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To be honest I would tell him not to bother coming over again he won't be missed and has been a big waste of money, no commitment.

Will the commentary be unintelligible incoherent gibberish nonsense? ... or will it be in Welsh?

Second I seen Etheridge and retain I stopped taking this post seriously.

2021 just fell right for Peterborough and having a high scoring reserve played to our all round strength, Rob Lyon played a full part in the team’s success which wasn’t really expected from anyone, Ulrich riding superbly at the start whilst a reserve and then getting hurt whilst No 1 didn’t go against us either. Sometimes things just fall into place and 2021 was one such occasion and very enjoyable it was.

The Speedway Control Bureau (SCB) were aware that King's Lynn's Benjamin Basso returned from his recent shoulder injury to represent his Polish League Club Lodz on the 3rd August 2024. Despite Mr Basso competing in four races, he was withdrawn from his fifth heat and subsequently suffered a reoccurrence of his previous shoulder injury. The SCB were informed on the 5th August 2024 that due to this reoccurrence shoulder injury Mr Basso would not be available to return to the King's Lynn team in their fixture versus Leicester also on the 5th August 2024 and the home fixture against Belle Vue on the 8th August 2024. The SCB requested that a new medical certificate would be required to avoid Mr Basso receiving a suspension of his SCB Registration. A new medical certificate was received by the SCB on the 6th August 2024. Therefore, as Mr Basso had received this injury whilst representing his Polish Club and the SCB had received a new medical certificate, the SCB Regulation 010.5 g) would allow King's Lynn a facility for a period up to 28 days from the 5th August 2024 Kings Lynn have been informed that if Mr Basso competes in any other events during this period then that’s fine by them As of the 12th August 2024, if the facility has not been extended then Mr Basso and Kings Lynn can do what the hell they like. When asked why this statement differed from that put out by the SCB just six weeks earlier they responded saying “one team was from Manchester - der”

Must have celebrated too hard getting Zielona Góra into the play offs yesterday after his heat 15 win over R.Lambert!

Another one along with Basso ride Sunday and score well but are suddenly not fit to ride next day taking the p--s

Sounds like Pawlicki might have something like Laguta’s food poisioning! 😮

I have attended 32 meetings in the UK so far this season. The racing has been mixed as you would expect. One thing I have noticed is the amount of meetings that start later than advertised. Often it appears for no reason. As someone who attends meeting on public transport this is an important factor to me. However whenever I attend a Leicester meeting, 3 times so far, 2 x Lions and a Cubs meeting they start on time. That is the first race at the publicised start time, the parade, minutes applause etc. happens before this. I don't know who is responsible for the timing, but they should be congratulated for their professionalism & doing a good job.

Bring back the track rakers

Certainly not a Batchelor fan ,but he has had a great season for Comets.

How much was it built to then as I have no ideas on the budget.

Plumes of dust from heat one. Blue groove from heat 8. Compare that to Belle vue who had neither. the riders need a decent stage to perform.

I stand corrected,he's still a poor manager though.

I expect it will be Anders.

Prediction: Birmingham 44 Leicester 46. Honestly looking at the teams I'd have Brummies down for a 2 points win, but they have a knack of riding terribly whenever they look to have a chance, so can easily see them lose every match for the rest of the season.

As long as Rowe races one league match, then he'd be using his 23 & 24 matches for his rolling ave. Gibes him a much better chance of finding a Champ spot in 25.

No I mean he'll get his 2023 champ average. Sure that's what happened with gilkes on next set of averages with Redcar. He's also not a guest now as declared in 1-7

No lol, but I think he is the best manager in speedway 👍

He took the wee out of Wolves but we didn’t stand for no nonsense. Yet again the Poles showing complete contempt for British speedway, get rid.

Great to see Tate is signing for 2025.Excellent move

He takes the 'p#ss' when he does ride as well! A complete waste of money! As said before...he must be on a 'guaranteed' contract...I cant imagine any other club putting up with him this season!

I rather suspect Poland don’t give them the choice, they ride or they start paying back sone of their start money is what I have heard, a bit more flexibility in the UK where we don’t force riders to ride when they are clearly unfit to do so.

League does not want watered down any further. Hopefully a minimum of 40 points for next season.

If I was a Workington fan, I'd want Starke back.

Roynon comes out with some rubbish during a race.Really needs replaced IMO.

Except WWE gets thousands of people turning up every week, nothing alike at all

If your on you are travelling down to Cardiff and the pairs at Oxford,why not make an extra day to the Isle of Wight on Thursday for the NORA upright championship

We will never be like Poland. And we shouldn’t even try being. Of course we want to be like them but when old Doris next to you complains to the stewards because you cursed a few bad words and shouted loudly you don’t stand a chance

Unfortunately the Polish scene knocks spots off the UK presentation and any rider worth his salt would rather ride in front of a packed crowd with an atmosphere that is second to none compared to the sparse speedway support that turns up at a UK stadia. Those that ride in Poland and frequent UK teams/tracks are simply topping up the pension. If you are a regular who watches on Kergel then you will understand the phrase chalk and cheese when watch weekend racing from Poland versus what is served up from the UK Clubs. The UK broadcaster cannot ever offer a comparable form of entertainment no matter who are the commentators and if they had any sense they would quietly part the sport in some dark corner and leave it to BSN to show the best bits from the lower leagues.

Overrated overpaid and over here, well should be lol

Phil Morris explanation regarding rider replacement and guests is just putting a plaster over the real problems with speedway in this country. If the rules had allowed for signings for injured riders things might be different, but no, the powers that be went for the broad brush approach. His excuses for where the sport is because of rider shortage is not acceptable and since when have those in charge given a second thought to Joe Public. He is talking as much horse s..t as the BSPL.

Housing on Cradley I think, West Ham housing too.

I get the comments about polish clubs shielding their assets but that remark falls short when nobody on here I’ve seen has yet to mention basso took part in the danish individual championship as well where he rode on the 7th August?

Also all the youngsters and newcomers attending this season (I bring 4 newbies as well as my usual 5!) don't have a clue about 'top' riders, or who rode in the past or the difference between Prem and Champs! They simply want to shout and wave and get behind the guys in the red and blue helmet colours!!

Hook for Foord. Starke for Atkins/Roynan.

Unfortunately for Berwick fans, the point they have to prove is that they are better than Killeen not Masters & Nicholls. Can only see them near the bottom.

As well as Brown, Schroeck (can't remember the Godfrey one) often calls out refs decisions when they lose. Bizarrely the opposition team rarely claims they got a lucky win!

My thoughts exactly but still seen in a very bad light by many on here. That opinion saddens me to be honest.

Certainly knows how to handle and get the best out of his riders

The whole things such a farce

Lions to punch their ticket to the play-offs tonight. Birmingham riders cant ride their own track, They're better away from Perry Barr.

It was another good meeting at the Colosseum on Saturday night. Track was in great shape and another decent crowd in. Great to see some Tigers fans down in Devon as well. Some good racing on track, Harris obliterating the track record was a treat in heat 1. Miracle both Jordan Jenkins and Joe Thompson walked away from that crash under their own steam. Best wishes to Joe and hopefully Jordan is okay as well. Fair play to Cami Brown and the Glasgow promotion for getting the fixture on with their guest choices. Both Jenkins and Jason Edwards gave everything they had for the Tigers cause. Wish them all the best for the rest of the season and look forward to their return to Devon in 2025

So the Race for 4th and the final Play-off starts to get interesting this weekend. Assuming Poole, Oxford, Scunthorpe have already qualified there are still 4 teams who can take the final spot. Have only disregarded Berwick and Edinburgh from this list. Scunthorpe have Poole and Oxford left at home, so would only have to win 1 of those, given how strong they are at home it's unlikely they end in 2 defeats. Who will make it? _____________________________ 4th Redcar Rode 14 Meetings 14 Points Meetings remaining Plymouth (H) Agg 4 point lead Glasgow (A) Agg 10 point lead Max points - 20 _______________________________ 5th Workington Rode 13 Meetings 14 Points Meetings remaining Berwick (A) Berwick (H) Plymouth (H) Agg 4 point lead Max Points - 22 _______________________________ 6th Glasgow Rode 10 Meetings 11 Points Meetings remaining Edinburgh (A) Plymouth (A) Agg 26 point lead Edinburgh (H) Oxford (H) Oxford (A) Redcar (H) Agg 10 point deficit Max Points - 27 _______________________________ 9th Plymouth Rode 11 Meetings 10 Points Meetings remaining Glasgow (H) Agg 20 point deficit Redcar (A) Agg 4 point deficit Workington (A) Agg 4 point deficit Poole (H) Agg 20 point deficit Oxford (H) Agg 12 point deficit Max Points - 25

Thanks to the Bandits fans and neutrals who made the journey, always good to see other speedway fans at meetings. Some good close racing once again and it was good to see Lewi Kerr finally come to the party for the Bandits with 3 good heat wins in the second half of the meeting. Drew Kemp once again showed up well in support. Rider replacement never really worked for the Bandits with only 4 points from Rory's scheduled rides in consecutive meetings. Jye Etheridge was again disappointing while Danyon Hume and guest Connor Coles tried hard throughout. Thanks again to the guests Eric Riss and Simon Lambert for their determined efforts over the two meetings , you never quite know how guests are going to perform but these two never stopped trying over both meetings. Eric's pass in heat 15 to go from 4th to 2nd was top drawer. A solid 6 points from Paul Stark were once again valuable and it was great to see Antti back on the bike after his fall on Saturday and putting in another strong home performance. Batch was once again solid and it was good to see him back winning races at the GT Tyres Arena after surprisingly failing to do so against both Poole and Redcar in our two previous home meetings. Hopefully Sam will take confidence from his heat 2 win it's been a while. Hope Claus is okay following his nasty looking crash in heat 6. UTC !!

With just a few meetings remaining, we'll find out who's trying to secure a team spot for next season. Let the increasing and lowering of averages begin 😆

If you are coming from the M6, park on the tire merchants on the left after Alexandra Stadium. There is a McDonald's opposite.

It's been beyond saving for 10 years. Speedway is like WWE, just entertainment, even that's become a stretch. It's not a serious sport, hasn't been since Sky dropped it.

If he's banned, wouldn't the SCB have said as much?

With the support levels the "professional" leagues get, amateur racing looks the only way British speedway can run. The fans will just have to accept it or walk away