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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

I agree with that sentiment, as he even bettered the first visit of Aussie Dave Shields. I think the team were given free meals at McDonalds as I have a picture of the team and the staff outside the shop on Northumberland street.

Just booked the stream. Who else is watching online?

When Tr got the pay out .no need to be distraught

I have been a regular at owlerton for 20 years since the closure of Long Eaton but the last few years the racing (or lack of it) has deteriorated so much i didn't even bother last night... I got slaughtered earlier in the season as apparently a pass coming off bend 1 in the first corner is classed as exciting !! most races yesterday the camera with a wide angle only managed 2 riders in shot.. this has been the norm at owlerton... My hope is now Leicester are going Premiership the racing has improved there and maybe i can find a race track to watch racing.. If only i lived closer to Belle Vue !!

World class, just not as good as Lambert as proved by his max against Ipswich which Fricke hasn't done for a while. There is no doubt Lambert is an improvement on the unfortunate Fricke.

Will book the live stream later once confirmed it’s on.

* ours has been an even longer time coming (we've NEVER won it)! aces to win by by 20+ on aggregate (absolutely NOT the score it would have been with fricke riding)

It was 1976. Just checked

The wife’s birthday can swivel surely. Who cares about that when it’s a final

For me Belle Vue start as rank favourites, and the Play Off Finals could be won by heat 10. The signing of Robert Lambert number 4 in the world gives Belle Vue a massive advantage, they already had a decent side already either with Fricke or Rider Replacement. Bringing in Lambert who has fallen into Belle Vue's lap is a Masterstroke, is it cheating? I don't think so. Will it make for a better more exciting Final? I don't think so. To start quoting Lambert's record and the fact that he has not rode Sheffield for a number years is bull crap, he is the World Number 4 for a reason. Sheffield are new to the top league, and in our 2nd season we have made the Final, on step further than last season so the club is progressing.

Hang on. They finished top of the league for a reason, they were the best team over the season. They had the bigger aggregate win in semi. They have absolutely destroyed us at Sheffield every match, we can’t ride the track. of course they are favourites

Getting the green Bristol Omnibus from Cavi Square to Blunsdon on a Saturday night, getting off near stadium in traffic jam and running the rest of way. Sometimes the bus would set off at final heat of second-half, so watched race from top deck to avoid missing it. Normally Briggs, Ashby, Kilby, Broady in final. A young Rosco, about 5, going round as mascot. Climbing in, 1968 GB v Sweden, the queue to climb in was longer than the turnstile one. Officially 12000 there, but many more inside. Fantastic racing that night. The night Mac Woolford hit lamp standard, sparks shooting out. When Broady crashed in front of us on bend 1-2 and broke his leg. Keener bouncing off pit gate. The blood curdling shrieks coming from the back-straight bogs Dave Bellego, the Flying Frenchman, winning the last 2 heats at Zummerzet for a 46-44 Swindon victory.

I'm guessing the u-24 Ekstraliga will run again next year? Hope it's televised a bit more tbh

As we always say... The rose tinted specs were coloured in by the atmosphere of being in big partisan crowds, which meant the racing often became "great" when you won.. The reality was something very different on many occasions.. A shame those who run the sport havent got the capability required to deliver big partisan crowds today.... As the racing deserves more watching...

Think you left out 'unecessarily' out of "Then the bikes..... developed". The bikes are ruining the sport, as the cars have for F1.

not a fan of this new allowance by the Poles, i don't want clubs to bankrupt themselves in the pursuit of very little and no extra supporters

By the time the BSPA get their act together and sort out the fixtures it'll be called the King Charles Jubilee Cup

Getting better quality riders here all season is a great idea in theory. In practice, where is the extra money coming from ?

Well done to Belle Vue, Sheffield, and Wolverhampton on completing the Northern section riding their two home and two away fixtures. Congratulations to Wolverhampton who have qualified for the "final that never will be", as the Southern section couldn't be bothered. Shame on King's Lynn and Ipswich who staged just 1 fixture, and Peterborough who didn't even bother staging any at all!

But you knew the score when you signed on for a NDL side. Plenty of riders did long away days the other way round and ran at big losses for the trips however they did them because signing for a NDL side means you sign up for all the meetings not just the home ones and away tracks you like.

Yeah it would make sense start off small and build it up, run in the NDL and make money on track hire, other events etc. However, looks like there could be as few as 7 in the championship next year IF Glasgow were to have a go in the Premiership. I’m sure if that was the case the BSPL would be asking the possibility of Workington joining the Championship. Afternoon racing in the NDL, with trackdays, the British youth championship and a few Open meetings with star names is probably along the lines of what will happen in 2023.

Probably the last 'respected' engine tuner. I wonder who he got the telegram from?