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Maybe teams should've run during the lovely summer instead of having such a disjointed fixture list.

No team owns riders anymore

First meeting in about 2 years because wee man wanted to go. Brilliant advert for speedway I thought, can't remember heat without genuine passing after the 2nd bend. 11, 13 and 14 in particular I thought were superb. Pickering is a class act, Leon had to ride the wheels off it to beat him. Bug might be coming back!

Its time the Promoters got their acts together, its been a fragmented season with teams going 3,4,5 weeks without a fixture. The hottest summer for ages and we cant fit in a few fixtures over this period. If this happens next year , only 1 Home,1 Away am done going to watch,its like a new season every time you go to a match with the fixtures spread out. If a Promoter cannot fit in 11 matches in 20 weeks of a season,there's a major problem with British Speedway.

Not bad finishing 3rd in the league, so many experts on this thread having Scorpions down as bottom.😁

Play offs for a league of just six is pathetic. At very worst it should have been first vs second over two legs or maybe even second vs third with the winner playing the team that came top. No team who finishes in the bottom half of a table whether that’s 4 in 6 or 11th in a league of 20 should have a crack at being league champions. Total mockery of the sport.

Just look at the event from the 10th to the 13th September at the Northampton track and see how the whole period is organised with the punters in mind whereas speedway is organised around the participants and the punters are not even considered. Agree that the drivers pay to compete but you give a good few hours of entertainment that appeals to a whole range of ages and Spedeworth go out to treat the punter to an event. Speedway does not even come close in this country and until the views of the a few change and the promoters get an idea of what it takes to promote, it will continue to attract less and less punters. Speedway is not value for money from an entertainment perspective and is run by fickle promoters who have fickle riders who dictate what when and how things go on in terms of the track. I would rather pay £20 on a banger/stock car meeting knowing it will be on then rock up to a track for speedway only to find that a cat has pissed on bend four and it is not suitable for racing according to the riders. Chalk and cheese when it comes to entertainment and value for money, hence the only speedway worth watching at this time is the Polish scene who know how to put on a meet.

There have been 21 weekends between 1st April and 31st August. There was 11 home meetings to fit in (8 League 2 BSN & 1 KO Cup), giving 10 blank weekends. If clubs can't work around the "Mickey Mouse" (they aren't Mickey Mouse to the riders, I bet), especially those in September - then blame the clubs, don't blame the FIM. The FIM fixtures are there for all to see, so there should be no clashes. Workington, as an example, can race on any day of the week (except Monday & Thursday due to Premiership), so fixture clashes with the FIM meetings don't have to happen. Having said that, promoters in general don't seem to want to learn, as it's the same season after season trying to fit fixtures in at the back-end of the season. Until that changes, these types of clashes will continue to happen.

Can't be too far off having a digital programme surely?….. Cheap to do, and could mean a decent price cut from current, and doesnt matter if not sold as nothing to throw away... Make it printable for those who like to keep a collection and even do some nice club official season binders to store the printed programmes in.. You won't even have to attend the meeting to print one, and you will never miss out by them selling out... Meaning your 50 years of programmes won't suddenly have one missing because you arrived too late one week!!! Nightmare!! It will also give the club direct digital access to their support base to target offers, keep regular communication etc... Some may need help from their sons or daughters with it, granted, (or even their grandkids if their own offspring are too old)...

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People need to drop the idea of hosting any important meeting at Belle Vue. I have seen people suggesting every important meeting in the British calendar should be held there. The crowds for second tier pairs, fours or riders championships there would be rubbish.

Going into next season maybe the fixtures should be home one week and away the next, like football. That way at least you know your gonna see 2 meetings a month, and don't avoid foreign rounds of various Mickey mouse FIM meetings just draft a guest in, that way you still keep the 1 home meeting every 2 weeks

You do know you the best riders in the league will be on display and there are 40% more heats than a regular meeting. Worth at least a few quid more surely?

That never seemed to be a problem in the past.

So, it seems after the longest and driest summers since nineteen canteen, a six team league will struggle to fulfil their fixtures before the current play off dates and so will loose my money should we (Ipswich) make it because I stupidly booked a holiday. How on earth did we fit in 28-30 meetings a season?

https://ipswichwitches.co/save-5-on-tickets-for-sheffield-showdown/ Fair play that is just brilliant again from Richard Coleman 👏🏻

Following the liquidation of Kevin Boothby’s businesses, whoever is in charge at the stadium has issued this release. Very encouraging, hopefully. https://oxford-stadium.co.uk/

Links for Gustrow: https://vkvideo.ru/live-234681448_456239363 https://vksport.vkvideo.ru/video-53550004_456242851

I bought a “late season ticket” for £100 for 5 meetings. When they postponed the last match (weather was fine) and rearranged for this week I knew I couldn’t go as I travelled to Gorzow. I emailed them saying it was pointless me buying the season ticket, they responded with “you have still saved some money and we will give you a programme”. They were hinting that I’ve still saved £5. Then two days later they wrote they are giving a discount of £5 to that match, bearing in mind I actually never want a programme, so I basically am no better off, which isn’t the end of the world and I’m not that fussed. What it did show me is that season tickets are pointless in speedway because one or two rain offs and if you can’t make the re runs then you don’t save any more. I’ll never invest in another season ticket again in this sport.

Events like these should be at Belle Vue imo. Not only is it just about the most central, it’s supposed to be the “National Speedway Stadium”

Bought the stream and quite their enjoyed the coverage. Felt a bit sorry for the person sorting out the graphics not knowing who was going where at the gate, even more so when Edinburgh went rogue with helmet colours! Charles Wright whilst exciting, was in my view over-riding. Oxford excellent all night.

There is nothing more Mickey Mouse than UK Speedway's version of the sport. Good luck to the lads broadening their horizons, as far too often you can get a false impression as to your actual level by competing against your peer group, many of whom being much less capable than yourself... Good to see these lads test themselves. . And, as has been said, the many weeks of venues not being used isn't their fault...

Those "last gasp" meetings before the cut off date often show the "integrity" involved .. With a good many down the years taking place on tracks that would have seen a call off in the months before.. "We just need to get to Heat 10"...😀 Amazing how the date of a meeting can suddenly make tracks rideable...😁 If only this country ever got some decent weather from say April to August, the fixture compilers could have at least a chance of fitting in so few meetings in so many weeks!!!

Rent free 🙄

Nice to see him ignoring the approaches of other clubs who think they can poach hot prospects, instead of seeking & developing a promising newcomer themselves🙂

Tonight's news on Reid Battye, who has re-signed for Berwick in 2027 is really tremendous. Reid has had (generous) offers from other clubs to leave the Bandits, but will instead "dance with the one that brung him to the ball"

Fingers crossed. Don't want to be losing Oxford again.

Did you not get asked to sit down by some old dear because she couldn't see, and had been sat in that same seat for over 60 years?...😁

Digital programme ! Have you seen the average age of a speedway fan ?

Welcome back. You haven't missed many meetings 😆.

As far as I'm aware Glasgow owners helped the Comets out completing paperwork, not bailed out

Cairns is Belle Vue Owned and our RS so he wont be anywhere else.

I’m exactly the same. It’s nice getting one in the build up to a new season and having your whole year paid up and done. I also like the fact the season ticket gate opens up earlier than the main gates and I just waltz through without queuing. Little things yes, but handy all the same. My nephew never gets one but still goes to 99% of the fixtures so whenever I either don’t feel like going one week, or can’t for whatever reason, I let him use my season ticket number so he gets free entry so in my mind I haven’t lost any value. Again like you, it doesn’t bother me one bit that the club has put on a fiver discount for Monday’s meeting and I don’t feel cheated in any way. We have two home meetings in four days and he’s thinking of the supporters pockets, good on him. Despite a small minority who strangely enjoy having a pop at him (probably because he has the gall to not be Ipswich legend Chris Louis), I think Coleman has been a breath of fresh air and made a good impression in his first year.

The failure to reach the top four wont be because of last night, its the three home defeats and the loss and Northampton. Fricke has regressed, Kvech & Cook havent kicked on and they made a dog's breakfast of the Castagna/Jenkins spot. All a bit of an underwhelming mess unfortunately. Cooper and Jody have been the bright spot.

With the light shower we had first thing I assumed It'd be off

The Poole track is no different from the majority of G B tracks. No better or worse.

Maybe just maybe clubs should have completed their league fixtures by end August??

Brilliant from Oxford, thoroughly deserved winners turned the favourites over on there own track as well,I hope there will be no sour grapes about the track as they all had to ride it and I mean every team , Oxford were just to good also congratulations to Berwick not many would have had them in the top 2

Lawson and Cook should win this easy.

That's probably the best way, ride on a Tuesday but not at the weekend think most Berwick supporters would agree

Some fans will not admit it but Eastbourne struggled to average an attendance of 1,000 for a very long time. NDL was way below that and in the final season a 1,000 crowd was the best for the opening meeting. After that crowds visibly and worryingly diminished. A new promoter will need a big pot of money to pay initial rent, riders, air fence and all the rest of it. They would need to embark on a massive PR and marketing campaign. To do it properly is a must and that’s expensive. This will be controversial but changing the club name might help. It’s called Eastbourne Eagles - the track is miles away from the resort’s pier. Call it Sussex xxxx and personally I think the name Eagles is rather last century. Clean slate needed, in my view.

Would be nice to know, even provisional dates, so people can put plans in place but that would be a considerate thing to do!

For anyone that has a spare 1 hour. This is a great watch. Some great interviews and insights

Just to pull in the horses a bit. If Poole currently attract a crowd of 1,000 in the Championship, how many more holidaymakers, etc, will attend if the Pirates move into the Premiership? Let's be optimistic, and say another 500. No more, as regular followers will be there anyway, whatever the level of racing (as long as the team is regularly winning) as history shows attendances go up very little if a team goes up a league. In the past, Scunthorpe, Workington and Plymouth were all running very profitable speedways at NDL level, but found little if any increase when they went up. When Somerset went up to the top league and signed the World Champion, the increase was minimal. Simply, Poole is a profitable concern in the Championship. Why change? To run as a Premier club, the dramatically-increased wage bill -- probably 4 times that being paid this season -- world have them running in the red in jigtime. TV money? Who're you kidding? Even if a deal were reached, the dribble-down that would accrue to each Premier club wouldn't turn loss into profit. Take it easy Pirates. That grass isn't really greener.

i live down the road from track,,,nice warm sunny day ,small shower this morning,,, bank hoilday,, good crowd expected,,,and again no meeting,,no wonder the sports gone to pot,,,something dont add up.

Season tickets rarely offer much financial gain but I have one as it saves the faff of booking for each meeting and means Mum & I are in the same seats every meeting, have been for years. It’s also said it gives the club a financial boost pre season which helps at a time of no income. I’m never bothered if special deals crop up like Richard’s £5 discount and think clubs should do more of this to boost interest.

PK should have tried to slow down Anders Rowe in the final rather than chase after Sam Masters. Not getting the last place was far more important. for the Bandits.

As I understand it...Villads Nagel, Ben Basso, Andreas Lyager and another Dane who's name escapes me at the moment (I've got Mikkel Michelsens name in my head but fairly sure he'd be too high an average). Too many fixture clashes seemed to be the issue. NB I'm not a part of the club so I can't be 100% on who was or wasn't spoken to, those were the names I heard. I get the basic aim of the rule, but it does seem silly that no one thought about riders that retire or get badly hurt (sadly both aren't unheard of in speedway). Also a general lack of heat leader level riders wanting to ride in the UK doesn't help matters. Punishing Glasgow for Kyle retiring just before the signing deadline doesn't feel fair but speedway has a long history of strange decisions, so who knows what will happen?

Details can now be confirmed for three rearranged fixtures in the ROWE Motor Oil Premiership, along with the dates for the play-offs. 📆 𝗠𝗢𝗡𝗗𝗔𝗬 𝗦𝗘𝗣𝗧𝗘𝗠𝗕𝗘𝗥 𝟭𝟰 🆚 Belle Vue v Sheffield, Leicester v Ipswich 📆 𝗧𝗛𝗨𝗥𝗦𝗗𝗔𝗬 𝗦𝗘𝗣𝗧𝗘𝗠𝗕𝗘𝗥 𝟭𝟳 🆚 Northampton v King’s Lynn 🔢 𝗣𝗟𝗔𝗬-𝗢𝗙𝗙 𝗦𝗘𝗠𝗜-𝗙𝗜𝗡𝗔𝗟𝗦 ▪️ Monday September 21 ▪️ Thursday September 24 ▪️ Monday September 28 ▪️ Thursday October 1 🏆 𝗚𝗥𝗔𝗡𝗗 𝗙𝗜𝗡𝗔𝗟 ▪️ Monday October 5 ▪️ Thursday October 8

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