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always rated him - think the Bears should have included him. Next year mebbe

its so obvious - its like the tuners and manufacturers are running the game. Also there needs to be research into the interaction between tyres and surface materials. cheaper bikes won't affect entertainmnet but maybe one or two riders and promoters can actually make some money

JBA is an asset - thats got to count for something and save a loan fee.

daft thing is its nowhere near Redcar, its on the very edge of the boundary for Redcar and Cleveland Council - few hundred yards and it would be in Middlesbrough. I personally would have liked the team to be Middlesbrough Bears but i expect the council insisted on the Redcar name

some of the comments are typical anti North bias - something we encounter every single day in every area of life.

you get your chequebook out then

this is definitely the way forward. And we need to stop worrying about riders' earnings - they can only earn what can be afforded to pay them. So what if big names are lost- generally i find the lower down the leagues the more interesting the racing anyway. Don't worry about shortages of riders - they said that in '68 and '69 about Div 2 and lo and behold there was plenty - quite a few of whom went on to be top internationals.

Ben Barker is in danger of being double dumped by Panthers and Bears if he doesn't wake his ideas up

so they say - never had a problem meself

there's an excellent feature on this if you join speedway friends on fb - regular features

not a pleasant walk, especially after dark - stick to the taxi

reads to me, a neutral, as if people WANT it to fail

is that an unpopular opinion? It's one held by many. Here's mine - i prefer NL/CL racing to PL and GP.

4 likes for the post and 4 million people who won't come near the sport because of crap like guests

should be RR unless theres 2 heat leaders out - no guest for reserves/ 2nd strings we really need to get rid of this farce of guests - and yes i would rather see a heavy loss or win as a result

wish you cd do that at Brough actually

this seems like a thread which needs strangling at birth. It hasn't started well. BTW i disagree politically with Tsunami and TWK usually but I have never felt the need to be so rude, despite the fact that one is a Geordie and the other a Mackem and both are exiters.

i understand and respect your view but i can't help thinking that local home grown riders and continuity would prove popular and a crowd puller. I speak from the perspective of having only supported 2nd div speedway and having Martin Dixon, Steve Wilcock, etc as local (ish) heroes that the crowd identified with and supported

well its not really the way ahead, more wtf happened?

get the Guardian online - very interesting article about (the decline of) speedway https://www.theguardian.com/sport/2019/mar/23/who-haul-speedway-out-of-1970s-back-into-affections-uk-viewing-public

Jimmy Squibb, Tommy Sweetman.....oh sorry I thought you said beards

What is there to be offended about? Don't do it if you don't want, do it if you do. I coached football for donkeys years and never got a penny for petrol or time - no one made me do it

they also care less because they're contracted to one other team in the uk and 2 or 3 in europe

which is why, and i've said this before so apologies, you offer free entry for a match or 2 in return for registering via email. You then have a database of potential and existing customers, even though it was free they showed an interest, and then you can market to them.

if we are moving towards the sport becoming a limited company perhaps at some point they could purchase the facility with a business loan.