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Please avoid Osbourne being referred to by initials. There was only one CO, Mr Charles Ochiltree. I thank you! 🐝

Pretty simple to deduce, Joe Thompson instead of Ashton Boughen is 40.01. Considering Boughen was originally in Oxford's team, seems a sensible theory?

Not the case. As this report shows the casino operators were tired of CO prevarication and simply found another site. https://www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/13396818.speedway-plans-collapse/

If you wanted to run Swindon in the NDL, and you owned a perfectly functional, equipped stadium, like the Abbey Stadium, why would you not already be running it there? Would you really invest in building a new stadium just to run at the amateur level? That's not going to give a satisfactory return on investment.

If a reputable builder offered to lay your patio, you might be excited. If it was Fred West, you'd perhaps be a little more worried.

So if they joined the NDT they'd have 5 matches (Birmingham, Leicester, Kent, King's Lynn and Plymouth). They could conceivably invite Belle Vue, Edinburgh, Oxford, Middlesbrough and Scunfield for a challenge. So 5 matches, maybe expandable to 10 matches..... but he wants to run more than once a week? They don't even make their bullsh1t logical.

Close!

Are you trying tell me that Osbourne Clark was telling porkies ...I am. In a state of shock

Be aware that the original 'Speedway Champions' site with the short .com address has been hijacked by a gambling site, and can appear, corrupted, on some browsers, - laptop, desktop or mobile. Ensure to use the longer yolasite.com address, www.speedwaychampions.yolasite.com which presently opens with an image of Zmarzlik in blue.

Reading's supposed new stadium was touted as being a "racino" - a speedway track and casino combined.

I don't understand what the heck Casinos have/had to do with Speedway? Or am I missing something?

You’re nearly 10 weeks late to be policing this thread. Maybe nip it in the bud early next time when someone incorrectly calls out teams with a fictitious “win at all cost” mentality! Looking forward to your visit in July, should be a decent meeting. Hopefully there will be a good traveling support with it being on a Sunday afternoon.

Not for the first time the village idiot has jumped in two footed without reading things properly and totally misunderstood what was being asked 🙄 NOBODY has said we should be bringing any of these songs back.

Maybe they are having to re-shuffle the line-up. I hear that Becker's average has gone up by 25% because of Trump's tariffs.

The legendary Polish former National speedway team coach, Marek Cieslak, commented in sportowefakty.pl results of Poland’s sport Personality 2024 plebiscite announced yesterday. When mentioning fifth placed achieved by the 5-times world champion, Bartosz Zmarzlik, and problems with speedway, Marek Cieslak said this: It is a complex issue. We need the successes of our national teams, which we do not have. We have achieved the best league in the world, which has great viewership. The problem is that the Grand Prix series cannot keep up with this at all, and it is folding down. This is visible, for example, in the locations. There are no new ones, and in addition, large stadiums are slowly disappearing. The FIM and the promoter Discovery are responsible for this. In addition, the best riders in the world do not ride in the series. The recent nominations for wild cards and their translation into geographical terms are a joke. All this means that the Grand Prix arouses interest in fewer and fewer countries. I have the impression that even here (i.e. in Poland) it does not generate the same emotions as it used to. If it were, the successes and the phenomenon of Zmarzlik would have a much greater echo in the country. Do you think that it is time for Artiom Łaguta and Emil Sajfutdinov to return to the series? Initially I was against them, but now I think they should be in the series. Zmarzlik would also benefit from the presence of Artiom Łaguta or Emil Sayfutdinov. I have no doubt that he would still win, but then his successes, this rivalry with the Russians would arouse much more emotions. In this way, the audience would be larger. Please remember what rivals Tomasz Gollob had. He had to compete with Tony Rickardsson, Greg Hancock, Billy Hamill, Jason Crump, Mark Loram, Hans Nielsen, Leigh Adams, Ryan Sullivan and many other great stars. Each of them had papers for the title. Now the series lacks such figures.

I buy my copy in Tesco and I have never had any problems with it scanning at any checkout

Garry May and Mark Phillips did.

I am not paying 30.99 a month to watch speedway on tv.

i just get discovery+ for the speedway season, cancel when all meetings are done

No idea, I don't have Discovery. Looks like I won't be watching any GP's on TV this year, but i'm not bothered about that tbh...

Absolutely spot on in Everything he said. I hope they listen.