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Title favourites? How do you work that out? The maximum amount of points Belle Vue can get is 16.... Leicester already have 13 with four matches left. If the Lion Cubs can't pick up three points from those matches, it'll be a miracle.

I love the way British speedway more or less shuts down in the Summer as they are worried that crowds will be low… then reschedule for October when it’s so cold only 4 men and a dog show up and it gets called off at heat 10. Talk about shooting yourself in the foot.

Think it’s fair to say all is not well at KL there has been dodgy call offs in fact very dodgy but bit harsh wanting KL expelled from the league I’d have thought losing any club is the last thing the sport needs .

They should bin the TV if they can't actually be brave enough to carry on as normal. No issues with the weather last night, meeting should've run.

I'm struggling to see why Poole should have any facility if it's a pre arranged fixture and a rider is choosing to be elsewhere.

If you go back to page 1 and come forward 67 pages you will then be able to answer your own question lol It has been discussed ad nauseam

iainb is right. Everything he stated in the post that you quoted is a fact.

You can't always rely on the weather,but you can always rely on Haza posting a negative comment

Obviously not according to Lynnboy who lives very much nearer to the Lynn track than you.It may have been able to be run in Lincolnshire.It did rain here in Wisbech at about 4pm for a couple hrs and stopped a while then started again about 8pm.Rain moves in mysterious ways.

https://ipswichwitches.co/raceday-preview-leicester-rowe-motor-oil-premiership-r2-a/ Nicholls in for Doyle no surprises there, but what IS a surprise and a good one from an Ipswich point of view, Dan Thompson isn’t yet ruled out which means the injury isn’t as bad as first feared. That is absolutely massive for our chances at the business end of the season.

Drew Kemp in for Dan Thompson

So you feel sorry for the King's Lynn fans, but want Buster chucked out.So where does that leave King's Lynn Speedway with no Buster.No Speedway imo,so not really feeling sorry for the Lynn fans.

Well done GB, fantastic Bewley.

Makes sense for Cairns, best track in the country, guaranteed spot for next season so no need to worry about averages AND not signing for Leicester means his Dad can be in the pits at his meetings and focus on being promotor when Leicester are running. William looks as promising as Luke Harrison did during his 'breakthrough' period and if he follows on he will be doing alright. Probably the most positive footnote is Belle Vues intention to run in the NDL next season, i just hope there is enough quality in the league to challenge Cairns. and other emerging riders.

And that's just the team

An away defeat won't hurt Poole in the slightest so why not use r/r and give your own riders extra races!

Ah, too many fixtures - or too many teams in the league :-) :-)

No it isn’t, there is nothing in a speedway engine today that wasn’t in a 1930s one the materials are better, unlike other sports which are much vastly more expensive using injection systems and ECUs but as I’ve been banging on for years speedway doesn’t need half the BS that riders use today like the karger ignition which put the price up for no gain for the sport and then the expect the fan to pay for it, on the SON something is only worth as much as folk are prepared to pay for it and clearly the crowd showed it wasn’t worth what discovery think it’s worth, a good indication worth’s at the moment was the speedway auction at Ledbury last week, a lot of the bikes didn’t fetch half what they are worth and this is the case for classic cars too. Speedway needs a reality check to where it stands in society. The SON was despite the weather an exiting well run event and imo was the best sporting event in this country this year but such a shame that nobody saw it

Great effort by Team GB - Bewley and Lambert were excellent and got better as the meeting went on and brought the trophy home !! Decent racing and good to see Latvia and Germany competitive in the Final. Was expecting more from Denmark but they just couldn't get the team right on the night. Crowd was as expected - no need for the temporary stand could of saved the cost of that over the week and as for food and drink - it is always a tedious with a larger capacity - like SoN or British Final etc ... Let's see if that meeting will be enough to convince WSD to offer a SGP.

He’s not guaranteed to ride for Ipswich Thursday either. They’re waiting until the very “last minute” to make a decision on the day.

Simple answer is to postpone the fixture to another date putting the fans first,or the usual reason these days " weather forecast doesnt look good".

We have a great record there, Doyle has been pivotal to that though. Been a very heavy scorer. Nicholls has big boots to fill! Reading the preview, I’m not sure it’s wise risking Thompson either. He’s so important to our chances of winning silverware because he’s irreplaceable as a rising star. If he’s touch and go and this week might “be too soon” according to Hawkins, then it would be madness risking him.

Glad Scotty Nicholls is guesting, always glad to see him back at the den and will make this meeting even more interesting. This one is too close to call. Leaning towards an Witches win as they seem to love our track everytime they visit

Speaking of planks !

I'm convinced Buster has pi$$ed on his chips, sometime in the past. Maybe he's Holder or Batch

Current cma. 7.36 for away matches, 7.73 at home.

I'm pretty sure the stadium will stay in Busters ownership. Taking rent for bangers and drift cars ect is relatively easy, compared to running and paying for a speedway team. It would need minimal work from Buster himself. As for Speedway.. Well a good friend of mine ( and i believe him 100%) was talking to a current rider after the Lynn v Oxford meeting last month, about him returning next season. His reply was.. If no one takes over, there will be no speedway next season. So unless theres something going on behind the scenes, that said rider don't know about, or he was telling porky's, it's not looking good at the moment. Theres still time though.

... wishful thinking

Guy was your team sponsor too for a year. I don’t know why he didn’t continue but at Ipswich he is certainly very valued and not took for granted. The question should be why can’t you retain your main sponsors ?

No, I don't think so.

My bruv and sister-in-law over from Australia visited Oxford for the speedway v Sheffield and said how impressed they were with the racing and the stadium.

I probably would to be honest considering the state of some of them in parliament

The original post was.. "It seems to me that King's Lynn should be expelled from the league, they can't assemble a team and habitually call meetings off and that's not just this season. They're bringing the whole sport down in this country. If they want to run open meetings IoW style, fine, no objection to that but as it is they're effecting every other team in the league with their continual shenanigans!" You replied with... There's 3 things( highlighted) in iainbs' original post, that seem to me are his opinion, and not facts. I think lately your hate for BC and Kings Lynn in general, seems to be on a steep rise of late. It's not good for you .

The transfer window has closed I’m afraid hahah.

I was there! August 1975. Cradley did it with just 6 riders as well as Sandor Levai withdrew following a first heat fall.

Thank you for your well thought out argument and kind words

That’s how different things can be a few miles away certainly could have run here was dry all evening . Doesn’t matter what it’s like in south Lincs it’s what’s like at the stadium .

What a ray of sunshine you are.

Too many to narrow it down, but I'll start with these... 1981 World Final 1989 NL KOC Semi - Dons against Poole. We got a draw after losing the first four heats 5-1! 1976 Grand Prix Final at White City. My first visit to Wood Lane.

Were both East Anglian meetings "dried off" last night?..

Yes. John Hall led the team... He is in the video of the night berating PK at the end of the last heat as he came past, "It's not effing Stock Cars"... Happy Days... Used to attend four or five tracks a week all over the country... Now, my mortgage would cost me much less if I tried the same..

No meetings tonight those locations...

And definitely will upset season ticket holders and sponsors alike . I’m 35 minutes from the track and there was drizzle 4 pm ish but it’s been dry since 6 pm - fans are getting fed up with these constant call offs - hate to think how the riders feel as well

Who pays those Cardiff prices?? Buy the £20 tickets then move to the lower tiers after 4 heats, nobody checks

Happy Birthday Zach Cook 25 today!

I think the moral of the story is don’t believe speedway is a summer sport. Shame for you and your girlfriend, I hope she enjoyed the SON. Not sure what it is like in Ipswich but just east of Colchester, bone dry, no rain and some intermittent evening sunshine. Back in the day of Sky ports, when the cameras were in town, the club would do its utmost to get the meeting on. Perhaps now with Eurosport they charge for turning up and no club is willing to take the risk. I cannot think why else it is called off so early these days.

The same people who fund tate and Celina OBVIOUSLY !! The fans

The days when the WC was sponsored by a national newspaper, and major meetings sponsored by press and tv are long gone. Does the NSS have press facilities?. Could the organisers not have invited sports reporters and photographers to the SON final, given them dinner and someone on hand to explain the format and scoring. Then everyone reading a national newspaper yesterday and today would see a report.

Pretty sure had Dan Thompson not come to grief team GB would have most certainly had got a medal.It may have even been gold because he looked even faster than Flint imo.

Tate has released the following statement from his hospital bed:- Tate Zischke 1h · Hello everyone just want to jump on and thank everyone for all the messages and hospital visits this means a lot I haven't been able to get back to everyone but thanks everyone. It's going to be a long bumpy road to recovery I will spend the coming weeks in hospital fighting to get better each day. It has been a rough few days so far but we will keep flighting. So far I can let you all know I have fractured 7 vertebrae and 5 ribs and have a nasty entry and exit hole in my left bum cheek where I was penetrated by my bike when I followed by bike into the fence. I have so far had 1 surgery on my ass cheek and have been told I will need a couple more in the coming days. I want to let everyone know this crash was 100% a racing incident and nobody is at fault. I will keep everyone updated on what is happening next Good to read that he doesn't blame Keynan Rew in any way for the accident. Wish him well.