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Agent Ellis you can return to Foxhall - mission accomplished!

I'd take him anyday - he asked for a place at the end of last season but with Doyle and Emil in the plan there was no way he could be brought in but he could now for sure! isn't he tied to Kings Lynn although not in their side for now? I havent kept up to date with all the rider movements of late! Good result for Leicester as previously said they havent been riding to the level we know their riders can but tonight they took full advantage and secured a bigger win than I expected for sure. Witches were bound to lose there at some point!

He was badly injured at Hackney (90 ithink badly broken leg ) took a season to recover and then switched to Arena in 1991 when we won the div 2 and got prompted under Terry Russell - where he had a fairly reasonable few seasons but he never was the same rider sadly! Still good and was a much liked / valued rider at Arena. All seems so long ago, Andy Silver me fabulous rider and my first speedway hero! By my reckoning both retired in the early -mid 90s so outside the scope - apologies but good memories anyway!

Key rider will be Kurtz - he's usually pretty decent at Foxhall. Will be watching on Discovery+ where is will most certainly on. Id expect a home win but by a fair bit less than the defeat at NSS for the Witches!

Given your history on here - a little surprised you fell for that one! There was a few good riders on show - I suppose they were in the shop window if nothing else. If the also rans - Finland, etc had another rider as backup then it could have been more competitive, as it was I enjoyed it anyway. I expect it will be largely full for saturday lets just hope the weather is nice!

I just hope they don’t lose a load of money on this!!

Agree it’s poor but the weather won’t have helped - looks better that the sparsely attended ones in Poland - last year or whenever it was - Wrocław looked pretty deserted too for the first matches!

Absolutely correct on mine too! Likely to be off now i reckon but lets see

I have just seen the heat on twitter - i really can't see how Nicholls got excluded there!

Just fell short of the 'full win' but a great result!

Wow that all sounds really nasty - glad he seems to be making the first steps to a recovery and also for clearing up any doubt about the crash too! I also think a donation is in order also! I hope he gets an insurance pay out?.

Be closer than monday for sure - Didn't Ipswich win there earlier in the season? - can they repeat this quite possibly!

Absolutely!

Lets hope Tates makes a full recovery. His first crash looked nasty as well. And the people bellowing on here about fault, checking on riders etc need to take a long hard look at themselves!

Very good effort by the Tigers, some good racing and it was nice to see the place not looking empty!

Usual decent home win here - shame for Mountain to be dropped seems he has paid the price for 2 bad recent matches scoring just 2 and 1. Lets see how the new boy does - hes got an in form Keynan Rew in heat 2!!

This could have been a really decent match for TV - can't see anything but a decent home win so lets hope for a few decent heats tonight for the viewers! Both Sheffield and Ipswich not having much luck with the injuries right now! Speedy recoveries to all!

The top 3 are largely sorted i feel so its actually possible to get the final spot!

just get him measured for a suit!

This season seems to be going v well for Adam, he was up and moving after the crash so hopefully no ill effects!

I think this is largely as the fans stay away when the TV cameras are in town, I go to Owlerton 4-5 times per season and about the same to Ipswich and the crowds when say BV or Leicester are in Sheffield are usually really good the home straight is largely packed as is the grandstand and usually a very healthly spread on the 3rd and 4th bend. Its never easy to say what the crowd is as no promotion releases figures but easy 2-3k which doesnt match Poland but does Sweden. I would say Ipswich get a decent 2k or so maybe more when it was Peterborough last season or Kings Lynn.

I have found from long experience of working in money and running businesses that humans can be complicated when it comes to parting with money - many will see the value in spending money on something i wouldn't even consider but baulk at the idea of speanding it on something I would happily do so. My company last year employed a young lady (17 y/o) to do some PT data entry etc she was paid a decent £11 an hour - and she would happily spend a weeks wages of that on getting her nails / eyelashes done! I used to have a perks scheme at my work where you could get a free cafe nero coffee every week or month i forget now - but to be honest i would often not use it because i was either lazy or preferred the coffee in Starbucks. I bought 4 pints for my mates (yes I have them) on friday that cost me £23 - about the same as a speedway match - i happily spend that - however i no longer go to league football as I don't consider it value for money any more at £45 or more, yet each week thousands do spend that! Oddly however when i go up to Edinburgh to see my lad I go to Tynecastle and watch Hearts as often its only £20-25 for a ticket which i consder much more reasonable to pay. Again its about the same as a speedway match Some people place great value of things that cost money - some will happily take in a free speedway match simply cos it was free but not pay if they have to - I always get slightly annoyed when people say oh its free great - nothing is free it always costs something somewhere to someone!

Things looking up for the Stars - again if they could have not had that points deduction and got their ducks in a row properly and not been playing silly beggers with calls offs etc they could have been up there, as it is they could have a say in the playoffs if they can keep this momentum going. Pleased to see the bigger crowd for Birmingham - and have to say would never have predicted a max for Tungate!

It might be - however i recall Arena Essex (my team) promoting a free meeting serveral years ago - place was packed of course - lets just say the regulars were back a week later but not the ones that had turned up for free! Great meeting - some really good heats - very much enjoyed that - Fricke was just brilliant

Witches becoming very strong at home although it seems Leicester were terrible apart form Lawson who is often / usually good at Foxhall. Nice to see almost a full Witches side too - good scores from Danny and Adam as well as Jordan and Keynan - in fact bumper pay night for them all - Thanks to Scott fvor another great showing. Last year Leicester made changes (and it backfired) will they do the same in 2024?