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Some Poole fans have such short memories yes apart from probably 3 races last night wasn't a great meeting but only a couple of weeks ago Poole v Berwick was live on bsn and that was an awful meeting which had absolutely no passing.

Am I the only one on ere that actually attended both Edinburgh & Berwick? Being there & soaking up the atmosphere, chatting to people & enjoying a fantastic Northern break makes a hell of a lot of difference to those of u that watch on a computer. Whilst streaming is a valued financial input for club's it's no replacement to actually being there. All I hear from the stay aways streaming folk is how boring yawn etc these meetings were. For me, being there made all the difference as I thoroughly enjoyed both meetings & getting to meet & chat to riders & management in the pits. Fantastic Tour

Wonder who the reserve is we had? Seems good. Could he not have had one of Masons rides also?

How many posts by shove-it-up-your-ar*e complaining about how poor the racing was? Give it a rest, you got a lucky draw. Yeah, the racing wasn’t great, but that’s been the exception rather than the rule this season.

Go and crawl back under your rock, if you’re commenting about Birmingham in such a way it’s not welcome and quite frankly it’s embarrassing. If any sports tried running next door to a once in a lifetime event for the city they would be mad, even Manchester United didn’t play few years ago when the games were at ethid, are you questioning them?? Do one idiot

The night of the men's and womens 100 metre semi finals and finals. Also 2x T20 Cricket matches at Edgbaston Anyone trying to run Speedway that night would deserve certifying. Right decision by Brummies.

Spot on.

Havvy is a terrible team manager always gets it wrong. Could have won last night with better changes.

Would definitely recommend a visit to Oxford for those fans that dont have a local speedway team to watch. Quite a few Robins fans there from Swindon and district, plus other former nearby clubs such as Reading and Coventry. A few from London and south-east as well. Good stadium, easy access, good facilities, some good racing, and big crowd around 2000 with noisy atmosphere. With Newcastle closing with crowds of less than 400, and general negativity surrounding British league speedway it's good to see this success story in central-southern England.

When speedway has fans like you in no time at all your going to be on a netball forum complaining about that because the likes of you will have finally finished speedway off and you won’t have this forum to spout your stuff, if you don’t like the way the club is run fair enough but it’s not your concern is it

It's hard not to agree with a lot of this tbh, but the biggest problem speedway has is that its a very niche and minority sport nowadays. All the PR in the world isn't going to pack stadiums out anymore, everyone knows this and this is why promoters won't throw money at it, it's a pointless exercise. The other sports you mentioned are known by nearly every person alive and that's where you get huge demand and interest. Although streaming is a modern concept for speedway, I can't see how it will attract any new people. All it will do is keep regular fans at home where they haven't got the hassle of traffic, parking, delays, rider absence at the last minute or a rain off at 7.28pm. A Barry Hearn type would fail to find anything to turn the sport around because there are so many pitfalls they wouldn't know where to start. It's probably best being an amateur sport with clubs being able to survive on the few hundred paying customers that are left and the riders doing it as a hobby with enough to cover expenses.

Basso has done what we expected but Danyon has been a revelation, loves the Ashfield track

Take your greyhound conspiracy theories to another forum ffs

pleased for Roynon, was struggling with us but will score more than either Bickley or Coles

Needs to go to 2 Leagues - A professional League of all the clubs that can afford it at a level similar to the current Championship and call it the British League. 6 man teams will help as regards the rider shortage. A second tier at a level a bit higher than the present NL retaining the NL name. Only Commonwealth and British riders can ride in this League.

No denying that Berwick were very unlucky last night not to win the meeting after Chris Harris`s clutch gave up the ghost, now to find Danny King suffered a puncture in the same race just compounds the bad luck, still never mind, you`ve got to give Poole credit fighting back from ten down to a draw. One or two iffy refereeing decisions to, I was surprised that Danny King received a warning at the start of Ht15 for moving when I saw no movement, maybe referee was just catching up with things as the same rider got away with a clear jump start in Ht3. All in all Berwick yet again failed to win a home meeting, their season is now dependant on making up the points against Redcar next Saturday.

A number of people have told you already but you are still banging the anti-greyhound agenda on a speedway forum. While you may be passionate about that subject, it is hardly a topic for this forum. We want Swindon Speedway back and that means having the dogs too - as it has been for most of the last 50 years! If you want to talk about speedway then please do but keep your anti-greyhound agenda to yourself please as you have already had more pages on the subject than I care to read!

There was a few Poole fans on back straight last night, fair play to you all, a long way, but a nice weekend for it

To be honest they should have been thinking about a replacement for Niels when he first signed.Not once was it stated he was here for the season so we could have been left in the $h!t at any point.That point has been the last few weeks and at present.Not enough forward thinking/planning which is likely to finish our season early again.With NKI present at every match we could have been doing a lot better.Most certainly would have bagged 3/4pts at Peterborough which would have made the table look much better. Personally I don't believe in too much in what Allitt says.

Only word to describe today ......awesome

And some wouldn't do that on the basis that you are telling potential car thieves how long they have before you'll be returning to your car....

Not strictly true. He had the option to move it on and get out last yr but he panicked that someone else thought they could make it pay and in his naivety he thought he could do it. The night after he was approached he announced he was carrying on and never even went back to let the frontman of the people who wanted to take on the club know before the announcement. Now the club is in such a sorry state, no one will do it now.

Euro millions still up for grabs, better buy a ticket for Tuesday £190 million

Decent meeting to follow the championship clash

Are Birmingham limited to running on Wednesdays? I wonder if ALL other entertainment establishments will be shutting up shop on that night?

So with the Commonwealth Games being held in Birmingham, just up the road, from Thursday the 28th of July to Monday the 8th of August in the height of the British summer, I assume the Brummies promotion is in full swing in trying to attract along some of the thousands of visiting people in the city and some of the athletes just a stones throw away from the stadium... by holding some kind of spin off Commonwealth Riders Championship, a money spinning meeting to boost the coffers? Oh, hang on... AUGUST Wed 03 - NO MEETING - HOME

Glasgow in a similar position, or possibly worse as they are out the KO Cup. Last home league meeting v Brum 5 August and it looks possible they could finish second so it would be a play off semi next, possibly not before the third Friday in September, a gap of six weeks.

At least we know where we stand for the next 4 weeks, and don't have to play the "is he, isn't he" guessing game anymore. So, there's another month of guests to come, which ironically will probably boost the team's firepower. This farce was completely foreseeable though, wasn't it? Some would say this was "cute" team management to sign him, knowing that we'd get to this point where "facilities" worth more than the rider himself would become available. Others would say it's another example of being completely disrespectful to the paying public. Quite frankly I'm not interested in Vissing's reasons for not being available. We all knew it was going to happen, so who cares why? From December onwards, we all read about "how calendars were being checked", so all this was completely predictable. What I'm more interested in is who in the Brummies management signed-off on all of this, knowing what was inevitably going to happen. They sold the story to the fans that Vissing (& Ellis) were going to be in the team for the coming season, not just bits and pieces of the season. Season tickets will have been bought on this basis. The fans deserve answers.

Couldn’t lye straight in bed, take with a massive pinch of salt, always a massive fiddle on the horizon.

Denmark have a break in July, hence why our Wednesday away fixtures were arranged for then

Perhaps you won't be as quick critisizing Wolverhampton next time then

Haha yeah, we are against Glasgow Wednesday, surely we were toldBasso couldn't do any home meetings!!

Have they.

2.00 still I believe

The Birmingham PR is shocking.IMO,and they wonder where the fans have went.!!

Lack of Heat winners at our home track has been a problem.Only 6 tonight and Bomber had 3 of them.Always going to be a tight match.

Bomber was sublime,but he was lucky the ref red lighted the 1st start in Heat 15 as it looked like he engine failed just as the lights come on so he got a second chance in which he did EF.His pass on Worrel in heat 13 was class though.

And aren't you an absolute charmer!! A very lucky draw for Poole who didn't deserve it IMO! On the plus side for us is how much more competitive Theo and Ricky were... They've had some rough meetings but that was better! And Bomber, other than his clutch stinking out the air, was simply sublime once again! Leon blew his 2nd engine in 2 days.. expensive time for him! Hopefully we can perform the miracle of miracles next week and keep our season churning on!

They are only bottom because they have lots of meetings in hand!

Yes Berwick have improved lately.

Who would you change? And who would you bring in? Genuine question.

Havelock is by far the worst team manager tactically. Put himself into a corner in heat 14 with both pirates needing a third and final ride. And was Bomber under power when the last heat was stopped ??? I’d have been straight onto the referee

Roasting hot?? Puzzling!! The BSN team were wrapped up in anoraks with the hoods up. But Dave & Graham in the after match Friday Focus were in their short sleeve shirts - no jackets/coats. BSN must just be the southern softies. (Is this a racist comment nowadays?!!)

Yeah and gone are the days when things like the League Riders' Championships were prestigious and meant something. The doubling up has taken away the glory of the sport where riders now ride against team mates in different race jackets every other night. Cash is king these days.

To be fair, when you look at the original GB team, you could say Lambert is replacing Bewley; Connor is replacing Palin and Richie Worrall replacing Howarth; so not much difference from the original team. Obviously we all wanted to see Dan AND Lambert riding but hey ho, you can't fault Dan in this.

There was a time when riders' were proud to don their national colours. Maybe I am really getting old

Whilst I agree, speedway riders at that level have 6 months off, more than any the rest of us get. Can you see a smarzlik or janowski being allowed to withdraw from a Poland test match? Simply wouldn't be picked for SON or other matches.

If you were though could we ask you in confidentiality what happened to the 2 billion black hole in the Covid money ?. Just asking for a friend.

I wouldn't like it if someone called me " Nicola" , but then I'm not English

The Northern Junior League (established 2010) will continue and will be overseen this year by Jim McGregor who takes over from Jamie Swales as co-ordinator. This season there will be 6 teams competing: Armadale Angels, Berwick Speedway Academy, Newcastle JCM Sapphires Gems, Redcar Erimus Insurance Cubs, Teesside FIP Consulting Tigers and West Lothian Wildcats. The season will start at Redcar on 22nd April. 22-Apr Redcar Erimus Insurance Cubs v Teeside FIP Consulting Tigers 29-Apr Armadale Angels v West Lothian Wildcats 29-Apr Teeside FIP Consulting Tigers v Redcar Erimus Insurance Cubs 30-Apr Berwick Speedway Academy v Newcastle JCM Sapphires 01-May Newcastle JCM Sapphires v Berwick Speedway Academy 13-May Teeside FIP Consulting Tigers v Berwick Speedway Academy 14-May Berwick Speedway Academy v Redcar Erimus Insurance Cubs 20-May Armadale Angels v Redcar Erimus Insurance Cubs 22-May Redcar Erimus Insurance Cubs v West Lothian Wildcats 05-Jun Redcar Erimus Insurance Cubs v Armadale Angels 10-Jun Teeside FIP Consulting Tigers v Armadale Angels 10-Jun West Lothian Wildcats v Newcastle JCM Sapphires 11-Jun Berwick Speedway Academy v West Lothian Wildcats 12-Jun Newcastle JCM Sapphires v Teeside FIP Consulting Tigers 24-Jun Redcar Erimus Insurance Cubs v Newcastle JCM Sapphires 01-Jul West Lothian Wildcats v Berwick Speedway Academy 02-Jul Berwick Speedway Academy v Teeside FIP Consulting Tigers 08-Jul Armadale Angels v Teeside FIP Consulting Tigers 08-Jul Redcar Erimus Insurance Cubs v Berwick Speedway Academy 10-Jul Newcastle JCM Sapphires v West Lothian Wildcats 15-Jul Teeside FIP Consulting Tigers v Newcastle JCM Sapphires 17-Jul Newcastle JCM Sapphires v Redcar Erimus Insurance Cubs 22-Jul Armadale Angels v Berwick Speedway Academy 23-Jul Berwick Speedway Academy v Armadale Angels 24-Jul Newcastle JCM Sapphires v Armadale Angels 29-Jul West Lothian Wildcats v Armadale Angels 05-Aug Teeside FIP Consulting Tigers v West Lothian Wildcats 26-Aug West Lothian Wildcats v Redcar Erimus Insurance Cubs 02-Sep Armadale Angels v Newcastle JCM Sapphires 23-Sep West Lothian Wildcats v Teeside FIP Consulting Tigers