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If you could get down to Plymouth Shovlar you could dry the track with all the hot air you spout.

The kids summer holidays should almost be a festival of speedway, as many meetings should be crammed in as possible. As others have said having outstanding fixtures in the middle of September in a six team league is unforgivable. I don't know who but somebody needs to grab British speedway by the scruff of the neck and run it properly, it's a shambles.

Track covers are fine beforehand for keeping the track dry. But tend to hinder Racing if left on once the meeting starts.

Not being able to squeeze in 10 home league fixtures in the best part of six months is truly shocking although it is not that surprising given the way Speedway is run these days!

What was the point of the track covers.If you are going purely on weather forecasts.

Judging by the announcement placed on the Tigers' website today, it would appear the home PL fixture with Ipswich will take place AFTER the play-offs. The announcement seems to suggest that Sheffield can still finish top of the Premiership table ahead of the play-offs if they win both of their remaining meetings at Owlerton against King’s Lynn and Belle Vue this Thursday and next. Now correct me if I'm wrong, but six points from those two matches will give us 43 points, matching the 43 that Ipswich already have in the bank. In other words, the outstanding (as yet uncontested) home match with Ippo would effectively be the decider, but it can't happen until AFTER the play-offs! In those circumstances, how will they decide which teams will race against each other in the semi-finals with finishing positions undecided? If I was confused before, my mind is now completely frazzled. Whatever else happens, I'm still betting the Tigers v Ipswich match will be quietly forgotten (or decided BEFORE the play-offs by the toss of a coin), once again short-changing the Sheffield paying customers. After all, when the play-offs have taken place and the league champions have lifted the trophy, what's the point of a further league match that can't have any impact on the result? Considering all the Thursday nights throughout the summer when there's been no action at Owlerton, this position takes some believing. You can't make this stuff up.

In Plymouth now and the rain is definitely making the ground wet,didn't know you could get dry rain. Steven Christopher Shovlar it's pays to be nice sometimes amazing what you can find out about people on the Internet

In 2018 when the comets won the treble, mid season attendances fell to around 500 well below break even level as the cup finals got near attendances get better near to break even levels, then at the very end of season had crowds of around 1500 to see the trophies lifted, but could/should have been more, forced to run late October often with only a few days notice so very little promotion get done, we all know what happened then the comets closed. Fast forward to 2022 matched getting postponed right left and centre KO cup still to run many matches, can see it being a dash to complete the season now autumn is well on its way, speedway will never learn and get most of the matches completed by the end of September

At the time, it was just the National League, in effect a Third Division. The racing was just as good as the higher leagues; indeed the Eastbourne/Birmingham playoff final were some of the best speedway matches I have seen. However, the BSPL in their (?)wisdom have destroyed the (invaluable) MDL/SDL and downgraded the NL to the NDL.

I suppose Plymouth and Poole could decide the old fashioned way , shovlar could do the tossing …. If he is allowed into the stadiums

Plymouth win by 16pts then.

If it goes past the deadline it will revert to the overall score of when the 2 teams met in the league fixture , same as the individual meetings

Cut off isn't the problem, it's the weeks on end with no speedway tht should be filled with a fixture

Clearly never been too Brighton then?

The powers that be will sight many reasons why they could not run ten home meetings in six months but will miss the obvious one, utter incompetence by each and every track to work collectively to make it happen. It is a further endorsement that can added to another thread headed British speedway is a joke . When you take into account how it’s affairs are managed and the lack of respect each and every track has for its punters it is a miracle anyone bothers to turn out in September and October after all the fine weather had this year in the U.K. It is a mystery and the only way those in charge will learn is if the punters vote with their feet but that will not happen because for some reason many think they owe the club some debt of loyalty but I doubt each and every team owner thinks that way. So it is a Christmas festival to resolve the who will be champions. The weather should be fine, ask the club promoters, they are good at using a crystal ball.

So you want another few hundred people to fork out to go somewhere when there is not a cat in hells chance of the meeting taking place, in the remote possibility that it could that it may be dangerous for riders, be a terrible spectacle for supporters and be a financial disaster for the Club as everyone living within 30 miles would not bother going as they would have been watching rain fall for hours.

He can't get in to Cornwall on the A38 - His head won't fit in the Tunnel!

Thing is, a meeting should not be called off until it is guaranteed to be off. There might be a risk of rain later today, but it might miss. Too often meetings have been called off early only for the rain to miss/fail to materialise, leaving a dry evening. Plymouth are not even attempting to give it a try.

If they haven’t got track staff to sort out a wet track (with overnight covers down) they need to take a close look at themselves in the mirror. Swedish clubs can fix wet tracks in an hour. Natural drying during the day should do it. They could pop around the local farm and buy some hay to burn.

Steve it's so unlike you to be slagging off another team

Very sad, but could see it coming as I said before , unfortunately until the BSPL get their heads out of the sand won't be the last to go, or find a relaunch too expensive and unsustainable.

The play off semi will be 2500+ If the Witches make the final you will see 4000+ What is needed of course is to find the trick to turn a good proportion of these extras into regulars.....

Having spoken on the subject to some of the members of the Save Coventry Stadium group, I can appreciate that they are fully on top of things so I think it best not to complicate things for them by e-mailing individual councillors. The group have done a great job so far, and will continue to do so, so the campaign is by no means over just yet.

With the cut-off date having been set as the conclusion of fixtures on Thursday September 22 and the meeting with Ipswich next Monday having been cancelled, I'm guessing that the match with Ipswich won't now take place at all. The ridiculous prospect of having to organise a last-minute 'double header' (or determine final league positions on the toss of a coin!) just adds further hilarity to the laughing stock that is premiership speedway. Between April and September there have been 26 Thursdays and 26 Mondays, yet the league management and Owlerton hierarchy have conspired to make a cock-up of fitting in ten home league matches. Considering the vast length of week-after-week inactivity that have dogged us throughout the summer, it is yet another shameful spectacle that we should encounter such a backlog of fixtures at this late stage. But the season's not over yet.... as well as the Ipswich fixture, we have home matches with Kings Lynn and Belle Vue also to fit in, and just nine days to do it! What's the weather forecast for this Autumn period?

They say that every year.

Guess the fairest way would be to take the aggregate league result between the two clubs.

I doubt Steve would bother chasing you!

At least Ipswich are professional, an example of how speedway promotion could be.

How bad is your grammar

New start time published as 7pm UK time.

Would you like to put money on it. Loser pays £500 into the ben fund.

More chance of seeing Santa run down the street naked on Christmas Eve.

Was you a stripper?

Start delayed by 30 minutes as track prep continues following rain this afternoon.

Just imagine if a Poole fan posted on here and expressed there appreciation for the correct early call off saving them time and money,aswell as the disappointment of turning up to find the meeting cancelled. Unbelievable Geoff!!!

Is there an app to clean the rain off?

Love this, just googled, wow.

Now that the Plymouth v Poole leg of the play off quarter final has been postponed to the 20th September and we can't be sure who the other two semi finalists will be until after then, what are the odds on the second leg of the KOC semi final against Poole taking place at Poole in the 21st?

Oh well change of plan go and watch the green army give Oxford a hiding instead.

Eff off p1llock

We are not out of the woods tomorrow yet Steve, if we get the rain thats forcast. .

According to the club’s Facebook - Tuesday 20th

Speedway failed at Cowdenbeath in the days when the sport was more popular,don’t think it would survive in Fife these days.

It’s as if the powers that be want to run speedway into the ground - they couldn’t make a worse job of running it if they tried - kids summer holidays as you say should be a speedway festival- 10 home meetings in 6 months a 6 team league unbelievable they struggle to fit in fixtures- also the league cup final (remember that competition) KL v Sheffield in the final should have been staged months ago all the importance has long since passed - will it even be staged?

Reading the polish speedway press, Cardiff, Manchester, Gorzow(crazy 4 year deal), Torun, Warsaw, 2 in Germany probably Teterow and an Indoor football stadium (Gelsenkirchen again?), Australia(new track in Sydney?). I would be surprised if Prague, Malilla and Vojens weren't back. Not sure about Gorican and it is said that Wroclaw won't be back because they got SWC.

Best interest of the sport is not call a meeting off on a Sunday because the weather talked of showers on the Monday and no rain fell that day - points should be awarded to BV

Don’t think any of these things will happen.IMO Hope some thing crops up though.Difficult situation.

Discovery want a second GP in Britain, (Bradford has been ruled out) it looks like they are trying for Belle Vue. The sticking point seems to be the capacity, they need to get it up to 10000 or more to make it pay for Discovery. What effect would this have on a already dwindling Cardiff crowd? Some people (the purest) won't care but I personally think it would be a mistake to make Cardiff unviable. I think it would make more sense to alternate between the 2 venues, one year Cardiff, the next Belle Vue and so on.

From a west ham fan I was very proud of that moment.

How on earth have you brought 'woke culture' into a debate about speedway tracks????