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Why oh why do we have to moan so much. Let us just go to the stadium, support our teams and enjoy the racing. Thought that was the basic idea of speedway. It is a spectator sport and ther for our entertainment.

Do not mind what day they race really. Shame to see the Sunday races go but we all have a price to pay. Also an increase in entrance fees no doubt. It is just nice to see Leicster Lions back again. And all the hard work that has been put in on the stadium. Only time will tell what happens

We need to get our home riders out here getting more rides at top level to better their chances of becoming the next Tai. The British lads who are doubling up in the EL/PL and are now coming to the twilight of their riding lives will never get any higher than they are now. If the young up and coming lads don't get a chance to compete in the higher levels of speedway then that is where they will stay either NL or PL someof them on a shoestring budget and only one bike to their name . Not gtiven the chance who will ever know what they can achive. The young British riders should be given that chance by riding in the reserve place at all major clubs instead of foriegn riders. May not be so exititing but not given the chance we will never find out. The state of our British riders is very much at the for-front of this we have 6 if that top riders now and out of those 6 how many can we count as true international stars that can hold their own against the best in the world very few. Let the lads have their chances, it may take a while, but I say let them carry on doubling up. The riders in the EL will soon be having to ride a league or 2 down in a few years anyway as no big club will want their services, then who do they have to take their places???????????

I will not bother me what league they end up in next year I will still support them. A nice up to date stadium. The staff are very friendly, they supporters are speedway lovers and they are a great crowd. I will be there to support them as many times as I can next year. Being in a wheel chair restricts things a bit. Find it very hard to get to away matches as I find it hard travelling far. But I try to get to home matches. They have a nice area for wheelchir users, they only fault I can can find with the placing at the start line is all the dirt and pebbles that hit you, the grandson thinks that part is great. Must say it wasn't to bad and it doesn't stop you enjoying the speedway. Sent him with his dad to the granstand but he wanted to come back for more. Is there anyone out there that thinks that track changes will be made and if so what do you think they will be and to what extent it will change the racing at Leicester. It will be nice to see what happens in the close seaon, will be on the look out on the website to see what is going on there. Hope 2014 is a great year for the Lions.

The track can't be to bad. Just seen the news item on Lions webpage and on Sunday 9th of March they are to stage a race for the Ben Fund for injured riders. Between Team GB and the rest of the world. Peter Ackroyd stated that I think it is a great choice of venue. I have been there a few times. It is a lovely set up, in a good part of the counrty.. It is a purpose built stadium. It is clean and smart. What you could call a modern Stadium. His words not mine. So someone must think that Leicester have got it right. The promotion team have scored again. With bringing Belle Vue and Coventry to the stadium at the end of the season, (Coventry weather permitting that is) And then this to start the season next year. I think they are doing a great job and the racing at this event next year should pack out the stadium. Keep it up, They deserve a round of applase. Hope to be there on Sunday just hope the rain will hold off until this weekend is over, but not holding much hopes with the way the weather is dishing out thyings at the moment. If not just hope it can be re-arranged for the week after. Love taking the grandkids. And they love the sport as much as I do. Lets hope the things carry on as they are because they are fans of the future

Well done Poole. Not quite so easy in the second leg, but the track was a bit of a hand full. Fell for the Brumies though to win the legue then it all goes wrong in the knockouts. Danny King took a right tumble, so lucky that the bike missed him. Now all we have to wait and see is what November has in store at the AGM to find out the outcome for the 2014 season

The other weekend at Leicester was a great day out for the fans with the first leg against Bellview Aces not their top team but all said and done not a bad turn out. Even if the Lions got beaten in both legs it made a good nights speedway. And if the weathere holds again this weekend it shoukld be a good night again with Coventry coming for the first of 2 legs shame about the rain last week. At least the Lions promoters have done what most teams in all the leagues have done and that is to keep the racing going until the end of the season not cut it short in the end of September or the start of October. Good luck to them what ever they do. It was a very hard dicision to bring speedway back to Leicester. A lot of hard work has gone into starting to make a stadium that will only get better. Lets get the bums on the seats what ever league they end up in. There have been to many local clubs lost through the years. And on the point of reserve riders I personally think they should be up and coming young UK riders, if they don't get the chance to ride in the higher leagues then they will never learn their trade. What they put into the sport, week in week out they should be given the chance.

I must say that I liked what he said in the interview at the Last GP that he was commited to doing his best to start a rider training school at Scunthorpe. There is so much need to help the young up and coming British riders to do their best not just for their clubs but their country. Watched the British Rider final on Sky last night after the wash out of the Elite League final. What a sad lot we have we have Tai who stands head and shoulders above the rest, then a few older riders who still try and are still up there in the Elite League, but we need to do more for the young lads who ride in the lower leagues. I think that it is time for all the Elite League clubs to offer reserve place to British riders the only way they are going to come on in world speeway is to be thrown in amoungst to to level riders and not just fight it out in the lower leagues. All said though some of these guys who withoutout them the sport of speedway would be lost, ride week in week out with just one bike on a very restricted budjet and would need good sponsers and a good team behind them. Something they could hardly afford, as most of them live on a shoe string budjet. Hts off to them. We need to find a solution to this doldrums that the UK riders team are going through at the moment, I am glad for what Tia has managed to do this year and hope he can repeate it again in the years to come. But for the sake of the sport we need more UK riders to be able to step up in to the class that now Tia has now made for himself, not just in the UK but on world stage. Lets make the UK a world beater again.