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Good hour long chat with ex-Swindon Robin Barry in the Asda cafe in north Swindon today Some great stories about Fundin, Briggo, Mauger. Fundin was his favourite rider. Rode with Briggo at number 2 for Swindon at Wembley. against Lions. 4-2 in one heat, Briggs, Fundin, Duke. Said Pete Munday and Bernie Persson were very hard riders. Briggo aggressive, Mauger nice bloke. Was saying first went to a meeting at Swindon in 1962, Fundin, Briggs, Craven, Moore riding off 20 yard handicaps. Very bad injury in 1971 in Rhodesia affected career. Really nice guy. Rescued a Blunsdon turnstile for the Speedway Museum at Paradise Park.

Wonderful theory, I was there on the day of the photo, the tyre packing marks are my handy work , when a photo is taken on a phone it is date and time stamped, so I think you are very wrong! Just checked Oct 31st at 16.29. Does that clear it up for you?

6 months before start of season and official British speedway channels talking about guests. An absolute nonsense

Return of speedway at Oxford...one of the success stories of 2022.

Teams didn't get an extra point for winning by more than 6. They lost a point for winning by less than 6. That's what was taken away. It was 3 for winning by more than 6. Now it's 3 for winning by any margin. It was a good system. They should have kept it.

Bends 1,2,3,or 4, or all of them.....

Bring back the 2 legged bonus point. Kept meaningless meetings interesting and even if team getting soundly beaten has something to race for.

May have got 6 to 7 or maybe 8 hundred in had the team been any good from the start

They also did a great job of renovating the stadium as well, which had fallen into quite a state of disrepair. In many respects it's better than what it was like before the closure.

Hey, he got 1+1 at Armdale. He scored 0 at Berwick! And those were his only away rides, apart from maybe the Grand Final at Poole, and I don't have a programme for that fixture. But at home, he scored 49 + 13 in 6 meetings.

Then God help us all

There's a fan vote at the moment on whether Rob Godfrey should resign, it's currently at 87% that he should do one... be interesting to see if they implement that or not

He would ride for Poole as he's a Poole asset. Of course depending on the 1-7s Poole may not need to strengthen?!

This, and the events towards the end of the season, just show how bad things are.

Leicester should have stood the cost as a gesture of goodwill and maybe made the money back in food and drinks

So if Lawson sign's for Leicester and Poole, then what

I see it being announced as 'Welcome to the new era'. But not much evidence of it....well apart from the balls up that the SWC thing was

after the dodgy exhaust ban they re manufactured the exhausts to similar to what he had done but he had holes on each side blanking plates but were not aligned so you couldn’t see right through and so air would leave engine a bit quicker and help the engine breath and not overheat too much the FIM just put the holes in line so you could see through the it so at least he helped in the redevelopment lol

https://britishspeedway.co.uk/championship/cjl-final-next-spring/ Next season then as an inter league challenge. Except it won’t be as Poole will have to “strengthen” or Leicester “weaken” for it to work, so once again British Speedwsy manage to pull a turd out of the hat and not a rabbit.

Oxford Lambert & Bewley graduating to world class status BSN Workington's 'new' track Brennan, Flint, Edwards and Jenkins all making strides as FTR's Struggling after that!

The positives for me, despite the BSPL: The quality of the racing on the Leicester Speedway track, the best it's ever been! Rob Lambert & Dan Bewley's elevation to world class riders The return of Oxford, went down for the Leicester match and was probably my best Speedway experience of the season! BSN has been a massive plus this year for the fan of Speedway in general, being able to watch Speedway from around the country at a reasonable price, it'll be interesting to see what they charge next year, if they signed a multi-year deal with the BSPL or whether BSPL will try and cash in In fact as usual the Speedway on track I have seen this year is as good as it's always been, especially with the kids coming through, it's only the organistion this year which has badly let the sport down

For Midlands based fans Peter Collins will be our guest at the NSSC (at the Brandon Club, nr Coventry) on Thursday 24th November. There will be an opportunity to purchase the book and get it signed and then listen to Peter interviewed and join in the following Q&A. If you wish to purchase the book or want yours personally signed please arrive from 7:30. Everybody welcome. Entrance fee £4 with all proceeds going to help Neil Vatcher and the GB Young Lions. The Brandon Club is just down the road from Brandon Stadium, on the Rugby side. Brandon Club, Main Street, Brandon, Coventry, CV8 3HW

Deary me,whatever he says obviously won’t be good enough for you.End off.

I don't think this is thd thread for me! Good luck!!

Richard Lawson is probably the best value rider in the league on his average,usually double figures home or away.

That’s very true and I was one of the dissenters. He won me over with his attitude and professionalism and after having a few short chats with him in the pits, he came over as a likeable guy who had time for the fans.

The ref was certainly called to the pits and there was talk of the track causing the punctures but it didn't affect anyone else so no idea what was the cause.

On the Peterborough thread its been suggested he is !!

Best of 3, we'd still probably lose

'IF' there was a crowd of 800 fans regularly, (including children),,, things may have panned out differently?

Sadly, the fans are the last thing they take notice of.

Well they did do that fan vote on it and think it was about 70% for it, so be interesting to see if they implement it or not.

The reports of the Leicester track and the reason it was aborted, wasn’t because of what it looked like after the work had been done. It was because it was spongy going into the bends and therefore not safe for the riders. With no chance of getting this moisture out the decision was made to move it to Kings Lynn. Reported on BSN on the stream.

He has an attained premiership average of 3.92 so that’s irrelevant. Rumour has it the rising star scheme is being dropped and all this years rising stars will get a 25% reduction in their average for team building for 2023 making Leon a tad under 3. If that’s the case he will be Wolves no 7 for sure, rising star or not.

Yes, I had a chat with him at the West Ham reunion this year. Always good to talk to.

Come on Lisa, we don't want to be accused of cheating, what ever next

Agree while most of us on the BSF like a good moan (with some justification ) there were some positives in 2022, also many on here may need to think before we post attacking people ..... We may be called keyboard warriors but there are many good ideas and suggestions on this platform .

Oxford returning with big crowds..very good stadium, although the end of my local team Swindon. Bewley winning British GP. Lambert doing well. Worky, which used to be my local track, on way back.

Ok a bit of fun from you but these are the riders who the so called stars need as well otherwise no speedway! Kennett has served speedway very well and is due some respect!

Interesting. I thought Steve might be fed up with the travelling after two seasons. I would hope we definitely having Lawson and both Cook's. Also, one of Steve or Danny, but I don't mind which one stays!

Feel exactly the same about him at Lynn, he is on quite a high figure in the Prem but I'd have him back for 2023. Mr Dependable.

Didn't the supporters association/NSSG try and organise a memories night, but even that got ditched through lack of interest?

It's good on paper but I've seen it fail in another sport for one basic reason even with the very best intentions of most involved. Your 200 most passionate fans contribute a sort of contractual amount monthly or one off. Obviously though some of them want a perk or benefit for that, such as free or reduced admission. Human nature is also that some of those will want to act like "King dick" and saviour but probably want to come in free and end up paying no more than if they just went to every match and paid. So if your average and budgeted crowd is 500, but the core 200 are getting in for free or on a discount as they are contributing to build or save the club, your actual paying crowd is 300, and you are quickly back where you started, not enough in, too much out and disenchantment. Sugar daddy's are few and far between and sponsorship and advertising will be desperately hard to find with the economic crisis and rampant inflation and increased interest rates affecting everyone.

Just for the record PiratecastLive is a completely unofficial video and podcast professionally produced and presented by 2 Pirate fans completely voluntarily and not part of the official club structure specifically so that any criticisms of the club can be and are aired. (Clearly its usually mostly positive). Each live episode features a guest - often a rider, but has also had Middlo, Karlito(DJ), Scotty Mitchell, and SCB referee Christina Turnbull to name a few - all of whom are asked questions from the fans in the chat room. All episodes are available to view on You-Tube or to listen to as a podcast on all platforms. The lads intend to continue through the winter to maintain the speedway fix. Give it a try.......

Finished reading mine last night. The first part about his family life was quite interesting because PC grew up less than five miles from where my family lived and it brought back a few memories for me. ( He is a few years older than me though)

Would be very disappointed to keep Steve over Danny. King Lawson Cook Cook should be nailed on for next season on their current Averages

They could look in a mirror to see we’re the blame lies. There fixture planning for 2022 was a shambles.

Ahhhh… I’m coming from Lynn. Maybe I should hold off and just go to Lynn on Friday and watch Leicester instead ha

I do feel that it's already got to a point where apart from maybe Poole and Glasgow the other home matches this year have been foregone conclusions. Whilst the racing has been good despite the scores there's less tension (for me anyway!) and therefore less crowd involvement in urging them on because it's been so comfortable again. I do think that despite some reservations in general and dislike of non-Saturday night racing the set up we have now is far, far better than when we did it before in terms of confidence and professionalism.

Peterborough are going Championship, belle vue paid for the use of lambert by letting Kurtz ride for Leicester, sorted