THE DEAN MACHINE

Perhaps they going to introduce the 6th team in the playoff like the joker, who knows at this point ?

It’s hard to go to the riders and say we need to cut your income, inflation impacts them as well, we’re going to be a lot smarter as promoters😂I haven’t gone to the riders and said this is how it’s going to be because we have lost a media contract, a rider still needs to earn a living. The words at the very top table of speedways think tank. Translated means it’s ok riders the paying public will foot the shortfall. Absolutely clueless from mike melon

That could be said about another team

Mr mole hasn’t left

It was probably easier to negotiate with Germany than the current bspl

In other more important speedway news, up the man cave where many speedway subjects get discussed but not solved we have got some new teabags and not just the 5000 for 50p catering ones we have previously had, oh no we have Yorkshire tea ones, I personally are beside myself with excitement at this news, this can only enhance the topics debated, which today are wolves, cradley and rider being stabbed in the back by former mechanic (not literally) and any other gossip we have

The whole of speedway is top secret, the less us plebs know the better as far as the bspl is concerned, speedway futures are like the SAS, working undercover,nobody knows what they are doing

Should be ??? Should we be worried ?

That’s not how speedway works, a promotion feels they are being victimised and spits their dummy out and the rest have to compromise to stop that promotion running off home with the ball thus that promotion gets their way and the bspl calls it in the interest of the sport,add to that there are those at the top of the pecking order and there is those at the bottom

Serviced an engine this week, don’t know what oil they were using but it was a dreadful smelling oil, bit like hydraulic oil type of smell, made my finger smell touching it

They can’t even afford a new chair let alone a new person to sit in it

They could put out a NL team and still be top 5

It’s not tolley

Yes

And all that ignores the fundamental reason Birmingham wheels was set up in the first place and that should never change, I was one of those kids who it kept off the streets,not everyone likes football or athletics or any other corporate entity that is forced into our psyche,?I know the campaigners will loose but it’s not about speedway or stock cars,,it’s about corruption at council level

The Black Country still has a really big speedway fan base, I was making this point to a councillor a month back, saying other than football I think speedway still has the second biggest demographic of people that follow sport in the Black Country , cricket, rugby are not big in the West Midlands at team level motox has a big participation levels but not really a fan sport, don’t think we have ice hockey in the Black Country so if they claim to pander to the electorate why is speedway not up there in their priority of sport and lesuire?

On our first conversation with the stadium itself they were quick to point out it wasn’t them that kicked it out,it came from 2 Americans at entain who wouldn’t know speedway from a toilet duck so from that you can only think it’s some sort of financial decision and as documented last year those 2 people no longer work at entain, I was hoping that monmore was just a franchise of entain and make their own decisions as to what happens at the stadium but seems that isn’t the case, as long as the stadium is still there we will not give up

I genuinely think I’ve become one of those people who use to go to speedway, not by choice either, with wolves closing and now Birmingham gone, my nearest track is Buxton and although I will go there a couple of times this coming season I just can’t see me going to watch speedway regularly any more, I might go to an odd match here and there but I’ve become my speedway friends, they still follow it but don’t go anymore, even having a skid myself was reduced to 2 meetings (worky IOW) in 2025, hardly worth the effort of keeping my bikes or the hours of driving to do it

A long read but the Birmingham wheels project campaigners talk about the council and Perry Barr and Birmingham speedway https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1AMragEP5u/?mibextid=wwXIfr

Yes i know, we have been corresponding with the stadium and entain but at the moment the door is shut to speedway, it’s very difficult to get to the bottom of what the issue is, why speedway was kicked out, the stadium say is wasn’t them, CVS says he is angry at it all but doesn’t say much else and entain are a multi billion dollar company that quite frankly don’t give speedway a second glance and they don’t give reasons just answers, I have my own theory after chatting with CVS and someone who worked at the stadium for 30 years but it’s just that a theory but I will with others will keep on trying, it may be a tiny-nil chance of ever going back there but it wolves only chance of ever coming back, time changes, people change, ideas change, you never know

Depends on who you know and the equipment you can get hold of

It just needs the cost of installing a new track which is not a little cost

Not a mention of the sterling work that speedway futures Ltd habe done behind the scenes,not a mention of who the new Ipswich owners are if indeed there are any, a statement that told us very little but what did we expect really ? You don’t need to wait for an AGM to fix a problem and it’s clear they have no idea how to fix the sport, carry on doing the same and pound to a penny they haven’t addressed any issues of cost either for riders and more importantly the long suffering dwindling fan base

The AGM news is being published at 6pm tonight

Unfortunately yes I can but more worryingly it’s the bunny brained idea they will have come up with to make it 5 if Ipswich don’t run