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Basically, if a race had to be restarted when no one is deemed to be at fault, the riders only have one minute to get back to the tapes to restart the race, not the “normal” two minute allowance about bloody time too !!!

Peter Craven meeting , is an additional £14.99

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Any idea what the admission prices are please ?

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So, do “new” subscribers, first timers for the 2023 season, now have to activate their new accounts earlier than we were originally told as being 01/03/23, in order to watch event and, what subscription do you have to have taken, in order to view it? I’ve taken both the premier league snd the championship subscriptions so does this cover me for this event or will they be charging extra for it please ?

Seeing the full list of our home matches, how thorp depressing it is. P*#s poor. Overall , SIX matches against Scunthorpe ( nothing against Scunthorpe), will be sick to death of seeing them. this sport really is on death row, even for a die hard like me yet again, we have the fixtures before we have all seven riders. Ridiculous . At least we csn look forward to winning the wooden spoon again.

Yes and I only stuck it for less than half a season before it bored me rigid !!! we spent the rest of that season going around the country watching former Brummies favourites racing for there new teams.

I wouldn’t watch at Leicester even if you paid me to do so. The most boring race track I’ve endured since I started watching speedway in the late 1970’s

Until 31st December

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What average would gino manzares come in on please?

I’d go with Dan Thompson and Nathan Ablitt.

You need a new calculator!!! 8.51 left Alfie Bowtell snd lee complin fit .

Championship is 40 points

Credit where credit is due. I was highly critical of Laurence Rogers but he made the right call on heat 14. Well done Laurence . I wasn’t expecting this result but the boys rode brilliantly. A great all around team effort and so nice to see the riders coming down to our small bunch of fans snd celebrating with us after doing well in races snd, after the last heat. The riders looked as happy as we were. stunning debut from Sedgemen.

Yes. Very good

Let’s be clear, no one is criticising young James. He rode superbly last night, his gating was superb snd on several occasions, held off their top heat leaders for over two laps. James is a great prospect snd yes, the points will come. Personally, I don’t care if he doesn’t score many points all season. I hope the club honour their pre season statements that he is under no pressure snd will be given time. I hope that means he is with us all season, regardless of his scores. We will reap the benefits next season. what is being missed, is that many of the “floating” punters snd the newbies, only want to support a winning team unfortunately!!! Birmingham have had an unfortunate start to the season at home, not having completed a match before last night snd this has already had an affect on crowd levels. EVERY home rider last night, rode their socks off and they ALL want snd, DESERVE the right to win matches if they are good enough to do so. What none of us want, is for that chance to be taken from them by an inept team manager!!! As has been pointed out already, we missed out on the playoffs last year by one point. No team can afford to “gift” points to the opposition if they are serious about getting to the playoffs snd competing for honours. The new consortium have already invested a more than six figure sum into the club snd are doing so many things right but, their hard work means nothing if the crowd levels are affected by disgruntled fans or sadly, by fans stopping away because the team isn’t winning. Laurence is to be commended for the work he does for the club snd his key role in getting the consortium together but, that doesn’t alter the fact that over time, he has repeatedly proven to be an inept team manager. Apparently, in a radio WM interview he said he left James in his last race because : “ he deserved it”. I can see the logic but, I snd I believe, most other Brummies fans want is for team manager to do his UTMOST to get the team over the winning line., not to be mister nice guy to the riders. By his actions last night , he could snd nearly did cost the other six riders the win that all seven of them, including James Pearson , had worked so hard for. Laurence has a history of such poor decision making snd it’s not good enough. We will never win anything with this team manager. He continued the Shanes / Morris pairing all of last season despite the fact that they are not compatible as a pairing, always wanting the same line snd constantly getting in each others way, constantly being on the wrong end of a 5-1 . Despite this being glaringly obvious and talked about by many fans, Laurence just didn’t see it or, change it. . We have been running rider rep at the moment snd guess what… in several of these meetings, what does he do? He pairs Shane’s snd Morris in the first rider rep ride, snd guess what, we got stuffed in those heats. Yes, they got a 4-2 in heat 14 last night because Shanes has actually started gating lately .That’s the same Shane’s that should have replaced young James in James’ in his last ride and then we may well not have been going into the last heats with Scunthorpe having the chance to either win the meeting or, the last heat with a chance of taking s point. That would have killed the “upsurge” the fans went home with after a great all around team effort snd our first home win. The criticism is of Laurence Rogers , not young James .

Sorry JJ but I have to strongly disagree. You must have been the only Brummies fan not expecting to see Shanes replace Pearson in his last ride. Pearson had done nothing wrong but, lambert had already beaten him three times. Shane’s had easily won the reserves race against lambert snd was riding really well. Rogers has to be the most inept team manager we have ever had. Not only did he nearly cost us the points. ( not for the first time either), but he almost handed Scunthorpe a league point. I travelled to Plymouth last season snd Rogers cost us the league win there. Another case of not making the right changes at the right times !!! Yet again all the fans, including the Plymouth ones, were gobsmacked when hd didn’t take Morris out of heat 14, costing us a 5-1 and, the meeting He is totally inept as a team manager. Can’t fault the work Rogers does off the track but he has no idea about team tactics, pairings or rider changes during meetings .

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Please excuse my lack of knowledge but, are premier sports no longer showing the matches? I have looked on their listings snd can’t find any scheduled matches. if it’s not longer on premier sports, how or where do I find the two channels you name? Are they internet based and are they free to view or, a subscription service? Thanks in advance for any replies.

Snd you have it spot on

Come on…. be totally honest John

Brilliant news. So pleased for the fans. Kudos to Rob Grant

We need you back at the helm Barry the Cat