THE DEAN MACHINE

It would be boring if riders were the same characters but drabik and czugunow are weirdos

Rybnik are the Birmingham of the extraleague and that’s being unfair on Birmingham

Sick of these slick bone dry tracks, put some dirt down, wet it and put some holes in it,let’s bring back rider skill instead of engine tune racing

It’s a rumour certainly doing the rounds, him and one of his curry night mates who is currently involved with Sheffield

Getting sick of dusty tracks, it’s heat 1 ffs

Scoreline flattered Birmingham, musielak was brilliant after 2 duff rides and castanga is earning his points too but rew seems to be going backwards, jeppersen after a promising start to season is really struggling, Edward’s is ok but is getting beat by his reserve counterparts regularly and zagar is just zagar, they have the riders to do it but I just can’t see where the first and probably only victory is coming from

This is the point I am getting at, we have to see them as one of us or we don’t form a connection and without that connection you don’t get a following and it goes for teams too, we have to feel they are our club otherwise our loyalty is fractured, football and even polish speedway understand the concept but British speedway doesn’t, my Mrs is a season ticket holder at stoke city FC because it’s her home city and she has a bond with that city, she doesn’t follow any other teams or even watch any other tv games or even follow England when they play and I’m not sure she even likes the game of football but she loves stoke city, it’s the bond without it you don’t have a following

a social gathering is what made speedway and all this pro althlete garbage just doesn’t wash with the public,at heart people crave reality despite fake being pushed on them and bonds are formed between competitors/teams and the public partly because they see themselves in their heroes and that bond has been lost along the way. Speedway is an amateur sport and there is nothing wrong with that, the reason promoters close ranks is because like in most sectors of society it’s about money and they don’t want anyone coming in to take their slice of the pie no matter how small that slice is

I’m working class scum and proud of it

While I agree that the cost is a major factor in people going or not going it is not the difference between it being a Woking class sport or not, there is an unwritten bond between riders/teams that has been severed over the last 25 years, this is why I believe stocks have retained their fan base because they still see their hero’s as one of them

It is and will always be a working class sport but unfortunately those running the sport or taking part in it think it’s something else and the public are not buying into it

I despair 😞

No blame on fricke, looks like Doyle catches the dirt delflector (again) and it straightens him up, first bend fair decision but no blame on fricke

Couldn’t pinpoint what it was last night but it just seemed flat, like the whole event lacked importance and it felt like riders were just going through the motions, I know they weren’t and I’m sure being there it would of been amazing but as usual discovery couldn’t catch an atmosphere if they tried, the racing wasn’t great but even wasn’t what was missing, well done holder and Kurtz and get well soon Doyle. On a odd note when they interviewed Eric (the pole)in the stands, my first thought was he isn’t a speedway fan, he came across very well spoken with his American accent which a lot of young poles do have because a lot learn there English from tv show friends,then they dragged him out to carry the trophy up to the rostrum, again looking out of place as he trundled across the track, could of been a randem person picked out of the 50,000 but seemed like a bit of virtue signaling to me, watch this space

He was due to tell the fans in his programme notes v belle vue but it got rained off

Kurtz does lay that down but the slight contact says lindgren out

Under the previous system zmarzlik would be feeling the pressure now but under this system he can afford to drop another couple of points and still get through

It’s not a sell out then ?

Translated, Eric doesn’t want anyone to crash but he hopes they will

When there is no clubs left in the West Midlands the sport is official in the clink, I banged on about this 15-20 years ago about changes that need to be made both inside and outside the track, I don’t have all the answers or indeed may have non but the writing was on the wall from the late 90s but who am I ? It’s not your money yada yada yada and I took stick from some real tossers from both sides of the fence who are still running the sport into the ground today, angry ? damn right I am, I have lived speedway all my life and it’s really starting to hurt badly now and if I’m honest I think the sport is finished as a professional sport in the uk and I don’t know where we go from here 😢

Yes that is his thinking, glass half empty and all that

I don’t understand putting this statement out now, even though we all knew it was coming the whole Birmingham set up is on a downer because of results and that statement is only going to add to that.

Should be a close meeting, will Birmingham triumph ? Not going to get a better shot at it but I’m going 43-47 to Ipswich

As I don’t follow stock car I wouldn’t know the difference between stock car or bangers and I was just generalising and when I said run of the mill I just meant it wasnt a championship event like the British final was but it sounds like a great social event to attend and this leads into my gripe about the GP being at belle vue, it’s a great track etc but as a social event it’s a non starter, it’s just a meeting, Cardiff was a social event if if the track was dodgy at times

Last night I bumped into a couple of polish friends that I haven’t seen since wolves last meeting, I asked them if they had been to Birmingham this year , they said no they hasn’t been to any speedway since wolves closed, still watched the polish extraleague on tv but said they were thinking about going to Cardiff this year, they didn’t even know the British GP had been moved to belle vue, I think that pretty much tells you how much British speedway is removed from the public conscience and until discovery and the bspl come up with a plan the fantastic spectacle that was Monday night will remain a closely guarded secret