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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

1965 was the first year of the British League as well as a new Knock Out Cup competition based on football’s F.A. Cup with just one leg and the luck of the draw which team got drawn at home. In that year, one of the Quarter Final matches saw a local derby London tie with West Ham drawn at home to Wimbledon. Before the tie, the two teams appeared to be evenly matched and so the match proved. With one heat to go the scores were level at 45-45. That final heat saw the Wimbledon pair, Olle Nygren and Reg Luckhurst, shoot in to an early lead over West Ham’s Brian Leonard and Norman Hunter and it looked all over for the Hammers when suddenly Luckhurst’s engine blew up resulting in a 3-3 and a tied match at 48-48. Having drawn at West Ham, Wimbledon looked a good bet to take the tie in the replay on their own track. But there was even worse news for West Ham as their top rider, Sverre Harrfeldt, was injured the previous evening at Hackney and unable to take part and their third heat leader, Norman Hunter, was also unable to ride as it was his wedding day! There were no guests allowed so the Hammers had to resort to filling the places of two heat leaders with Tony Clarke, making his racing debut, and a Wimbledon junior, Geoff Hughes. Only Ken McKinlay was a recognized heat leader and, although by now a team regular, it should be remembered that at this time West Ham’s 19 year old Malcolm Simmons was just a reasonable five point average second string who had shown no signs of the great rider he was to become in later years. No-one, not even the West Ham supporters present that afternoon, gave the Hammers much hope. By heat six it looked as though Wimbledon’s superiority was about to assert itself as Wimbledon skipper, the great Olle Nygren. along with the experienced Jim Tebby, took a 5-1 against West Ham’s newcomer, Tony Clarke, and second string, Brian Leonard. The lack of two heat leaders looked as though it was now beginning to tell. But as West Ham were six points in arrears it meant they could use a tactical substitute and they wasted no time bringing in Ken McKinlay for reserve Ray Wickett in the very next heat. The line-up for heat seven was therefore Bob Dugard and Keith Whipp for the Dons, Malcolm Simmons and Ken McKinlay for the Hammers. The young Simmons shot away from the gate with McKinlay behind him and that’s how the heat finished. A 5-1 for West Ham and four points pulled back. Simmons’ time of 66.2 was the fastest of the night. The next heat saw McKinlay out again, this time in a scheduled ride, with old campaigner Reg Trott lining up against Reg Luckhurst and reserve Mike Coomber. Some brilliant team riding by McKinlay and Trott kept Luckhurst behind them and with Coomber falling, it meant another 5-1 to the Hammers and, unbelievably, at the half-way stage, West Ham now found themselves with a two point lead. With Nygren and Tebby lined up against Simmons and Wickett in heat 10 it looked as though the Dons would edge back in to the lead, but, once again, Simmons rose to the occasion and beat Nygren in the second fastest time of the night. Heat 12 saw another astonishing turn of events as Wimbledon’s Bobby Dugard fell and was excluded from the re-run. It was a simple matter for McKinlay and Trott to defeat Whipp and take a 5-1. It was now West Ham who were six points up and it was now Wimbledon who used a tactical substitute as they brought in Nygren for reserve, John Edwards. Unfortunately it did not have the desired effect as, for the second time that night, West Ham’s new hero, the young Malcolm Simmons, beat Nygren, leaving West Ham still six points in front. This time though, Simmons had done it the hard way, coming from behind and taking the Wimbledon captain on the last lap. With just three heats to go, time was running out for Wimbledon and the impossible suddenly looked possible. However, a Nygren and Dugard 5-1 over Trott and Leonard put them back in with a chance and when, in heat 15, Tebby and Coomber pulled off a 4-2 against Clarke and Hughes, the scores, were back to level with one heat to go. The line-up for that final heat saw Keith Whipp and Reg Luckhurst for Wimbledon against Ken McKinlay and Malcolm Simmons for West Ham. The tension around the stadium was palpable. Everyone was holding their breath. A match which at the beginning of the afternoon had seemed likely to be very one-sided had now come down to a last heat decider. To some extent the final race as a race was a bit of a disappointment as Simmons once again flew off from the start and never looked to be in any danger and with McKinlay settling for a steady third place, the match was won by West Ham by 49 points to 47. The small band of Hammers’ supporters who had made the trip across London couldn’t believe what had happened. The hero of the hour was the 19 year old Malcolm Simmons. He had beaten the Wimbledon captain, Olle Nygren, twice and had set the three fastest times of the night. In fact he still wasn’t finished. In the second half scratch race event, the Cheer Leaders’ Trophy, he won the first heat, beating, McKinlay, Luckhurst and Dugard and then went on to win the final, once again beating Nygren. As if that wasn’t enough, a special Handicap race was held with Simmons starting off 20 yards, Nygren off 10 and Trott, Leonard and Tebby off scratch. Yet again, Simmons got the better of Nygren, even with his handicap. As for me, although that match was held 59 years ago I can still remember it as if it were yesterday. In fact I can remember it better than matches I saw last season. It was just such an amazing afternoon. I went along there with a few other Hammers’ supporters expecting a reasonable match but when it was announced just before the meeting started that neither Harrfeldt nor Hunter would be taking part we seriously considered going home. The Wimbledon supporters around us were saying things like, ’You’ll be lucky if you get 20 points’ and ’This is going to be the biggest thrashing of all time.’ Of course we gave back as good as we got but in our hearts we felt they could well be right. But suddenly there was this rider called Malcolm Simmons, who we had seen rise from the ranks of a second halfer at West Ham to a reasonable five point second string but no more, taking on and beating the likes of Olle Nygren and Reg Luckhurst on their own track in the fastest times of the night. He was just phenomenal. As we now know, Simmons went on to become one of Great Britain’s greatest ever riders and runner-up in the 1976 World Championship, World Pairs Champion in 1976, 77 and 78, World Team Champion in 1973, 74, 75 and 77 and British Champion in 1976. He was capped 80 times for England, seven times for the British Lions (touring Australia), five times for Great Britain and four times for the Rest of the World. But it all started that night and I feel very privileged to have been there to witness what must have been one of the best matches of all time and one of the most outstanding personal performance of all time.

Gorzow v Wroclaw, 18th June 2023. Purely for the incredible atmosphere and noise made by the Polish fans.

Maybe rest of team could be like Richard lawson and look after their average for next season

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.

You cannot now replace an injured team member as you could in 2022. BSPL prefer guests from the lower teams/division.

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.

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

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.

That Poland feel they can do what they want & no one has been able to challenge them!

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 .

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

Started raining in Lynn just after 3pm and carried on in into the night. No way it could of been run in them conditions unless they were going out on jet skis

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?..

No meetings tonight those locations...

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!

Looking at a few weather sites most are showing virtually no rain until around 21.00. Shame really but it is what it is. I am not sure what the answer is but given what was witnessed at the NSS, who is really calling the shots, the riders or the promoters? As a general point it cannot do any favours to the stadium owners either. What would you rather have as an owner, weekly stocks/bangers when you not only get rent but food/drink and parking or speedway with sixteen dates unless you make it all the way in cup and league with just income from food and drink over possibly seven months. If I were an owner I know what I would opt for and make the facility work for itself. From a supporters point of view, the stop start fixture list (not talking about postponements) cannot help with punters finding other things to do and simply no longer bothering. The tribal followers of a team have probably long gone together with the previous weekly fix that use to be the norm. All very sad.

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.

Also working for the Sun he may have sold his morals away. For me I don't have an issue with the photos, it was the timing that they were published. They could have waited until Tate was at least off the track and he had given the go ahead for them to be used.

Rather not hand pick guests for the duration to be honest. We need to get a rider in, get him a team suit and crack on with a proper Witches 1-7 again.

10.10.77 Ellesmere Port: Stadium Scurry 1st Louis Carr (72.4) 2nd Neil Coddington 3rd Robin Dixon (Three riders only) Rider of the night Heat 1: 1st Tom Owen (70.2) 2nd Robin Dixon (73.3) 3rd Duncan Meredith 4th Nigel Crabtree Heat 2: 1st Phil Collins (71.6) 2nd Chris Prime (74.0) 3rd Robin Dixon 4th Terry Logan Heat 3: 1st Robbie Blackadder (72.0) 2nd Steve Finch (73.6) 3rd Nigel Crabtree 4th Robin Dixon. Reserves Race: 1st Dave Mortiboys 2nd Robert Maxfield 3rd Chris Prime 4th Terry Logan Rider of the Night Final: 1st Robbie Blackadder (71.8) 2nd Tom Owen 3rd Phil Collins 4th Steve Finch.

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.