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I’m pretty sure they will enjoy it, track will no doubt be well prepared and produce a good meeting. Realistically the Bears are up against it, even at home, but if all the Bears 1-7 ride well ( that hasn’t happened very often) then hopefully they can put up a good show. Given the amount of guests used this year it’s nice to see full 1-7’s for each team. Just getting my big coat ready for tonight.

Using the logic they are the best because they finished top don't cut it for just 2 play off matches though.Using your logic Ipswich were the 2nd best team but Belle Vue destroyed them.So it isn't where you finished in the league that makes you favourites it's current form,and Belle Vue certainly have that momentum at the moment.So imo this is why you are favourites.

Kharchenko was probably the best debut performance at Brough Park ever. I was hoping he would defect and join the Diamonds who were a third heatleader short of being any good that year. I think there was a whip round at some point to buy some of the Soviet lads gloves. Must have miffed John Wainwright whose leathers were always taped together. That's how I remember it anyway,

Yes, I’ll give you that. Robert did indeed get the full 15 against Ipswich whereas the last time they rode at the NSS, Max only got 14. Bloody Aces, strengthening up.

What happened in the league isn't relevant to the playoffs, we start again. Poole were only third in the league but nobody would bet against them winning the championship playoffs. Lambert won't have any issues with the Sheffield track, he is a world class rider. Belle Vue are big favourites, most people think so, the bookies have them heavy odds on and they know what they are doing. You have destroyed them when they have visited Belle Vue and that was before you pulled the masterstroke and got Lambert.

presumably we are now going to have 4 days of "we're the underdogs", "No! we're the underdogs",

Well done to the Tigers (we were very poor, and consign the result to history ). However, the most important thing is that the Tigers give it their all in the final. After all who wants to see a league won by threatened legal action ? The Aces may feel that they are right according to the actual wording of the laws, but without doubt they are outside the spirit of the laws that they complained about in 2016. Hypocrites.

Have not caught up with the meeting yet, but I can't help but feel this is what you get when you run the play offs in late September early October. Damp and cold and riders and fans would rather be elsewhere. Everybodys enthusiasm is waning at this time of year. Get the play off done on the August Bank Holiday when hopefully, the weather and tracks are still good and fans go into the winter remembering speedway with the sun on their backs rather than speedway getting a cold and trench foot.

Can’t afford it don’t do it imo. You know what you’ve signed up for. As said in another post can’t just pick and choose when you feel like riding or travelling to. If serious about it you’d want as much track time and riding different tracks as possible to improve.

Brilliant Ben Cook paid 14 from 5 and beating Wright in heat 14. Pirates dominant though not at our best. Some great racing tonight. The rain earlier gave it the perfect watering. Big crowd there as well.

He has improved alot throughout the season, riding like a heat leader now.

Hell of a heat 9. Wright cranked it up.

Great ride by Ablitt!

Ritchie Worrall and Kyle Howarth would be a good start

You can't come on this forum and make sensible and proactive statments!! What will people think? ;-)

I,m Spartacus.

If I were Poole, I''d make sure the second leg was a viable meeting, give themselves 6/8 points to make up or even diehards would give it a miss if it were a dead rubber. Thats what Charlie Knott would have done anyway

We fold like that every final

For my money Lambert is better than all of them, but you are right matches are won on the track not on forums or on paper! Form can go out of the window on the night, or a crash / EF can affect things for either side! BV got spanked the time I went but I do expect Lambert to ride well with the caveats of the above

Only in your twisted world do Sheffield start favourites. Belle Vue are massive favourites, even Mark Lemon Can't mess this up although he will have a good go I am sure! You have massively improved the team throughout the season culminating with the signing of Lambert who on current form, is far better than the unfortunate Max Fricke.

Firstly welcome, it’s great to have newbies coming into the sport. Before your time, earlier this year this deal was discussed on here. Many had the same opinion as now about losing protected race nights being a bad thing. It all came out when Dan tweeted about being denied his chance by the BSPL. At the time of the tweet we were the only team still to declare.

lot of the security work at the vitality stadium as well . so many reasons not the 19th

It’s not in the current spirit that prevails our dead sport which is, Max receives multiple injuries in a high speed smash. BSF cheer and rum their hands with glee when we get a second division rider to replace our 2022 world champion and GP round winner. Fairplay, you guys love it, not. Next we sign an adequate replacement as per the rules and a promoter from our main opposition uses his influence as a controlling committee member to stop it. Luckily the SCB saw through it and told him to jog on. Over the last few decades your spirit has killed this sport in the UK. Well done.

He had a bad fall last week - facial injuries and bruising - maybe he didn't feel like appearing on camera.

I gave up after heat 10 and watched something else, I get Eurosport with my sky subscription , I can honestly say if I had to pay extra I wouldn’t bother. The GP,s haven’t been a lot better either, apart from one or two they have been borefests as well. The sport is on its arse at the moment and the TV coverage isn’t helping.

Agree 100%! When I watch vids on YouTube, it's amazing just how poor the racing was generally. As I've said before, I miss dirt on tracks, black leathers, monkey masks, gleaming chrome machinery etc (which all helped make it the spectacle it was), but the actual quality of racing today is often far superior.

What I don’t understand is how Terry Russell has the right to close down the speedway. if he says he can’t make it pay then at least give someone else the chance to take it on. the situation stinks and definitely looks like a big brown envelope has changed hands somewhere.

Most of the season at reserve , hopeless away and couldn't pass a snail with arthritis , saddled with an average over 5, abs awful signing

Yes good racing on a good racetrack.

Christ we don’t need an injury on a meaningless race. King up and OK. What a race until then. Both Poole boys passing Wright before King locked up on second bend. Reruns never have the same winner.

Like most people then

No,i'm Spartacus.

The "deal" offered by the PZM was for the GB to give up all priorities ...

And rightly so

So he hasn't had a max all season! You would have thought with his name that was a given! Lambert got double the points Max got in the GP circus.

its easy to assume its the bspa (bspl) to sort this when in fact its up to each individual club to arrange dates

Coupled with ‘BV cheated by signing Lambert’, ‘No they didn’t, it was in the rules’

Agree, much better experience with the bigger crowds, always much better in the school hols as more kids and families in, rather than just us old f*rts. Beggars believe that we only had a couple(?) of matches in 6 week summer hols and now messing around trying to fit in League cup final and another league match

A one off final on Boxing Day?

Well the P.Offs (P/Ship and C/ship) so far have certainly captured my imagination. Both edge of the seat stuff. In fact I have nearly fell off my seat in the lounge at every meeting only to be woken up by me wife. Certainly the most important BSPA conference in the history of the sport will be looking to build on the great success of this season. It has been truly breathtaking and all supporters must be tyred out watching the action, anlas you are a Peterborough supporter.

Here you go:- NORTH Belle Vue Belle Vue 22 Sheffield 5 Belle Vue 11 Wolverhampton 24 Sheffield Sheffield 6 Belle Vue 23 Sheffield 17 Wolverhampton 18 Wolverhampton Wolverhampton 24 Belle Vue 12 Wolverhampton 18 Sheffield 14 SOUTH Ipswich Ipswich 13 Peterborough 21 King's Lynn King's Lynn 22 Peterborough 13 Peterborough None staged.

You can still do that at Wolverhampton... Although "fun" isnt necessarily a word I would use..

Exactly. I question what the motivation is for top riders in the Polish Leagues to ride in the UK? Unless they already have a base in the uk (eg Holder, Klindt, Woffy, possibly others) then it has to be the money!? The well-established riders have already learnt their trade so don't need the experience of UK tracks. And as far as the Prem teams are concerned it won't make for better racing if each team has only one or two 'top' riders - it'll just be more 'follow the leader ' racing!!

Easy... The tens of thousands of lapsed fans who will come flocking back to attend every week... All of them very happy to pay 25 quid a pop... Come on. Keep up at the back... Wonder if it is another five year plan.?

It all gives season ticket holders a meeting they've already paid for. You wouldn't see any other sport season concluded incomplete.

Take Rob out straight away!

I agree with what you are saying, until you know how many teams your league have you cannot set a points limit! Promoters think reducing the limit reduces cost, can you work that one out. I will say this for the umpteenth time the U.K. has an extreme rider shortage & the Promoters just ignore the problem. If 3 of the current double-up riders were to retire this winter that will be an additional 6 team places to fill.

It's just been confirmed that Panthers are in the Premier League next season by the main sponsor Michael Tomalin on the official Facebook page.

Rob Lyon would also walk away from it I know that a a fact. He has his eyes on building a team to win the premier League again next season

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.