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As flipper has posted, we will use BH mondays for NL fixtures and hopefully the BH Fridays if 11am start is agreed too by the council. (Although think the fridays may be for CL fixtures) And we will race on some Tuesdays as well as we dont have priority on weds nights.

Kent side is Gilkes Ledwith Jenkins Spooner Clouting Mulford Hagon

Did he actually retire or just not get a team spot because he got such a high average at Plymouth a couple of seasons ago?

Spoke to many riders who said the track was ruined by the 1000cc sidecars, that dug holes in the worst possible places and were never repaired properly. Never been a fan of sidecars on a speedway track personally.

My mate has 6 double rooms booked and is equally anxious to get tickets sorted asap.

So Newcastle have applied to run in this years NT, i suspect it's a test to see if running in the NL is viable. Would give IoW Mildo and Plymouth an extra home meeting to enjoy.

Spoke to some people "in the know" this is not a new application, this is just a renewal of the previous permission to develop the site. Part of the plans state it cant be built on until extra schools are built in the area, and there are none planned for anytime soon. So whilst there is a sword over the clubs head, I get the impression that there is no imminent risk of closure.

I believe they are taking group bookings from monday, has to be 20 people plus and you need everyone's passport numbers when booking and all must be in same sector.

Think we will be knocking on the doors of the play offs, but a lot of team changes between now and then. Some of the weaker sides may make a couple of changes and look world beaters.

Think Blackburn walked away due to becoming a parent and getting injured again. He is the sort of talent that could jump back on a bike in a year or 2 and pick up his development where he left off. I was hoping Zach may of been on Kent's team sheet as he has the relationship with Paul Hurry. I believe he has remained active on the grass so another who would instantly do a job at this level should he find the desire to have another go.

Rob Ledwith has not ridden second tier speedway for a quarter of a century (when there was no third tier I ll add) and is also on a 4.0..... which seems astonishing to me, even more so when he had an assessed 3.5 average in the NL last year.

I still love race times being a bit of a nerd, I would love nothing more then transponders being used universally. It's not exactly cutting edge technology anymore so costs arent prohibitive, and for those with no interest in times, it does nothing to detract from thier experience.

I ve got the meeting on dvd, and make Ellis track record nearly 1.2 seconds slower then the official race time of 56.1

Possibly the biggest and boldest and certainly most prominent speedway advert in recent history. Be interesting to know how many people new to speedway have googled warrior speedway.

The Kent National League team name will be confirmed later this month after a competition running in local schools. Although the kent press office must read this forum as Kenty McKentface has already disappointingly been ruled out...

This is slightly delayed as files are to long and big to edit on my phone as intended. Hoping to get it on to a laptop in the next couple of days. Probably gonna have to be uploaded in 2 parts as well as wont be far off 2 hours once put together.

Our friends in Sussex (The Budgies, (or after the season in green and black) The Orvilles) dubbed us the kent dram queens a couple of seasons back.lol

I like that

Tbf i think many speedway fans plan thier annual leave around speedway fixtures. I have done for years.

I have to agree it was high, but still had 800 plus come through the gates most weeks.

Initially i plan to upload to YouTube and share the link around facebook and here. So it should be as simple as clicking a link once it's done.

Today I started a new venture. Kent Speedway Fans TV, will initially be a pre recorded show but if it takes off I hope to broadcast live ala speedway tavern (but a lot more amateur lol). Fellow fans Glenn Collins and Wayne Raines joined me to discuss the 2019 season and look forward to 2020 season. And we were joined by Dan Gilkes who was "live from the sofa" and he talks about his speedway history, reviews his 2019 season and looks ahead to his championship debut in 2020. Hopefully it will be ready to put out on new years day.

It's a post and wire fence at Sheffield and it gets put up and taken back down on race days. It's a fair old feat tbh.

And ten minutes into 2nd half there are still a few thousand watching the game underneath on tv while they drink a beer... The people i go with regularly, leave the match on 88 mins, 30 secs to get to the underground before its gets crazy. Last time I stayed till the end and just walked from the stadium to st pancaras. Took 45 mins or so and was relatively pleasant.

The social club just along from the track usually allows speedway visitors and is mega cheap.