Teromaafan

Thank you for supportive comments SKJ. Like yourself and many others, I will miss his enthusiasm and humour on Eurosport.

I had no idea of this and am saddened if Nigel has passed away. This was light hearted banter, which would be right up Nigel’s street, so please don’t dis me over this.

Pardon my ignorance, but what has happened today that has caused offence?

Yes fair play to Scunny, they were well up for it. Dickson will be fuming over the late capitulation and will no doubt kick some arses before the Pirates visit tomorrow. Thought that our heat leader strength would make us very competitive on our travels but this was a reality check. Watched the stream through Scunny TV. Quality of the picture and camera angles were very good. The commentators? made Pearson and Tatum look world class. When heat 8 was stopped we heard ‘The red light is on and as Billy Ocean said, that spells danger!’ Peter Kay eat your heart out!

It’s all well and good saying these secondary limits within the overall team limits should be implemented but the reality is that the likes of Newcastle and Brum came to the team building party late, since their priority was to keep their club in business. Until this is assured, team planning cannot even start. Whilst we all want as many teams as possible in the sport, why should the better run/supported clubs be held back from securing the services of the best riders early, in a climate where there is a shortage of riders, when some clubs are going to the eleventh hour before confirming that they will go to the tapes for the upcoming season.

Hard to see really…..mainly due to the meeting being tomorrow!

Let’s hope all these true supporters you refer to show up tomorrow and every week for the sake of the club.

Didn’t attend or see the stream. In all my years of following the sport I can’t recall the home team heat leaders not gaining a single heat win between them. Don’t care who the opposition were, bottoms need to be kicked.

Think you mean the Audi score. Although the Scunthorpe management may see it as an Aldi score as they didn’t have to pay him much!

Er….. no…..their averages will explain matters for you. Joe had the lower starting average which is why he is currently in a reserve berth.

Any team would be delighted to have Lambert on board………If his first name was Robert.

Couldn’t get tonight, but it was clearly another mauling. I’ll be there next week and hope to see a competitive meeting with some good racing. Oh, just checked the fixtures…. It’s Newcastle!

When we mock the credibility of British Speedway we forget Scottish football. ‘There’s always someone worse off than you’ as your Mum would say.

The fans might get behind him but most of the riders will be in front of him unfortunately.

Wouldn’t disagree with you but the personnel involved at the initial design and construction stage are no longer around. The people now on board are doing the best that they can with what they have. If people don’t like it they won’t go. Do the tracks you refer to attract bigger crowds than Leicester? Unfortunately money not entertainment keeps clubs afloat. There are plenty of fans around the country that would love to still be watching their defunct team on a crap track.

Just hope that not too many riders read Berry9’s post. If they do, they will looking for excuses not to show up for their team. Love the reference to cheating. The club have picked up on this and have agreed to remove the sign post on the first bend which reads ‘riders in white and yellow helmet colours please turn right and allow for the safe passage of those in red and blue helmet colours’. The management will also apologise for the strong team they have assembled and will discourage them from making good starts to give opposing teams a chance to win races and promise not to pass opposing riders in front of them. I’ve made this point several times on this forum and the quality of racing is down to the quality of riders on track and their willingness to compete. I’ve had the privilege of watching GP level riders giving it their all head to head on this track (when it was worse tan it is now!) and the racing was superb. The only team to beat the Lions at home last season were Poole. Nobody seems to like the Pirates (and I can understand why), but they won because their riders attacked the track and were the better team and deservedly won on the night. In the first couple of seasons after Leicester returned to the sport, I don’t recall too many negative comments from opposing teams regarding the track. The Lions were consistently beaten at home and the track was far worse than what it is now. Hope this hasn’t discouraged Berry9 from future posts. For future posts though the spelling of ‘sink’ and also ‘Bears’ (check user name reference) need to be noted for the adult checking and posting comments on their behalf.

Very good crowd tonight too. I wonder what anyone attending a speedway meeting for the first time thought? More importantly, would they want to come back? What was served up on the track wasn’t that appealing. One of the saddest sights of the night for me was Josh Auty. He’s had plenty of laps of this track in separate spells with the Lions but looked no better than younger or less experienced riders. Would he be racing this season if Brum hadn’t come calling?

When he sees tonight’s score he’ll be wondering what the hell he’s signed up to. Brum were quite simply woeful and only Ash Morris seemed to be up for it. I know the track gets criticised for it being gate and go with riders strung out after a couple of laps, but you have to look at the quality and attitude of riders. Poor entertainment tonight and I’m putting that down to Brum. How much better is Ellis going to make them?

Hoping for some decent racing tomorrow. I think Brum will do well to keep the Lions under 55 points though, to make the return leg interesting if nothing else.

Fast forward to Saturday. Three riders come to the tapes for heat 1 at Leicester. The two minute buzzer is sounded for the rider in white. Brum will finally have to finally crack and announce their number one.

Quite. Let the creative juices flow. Bring on Subbuteo speedway (under 45s reading this will now all hit Google), try to control your enthusiasm as you flick little plastic bikes around a miniature cardboard track. Only the smell of methanol will be missing.

Just seen a pic of Worrall wearing the new club race suit. Plenty of traditional red & yellow (less black) which is fine by me. Ah, nostalgia……although it’s not what it used to be!

Put your Bracewell sticker on the Brum page of the album. He will feel wanted and the team will just need one more to make up the seven for the season.

Great idea. If there’s one sport that is likely to have the most team personnel changes for a season it’s speedway. Before the sticker album is released it will be out of date and will become progressively less relevant from there on. So what sector of the sport’s fan base is this aimed at? Pensioners love collecting and swapping stickers with their mates don’t they? If by chance kids are interested, try explaining to them why Johnny Foreigner rides for his team and another one on a different page in the album. ‘Of course it’s not the same rider son/daughter, look at the photos, one is clean shaven and the other has a few days stubble’. The sticker album will presumably be very unsticky to allow for moving and replacing rider photos on a regular basis. Don’t know why this idea wasn’t thought of before. This marketing game changer may require you to get meetings very early to ensure that you are not one of the thousands turned away due to capacity attendances.

It’s dying because a very high percentage of the fan base are covered in cobwebs and have two digit National Insurance numbers. Before you can attract younger people through the gate, you have to make them aware that the sport actually exists. Go and check the BBC sport website. It’s not that speedway isn’t mentioned, it’s the minority sports that are covered that reflects the embarrassing status of speedway.