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Exactly the reason why wearing Diamonds gear sticks in ya crop. It's like he is mocking the fans and has no sympathy for the loyal fans.

Time for a bit of honesty from the club

He wouldn’t have time, he is too busy up Grants back end.

Plymouth have got 2 guest riders

Well they are listed in the line ups so are riding. This is a match. Belle Vue need to make a statement. Ipswich come here looking for a point. And they could get it. one things for sure. It’s going to be a great meeting with good weather. School holidays are on. So hoping for a healthy crowd for the club

Our opponents were disappointing but let's not disparage them. That was a team that achieved a point at Armadale only 24 hours previous .. granted they had Leon guesting at number 1 scoring big points Bomber and Leon were simply sublime.. 2 of the easiest maximums you will ever see at Berwick.. and that was including Bombers phenomenal heat 13. In the form they are, especially if Leon is able to ride in the pairs, you've surely got to look at them as dark horses! Paid 9 from Theo and paid 17 from our guest superb guest in Jordan Jenkins is the sort of back up that wins you meeting in these fashions! Nathan looked like he could've been in for a good night... The ground he'd made up before clipping Harry McGurks back wheel showed he clearly had the speed .. just glad to see him get up from what was an alarming spill! Thank the lord he managed to get himself off the bike! A good win on the night for both Berwick teams sent the fans home happy!

Thank you for your response Brian, great to hear from someone who is more knowledgeable on these matters than from those who are so dismissive & yet know little about the facts.

Many present day speedway people seem to have distorted ideas about the history of Birmingham Speedway. The "blame" for the 21 year delay in bringing speedway back to the City cannot be attributed to the City Council, but rather to the intransigence of the then owners of not just the Brummoies current home venue, but that of the owners or controllers of the various alternative venues within the City which were explored. The then owner of Perry Barr Stadium, Maurice Buckland, made no bones about his attitude - he wou;d not have speedway back at his stadium at any price - and until he sold out to the GRA in 2004, he never wavered from this stance. Hall Green Stadium, also owned by the GRA until its demolition, were more accomodating, but casual enquiries convinced them that it would be impossible to secure planning permission due to the venue's close proximity to housing. Bordesley Green, not then owned by the Council although it was eventually taken over by the authority, also produced numerous excuses for rejecting approaches to restore speedway there, both on the original track and on a proposed new track on a different part of the site. In fact, the only involvement with the Council was an enquiry about the possibility of the speedway club using Salford Stadium, the City Council having had other offers which they felt were mpre appropriate. True, there was an initial difficulty in securing a planning consent for Perry Barr and it was at first refused on the casting vote of the Chairman of the Planning Committee, but a second application was emphatically approved. As far as the Alexander Stadium being a potential Grand Prix venue is concerned, the stadium is primarily an athletics site and is the headquarters of Birchfield Harriers, but is wholly owned by Birmingham City Council and it has been widely reported that the Council are anxious to justify the vast amount of money which they have spent on developing it, by finding more commercial uses for it. I don't believe that Birmingham City Council is in any way "anti-speedway" and it is my opinion that were a serious offer made to use it for a Grand Prix, the Council would certainly consider it. As the organisation of the Grand Prix meetings is outside the remit of the Speedway Control Bureau and the BSPL, any approach would have to come from those who now promote this competition, but the stadium is there, it has the capacity, and if they want it, they could go for it.

Do you know much about Birmingham Council? It took Tony Mole 21 years to persuade them to allow domestic speedway in a stadium lots may call its 'ancestral home'. The Alexander stadium rebuild has cost the earth and the locals have lost a great park too. So I very much doubt they'd allow those dirty smelly noisy bikes anywhere near it....unfortunately. Unless someone can persuade them that lots of of troublef free ££££'s are likely to flow into the hotel and transport systems......hmmm could be something in it, but they'd have to be talking big bucks for the council I'd suspect.

Some cracking juniors in Poland.. Quite a few seem to be able to lower the colours of GP stars..

Not only that but really and truly I’m sure they’ll have less people in because bar Harris and basso I’m sure it’ll be a very one sided event, people won’t and shouldn’t part with there cash too watch a mediocre make shift team

For sure not expecting a win as such, but 100% our mentality going into to every meeting now is that we can and are trying to win that meeting, home and away. batch been getting better and better lately, tungate an unknown but went well at nss when he was a home rider, and the track most similar to the continental tracks he’s been riding all year so it’s the best track for him to return to uk speedway at I’d say. real shame this meeting isn’t being televised

Things could've all been different if Steve Park had been a better negotiator then. Bah

Looking for a point!!!!????? We’re coming looking for a win mate!

I thought the referee got that call right, IMO Jenkins tried an outside pass and ran out of room.

Jenkins wasn't taken off, he tried to go round Kasper, got in the deep stuff and slid off. He also got away with one when he took off Ben Morley in heat 8. Both meetings reminded me of the National League in the 70/80's when Southern teams would come up and at the end of a tour be stuck with injuries and get hammered. Same when Berwick used to go to the likes of Eastbourne and Mildenhall and regularly get 60 put on them even in 13 heats.

But that's a comedy show that doesn't pretend to take itself seriously...

pretty much the same with most clubs why would they not bring play off forward and run them in decent weather rather than a wet september/october

Your obviously close to Lewi. If they had stuck by you for 10 years despite your form hasn't been the best. Then you had £1000's from a testimonial. Left before the parade on our last win.... Has said he was relieved to go. Why not step down??. I think a professional should of done the right thing. We all know last years collarbone didn't play up for a day . Why not ride your last meeting, say thanks to the fans, ride your arse off to show them they made a mistake??

Don’t think it’s too long now till members of the crowd are asked to ride

Plus the main thing is that racing against faster (the fastest) riders makes him go faster and facing them week in week out means its sink or swim. Both he and Lambert have gone to a different level since riding in that league regularly.

But would he have progressed at the rate he has without an Extraliga spot? Doubtful I'd say. The top division in Poland is the place to be if you have aspirations of being and becoming world class, the sooner Brennan can get himself there the better for his development

FIM Speedway Grand Prix World Championship – Challenge 20th August 2022 – Glasgow (SCO) 1 Oliver Berntzon SVEMO Sweden 2 Vaclav Milik ACCR Czech Republic 3 Dan Bewley ACU Great Britain 4 Max Fricke MA Australia 5 Andzejs Lebedevs LaMSF Latvia 6 Rasmus Jensen DMU Denmark 7 David Bellego FFM France 8 Anders Thomsen DMU Denmark 9 Symon Wozniak PZM Poland 10 Chris Holder MA Australia 11 Rohan Tungate MA Australia 12 Robert Lambert ACU Great Britain 13 Jack Holder MA Australia 14 Dominik Kubera PZM Poland 15 Kai Huckenbeck DMSB Germany 16 Kim Nilsson SVEMO Sweden 17 Drew Kemp ACU Great Britain 18 Connor Bailey ACU Great Britain

Nathan poor lad

Is that you or Nathan Norman.!!

Nathan Stoneman seems to have suffered a broken shoulder blade riding for Berwick, best wishes for a full and speedy recovery, put in sterling effort all season for both Oxford teams.

Final table at the end of the regular season. 1 Lublin P 14 31 points 2 Czestochowa P 14 24 points 3 Gorzow P 14 20 points 4 Torun P 14 18 points 5 Wroclaw P 14 17 points 6 Leszno P 14 15 points 7 Grudziadz P 14 12 points 8 Ostrow P 14 0 points

Come on Dean.... Don't let everyone know next year's plan until they have had the AGM and officially announced it...

We now know play-off 1st legs on Sunday August 21st will be Leszno v lublin Wroclaw v Czestochowa Torun v Gorzow

Def a few now kicking on.

https://vk.com/video-53550004_456241225?fbclid=IwAR36MGaDlVcShMSVk7p1cTC_yxpw4snh_VuZwIw_p8Z5vDDEy9FsotL18WY or https://vk.com/wall-53550004_55058?fbclid=IwAR3yjw0lGylhQ7XSSLNEGXHDW7TwYWgkVjMwHs1BBG3tfC7kFTH6Q8aHHJ8 or https://vk.com/video-81427162_456239401?fbclid=IwAR2r1KAzwTV1PxUSUauuZMmxAWkhl-cd3ZP4ir3KbljJiFwox2BJxNywYBM

European 85cc Youth Speedway Racing Cup - Final Pos Rider Nationality Federation Points 1 Villads PEDERSEN DEN DMU 15 2 Jacob JENSEN DEn DMU 14 3 Janek KONZACK GER DMSB 13 4 Jacob BØLCHO DEN DMU 11 5 Elias Jamil JENSEN DEN DMU 9 6 Carlos GENNERICH GER DMSB 8 7 Christian RASMUSSEN DEN DMU 8 8 Hannah GRUNWALD GER DMSB 8 9 Maksymilliam PAWELCZEK POL PZM 8 10 Harry LUNDAHL SWE SVEMO 6 11 Rasmus KARLSSON SWE SVEMO 5 12 Wiktor JASIŃSKI POL PZM 4 13 Leo KLSSON SWE Svemo 4 14 Ruben Gåren JENSEN NOR NMF 2 15 Imre VIGRE NOR NMF 2 16 Tyr SÖDERHOLM SWE SVEMO 2 17 Philip EKFELDT DEN DMU 1 18 Mads Emil KOCH DEN DMU NS

I knew Alan most of my childhood and adult life from growing up in Kingstanding, and also when he had his own shop in Erdington. Alan would be appalled if his name was being used as a publicity stunt, he would want any moneys raised to go to a charity which suited a lot of good causes. Joe Thurley was a well respected man at Birmingham and without him in the 1970s there would be no Birmingham Speedway even today and he even was helping out at the reopening in 2007.Joe's name should be honoured at Birmingham but for some reason his name and memory are not even recognised in fact its been dumped in the bin(shame on Birmingham) it's a shame because no one is more befitting of a memorial at Birmingham than Joe.

If Ipswich keep the rider's all fit, the league is done. Nobody's getting close to this team. Previously, I thought Belle Vue & Sheffield were the only choice, but the make-up of this Ipswich side now looks like it can get wins at these away tracks, also having a much bigger home advantage to witht rhe added strength. Still hurts alot seeing you'z lot doing well though

Hope Berwick are going to put the video of heat 13 up.

The Gorzow fans have asked the same question- and i would imagine that from a Gorzow perspective this is a nothing match, they finish 3rd so they might as well see how Jasinski goes.

I'm taking 5 pens with me!

He took the testimonial. Should of respected the club/fans and rode the last meeting..

SEC 2nd round Gustrow Saturday August 6th https://vk.com/video-53550004_456241224 Alternative all heats https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8sWjUpI7Y5E

You do get fans that seem to think there are differences in failing a drugs Test.That is incorrect.The rider is breaking the rules.

Maybe one day the bspa or l or whatever they call themselves these days will wonder where all the riders have gone and wonder if they had any part in it, if they solve that they can then start on finding the missing fans and wonder if they had any part in their disappearance

It really was a pleasure having so many Plymouth fans around last night enjoying their speedway and still smiling at the end. Enjoy your night at Berwick and safe journey home

As a Leicester supporter I'd be in favour of restrictions and if anything we're even more top heavy than Poole this year. Also Leicester need Birmingham and vice-versa so there's a self interest aspect as well

I think this is the current 5 year plan, and for once it seems to be going well

Of course in the "Good Old Days" many, if not most, riders had second jobs excepting the "stars"...postmen, mechanics, milkmen etc. I recall even Terry Betts working in a garage during the winter months although he was on a good earner whilst at King's Lynn apparently based upon the number attending which of course wouldn't amount to much nowadays! Too many riders expect to make a living from the sport nowadays and it's not sustainable on those attending.

If there was a pot of gold in the person trying to open a track, then land would appear everywhere, no matter what objections or how many houses or whatever is around it, it would happen I’ve seen this first hand on more than a few occasions now, however as it is at the moment nobody who has the pot of gold is stupid enough to blow it on our sport, on the other hand there are a few willing people who want to open a track but don’t have the finances and a few land owners who would have it but as soon as the land owners find out there is no pot of gold it becomes a no go, as with life in general it’s about money and speedway doesn’t have any

In an word No... London may as well be a different country to the rest of us who don't live there, it's a completely different demographic to the rest of the country

Went once. Somewhat underwhelmed.

Until speedway adopts a policy of having an independant body governing the sport it will only get worse and I don't go along with the often quoted argument that any one promoter will not accept someone independantly running "their" business because other sports cope admirally with such a policy.

If Woffinden Lambert and Bewley came back to the U.K. that would be a huge boost to the Premiership but can’t see it at the moment. Sweden is going (to go) the same way as the U.K. with interest falling alarmingly, again I would say through lack of top Swedish riders. I think after the pandemic U.K. had the chance to reorganise and have one professional league to employ the stay at home riders and from overseas - mostly Aussies and where would be without them! The sport is becoming Northern dominated as stadiums in the south come under pressure through ever increasing land values and housing requirements.