old bob at herne bay

and I have it on good authority that the stock car crowd spend much more on food and drink than the frugal speedway crowd

So Ippo folk can go and watch Ippo FC play Hull or Ippo SC race Sheffield.

SUPERACE , really you are having a laugh :-) :-)If you believe that then you…… no I mustn’t attack the poster. :-) :-) Anyhow back to the topic of this thread …..sensible move by Louis junior, as met office indeed does show 80% chance of heavy rain in Ipswich at 1800, 1900, 2000 this evening Good call.

As a mater of interest ..... 0 nada. and the season 2022 0 nada. Last meeting I attended was at Sittingbourne 2021. Before that Eastbourne. Before that Lakeside. Hope that helps you answer my questions ?

Probably more to do with the TV people schedule than any astute tactical move by Loius, especially as most Ippo speedway supporters seem to be non league football fans.

Probably more to do with he TV people schedule than any astute tactical move by Loius, especially as mot Ippo speedway supporters seem to be no league football fans.

Gambo, Brandon Estates clearly have absolutely no credibility in this matter so far , but they still own the site. They do not have to sell the site even if they lose the current planning appeal. If the speedway /stock car business plan can be demonstrated to not be viable - that surely allows Brandon Estates to argue that retaining the stadium for sports/leisure use will provide no benefit to the local community.

Seconds away round 2 ... expect Sheffield to be unable to find a suitable gust and not agree to ride Tuesday ?????

What a FARCE. Harris the witch guests and gets Ippo into the final. Now Harris the tiger appears to attempt to knock Ippo out of the final Brings the sport into disrepute in my opinion. Ippo may well have been better to declare Doyle unfit after aggravating his injury and booking Harris as a guest again, to block such ridiculous guest rider selection by Sheffield. The sheffield promoters" should be ashamed of themself. Still speedway is a sport run by amateurs. Oh by the way the Ippo leg has been delayed until TUESDAY due to a bad weather forecast ;-) ;-) . I think Harris might be unavailable (riding for Glasgow ? )

Anyone have any news on the league structure in UK speedway 2024? In the PL we have 2 teams gone ..... lots of steam from the possible Brandon revival. In the CL things seems to be in rude health - but for a shortage of quality riders. In the NDL question marks must be over the viability of at least a few clubs with so few fixtures now being staged. With the " most important Promoters' Conference in the history of the sport in the UK" to occur next month, I see no news of any forthcoming plans. Head in the sand by the BSPA ? or maybe they have a cunning plan :-)

Irrespective of the current planning decision, the site is owned by Brandon Estates. They can choose not to sell it (as they have done so far) and continue to stonewall on any decisions to do anything with the site , hoping for a a bumper payday after appealing and appealing the planning consent over and over again. The potential value of the land for residential use (or building a new hospital , a new school, an new sports centre gym etc etc ) will be much more than any use for stock cars or speedway use. If Brandon Estates won't sell then I see no way of speedway returning to the Brandon raceway ? The lack of data on attendance at speedway meetings portrays Speedway as a sport administered by enthusiastic amateurs. Failure to produce such data suggests they have something to hide. Any business model for the speedway cannot be taken seriously without evidence of attendance at existing stadia.

:-( No room for speedway on that site again then ...." replaced by other outdoor and indoor sports and recreation facilities of a greater scale." The owners of the site don't have to accommodate speedway just because it used to be there ...... hard to see how a speedway track would fit in with all these new outdoor and indoor sports facilities.

These p off meetings show how modern day speedway has evolved. We have 2 types of rider. The large track gate and go head down bum up throttle jockey , who will show a clean pair of heels to almost anyone on a large pacy track such as Owlerton or NSS . The small track technical rider who can master the art of turning on tight circuits , in both slick and grippy conditions. Their gating can be inconsistent but usually pass the throttle jockeys on their own tracks when mistakes are made. Foxhall, Monmore are examples. As in all sports there are a very small handful of riders who can ride any track well. so we see Ippo narrowly beating the NSS aces .. neither side happy on each others tracks apart from star riders Doyle and sayfootdinov. The same scenario Ippo v Sheffield is in store. my guess Doyle and sayfootdinov will be the difference.

Ah yes Lagoota, the unbeatable rider at Kings Lynn. Frankly please or offend I don’t trust ANY Russian sports men or women given the continuing scandal in athletics.

Allegedly Craig cook is lined up as a guest replacement should Glasgow insist on racing this Saturday

Come on guys …..simple answer Glasgow have to run a business……shall we gamble on being able to run the meeting against a dodgy weather forecast , or cut our losses and tell the russian to not save money on a flight. ? Still think too many “tactical” call offs earlier in the season by all clubs. Propose that HOME teams should have to ride re scheduled meetings with their original programmed 1-7 rather than frivolously call off meetings when they are missing riders. e.g in this case vissing would be ineligible for the re run of this meeting. And a guest MUST ride at 7 .

ONCE AGAIN the end of the season p.offs degenerate into farce. Casual call offs earlier in the summer and a mad rush to complete before the " cut off " Nothing changes.

Congratulations Ipswich. Full marks to Jason Doyle for making the effort to race tonight after the horrific looking accident. He really is a loyal rider to UK speedway .

Sheffield Select side ! 3 gusts ! One of whom was a play off gust for Belle Vue last season ! Suppose there will be another selection of riders racing at Owlerton on Thursday.

Belle Vue will have to use every ounce of their huge home track advantage at the " national speedway stadium" to wrestle this on back on aggregate. Completely under estimated Ippo without Doyle. Complacency crept in. Always an issue with rain in Manchester...... could be a lottery ......

tyretrax - true - maybe you were right - better benefits during the off season.

To avoid conscription into the Russian Army ?

I often wonder what would happen if you had no rules about team building at all , just said each team must have 7 riders. Scrap averages completely for team building, jt retain them for statistical purposes. Some would say that the "rich clubs" would always win. Doesn't that happen now ?

Firstly Poole have already won the 2023 Championship League. Well done Poole. The TV trophy (aka p. offs) are now to be decided. Not a Poole fan and it give me some pleasure to see someone else win the p.offs. Poole chucked it away at Wimborne Road last week, when strangely their home track prep. tactics failed them. Even Richardo Lawson couldn't get out of prepared starts . It's Scunthorpe's to lose - anything can happen is Speedway. I have seen it all believe me.

There was a time when you had to name a number 8 when using R/R. Many instances recently where teams usingR/R have suffered further injuries in a meeting and been forced to track only one rider in a race.