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I one who thinks it is part of speedway for a rider to push another rider into the fence for the sheer fun of it must be out of thier minds. It is a dangerous practice that could end a riders lively hood, most of all it could his life. Lets stamp out these riding tactics as they are not good for speedway

Says Norrie Allen when he took over as manager of the Lions. He said on the Lions website. That they had lots of talent and would be a great asset to the club and I have worked with the for a number of years. It looks like the talent is a little faded, to say the least. Couldn't give two hoots what they say, like you we stand by our own opinions. I am sure we have been around long enough to know how the sport works.

I still can't belive the way they have set up the FTR. You have some that have riden in the EL for a couple of years, most who have riden in the PL and the poor guys who have done nothing than ride in the NL. How can the lads that are riding against those with previous EL racing stand a chance. I think any of them that had riden in the EL or had a team place in the PL, that was far above the other lads should have been given a ride in the lower team order not the reserves. The reserves should have been of all the same status. Young lads that had just riden in the NL for 1 or 2 seasons with no other league experiance. The likes of Newman and Morris plus Blackbird the list goes on makes the whole thing a complete farce from day 1 Nice to see all the hard work you put in doing that list. You have done a great job. The 2 lads at Leicester where both a couple of Norrie Allens prodigits. So the only people to blame are the Lions management for 2 riders that are well out of thier depth.

I for one don't like the aggresive way of riding these days with riders being pushed into the fence. It is very bad manners and not the sort of thing you want to see in the sport. How long before someone, gets killed from these manovers. On another point, again it was the Lions, reserve pairng that lost them points again. The management must help them along with the riders to help them to up thier game. That is if they can be helped. There is no way the Lions are going to claim any points in the league with the pair claiming less than 5 points between them on a race night. Come on lads the fans and the management will only keep with you for so long. How come we ended up with them is beyond me, but I think that they where being helped before by Norrie Allen. He honestly thought that they had things to offer. Which has proved to be quite wrong so far.

I think from some of the sad comments on here some people have not got paast they stage of reading Janet and John books yet. What Fanmail and what I said if some riders can do do and some riders can ride BP then there is no reason at all why the other riders can't do the same.

A great night of racing. Nice to see some home grown talent coming into the picture. Didn't think for one minute that he was ever going to get up and walk away from that crash. One of the worst I have ever seen.

There are no 2 speedway tracks the same, and it is nothing to do with track shapes. I was always told that a good rider could, and never would blame a track for a bad ride, it is always down to the rider to get the set up of his bike to suit the track and to get to soner rather than latter to get to know how to ride the track. I think a lot of what goes on at the Lions is down to rider comitment rather than lack of racing lines. I have seen some good racing there and some good passes. If one or more riders can do it then so should the others be able to. Maybe the shape and the way tracks are produced now make it that most tracks are not much different to the rest. With the longer straights at the Lions the riders should be more than able to makes those overtaking moves but they chicken out long before they get to the bends, where there is plenty of space for them to carry the manovers through. So yes, the track is different and yes many people want it changing, but all the moaning on here will do nothing about it what so ever. We will have to wait out for the end of the season to see if anything will be done, not sure it will, Because there is not enough time to change what needs to be done before the end of this season. Still not sure that there is enough room down there to play with much. To much cramped into to small a space. Just look at other tracks to see how big the central green area's are. Make this one much smaller and you have a grass verge at the side of the road. I would have thought that with the amount of space all around that the whole stadium would have or could have had a much larger footprint. The Poles can do it so why do all the stadiums over here have to follow along the same old dog track stock car racing track days.

I think people in general live life to fast these days and they either don't want or don't see people with dissabilities. The rest of the time is when they do see them they are down right rude a stare, which only makes them more uncomfortable. It so hard hard at times in my wheelchair. People just don't seem to look at ground level and see you there, they don't hear you either. My cousin was special needs he suffered from brain damaged as a child. I always took my own grandchildren to visit him just to show them that he was something special something different and all the other in the home he lived in used to love thier visits. This has made them very aware that the children that go to thier school that has also got special need children there to not shun them, which they don't, my grandaughter looks to one of them as her best friend and I am glad that they can understand, that they are no different from them. It would help if that the places that we go to or the places that we would like to go to had a little bit more knowladge of how to make our lives that little bit simpler. A disabled toilet is not the only answer if you also have to climb 6 steps to get into the building to start with. I find this a great problem if I go shopping or out to a restruant. It is so annoying when you can't get in the pklace, and someone comes out and asks if they can help you. The answer to the question should be that they should have to you should be able to get in there in the first place.

This is what I said would happen at the start of the season. If the new reserves did not perform after the first few races then some of them would soon be on thier way out. It looks very much like Poole is one of the first teams to set the ball rolling. It would be far better if the management and the senior riders put a bit of time with them and helped them with set ups and riding style and riding lines. If they have got rid of him it is disgusting. Won't help his morale at all. If this is the case that he has gone then I just hope that other teams, don't jump on the band wagon with poor and under performing reserve riders. Leicester have got the same problems with young Max Cleg. He is slowly getting things together, he blew up 2 engines and 2 weeks ago they had a collection for him at the Lions Coventry match. It made him nearly £900, sho even if he is failing to produce the goods the fans are still behind him. And the management and riders are helping him with set ups and trying to help with his starts. Which are terrible to say the least. Does it come down to nerves with this new format or are some of these young riders not up to riding at this level yet. I just hope that the teams stick with them all because some of these lads are what Great Britain are looking to for the future of British speedway.

i am sorry but I don't see this as anything to joke about. If this had been some of the in the MDL OR NL this sort of thing to the value of what they had stolen could have meant that the stadium would have to close. I find nothing at all funny in someone breaking into property. Be it a speedway stadium or someones house and thier private possetions being stollen. The people involved need to be stopped. But knowing who our laws work they will just get a few hours comunity service for doing something like this. This must have been done by someone with a knowladge of the stadiun to have known what they where looking for. It is such a shame that it has happened and they is no mention to what sort of damage they have caused during the break in.

The trouble with the Lions track is that it placed so out of the way, that it makes it an easy target. Not sure if they have any security cameras around the stadium. But now looks like it may be a good investment to make. It is a shame that people have to stoop to doing things like this. I just hope that it dosen't affect the running of the stadium in any way. There is no mention about this on the Lions home page, which I thought there would have been.

Well done the Lions 48 41 win. The lads upted the pace nice to see Mads scoring tonight with Jason Doyle doing his usual job. The 2 reserves seem to be getting a little better. It is early days for them in this new format. Good home win for them well done to all of you.

The riders see the lred ight on your phone and think the race has been stopped. So why arn't the track marshalls waving th ered flags about as well. Got fed up hearing last week. Lost count off the amount of times they announced it.

It would be nice to see the 2 reserves pick up the pace a little. But then the same goes for the other riders from 2 to 5. It would be such a shame if a team that looked liked they should have done quite well on paper have so far failed to do the goods. The team can't hope to be a team if only Jason Doyle is the only one scoring anything like winning scores.

I was totally bewidered by the response I got from the Leicester managment this week. I went on Saturday night. The disabled veiwing is by the start line. The stadium is quite wheelchair friendly. If like me with week arms and can only move on flat ground. I can't get the view from the bens as that area has quite a slop at both ends. It was when I tried to get to the toilets that the trouble started. The stadium has paths of slabs as you come in and around the stands, to get to the toilet block, in my case the quick route, straight from the start line to the toilets is a no go as it is very large road stone and get get across it in my chair. I tried one way and it was by the food outlets and could not get people to make way I went the other way and this was as bad with people in the way, they just don't see you in a wheelchir, it is like you are invisible. Sad to say I failed to get to the toilets in time. I asked the management if it was possible to link the 2 path together from the start line to the toilets, as it could be easily done in a day and would only take around 15 maybe even less than that. The reply came back that they couldn't do this and had no plans in the future to do so. I was not the only one to ask for the same thing to be done and they had been given the same answer. All they said was that there are enough trained helper at hand and should ask one of those to push me to the toilets. Have they no repect of people who want to keep that last bit of independace they have left. It is a shame that a stadium as new as the Lions is never thought this out in the first place. It is also a shame they can't fork out a few pounds on a simple job to put in a few slabs to remidy the problem. I give tham the Golden idots gong of the week, for helping out disabled people.

Team GB are now at a stage where they are very hard pushed to pick a winning team. There is no one in the wings that is good enough to come into the team. That is the fault of the way that British speedway has failed to develop it's young riders over the last 10 to 15 years. I can see a bit of progress being made with young lads from 10 to 18 now with them being looked after and trained at long last. Just hope that this is carried on in the coming years, or will not have a British rider that could even make an EL leage place or on the world stage.

I think there is something seriously wrong with Tai. When he went down last night, he got up and his right leg seemed to give way on him, and he fell to the floor again. Is this from the injury he sustained the other week at Leicster.

I can see big changes to next years format as it is clealy not working. The reserve races are terrible, a few good races from them but most times it is just a strung out race as should have been expected, with the levels of the riders. Not sure how some of them even made it. They should of at least been riding in the PL for a couple of seasons before this format was decided on. To much to soon for them. Looking at the racing at Wolverhamton tonight. Quite a few good races but far to many race with riders half a lap or more behind. Lets see what 2015 brings.

Well done to the Aces on that draw. What has happened to Woffy this season. He only seems to be half the rider he was last year. I think he is still suffering from all the injuries from last year and this year when he crashed out at Leicester

Was there a problem to start with. Did they have limitations on the area they could use to build the stadium. Or did it just happen that it was all they could afford at the time of building the track and surrounding area's of the stadium. There is so much space on turn 3/4 and the car park by the dissabled parking that I can't figure out why they chose to cram everything into such a small space. Was it a thing like small is cute and everyone will be close together, so it looks like the crowds are bigger. A bit daft to me when there is so much land there. . Anderon, Harris,Fricke and Doyle haas all got the measure of the track as did Kasperzak. I think a lot of it boils down to riders not having confidence in racing here. Several times on Saturday and also other races this year and last year all be it at a different league, they have come off of turns /12 3/4 and not at the start a wheel behind the leading 2 riders only to lose out at least a half straight advantage. Is it down to poor equipment or is it just the riders are afraid to fully comit on a strange shapped track. There is nothing to compare in this country, to BP's track. I think a lot of it comes down to the fact that you have long straights but the track has been sqeezed into so small a space. If the track had been at least another 15 mtr's wider. With a larger centre green and a wider track. It would have made a great difference. Again boils down to my post above. About when the track was built. My previous post vanished. My previous post vanished

I know where he was injured. The same still applies. These youngsters are out to prove a point and are riding far above what they are capable of. What I saw of him racing at Poole it is a wonder he didn't come to serious injury there. I know they are in the EL to improve, that is what they should be doing and not going out full pelt and then ending up in the back of an ambulance. I hate to see any rider that gets hurt and it bothers me even more when you see these young lads being injured. It could speel the end to very good years as a rider. They need to calm down and race to a standard that will keep them safe. There have been far to many really bad accidents with young riders these past 2 seasons with 2 in hospital now with brain injuries. The way that bikes have devoleped are good but it something that they have to get to grips with, I mean the young riders that is. I would hate to see it but very shortly unless they learn to ride at a pace that is safe for them and to stop taking risks with over taking manovers that even the top riders would never even dream of taking. Then it will not be long before one of these riders is hurt really badly or worst of all killed.

I already said about 2 or 4 good races. But there was still a lot of races that followd along in a big line. Newman was great but the way he rides it was only time before a great big cropper and he did it this week. Some of the passes he made at Poole made your heart come in your mouth for him. I love speedway, but most of all I don't want to watch young lads riding above themselves and being seriosly hurt. As I also said the new format this year is going to see a lot more strung out races.

Why was the track surrounds made so small. Where they limited to the amount of land that they could use. I know that there are factories to the rear. But the space at one end and the space by the disabled car park are huge. Why cram the track into a postage stamp in the first place. I have forgoten now who disigned the track and who did the ground work. Was the surrounding track done fisrt and then the track put in as an after thought. Surely more use could have been made of the land to have made the track standing area's bigger. The track wider and and the centre green larger. To late to do that now unless you have a total rebuild. I like the place but it could have been so much better. Or was that down to money.

From what I saw of the Poole Bees match it didn't really come up to much either 3 or more good heat but you still got the follow your leader there as you like to call it. I think with the way they have set up the reserve you will see much more of this this season. Some of the lads from the NL are well below the stands of some of the others who have been racing the EL for a couple of seasons. Those guys should have been given a team place not a reserve place. The way they are going for it is good to see but I do fear for thier satey. You have only to look at Newnan, who was injured this week. To far to soon for these lads. With the teams as they stand now you will always be seing follow your leader at BP, as the team as so behind the rest of the other leauge teams that they can't even compete against them. You have Jason Doyle with a grat 15 points from the night but without backup from the other team members, which we saw last night the racing will always be the same story at BP. One rider does not make a team. Maybe it was the money that or lack of it that, brought this team together, but I am afraid unless something is done really soon to change the team setup the the Lions are going to lose a lot more races. It is good to see riders of quility going about the business they know. That is how to ride a speedway bike and get a win. We saw a lot of that last night, the Lions didn't have the pace or determination to do much about it. Yes the shale always flys on the start straight. You should have seen the state of the poor guy who sat it out there in his wheelchair the whole meeting, he was covered in it. Must say I felt very sorry for him when he told me he has a problem getting to the toilet block and I could see his point. To get there from the disabled veiwing point to the toilet block you need to go all the way around the stands if you have a manual wheelchair, as the path to the toilets are very corse roadstone. He asked the management last year if they would consider putting some slabs down to join up the two slabbed areas. The reply he got was that he was just being picky as he didn't have that far to go around the stands. They should try it themselves in a wheelchair with a week bladder and see how they went on. Bet you 10 to 1 they would P**s thier pants before they managed to get there around all the people. All it would take is around 15 slabs if that, Sure they are not hard up.

Bombers ritual is great to watch, my grandson find it very amusing. He was even going along with him by the end of the meeting. He certainly seems to be back to his old form, just hope he can keep it going. I had really thought that he days in top flight speedway where finished. But it looked tonight that what ever had gotten into his mind, be it from the acidents he had in the past or just a mental block he seems to have got over what ever was holing him back.