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3 weeks tomorrow. Nearly there 😁

Thanks for that GM. I didn’t have the offer but just went on their live chat and asked for it and they’ve given it to me 👍🏻 7 months so takes me right through the Speedway season. Added bonus of watching some live Footie for the last few months of the season.

I’ve done Security for many years but no longer do retail security. I still have friends that I keep in touch with though who do still do retail security, and they tell me the rules changed a couple of years ago. When I was doing it, we were allowed to use what we called “reasonable force” in dealing with thieves who weren’t playing ball. Now, you’re no longer allowed to touch anybody even if they’re raiding the whole shop. The guards now are simply a “visual deterrent”. Now I’m not sure if that’s the case across the board or just certain businesses, but that’s definitely the case with people I know who are currently still in the trade.

No he got jail time for running a business of selling “fully loaded” firesticks, not using them.

Well certainly not the latter, I’m FAR too good looking 😁

Get Doyley in please. 😉

Well the forum has died a death unsurprisingly with little to discuss now all teams are settled. Have I missed any? These are the ones that all of us Witches of a certain age remember fondly that will probably always instantly remind us of the Speedway if and when it comes on the radio. It’s amazing how music can invoke memories of things we love in all walks of life whether that be people, sport or incidents in our lives, or sometimes unfortunately remind us of not so good times. Are there songs other than these that are more personal to people, that will always remind them of Speedway? Maybe a song you always listen to in the car on the way to the track etc

5 weeks today the curtain raiser to the new season. Going to try and get along to this.

Last two season’s for Sheffield and Ipswich respectively 7+1 9+1 10+1 9+2 7+1 For a rider in the 5-6 average bracket none of that can be classed as “woeful” for an away rider. That has to be one of if not the best of his away tracks. He’s the 5th averaged rider in our team which shows the strength of the side. If he scores in a similar fashion this year with the four above him likely to score more, then Lynn won’t be getting a sniff of a victory home or away 😉

The AFA along with Leicester, are the two tracks I’m personally most confident of winning away at. Nearly all our riders enjoy riding those two tracks, even the “lesser” riders. King and Ellis can be inconsistent on the road, but they both win races at the AFA in particular.

No such thing as a “given” in this sport. Ipswich were the best side in the league last year all being equal, and it wasn’t even close really. But everyone knows what happened. If Emil had been injured sooner than he did, then Ipswich wouldn’t have even made the play offs. We/they were top at the time of his crash at Sheffield, but then lost the last 11 or 12 meetings I think it was in league and cup which gifted (yes gifted whether they like it or not) the KOC to Sheffield and the League to Belle Vue. The three top clubs who again look the strongest, may have the best top end, but they also have riders that are Elite because of the way they ride and the risks they take to win races. Doyle in particular, is one rider that is quite unique over here. He’ll treat heat 1 at Foxhall for a run of the mill league meeting, like a GP final. If he loses which he sees as his backyard, you’ll see him park his bike at the pit gate, rip out his cut out and storm back to the pits and slam his helmet down in his pit bay. He hates losing any heat, anywhere but particularly at Foxhall. That’s why he ends up with a 11+ average at Home. But with that, carries extra risk obviously. The teams that start the season in most cases, will look nothing like the teams that take to track in September. Either through injury, or strategic team changes. An awful lot of luck is involved in this sport, which means sometimes the winners are the luckiest, rather than the best. That applies to those that like a flutter as well. Little to no value in betting on the usual suspects, have a couple of quid on an outsider.

In your opinion. We’ll see.

I think they have a chance personally. Fourth spot looks quite open and it’s all about getting there then anything can happen. You could end facing one of the favourites who are stricken with injury.

Sadly it works like a charm! Stop replying to him/her people for crying out loud. You’re giving them the oxygen that they crave.

No probs.