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Oh the irony! A Poole fan extolling the virtues of the spirit of rules

Thurrock councillors have unanimously backed a motion calling for Thurrock council to use the local plan to support the retention of Speedway in Thurrock and identify a new home for Grays Athletic FC.

You put Holder in Leave Holder out In, out, in, out You sort the numbers out . You do the hokey cokey and then start again That's what it's all about

Had to happen. You currently have Russian players competing in the Australian tennis and quite right too. Wilmbledon better start changing their stance as well or they’ll find themselves in all sorts of trouble. Penalizing individuals and stopping them earning a living because a mad man happens to be in power of the country in which they happen to have been born in which they had no control over is absurd. Just don’t promote the Russian flag and crack on. They weren’t rumours in the case of Ipswich trying to sign him though. The only question open to debate is whether they were going to be successful or not.

So do we get a 10 point start for sponsoring the league . It's only fair as compensation for a conflict of interests and laughing at sporting integrity

Who wouldn’t want to ride for the best club in the country at the best track, we should be aiming for a top number 1

If Mr T spent less money on his teeth,, he could afford it

Oh Lord! You know your post is going to set TTT off again, don't you?

Think this criticism of Hayley Bromley is way off the mark, I think she does an excellent job as presenter. Also women in speedway should be encouraged not mocked

Would you now? Well when you come and buy the club you can charge what you want... however at the minute you don't own it... how do you know that the £13 quid isn't the OAP price and the club were thinking of charging every adult 15/16 quid and the 13 was the concession... but because they would like to give the spot not only a chance of breaking even but still encourage enough folk to come through the gate... they decided to charge 13 quid across the board... Get a season ticket for £90 they are a steal... it looks like 9 matches on your season ticket so that's £10:00 a meeting... Honestly what more do ya want... Regards THJ

So Newcastle Diamonds live on, well for one night only! Redcar have organised the tyne tees trophy with a Newcastle "select" Diamonds side on the 24th March I think. A good gesture by Redcar and hopefully a few Diamonds fans may make the trip down the a19. No idea who is riding for Newcastle though...

Maybe he's getting pulled off too, so is offering his services at a lower rate

Something for p0rnhub rather than Speedway imo

Unfortunately a few years ago may have been £10, but can't see that back again now really. Although we had quite an expensive team for NL , Eastbourne charged £13 back in 2018 and before, so can't think it's far out today. I think more teams will stop the OAP concession and that's coming from one who would qualify.

Don’t be daft. But you do get three snake cards which shift Edinburgh to the bottom of the league every time Blobby has a whinge about the cheque book Tigers. Did you really expect ladders cards as well?

Maybe the shock is Holder has been re assessed to 8 as his old average is too old to use

This was an end-of-season individual meeting for which the Bristol management invited riders who had appeared at the track during the season. It was not a meeting for which riders had qualified. It would be better described as 'a championship for northern and midland riders' (plus Roger Wise of Bristol) rather than THE Northern Riders' Championship. The advertisement ahead of the meeting described it as 'a gala night, when 16 "stars" of Northern and National League teams will meet in a Northern Riders Championship'. Afterwards it was reported as consisting of riders whose clubs had been the main opposition of the Bulldogs throughout the season. Of the riders who took part, Jeff Lloyd and Roger Wise had appeared regularly for Bristol during the year. Frank Hodgson, Norman Evans, Jim Boyd, Wilf Plant, Stan Dell, Frank Lawrence and George Craig had also represented the Bulldogs during the 1946 open-licence season.

Come again ?

I’d love to see another lynn Ipswich double header at Easter.

I’d be deleting my account!!

And to just be clear, that's in sterling pounds Michael, not PLN...

Not if he went to Turkey

The council don’t really need to spend any money, just force the developer into making changes to their plans. Simple solution would be to give the speedway stadium and large part of car park back, volunteers and sponsor backing could handle the rest.

Jack Smith? (Troublemaking smirk).

Spot on. Very impressed with Glasgow Speedway over the years. All these people who moan/complain about them but I tell you what, if they were no longer there they would be sorely missed. Keep on with your forward thinking and although I am not strictly speaking a Glasgow supporter, I hope they win the league this year. Good luck!

You’re not alone there

Plus given the fact the BSPL have closed that door for 2023 shows they knew the loophole had been exploited.

Mike Parker is the only promotor to throw me out of a track. He threw me out of Crayford four times in one evening before a stock car meeting there because of something I had written in a magazine. Trouble was all his staff agreed with me and kept letting me back in. He would have been even more cross if he had known that the staff always let me in for free as I wrote articles for a number of different magazines. He did a lot of good promotion but also damaged both speedway and stox by some of his actions in my opinion.

It amazes me how much stick Gerry and Peter get. In my experience, pretty straightforward, people-focused, invested in the community, great at business. They seem very private but that’s all.

It won't bother Marcin - he only knows about 10 words of English anyway! I don't think any of the side will be lacking motivation to be honest. The biggest question is going to be, how many foam bags are going to need replacing? I expect the racing will be wild.

Capacity is no longer a problem, while don't worry about the weather - the online ticketing means both transfer and refund options are very easy, no stupid, archaic re-admission tickets!

Would have been a story,, they only last 24hrs

if Neil buys a season ticket and we only get the 8 meetings I will buy him a pint just to keep his face straight... Regards THJ Agree a season ticket is a bargain, but for me I will be in Greece for 2/3 meetings , but I'll have a pint with you anyway John and I may buy them, be careful you Don't spill it 

We had a rider on almost that in 2022.

Dudek is no.1 at Panthers it was on his Instagram account earlier this week saying he was flying into Stansted to complete a deal, unless of course thats a Sponsorship deal related to GP's there were a few mentions of this on some facebook pages too that he had flown to the UK was Sunday/Monday

I know you're probably being a bit flippant( always a first I suppose ) with the £16, but having thought about it again £13 is spot on for a stand alone club. If the track is as good as it looks, good value, shame it's 500 mile+ round trip for me otherwise I'd give it go if I was closer.

Good deal for families for an afternoon's speedway, Mum ,Dad and 3 kids for £25. Says introductionary offer, but if successful and hopefully the crowds are healthy and its viable has to be the way with NL.

Yes Michael I'd love to join the best club in the country again, 3.5k a meeting sounds good to me.

The punters follow a winning side, always have always will.

Dreamers can dream

Admission prices announced. https://workingtoncomets.com/2023-admission-prices/

Really, really upsetting news, I owed him a great debt of gratitude when the 2008 financial crisis hit and I was made redundant he was able to help when all my funding partners gave me the cold shoulder. Despite my loss of appetite for the sport Steve was one of the guys I called from time to time to keep in touch, just awful news. One of his best decisions he made was to put an English speaking presenter into the Belle Vue 80th Anniversary celebrations, somebody who was used to the open top bus life!

Do not understand the clamour for NP , past his best and not ridden since serious injury, just do not know what you are going to get.

The claim was against the previous owners/promoters not Rob Grant as he liquidated the second business correctly and the VAT liability was against NewSpeed the first one he bought (which he also folded) and as much as I have slated Grant on here the one thing he cant be slated for is not declaring anything to the tax man (sic) originally!!! it was probably his honesty in these matters in the early days that added to his downfall when he first took over the club... However... £5K realised... Aye righto? the tax man may want to revisit that one... HMRC have a very large HUMINT department and it doesn't take much to pique their interest that is for sure... Naughty Rob... (But what's the point) Sticking with the tax matters and as "minister without portfolio" is finding out much to his chagrin... When Jim Harra (top civil servant in HMRC) was asked about how the term “careless” should be interpreted by the public, Harra told MPs: “Carelessness is a concept in tax law. It can be relevant to how many back years that we can assess, can be relevant to whether someone is liable to a penalty and if so, what penalty they will be liable to for an error in their tax affairs.” While Harra made clear he was "not at liberty to speak directly about an individual’s tax affairs because of confidentiality rules", Blah Blah... I think you will find that a deal has been done that suits all parties and put the VAT issue to bed... however us "Plebs" will never get to find out... and of course "too late was the cry" as the club was going through its death throws long before all the issues broke about the financial mess the place was in... Very sad and missing it greatly... Regards THJ

Calling yourself a snowflake is very apt.

That would definitely create a sell out plus a world wide TV deal that the whole of UK speedway could live off for decades!

Wouldn’t think so.Think a couple were given there wages up front though,don’t think that will be the case this season.

I'm sure it was mentioned b4 either on this thread or another one that Dudek was after summit like 6k a meeting guaranteed, whether that's true or not who knows.