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Tony Mole was never shy at speaking about his attendances and I know he used to have his crowd figures printed in his programmes whilst he promoted at Long Eaton and that for some reason, other promoters didn't like this. Most people will never realise how much Speedway owes Tony Mole. He still attends both Wolverhampton and Birmingham every week and never ever tries to interfere or try to tell anyone to do things he might have done. He sits quietly in the bar with his family and just enjoys the racing. This quiet, modest man has been a pleasure to work with, and he has always had my total admiration and respect.

Face planting someone like that, can have disastrous consequences. A man in the US was recently paralysed for life after a cop (who is now facing jail time) used a similar move on him. A very stupid and dangerous thing to do...

I don't know why,, but most fans seem to think Danny as a 6 to 6.5 rider is consistently going to score like a 9 point rider.

As long as the starts are the same for both teams, it's all fair. The only thing the ref should keep an eye on, is to make sure grading of the starts doesn't change heat to heat based on gate the teams are starting from.

Fantastic meeting last night. Obviously helps if you're a Monarchs fan but I thought it had everything - drama, excitement, emotion, great racing, close scores & controversy. Someone forgot to tell Bastian Borke that you can't pass at Berwick - he was sensational for a first time visitor.

Borke was superb considering he had never see the place,some great cut backs coming of the bends.Talented rider.

Easy away win if they can gate.!!

Couldn’t agree more, fantastic meeting and just a shame the result didn’t go our way. Some Bandits “fans” may not agree but then again what will they complain about if we were unfortunate enough to be in the position of Newcastle, Eastbourne or so many other fan bases.

Good effort by comets fans and further afield heat and rider sponsorship sold out in a couple of days

I am not surprised the meeting is off following the rain all day yesterday. Even if the track was managed to be salvaged there would be nowhere to park as the hard standing area of parking at the Showground is being currently used for vehicle parking and maintenance for an as yet unapproved retrospective planning application venture and furthermore the Showground custodians haven’t bothered to cut the grass in the surrounding fields (where people would normally park) for weeks and in places the grass and weeds are about three foot high and obviously now hold a lot of water. It has the look and feel of an area that is being deliberately run into the ground. I have made my observations to our local councillor.

VK links for Lublin v Czestochowa: https://vk.com/video-53550004_456241377 https://vk.com/wall246397852_2413

Both number fours need to up their game for next week

I have heard that this is "a one off" and won't happen again...

A wee tip. If you go on Tigers Facebook page on the day of the meeting you'll find links to a stream.

Glasgow do what they like regarding streaming and from that perspective they are doing what they consider the sensible thing for them. And that’s being polite.

The major fundamental issue that the sport has.. (In all its glory)... There is absolutely no point, as a fan, taking it seriously, and, without that emotional tie in, a team sport can never hope to be successful... And you can only infer that the promoters themselves don't take it seriously, simply by definition of such meetings being planned in... Deliberately devaluing your very own competitions is truly an incredible idea... Book online early if you want to get in would be my advice...

Wow... what a garbage line-up for Wolves, but at least it can be called 'Premier Garbage". A seven team league and you can't sort the fixtures out. Hope our riders enjoy their World Team Cup holiday. At least it's not running when the school kids start their summer holidays and impacts the crowd level. ..... whoops! Shame the camera''s aren't there as Abi could say contact us on #SHEFSH*T

I love the way that people keep assuming there will be a league in the same format with a points limit to accommodate anything like even the types of teams this season …

The rule is crystal clear a rider receiving a second warning can go off 15m or be replaced by a reserve

I’m only telling you the rule, not defending it. Personally I would let anyone who doesn’t touch the tapes go unless they’ve rolled. If riders want to gamble and duck as the tapes go up then good luck to them I say.

Why is police involvement ridiculous? It is a potential assault, which if it had happened in the street would involve the Police

To dick and his start line crew. Get it up ye. Chucking their arms in the air every time Craig was out to try persuade the ref. Seeing dick on his hands in knees when Leon packed up cherry on top of a good win.

Surely when they do the track walk they can all see the start line and set their bikes up accordingly.You can't hide the dirt and must be able to clearly see what it looks like so why do people moan about it when it's common knowledge that apparently Poole is a gaters track of which I have no idea I don't ride bikes but are people saying only Poole can gate at Wimborne Road if you look out the window and it's pouring with rain you don't go out without a coat so it no surprise when you get wet

the transponder line at glasgow is about half a wheel length behind the start line so when the tyre crosses the line it picks up the winner

Why would you book a holiday in the middle of the season when you know you could be racing, don't understand this at all

Why is Worrall on holiday if he's in the SWC squad Talk about amateur hour.

I'm honestly not sure why people are so bothered about this, we've had guests used for years for a miraiad of reasons, you'd think fans would be used to it by now? The match needs to be raced & Sheffield are struggling for dates, so I'm glad it's being run - last year's jubilee league still isn't finished, partly because clubs couldn't agree to dates in August. Wolves probably shouldn't have agreed to the holidays, even during world cup week as you never know with the British weather! I'm also confused by Worrall & Douglas holidaying, did they not expect to make their world cup teams? In this instance don't feel for the riders, if you want to race in both UK leagues & Poland, you can't expect to get a holiday mid-season. Also the result isn't really important, both clubs will be in the play-offs anyway!

Perhaps he's gone to see Uncle Matt for the weekend...

Maybe he has gone away with his brother....? No point coming all the way back to England for a speedway meeting if so.. Might as well stay over there....

Perhaps he's having a week away in Bournemouth? It's a good job Worrall wasn't selected for the world cup if he'd booked his hols

Those guests cannot have an average more than three-quarters that of the riders they are replacing. Edited for clarity.

If Sheffield are adamant that tomorrow is the only free date they have available it will be a bugger for them if it's rained off.

Bet no one can guess what happens when Nicki is last when his side is being 5-1'd....???

You do have to ask what is the point of bothering to locate a new track if all you are going to do is to keep running the sport in such a ludicrous way... It can only sadly end up going one way...

Apologies quoted the wrong post. Need too stop these Saturday sessions.

In years gone by we had a racetrack that didn’t contain a significant amount of clay, unfortunately that isn’t the case now.

It rained hard practically all day yesterday, more later today and overnight and a shocking weather forecast for Monday. I would guess the racetrack is a quagmire.

Certainly no chance of Berwick doing it.

No doubt Glasgow will throw the cheque book at him next season.

Thing is with these multi usernames on the Berwick threads is that is doesn't take a genius to work out what is going on, and if those who use them for their own entertainment are connected to the club it shows the club in a poor light, especially when attacking a clubs supporter.

As a non Brit it will be 4 regardless

Best meeting I have seen this season at Berwick, admittedly I have not been to every meeting but last night I was happy to pay my £20 with an entertaining meeting with some very good racing. Leon Flint and Berwick can feel hard done to when his back tyre gave up while in second place in the last and deciding race, but ultimately the race is over four laps and not three and one quarter, anyway the reason for the loss cant be put at that particular door as that would be foolish. Once again the opposition out numbered the home side in race winners and once we head into the last few races, and the away team have a strong one and five, Berwick usually come un-stuck, as they did last night. Add in one or two strange managerial decisions and you have your reasons for another home defeat. The long term future for Edinburgh Speedway is uncertain, if they do come to the tapes in 2024 then I would be getting a contract under the nose of Bastian Borke, on first viewing last night Edinburgh have something special on their hands.

I think it fair to say that there is fault on both sides. The fan should not have been there and Tai should have left it to the security. What I think could count against him is that his body language betrays that he did it to make a point. You can see him and the other riders grinning and laughing about before and after. At best it was a prank that went wrong but it cant hide the fact that as a sportsman in the public eye he was wrong and those on this and other forums defending him by saying he was defending himself and the fan may have had a bomb etc have lost the plot. (Reminds me awfully of those Michael Jackson fans that will say anything to defend the fallen pop star)

Dick must have been taking lessons from Michal Max at Glasgow on how to be a Centre Green referee .Very entertaining match.

Personally I wouldn’t have King in there far to frustrating & goes missing when you need him in key heats

You could build 3 pit areas so each club had a permanent home pit area with club colours and riders signage. So say if wolves are riding a home fixture the cradley pits becomes the away pits and the Birmingham pits is for second halfers then if two of the clubs rode each other they always retain their normal pit area. If the stadium gets used three times a week rather than one is got to me much more viable.

Pretty stupid comment and not Poole specific response. If a Team does a Track walk at 6.30pm for a 7.30pm start then the Start Line (or any other part of the tRack) can be significantly changed by a minimal amount of watering, grading, rolling, rain, sunshine, temperature drops etc. I've always been very surprised , considering it's supposed to be a professional sport, that Teams don't have someone specifically allocated as part of the "management" of the team at the Event to keep an hawk-eye on this sort of thing and to report any fiddling via the Clerk of the Course to the Match Referee IF it does go beyond the bounds of fairness. Ultimately any team can request a Referee inspect a track at any time and said Referee can insist on changes. With regards to Poole, having been there in the 70's up to recent years on occasions, I think it's the MODERN bikes that have turned it in to a "gaters track". Very similar to what had happened at Blunsdon before they changed the Track. straights too long for the tight bends with bikes now revving far higher than they used to so making it much more of a one line track. That's part of the demise of speedway in my opinion, laydowns, engine revs and tuning and the ridiculous extra costs on the financial side and bikes no longer fit for purpose at many of the traditional UK tracks on the riding side. Interesting that the BEST race tracks now are either modern or significantly amended e.g Belle Vue, Glasgow, Redcar as prime examples.

If you're the home team, why wouldn’t you do it? I’m surprised every team isn’t using make full use of home advantage.

Thought I saw them putting water on track?

Should this not be on last night’s meeting thread?……….anyhow, I don’t know how you missed seeing the track being watered……