Hunty

As somebody else said on Cradleys Facebook page, were been slowly dwindled bad news to soften the blow of when the reality kicks in that we wont be riding again! I do apprichiate the club saying that its 50/50 at least we can prepare for bad news! Where I will watch speedway next year will be difficult as I dont see myself going to Wolves but at the moment there the only club that will be around for the next decade I belive! Cradley Heathens have go to stop looking at Dudley Council and get onto Sandwell where Cradley Heath actually lies. They have sucsessful sports teams in the borough and have a leisure trust that is spending a lot of money building sports facilities in the borugh! Dudley Council dont even have a decent baths and have not spent money on Sport ventures for the last 20years!

Elbow a Manchester band who a few of the members of are speedway fans! Great video and great reconigtion of the sport! There was another band who used speedway in there video two to a different effect!

As a Cradley fan, the club needs to come out and point out an end date for the search for a track! We have never had a time limit and it infuriates me that its all us Cradley fans hope for but we know absolutly nothing about! They say they are working hard behind the scenes but how hard is hard...I know its difficult, but I am greatly intrested in what goes on on the track and off it! Premier League at Perry Barr as The Cradley Heathens with a MDL of the Birmingham Brummies would be the ideal scenario!

What a heat of speedway! #NLSpeedway at its best!!!

speedwaygp.com/news/article/3756/sgp-wild-cards-confirmaed

They have just been annouced Australia’s Troy Batchelor, Danish duo Niels-Kristian Iversen and Michael Jepsen Jensen and Swedish champion Tomas H Jonasson have all been handed a coveted berth in next year’s World Championship.

31st of September...What a noob! I know the rhyme aswell!

Would not be an issue if we didnt have fast track or double up riders. The plenty of solutions, the season needs to be finished by September the 31st and not run into October when it gets way to difficult to get the matches in due to the weather at this time. The season just needs to be shorter with less fixtures and you would then have more openings to reagreange summer rain offs! Last season we didnt even finish all our league matches

Im very happy that its been canceled, I for one have had to loose a days pay to get the 20th off and when they moved it to tonight at 2 days notice I was livid! Its wrong what they did in my opinion and it is just rewards for how we have been treated! I want to support my club and the tracks I visit throughout the season but this year Coventry has been a minefield for Cradley fans from the first meeting to what will now proberbly be the last!

After last night in the play-offs they both did themselves credit by racing very hard and shaking hands after it! It needs to be investigated, it needs to delt with with some sort of punishment to everyone involved! Its difficult to say they should recieve a ban but a very strong warning and hefty fine and docking there wages from the meeting maybe the correct choice in this matter.

My four wild cards would be... Iversen Ward Sayfutinov Kildemand A World Championship needs the BEST in the world!

It all started at the start line, both Greaves and Sarjeant wanting the same bit of track...Ref having none of it and it took an age to get heat 10 started. The race eventually started and it was tight out the gate and there was some barging from Sarjeant on Nathan but all through first corner ok. They go into lap three and Sarjeants bike packs up going over the start finish line and he then decides to park his bike in the middle of the track. He then goes to confront Greaves and have words before Nathan lashed out with a couple of pushes and shoves. It gets seperated and Sarjeant remounts his bike to head back to pits but kicks Greaves bike over...Greaves then chases after him into the pits and Sarjeant is taken off his bike by Danny Phillips and then it all kicks off with alot of people involved...Mechanics and riders alike. One mechanic is down on the floor and is treated and all is calmed down before Nathan jumps the fence into the crowd to confront a fan (Coventry, Wolves or Cradley I dont know). Thats me being unbaised and all the riders mechanics and officals involved need to be punished and BOTH teams thrown out of the KOC.

Ive just returned from the meeting and have to say I am shocked, embarrassed and overwhelmed at what I have just seen! I would like to put on record that to all the Heathens, Coventry and Wolves fans at the meeting should be applauded. Yes things were shouted and people may have been gouded but what happened after heat 10 could have easily set the crowd into a mass brawl. Ive only followed speedway for 3 years im a newbie but my dad has quoted that fistycuffs are part and parcel of the sport but what I saw tonight was some of the worst scenes of violence I have ever whitnessed. I will be writing a letter to my beloved club about what happened tonight and I hope that our riders are punished and disaplined accordingly, and also to the Storm riders and all the mechanics

Id be well up for watching Cradley in that league, the NL could be exciting if the rules of team building had a top and lower limit! Ive always enjoyed watching us in the NL untill this year because we have built a team that outweighs all but a few and even then we can beat those away!

Not filling me with huge excitement this!

He was thrown in last year when everyone else had the chance to find sponser knowing they were going to be on the world stage! Bomber didnt, he found out late on when his sposers were proberbly only set up for him to ride in the leagues! He now has the whole winter to prepare for it and get more money in to give him more of a chance!

Fully agree...That is something worth exploring for sure. How would the play offs work though? Top 8...Top 4! Im a lover of the Play-Offs and make the season longer for teams who may not have something to play towards the end.

Cause that would be 40 matches in the league...Premier League has 28 league matches, Elite League is 32! We struggle to fit all those matches in within a season now so adding 8 more will be extremely difficult. I was trying to keep the matches to around 32 league fixtures!

Theres 6 teams in each group...so if they race home and away twice thats 20 matches.. you cannot race yourself! When you race the teams in the other groups i understand that you will have 6 matches in each group so you would get two more fixtures...in a way not a bad thing and you would end up with 32 matches! (My mistake) And if theres an odd number one league has less teams in it...they race less races in the league! The league will still have a fiar result as they all race the same teams the same amount of races! Each year they swap which league they race around so it end up being fair! Good ideas...I was just running with the fact that if you have two leagues of 12 then there ends up being 24 meetings and no real way of racing the other league. The reson why its groups of 6, means that you can have more derby matches and fans dont have to travel as far for away matches and also teams could save some money in doing so. I know Ive split the Midlands clubs up but there is no other way of doing it. The leagues dont have to be the same each year remember they can change a couple of teams around to freshen it up!

Now this maybe fantasy world and some people may love it or hate it. For me however it is a great solution to a problem of a messed up league structure that I dispise! I would love to have one league and surender the EL to room 101. So heres my proposal: British League North Belle Vue Aces Birmingham Brummies Wolverhampton Wolves Berwick Bandits Edinburgh Monarchs Glasgow Tigers Newcastle Diamonds Redcar Bears Scunthorpe Scorpions Sheffield Tigers Workington Comets Cradley Heathens British League South Eastbourne Eagles Poole Pirates Lakeside Hammers Somerset Rebels Plymouth Devils Rye House Rockets Ipswich Witches King's Lynn Stars Swindon Robins Peterborough Panthers Coventry Bees Leicester Lions And then North and South divided into four groups of six North A Birmingham Brummies Wolverhampton Wolves Cradley Heathens Belle Vue Aces Sheffield Tigers Scunthorpe Scorpions North B Workington Comets Berwick Bandits Edinburgh Monarchs Glasgow Tigers Newcastle Diamonds Redcar Bears South A Plymouth Devils Eastbourne Eagles Poole Pirates Lakeside Hammers Somerset Rebels Swindon Robins South B Peterborough Panthers Coventry Bees Leicester Lions Rye House Rockets Ipswich Witches King's Lynn Stars Each group teams race each other home and away twice = 20 matches (More Derbies, more away travel less distance making and saving money,hopefully) Then each group races another group at home = 5 matches Then each group races another group away = 5 matches Total of 30 league matches. With 15 home and 15 way Each group will have one group they have not competed against and this will be the team they are drawn against in the cup Thefore Home, Away and Cup Matches will revolve year by year so that the same teams are not racing each other. PLAY OFFS Top from North A will face second in North B and visa versa Top from South A will face second in South B and visa versa Winner of each fixture will go through to try and become North or South Champion! To finish in a superbowl style finale...North Champion v South Champion If your team gets to the final they will race 36 fixtures plus how they do in the cup! Would make it exciting for me, each mini league having a tussle but part of a single league that is vital for British Speedway! All thoughts are my own, and bet this propsal would never work but it would be pretty awesome to have it in place! In addtion I know that Eastborne might not take there place next year so maybe need a step up from another club or some leagues bigger than others! Still be fair as each league will still race the same and same amount of teams!

Elite League speedway is pointless, I dont see any point in racing home and away 4 times! Its boring, the same teams come round every week and the results are always simlar between the two teams involved! I think we should have regional groups who race each other 4 times and then race the other groups once if at all...A bit like american football where each season different league play against one another but the divisons are fair because they all race the same teams.Some divisions maybe dont race each other and they could be the cup fixtures so that all teams meet in a season! Then the top two from each divison are paired up with another a 1st plays 2nd so thats the quaters then the top two go through to the semis and we have a big super bowl final where the top two teams from each reigon race off for the title! The leagues would have more derbies so you would get to travel to more away matches and hopefully crowds would incread you would end up with a fixture list around 30 matches...

Thanks, such a shame! Dont know what Kent do next but a 6:30 start time wont work in any league other than the NL! Any more opertunities all alterations that could be made!

Not good... Also I cannot find the facebook page with this information

Is that the outcome?

I wish Kent all the best tonight in the meeting with the council! Fingers crossed that the evidance gathered will provail over the complainers who make statments up out of fresh air!