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Well done the Save Coventry Stadium committee! Their long-term fight and tactics and planning nous has been brilliant!

GB Speedway is just a travelling circus of the same riders racing each other on various nights of the Week for different Teams.That’s the Bottom line for me.

My husband attended this meeting and was very emotional when he passed the news to me. I then became 3 times as emotional as him. Whatever the outcome well done to all those involved in a possible return. I'm cock-a-hoop for a positive result and will transition from an armchair supporter of speedway at to my local club.

Problem is the Premiership should be stronger, but Premiership clubs can't attract stronger riders. So if you want a distinction between the leagues, the only alternative is to weaken the Championship.

Wish that was live on you tube as well

And why hasnt someone else been given the chance to run the sport in the brand new facility that still needs to be built to comply with the building permission for the houses.. ?

Tony Gillias round of applause for this man, full of facts and obviously emotion

Not many speedway rules would stand up in court imo tbf.

Agree years ago it was champ riders at reserve in prem or there abouts not heatleaders in both, there was a clear difference between the leagues back then

IMO that is the problem.1 League slightly weaker to start with would be my solution,but that’s just me.Opinions greatly vary on the subject.The people running the sport are not for change mainly because they don’t want the share any income generated by TV and Media IMO.

Your 10 years behind with your comment on British riders.Plus NOBODYis going to pay £20 to watch NDL level speedway it’s £10 at present at most tracks and crowd levels are small. Ps Its the Premiership that is that weak that it needs Championship level riders to even run.

Holding over the completion of a competition to the following season is not without precedent. But completing a competition with only two out of the three finalists, with the two remaining teams operating in separate leagues looks like a bit of a nonsense. If Leicester and Poole, jointly, want to run an interleague challenge, with Poole running a guest or Leicester having somebody stepping down for the night, well fine. But please, let's give up on a competition that "died" some time ago.

Hopefully not. NKI has had his best days.

So I have heard. If this upsets Poole fans I am all for it.

Richard lawson

And Toby Lawrence

No thanks.

Do they think people are stupid... Where i come from it's called a crock of sh$t.

Fingers crossed for this evening.

Quite blurred ianb?……totally blurred I would say. Agree with your point but they shouldn’t be trying to unblur it by weakening the Championship League and denying us the top riders we’re used to seeing.

Certainly they do; you have to with wire wheels.

His teams regularly got me to attend when they were at Belle Vue... Not many other promoters' teams did the same...

Tofty

Barry Duke , I think he started out in 1967 or 1968. He sounds like a most interesting guy-wish I could have a chat with him, some great comments of his view on speedway. He would be a good candidate for Lee Ashby's interviews . BTW I am sorry Martin Ashby is having some health problems and to learn that Hitchy is 80- my mind boggles. God bless 'em all.

I’m afraid lowering points limit will have negative effect for the sport IMO.Admission prices will certainly not come down,I for one is starting to lose interest given the shambles the sport is in.Don’t know the answers but certainly seems to take the fans for mugs at times.When you can’t organise a fixture list for a league of approx 10 teams there has to be something fundamentally wrong,easy to blame the weather though.Starter for me would be to tell the riders their priorities if the want ride in GB ( not the other way round).Then work with what’s left.

I am utterly dismayed that they honestly believe they can bring some credibilty to this competition by staging it with guests next year. Bury the problem now and don't drag the self humiliation into 2023. The fact that the decision makers are never accountable for their hapless decisions makes it easy for them to blame the weather, stadium owners, rider availability, (delete as appropriate). As a board of directors they don't even measure up to the village fete committee, I assume they all sit on the board the monkey effed the cat on not a limited company!

Rambo is 100% committed to whoever he rides for, & is brilliant for team spirit. Would much rather have him in my team, rather than an overrated foreigner who will cost more with flights etc, & score less points.

Please please pretty please,,,

Congratulations to all involved in this decision- now get speedway back at Brandon stadium asap

Brandon Estates will appeal. Appeals are dealt with by Planning Inspectorate (professional planners - no democratic involvement). Meanwhile they'll submit another application (the exact nature of it will depend on the precise terms of the reasons for refusal, which they will (pretend to) address.). Usually with a contentious site the developer will keep plodding away with appeals and new/revised applications for 5 years or more. If council don't look like buckling they'll probably offer some form of planning gain as a carrot.

some of these new tubeless rims can’t be used in the uk at the moment the rim is too wide for our regs and they cost a bomb we still use tubes

Embarrassing presentation skills

Fella has a big place 2 miles down the road he should be good for a few bob!,sponsor a lamp post/ bulb or cable might work lol.or sponsor a zimmer frame 10 minute walk into town lol

Sorry been busy As @Neila said New Worky Travel Lodge 10 mins walk to Northside and that's even using the same Zimmer @geoff100 uses and 10 mins walk into town to the main drag for a drink in Worky... Not been since Covid 19 started but there is a Wetherspoons and the run along the main strip in front of the other hotel called The Washington Central Hotel is a good night if you get your timings right as the place is like Whitley Bay in Newcastle every one moves at certain times to the next bar and there are several drinking establishments usually starting at The Curwen; Dukes Bar; 32 Bar; Soul Suite; 2 Bar: Ship Inn: The Well: The Junction; Padua's Bar all within 300 metres then the hotel is about 50 metres away from them all (so no Zimmer required) and the British Legion if you carry a club card or you could stay in the Golden Lion in Maryport and there are 8 bars within 100 meters of that spot with an excellent curry house in the Maryport Tandoori (Ali the owner is a sound guy) but about a 5/6 mile run to the Northside track; however you are more than welcome there if you want to tie in for a beer or two no problem... well that's my bit for the Cumbria Tourist Board... I wont be the team manager we have a young and thrusting young chap lined up for that role... keen as mustard he is... Saturday or Sunday afternoon racing to start with which will be decided at the first Management Committee Meeting in the Golden Lion at Maryport on the 25th of November 2022 and if anyone wants to get any information first hand we will be in the Bar once the meeting is over hopefully by 9pm at the latest... any and all are welcome for a beer... After a fight the Electric Company are putting a transformer back in but we will have to wire up to a feed pillar next to it... Finally cables for floodlights being priced up now however this will be one of the biggest investments we will have to make so maybe not the first season to race under lights but it will come eventually and anyone looking to be a sponsor lets have a chat and anyone wanting to invest lets have a chat and anyone wanting to fund a foray into the Championship lets have a chat as any and every option will be explored... Regards THJ

I think that you will find that those of us that flagged Musielak as a rider to watch, did so with the fact of how much that he could potentially put on from his starting average of 6:21. If my memory serves me well myself and other predicted that he could potentially put on a point to point and half on his average. He surpassed those expectations with a figure of 7:91, increasing his average by 1:70. If Ipswich want to be successful next season and want to have Jason Doyle in their team they need to find a rider that is going to replicate Musielak's improvement this season.

In the Leicester Lions Press Release dated 2 November. http://www.leicesterspeedway.com/_mobile/news.php?extend.32126.1 Of course it was our home leg.

HEEPS ALLEN,,,,, maybe its the fans that have a lack of ambition

Was it the weather forecast that has caused the delay?

Yes……but totally unfair on Championship fans. All points to the need for one league and I’m sure it could be made to work one way or another.

Glad Mike isn't picking the side Doyle, Hansen, Riss, Juhl Pedersen, Dudek, Gusts, Hume that'll do

And over the past page or two there is the fundamental issue of the sport Championship supporters want to see premiership riders compete for their clubs (nothing wrong with people wanting it) but it does not progress the sport, it does not progress british riders as the championship is then too strong for riders who come up from the NDL (apart from a very select talented few) So in 10 years time there will be limited British riders to fulfil team spaces, the end of Speedway

Got to love British speedway. Big announcement tonight is now not happening. What a let down

All riders put my bum on a seat……..I am a speedway fan……..

More concerned about them turning up for matches to be honest

Unless there's some dramatic news about the Showgrounds future, i can't see anyone buying it.

Batchelor to panthers

tbf the rain we had on the Monday & Tuesday after the track was "repaired" was pretty intense. Doesn't matter which way you cut it though, if BSPL forced Leicester to move to Lynn or the Bates took the decision to move it to Lynn... on a Friday night was a kick in the teeth for both sets of fans. Leicester did NOTHING to mitigate the move for the home fans... no coaches organised, they could even have opened the club house up and put the stream on a big projector, sold a bit of food and some drinks... may even have made some money on it, nope... nothing!

Play offs this year especially turned out to be a complete lottery. They need binned going forward they have no credibility. Only my opinion of course.

Clear space? There's only seven of them left.