Wackie

You know it's hardly sleepy suburbia then . Always got the impression lots of locals of the estate were regulars anyway. They'd probably prefer speedway once a week for 7 months of the year, than additional housing and all the infrastructure problems that go with these infill developments.

Noise and nuisance objections, in Blackbird Leys?

Personally I think supporters calling speedway a £10 sport are a bit out of date. What can you get for £10 these days? Cost me £9.50 to park for 3 hours in Reading just before Christmas, little entertainment in that! If you look at other spectator sports in the Reading area and compare their admission prices, taking into consideration running costs, venue rental, medical costs, insurance etc. etc. etc. Speedway admission prices for adults set around £15 - £18 seem pretty much on the mark, bung in kids for a quid and it's not an expensive spectator sport for a family at all really. Reading Rockets Basketball Adults £8 Kids £5 Bracknell Bees Ice Hockey Adults £13.50, Concessions £10, Young Adults (16-21) £8 Kids £5 under 3's free London Irish Rugby Union Adult £25, Concessions £20, 18-21 years £17, 13-17 years £10, 12 years & under £5 Reading FC Adult £28/£33 Concessions £18/£23 18-24 years £13/£18 Kids £10/£15 Windsor Racecourse Adult (Grandstand/Club enclosure) £21/£25 Adult (Rif raff enclosure) £12 Under 18's free Speedway certainly isn't a £25 sport though, even with the top names. I think people need to get their heads around the idea that with the varying schedule in the UK, the sport is never going to attract the stars back. Let's face it, even if the money on offer was the same across the main European leagues, if you were a speedway rider who could plan a schedule knowing you'd only be completing league racing on a Sunday and Tuesday, or had to face planning a schedule that was going to change monthly, weekly, daily, you'd go for the easier more structured option. Unfortunately, with the most speedway clubs in rented stadiums there's never going to be a single day of the week where the majority of PL clubs could race the same day, it maybe more feasible to achieve in the EL, but if the 'big names' returning mean admission prices gong over the £20 mark, it'll bankrupt the sport within 2 seasons. There's much more fundamentally wrong with the sport than it's admission prices anyway, no good fixing the roof when the foundations are crumbling. Promoters need to get the sport back on an even keel before they think about attracting it's stars back. The rule book is the foundation of the sport, everyone knows it's way to complicated and open to manipulation, and everyone knows how that can be rectified! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cAy2KGvcUbw

Was a dark day for the Racers the day Gresham pulled on the winged wheel

It's a time for forgiveness and peace, so Merry Christmas to all, that includes the retards among us.

You've been proved a hypocrite by consistently choosing to ignore and condone Middlo for using the term retarded on a much bigger public platform than BSF. Xenophobic with your constant references to wales & sheep. Homophobic with your vile comment towards SCB and still you act as if butter wouldn't melt.

So what punishment do you think is deserved for calling someone a 'faggot' or 'worse than that'? I saw those comments, they were written with spite in mind.

It's not a difficult task.

You certainly didn't go off on one at Middlo like you did at SCB. Which would lead people to the conclusion you agree with Middlo using the term. Can't have one rule for one and another for your favourites

http://www.speedway-forum.co.uk/forums/index.php?showtopic=77486&page=223 Second or third time this has been found for you tonight. How come you're still here then following you and your mate Somelier's homophobic outburst towards SCB the other day?

Is there a facebook group where we can offer support, or a justgiving page to donate to help in his time of need?

Who woke you up, you old grump!

Hmmm, more to Moose than meets the eye too

That may be so, but at least he's patriotic

So jumping on the 'open season on Nicki' bandwagon is thinking for yourself. Do you do joined up writing too?

Not at all, you continue making yourself look stupid, no skin off my nose.

How very grown up!

This weekend saw a true British World Champion crowned for the third time #44, and hopefully in 11 days time a young man from Wiltshire will pick up the gold in motorcycle grand prix racing, the first since Barry Sheen 38 years ago! Hamilton & especially Danny Kent (if he picks up those 2 points in Valencia) more deserving of honours imo.

It seems next year the Aussie GP will be running the day before Moto GP at Phillip Island, excellent opportunity to tap into an additional motorcycle racing fan base there, wouldn't be surprised to see a bigger crowd in Melbourne 2016.

One of the best temp GP tracks they've ever had. Shame the final was a bit of a let down with 3 riders in the end, but not Hancocks fault, if anything Doyle clamped him down with nowhere to go, but in a GP final you expect them to be going all out to win it.

The Aussie youth system wouldn't get very far without the British leagues.

Masters started it before they got to the pit gate.

Isn't that what I said??

Let's face it. Woffinden is only riding as a Brit as it was beneficial to him in his early career. He's nailed his true colours to the mast today, yet people will still fawn over him and claim him as a British world champion. Personally, I hope Nicki p!sses on all their fireworks out there today. Same as Batchelor with KK - being an arse!

Great to see aussie riders of the past involved in the pre-meeting presentation, especially Todd Wiltshire & Leigh Adams. But Woffy singing the national anthem when he'll talk through the British one - wft!! They can have him