Chris116

They can't be sure of when it is possible to run until the Championship fixtures are published. Both teams will be waiting for both leagues fixtures to confirmed before announcing a date only to be forced to change it.

Speedway Star do one, here is the link https://www.speedwaystar.net/store/calendars

Same as those who pay lots of money to watch football only to leave with ten minutes still to play having watched 80 minutes of a boring 0-0 draw. I always like it when that sort of match explodes with three goals in the last 10 minutes. Serves them right and if you enjoy the sport why would you want to miss anything. If you don't enjoy it why bother going in the first place?

From the age of four I was taken to Wimbledon for Speedway. In those days it ran on a Monday evening and even during term time we never missed a meeting and I never suffered problems at school. We never had any stadium bought food. My parents always took a flask of coffee and we stopped at the local sweet shop on our way to the stadium to buy a Mars, Crunchie or other chocolate bar for each of us. Sweets and coffee were had during the interval. My father always bought a programme and when I was old enough I also had one to fill in. These days I print my own race cards for both sports and don't normally buy a programme as most seem to be 24 or more pages of adverts. For Speedway the old programmes tended to be 8 pages which consisted of front cover, administration and advert for next meeting, promoters piece, centre page spread of race card, meet the visitors, sponsors adverts and back cover with fixture list that had results of meetings already run. Such a programme was cheap to produce and most people bought one as they were cheap. Today's magazine programmes have probably one extra article and half a dozen colour photos but the rest is all adverts that never change but you pay for over and over again which does not appear to be very good value. I am happy to agree that some current programmes are better but some are worse.

In the recent past they have run Wimbledon, Wisbech, Bovingdon, Swaffham and Birmingham Wheels and longer ago ran Norwich, Reading, Cross-in-Hand, Walthamstow, White City London, New Cross, Oxford, Weymouth and Newcastle.

Yes, they also run Ipswich which has Speedway, plus Yarmouth and the two Incarace tracks at Hednesford Hills and Northampton (Brafield) which don't have Speedway.

Mildenhall stadium is owned by Spedeworth boss Deane Wood.

Definitely one of the greats. I was at the meeting where he broke his leg which caused his early retirement. He was sadly only a shadow of his former self when he returned to racing but still a wonderful rider. Very pleased that I got to watch him every week from August 1957 until that crash brought his career to a temporary end.

I receive the state pension and also have a workplace pension which means that I am comfortable providing I do not try to live beyond my means. If anywhere I go has a reduced price for pensioners then it is very nice but not having a reduction would not stop me from going. In fact in most cases if I have received a reduction I will add that to my budget for food and have more to eat at the meeting.

Ronnie was my hero at Wimbledon and the number of races he enabled a reserve to win a race ahead of one of the super superstars of the day was amazing.

Careful! That sort of common sense is not liked by many in speedway.

I suspect that you will find the three clubs who did not want the 2H + 2A format all had NDL teams and said they would drop out of the NDL which would have possibly finished the NDL.

Just into the Speedwaygb site and Leicester are back in the Championship section of the website. Did someone jump the gun or has a massive spanner been thrown into the best laid plans?

Earlier today I am sure I read somewhere here that Leicester Lions appeared in the Premiership section of the BSPL website. Just looked and the Lions are in the Championship section. Could this be the reason for the delay in the AGM press release? Maybe a massive spanner has been thrown by someone and now they are busy thinking up the excuses.

I don't think they would be able to organise a shambles!

An often mentioned dislike of many speedway fans is riders who give up when in 4th place in a race. I think a simple way of stopping such things would be to change the scoring system to 4,3,2,1 for the finishers in a race with any rider who does not finish getting 0 and no pay for the race. I think that would ensure it was very rare for a rider failed to finish.

You have to remember that a few years ago the Premiership bosses wrecked the National Development League because it was too successful. Now they want to wreck the Championship League for the same reason. The NDL needs to have a higher standard than it is allowed at present then the step up to the CL at its present level would be a lot easier. All that then needs doing is the PL move up a point each year for a few years and the gaps between the leagues is reasonable and riders below NDL standard should have what was allowed up to a few years ago until the Premiership bosses decided to spoil everything because they couldn't run their own league in a business like fashion.

If this site 45 minutes away is so good why not keep the present stadium and build the new houses on the new site. It even solves any noise problems having the houses well away from the stadium. If Clark has anything to do with the new stadium then I would bet he will get houses built on the land within ten years of the stadium opening.

Was it the weather forecast that has caused the delay?

Probably sometime around 1929.

Going by train is possible but there is a rail strike on Saturday, limited services on Sunday, a rail strike on Monday, doubtless limited services on Tuesday and a rail strike on Wednesday so it could take most of the week to get home for some. Also the stadium is a rather long walk from both the railway station and most hotels in King's Lynn.

A number of people have said about the lack of organisation and control from the management. The problem is that the management are some of the promoters who will only act for the benefit of their team and not the benefit of the sport. Until there is a genuine control board who are totally independent the sport will continue to shoot itself in the foot.

Why should it be the home team? We often hear that visiting teams don't want to race on a date that is offered. I agree that something urgently needs sorting out but saying it is always the home team at fault is just not fair.

The promotion had been told by the stadium owners that speedway would not be able to continue in 2023 so the promotion arranged a farewell meeting. So far totally reasonable. Then the stadium owners realise that their plans are not going to happen and the speedway promotion also find their plans for a new track are sunk without trace. So reasonably the two sides have talks how how both can help each other out. Date for the farewell is getting very close but no agreement so it is not unreasonable to go ahead with the farewell meeting. Now we have the good news that both sides think an agreement is going to be possible but it has not been signed yet, so running the farewell meeting still makes sense as it is still possible that no racing for Edinburgh will be possible in 2023. Many tracks and promotions have been in a similar situation in the past and sadly many will face the same problems in the future. How many farewell meetings for both speedway and stock cars were held at Boston. There it almost became an annual event and if the stadium still existed I am sure many fans would be happy to still be having a farewell meeting every year!

Read what the BSPL statement says. The SCB would like to apologise to the Wolverhampton Team at the Premiership Pairs Round 5 at Belle Vue on Thursday 27th October where an error was made in the calcification of the results for the semi finals, where on the countback system Wolverhampton should have qualified for the race off. Three teams tied on 20 points however the SCB Regulations quite clearly states as per SCB Regulation 016.1.3 - "If more than a two way tie the team with the highest scoring heat results will qualify" Under this regulation between the three tied teams Wolverhampton, Peterborough and Sheffield, this meant Sheffield finshed in 5th position having not scored any 6 - 3 results in their favour, where as both Wolverhampton and Peterborough had one race each with a 6-3 advantage. Wolverhampton and Peterborough also had one race each of a 5-4 advantage. Thereafter Wolverhampton had one race with a score of 4-5 where as Peterborough other three races were all scores of 3-6, meaning that Wolverhampton should have qualified with a higher scoring heat results. So the 5th round positions will be adjusted to the following - 1st Belle Vue 2nd Ipswich 3rd Wolverhampton 4th Peterborough 5th Sheffield They say the rules were not followed and from my reading of the rules, I have to agree with the BSPL on this occasion.