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Where's Morris, has he lost his coke bottle?

Wouldn't be first time Management Committee have enforced a date (no doubt due to CL play off cut off) and not told or not confirmed to relevant Clubs before changing their own website. If it involves NDL we all know Management Committee treat NDL like a bit of **** of their shoe. Sooner NDL has independent governence the better.

Alex Harkness has done a great job at Edinburgh with John Campbell and possibly the best Supporters Club set up out there in terms of support and fund raising. Alex is entitled to say that as at Edinburgh there is so much right being done and included in that are imaginitive and hopefully successful plans when the bulldozers do move in to Armadale (which is not the fault of the Speedway). No one is kidding themselves the Sport is in deep decline but there are green-shoots None more so than Oxford and Workington, hopefully Eastbourne and Swindon can come back in 2023 or before too long and the losses will be minimal and more linked to land value / developments (like at Peterborough) than losses like at Newcastle. Whether the glass is half full or half empty was probably about 25 years ago, but while a few slops appear in the bottom of the glass we can live in hope.

It'll be for Atkins indirectly then as he was just under 6 average and they had 3 x 3 pointers so points to play with.

Games opening ceremony is night after with a 30000 sell out crowd at Alexander Stadium. Very likely many security measures will be in force day before though. Allow plenty of time

For Atkins surely replacing a 3 pointer who replaced Atkins If any chance Dan can be fit for CL play offs they'll want him to ride NDL to build race fitness

Rule SMCcl/RGDBDF1. If any Rule persuant to a Management Committee Club requires a new rule, an overrule or just sorting pleas raise it for immediate approval by 6pm any day of the year.

nice to see the gating tart Lawson making a pass without maiming someone, shame it needed a broken steel shoe for James Wright though, lovely inside move from Edwards to fly past Cook, that must have bought the house down.

100% 40 DEGREE baking for 2 days! They had 2 opitions (a) call it off and incur the wrath of keyboard warriors (b) run it with a baked surface and incur the wrath of keyboard warrios as they would have said lovely weather conditions perfect. Sometimes you CANT win - in fact in this troll fest social media age can you ever win! Nigel and the Directors and Laurence and his Staff have delivered an excellent surface almost all season, light years better than last. They deserve to be cut some slack under the kind of conditions NEVER seen before in the UK. Some places had markedly cooler weather in high 20's - but 40 degrees in central England (it was 51 in my car Tuesday afternoon on the drive) is off the scale.

So you complain about the blue line! Then you complain not enough water! Have you the faintest idea of what would have happened had you watered that blue line, or worst still put more dirt on and watered that? It's never dusty at Poole is it mmm

Any Speedway rider will tell you they NEVER prefer holes to be "filled in". They would rather see them and be aware of them, good riders can ride through them anyway. Covering them over just makes the situatuin worse as the danger (the hole) is hidden and wet replacement shale that can't be tyre packed in 10 minutes makes a problem even worse! Easy to stand there and pontificate rubbish....reality is very different

Really??...possibly Pickering / Douglas / Nicholls / Batchelor / Harris / Sedgeman ??...

Agreed Worrall a bit harsh in heat 1, Kerr exclusion a clear mistake. That would have been a big 5 1 over Danny.

Good article in the local rag but may be someone should alert their switcboard about a swarm of bum orifices about to call them in disgust! They spelt Ablitt wrong (they have bb)

I agree 100% Im certain that teams were effectively forced to move up after 2018 as the NDL was too strong for some in charge of the sport, and the bigger NDL clubs were threatened with a 35 point limit for 2019 so clubs like mine and Eastbourne would have been decimated. They then made the entry for us both and others later on subsequently ridiculously expensive and from memory only approved both in to the League relatively late, certainly Brummies were late to be approved. Like Plymouth in 2021 only after Somerset pulled out and Kent too in 2021.

I think it depends who/how is funding it. Oxford are doing phenominally well but seem to have a significant budget behind them over a few years and it will be interesting to see how those figues stack up in year 2 if the team sn't delivering better results on the Track. I think too that they are pulling in some support from Swindon, Reading , even Coventry when I was there , that have been starved of Speedway for so long. A far bigger catchment area than Workington as an example. The scenarios of the last few Clubs to either move up or change hands and be in CL, Brummies / Eastbourne / Newcastle seems to be a case of good intentions on limited budgets and possibly a nievity in terms of the costs involved and the cost to build competitive Teams and of course Covid did no one any favours. Hearts ruling heads and the resultant struggles. It may be better to have a low budget and lower breakeven in the NDL for a year, and get everything set up and working before making that move up with some proven indication of the level of support and level of sponsorship. The other plain fact is that it's easier to be a big fish in a small pond especially with a competitive team than it is a little fish in a big pond with a team that's not competitive or good enough to win trophies where fans who mostly want success over the spectacle of the product can quickly drift away and Workington lets not forget WON everything going in 2018 yet still folded as the support had drfted away for whatever reason. The set up at Workington looks fantastic but as someone has said will need to bed in and be gradually improved. Imagine the foundations they could build with 1000 fans in NDL for a year; as opposed to 1000 in CL and just surviving probably.

Hopefully Danny Kling and Nathan Allitt won't be too upset when they do the review

Probably need to tern there productive next off

be interesting if they have to spell arse or is it ass?, and is it one word or is the a comma or is it commer before the hole or i it whole?...

I can't see any reference to Newcastle, am I missing something.? A very simple explanation of how RR works on the night is a positive for the newcomer or occasional fan. Says temp going to be quite cool 23 degrees. Well done Plymouth.

Take Bewley off the top and Flint/Brennan off the bottom and frankly and not being disrespectful its a DIRE situation when you look at the ages, profile of the bulk of the field. Whilst Lambert and Bewley have flown the nest and we wait for the likes of Flint, Brennan, Kemp, Palin, Thompsons, Edwards etc to find their feet and ultimate level (and as the years go by what will that level be?) its boringly average by Global standards. What we really need is a European outlet for the Palins , Brennans , Edwards , Kemps but with Sweden in equally sorry state as us and Denmark not really fitting due to Wednesday racing it's a tough transition even to the bottom (3rd tier) in Poland, where our best younger riders get to feed off the scraps and tough to make a foothold. So who is the next rising 30 or even 40 year old to take a Crown that used to be the domain of genuinely world class riders?

Was a good prospect but never delivered consistently above NDL level where he's ended back at with Mildenhall. Probably make more money weekends on grass and long track in Europe. One that got away like Wajneckht

It's all to play for. I'll be surprised if Poole don't find an Aussie zinger to replace Ablitt. Glasgow look solid all round especially at reserve with Hume and Bailey, Bailey massively improved. However Cook isn't the Craig of old and Brennan and Basso in that outstanding on occasions but average next match phase of their careers. Not the strong team they were with Rasmus in it. Leicester have strong home team but need a number 7 and Thompson away form us an achilles heel If Plymouth can get MPT and Hans fit and Gilkes back and keep Guest or even RR for Kennett if he's second in averages would be very strong though carrying a reserve Redcar look massive dangers to me, Edwards is a revelation chipping in paid 6 or 7 up at number 2, and Jenkins strong at reserve. If they click are dangers. Can't decide Monarchs or Scunny 6th place, probably just Monarchs. Certainly lot more interesting than the 6 team borefest

Smart bit of PR that to both set up interest and inform about the weather and track concerns that may have put people off travelling. If they don't know their team yet then best say that than put out something inaccurate. Good promoting.

What's the point of a preview when you've no idea of one of the teams. Totally pointless. Monday is perfectly soon enough. As for Lawson he should have been banned for dangerous Riding based on video evidence. He deserves a welcome fit for a villain within sensible a tiins though. Having been to Plymouth a few times they seem to have more track kit than most so I doubt it'll be an issue, certainly not the issues us Brummies had. I'm sure most neutrals will be cheering for Plymouth