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old bob at herne bay

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  1. Lions to the slaughter then in 2023. With so many riders doubling up , will be interesting to see who owns who and whether other Prem clubs will be left short handed with Leicester moving aside to the Premiership. As for race nights - Leicester as well running on the Thursday reserve rain off date for Poland should ensure a good number of R/R being needed throughout the season. Will they extend the season the end of November in 2023 ?
  2. Come on folks stop banging on about all these spurious reasons for Swindon speedway closing. Would you rather sell your land to a housing developer for millions of pounds or invest money building a speedway stadium which even when the team won the league made a loss ? If the GI gang and their many hangers on ( I include Messrs. Russell and Rossiter) are guilty of anything it is perpetuating the myth that once the stadium was slated for housing development on that site that speedway racing would ever take place again.
  3. Slender compared to a 30 point thrashing. Aahhh … KOC points don’t count towards CMA. Middleditch will have to get his slide rule out again.
  4. With such a slender away win, Poole haven’t left much wiggle room for the 2 Cook boys to have a ‘mare of a meeting to get their CMA down for 2023.
  5. Sad to see online that I have read the last edition of the Classic Speedway Magazine. I have enjoyed reading every edition of the magazine - from its beginnings as Vintage Speedway Magazine. Great shame that no one could be found to take over the magazine.
  6. Which of the Poole riders double up for Bournemouth ? Or is Middleditch a closet football hooligan ?
  7. Well the P.Offs (P/Ship and C/ship) so far have certainly captured my imagination. Both edge of the seat stuff. In fact I have nearly fell off my seat in the lounge at every meeting only to be woken up by me wife. Certainly the most important BSPA conference in the history of the sport will be looking to build on the great success of this season. It has been truly breathtaking and all supporters must be tyred out watching the action, anlas you are a Peterborough supporter.
  8. I see that Poole have no fixture at home tonight - 5th October !! Tempting fate at the a**e end of the season with weather very changeable to not attempt to run a meeting on every available date. British Speedway at its finest - all the trophies usually end up presented covered in muck. Hottest summer on record since records began and still riding the top meetings in early winter on wet tracks.
  9. What’s the ticket prices nowadays at Belle Vue, and the car parking charge please?
  10. Predictable result. Hope that there were enough in attendance to pay Lambert's wages :-)
  11. NSS1 your post is on the correct thread ……the joke thread. :-)Think you have missed out on Bewdley as he has signed terms with Poole as a full asset. Bitter ? Long lost any feeling for the sport that used to entertain me. Don’t spend tuppence now on going to see todays rubbish, and even watching the free to air highlights on Quest only serves to remind me what a Mickey Mouse sport we now have. It’s all a joke and subject to ridicule by all my old friends who once went to meetings home and away. Bathe in your glorious win tonight ….. the points limit for 2023 will sort you out a new team .
  12. Let’s not clutch at straws here, Belle Vue have well and truly smashed the transfer window rule to smithereens. Lambert is riding contrary to the regulations. Ipswich should ride under protest, and not be afraid to explain why in front of the TV cameras.
  13. More comedy with Lambert being signed by BV as a “ long term injury replacement” for Fricke. Lmao “long term “ will be tonight and assuming BV win on aggregate ( personally I hope that they are stuffed and Lambert suffers 4 engine failures) plus a couple more meetings . Next season he’ll be in Poland Sweden and maybe SGP. Did Lemmon learn his tactics from the boys at Poole??
  14. Tell that to the Glasgow Tigers website - still not announced there ! At least Poole website is up to date.
  15. Twitter now saying tonight’s meeting at Glasgow postponed due to rain, being restated Sunday 2nd October. ? No other source has confirmed this ? Bet Glasgow wish they had carried on in the original restaging with a good crowd in and the possibility of a small win on the night. ?
  16. Inevitable news. How ANYONE ever thought that speedway racing would return to Blunsdon with a new housing estate over the safety fence, or near enough to splatter their washing with shale must have been dreaming i Really makes Oxford look like a remarkable achievement considering the pressure on land usage, and the lack of support from the powers that be in assisting them with a choice of race night ! I assume that this thread will now be moved to the "Defunct Tracks" folder
  17. Think we have a classic two legged tie where neither team can ride each others "muckheap" (to quote Phil the Ace). Big Track / Little Track.
  18. Got to say that with the p. off opposition being from the wettest place on the planet might be sometime before this tie will be settled. Maybe a roof on the “national speedway stadium” would have been a good investment?
  19. Agree With you Joseq7. It is totally wrong. Could be simply fixed by taking the aggregate scores after the same number of heats in the return leg.? In cricket in a rain affected match each side is allotted the same number of overs to get the runs
  20. Next stage in the planned demise of UK league speedway is surely home meetings every other week.
  21. From bend three makes a good point. After the demise of the last incarnation of the Wimbledon Dons I was friendly with a handful of ex Dons supporters who regularly travelled to EB on a Saturday evening.
  22. I will be called the usual “miserable old git” etc etc but it does beg the question how any of the now dormant clubs eg Rye House, Lakeside, Coventry , Sittingbourne, Newcastle ( tempted to include Swindon as their fence must be past it’s sell by date) can ever hope to be resurrected faced with such large start up costs…..that’s before they have even got on paying spectator in their stadiums. You might think that there must be someone somewhere with a collection of old air fences, starting gates, and other paraphernalia which could aid new start up clubs ? Can you imagine going to Dragons Den as a prospective speedway club business start up ?? lol.
  23. Some have picked up on the Landlords reluctance to allow NDL speedway at Arlington. Looking at the headline start up costs listed by MD - other than lower rider sign on fees, don’t see there is much difference ? MD posted”Air Fence (£30000) Tractor, Shale, Possible track equipment (including new starting gate), Rider sign on fees, Upfront money for medical cover insurances. “ The successful NDL team at Arlington run by Dugard consortium, ran on the previously owned track hardware. Starting from scratch is a different challenge
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