias competing in four team format at the Isle of Wight new speedway spectacular.

Don't agree with the tac sub at home but GET IN The signs were there at Sheffield last week that the change of leadership might have galvanised things and that carried on tonight. Everyone had a win or paid win again although I'd suggest Wells might be on borrowed time. And what a signing Lawson has been.

Yes drop Woffinden or Bewley and put him in

I'm sure I'm repeating myself but home teams shouldn't be allowed the TR, if you are half a dozen behind on your own track tough luck.

Follow the leader speedway, never understood why this track is highly rated.

1: 61.81 2: 60.71 3: 61.03 4: 60.91 5: 60.53 6: 60.47 7: 60.63 8: 61.41 9: 61.25 10: 59.91 11: 60.69 12: 60.62 13: 60.61 14: 61.59 15: 61.32

BL65, agree with Sidney- I learn so much from your posts ,many thanks and keep 'em coming!!

the wheels is up for re-development, so it will disappear. current tennents have been told to leave. I enjoyed last night, role on Plymouth. A much better performance by the lads. Drinks of cordial I believe for kids and pints of tap water with ice at the bar are FREE! Fill your boots.. I did.

As I am privvy to what went on behind the scenes - straight from the horses mouth! - let me just say the whole issue was far less about his on track scores and was not about any specific exchange of expletives at the Promoter, but more about his off-track behaviour, letting the Promoter down and longer term specific effects on team spirit. The fall into the air fence on the day he departed and his attitude to others - including several Aussies there on the night - when he returned to the pits was 'after-the-fact' as decisions had already been made. No further comment from me on this issue. As for last night's meeting a great atmosphere, helped by some decent music and well done to the track staff for keeping the dust down and again providing a decent racetrack.

He outscored who he replaced. Job done! You are really annoyed that Zane let you down! Haha. Not sure why you are trying to trash a Brit in the process. Bit weird!

One for the tax records, one for me, one for the tax records, one for me.......

If you're referring to me, I didn't predict anything. I said, 'we'll see how that goes later'. Dear oh dear.

I don't know if you can blame the management as they haven't said anything about it apart from the statement about getting rid before he came an asset. Whatever Zane did, he really p'eed them off! He might be doing well for Plymouth but he hadn't done that well for Poole when he was there, so it was easy for them to just use the scores as a reason.

We got a new manager, first home win, with some good racing. And your moaning about 20 mins. Your a genuine fan?? lol

I think Oxford may also be taking part with Gordon Kennett as Team Manager?

Utterly effing pathetic that yet another TV company employs Ermolenko... Why ?

Used to be a fabulous track in the 1970's & 80's. Some of the England v USA test matches were tremendous.

What an overrated gaff this is, horrid

Cheers. He’s had a few crashes in the last few weeks so might be an accumulation of those. Fingers crossed as we are already down 4 riders and can’t afford to lose him.

Bomber to do 7 rides ….. trying to sell speedway as a genuine sport to the TV masses.

Amen to that !

Outscored by ONE. Not annoyed at all. Never heard of ZK until he was signed and I have no loyalty to him whatsoever so how has he let me down? As for bashing Brits...WTF are you on about????

No disrespect to you Historian....but I think the talk of Birmingham's future is a positive and not a rant about speedway? May be the topic is being discussed on the wrong thread? Just my thoughts.....

Have to agree,unfortunately.It’s not a sport to do for a hobby.

The future of the Wheels venue is also under threat again, with the current leases not being renewed according to recent reports - so definitely not the answer!

Would have had more but for some misfortune

It was clear from the first meeting that Zane Keleher couldn’t ride the track. All over the place. Even last night he was badly tailed off. The right call, even without the behind the scenes issues of which I am not privvy. I am sure his gating will allow him some points in his home meetings but on his travels it will be hard for him.

Because I expected better than what is getting served up that is why!! So plenty sense.. And I never bought the ticket it was a Christmas gift..

He may be too good for,our,top three shame i cant go could be a good meeting ,

I think matt was afraid of it spilling out on the rest of the team

You seriously can not defend the incompetence of Chapman both at KL and as Chairman of the BSPA. He’s been useless and reckless and has run the sport into the ground. He's operating a micky mouse underachieving club and has proved conclusively that he is clueless. Anyway regarding racing we’ll soon see how your bit of a fan manager performs tomorrow. No matter who wins it will be interesting and will surely bring in many fans just to watch the World Famous BV Aces. Good luck.

His season has been wrecked by that alarming spill at Wolves, if that hadn't occurred he'd be happily scoring points and enjoying himself I'm sure. As it is nobody would blame him if he packed it in right now.

Ricky is usually a solid performer and although we aren't in normal times this season who would you replace him with... any normal season and I think he may have found himself cut by Glasgow before now but this ain't any normal season and who do you replace him with as there arent many riders out there to slot straight in... I think he will come good and work through this rough patch... hopefully... as he has the talent... we have all seen it Regards THJ A was a bit slow there Gaz because if they are looking and have someone lined up then maybe the clock is ticking...

That would be no. But then again you could probably say that about Dale, and Rob Lyon (Don't think Rob rode) to be honest, what about Peter Adams. Tracks and engines change all the time. The best advice for set ups etc would come from one of your team mates on any particular night. Although not all riders engines are set up the same either. Was/Is Rob Lyon a yes man, i very much doubt it....I know Alex reads the forum. The honest answer to that is who knows. Only people close to him will know his nature. He loves his speedway, i hope he knows all the rules and regs (not easy mind ). No doubt Dale will be on hand to help if need be. His has the balls to offer or accept the role, which ever scenario it was. So give him a go until the end of the season, see how he gets on. Best of luck Alex.