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Awful to read, best wishes Tom

People seem to be forgetting Kyle Newman. He won't replace Brennan scoring power at Arlington but will better it probably away. He is a genuine experienced second string better than Morley or Bowtell. I agree few better reserves available than Wood and Bowtell and be interesting to see (a) if morley is moved on and (b) who may be available to come in. Very few 4-5 point riders around unless you bring someone up from NL (not worked for them other than Brennan) or abroad (not part of their all British thinking). I'd be very surprised if much changes soon?

Great result and thankfully a good outcome for Josh Pickering. Looked horrible and I think we should all be relieved with news this morning.

your crowds being down may be due to dropping down? our (Birmingham) crowds are down but we've gone up? Other tracks I've visited this season-: Leicester crowds are up, very big crowd when I went there; and like you they have dropped down! Eastbourne big crowd on first visit, massive crowd on second visit and like us they went up! Can't figure any of that out, who'd be a speedway promoter?

It is an interesting question Do you race every week to maintain interest but ask people to find £64.00 (at Kent) to enter every 4 weeks per person? Do you have an average of a meeting every 2 weeks (which is what football do realistically home one wee away next) and ask people to find £32 every 4 weeks per person? What is higher risk, pricing them out or having them lose interest? Every week seem old fashioned but brave Every fortnight seems more business savvy and personally I've never lost interest with a 2 week gap? Thoughts would be interesting

it's not that which is the issue, the issue he can't ride in 3 Leagues so would have to ditch NL at Kent and in terms of rides and income; let alone confidence of winning; that's probably a wiser move right now.

You can no longer ride in 3 Leagues and can't jump a League. You can ride PL + CL or CL + NL You can't ride PL +NL So if Drew wanted to ride on contract for a PL side and double up he would have to give up his deal with Kent. Can't see him doing that as he is struggling as often as shining in CL for Sheffield and needs to crack CL first.

I think what every Team found in the winter and what every team is finding now is that there is a lack of ready and available riders with an average in the 5.00 to 6.50 range. That's the range Brennan has ridden himself in to. You can take a chance abroad or a guy who may not have ridden for a while, as a No 4 I think he is better than Morley, not as good as Brennan at home but may be better at this stage away. He's a genuine trier and good to see him get fixed up and you make a good point that John Cook and Will Pottinger will know him well from Lakeside.

What I reading is Brian tacitly agreeing that an excuse was made and that they should have come clean. What I am saying is that if they admitted it that would draw a line over it and could restore trust and move on. I want to move on, we all want to move on but I think an apology ends it = finito. I'll be there as I am every week, will you??

wish Kyle well a nice lad. he started desperately slowly for us and looked race rusty. had a couple of decent meetings v Somerset at home (paid 9) including a stunning overtake of Schlein and not many doing that in CL and then did OK conveniently enough at Arlington with 8 points in our KOC drubbing on Good Friday. I thought he had turned a corner but then 2 poor meetings 2 thrashings at Sheffield and home to Eastbourne. He was expected to do Heat Leader job for us but with 3 proper Heat Leaders at Eagles may take pressure off him a bit.

Dave Mason says it's a relaunch and I'll take him at his word. I think a public apology for the stupid abandonment of the last meeting would be a magnanimous and wise gesture, especially now that Brian Buck has had his say and well done brian Draw a line under it, got a proper no 1 and move on.

Sad to say having seen him at close quarters this season that Kyles' confidence is shot. Danyon Hulme may be a better alternative

not that positive as its just sensible I think, focus on what you can still win and make changes when you can to target those matches, what any sensible football manager would do, whether eastbourne management have the brains to do that I'm a lot less sure as they seem too loyal to lakeside and eastbourne and british riders, respect that but they need to be more clinical.

yes I mean top 4 i think will be Glasgow, Leicester , Berwick and Redcar in that order, I think Eastbourne will be 7th or 8th to be honest. point I was trying to make is if they get things sorted still have things to try to win which already some clubs who are out of shield and cup don't have luxury of.

Not sure how Eastbourne could gone to CL + not included Eddie Kennett his average will in next few months reach a true level probably around 8.50. Lawson and Kerr give them a very good top 3. It's easy to come up with "names" and being a Saturday track not easy to attract people like Adam Ellis / Bradley Wilson-Dean, Nick Morris who may have been options for them with Lakeside and Eastbourne links who are trying to get rides and are getting rides in Poland. They will likely replace Brennan temporarily as he is now 4th in averages but I don't think they'll want to use RR for a month, like all Clubs they will get benefit of increase in points limit from 38 to 40 after June 30th. They are also in Shield semi and likely KOC R2 so if they can arrange those for after 30 June could be a side to be very wary of in latter stages of both Competitions; especially if they focus on those as targets. Counter with Brummies who I support who are already out of Shield and likely out of KOC and realistically a tough League Campaign ahead. When CL season ends don't think 1 point losses to Glasgow and Leicester will look too bad v likely Top 4 which I think will be those 2 plus Berwick and Redcar.

Been there twice with Brummies and very big Crowds both times, can only think on the night a lot of counter attractions like FA Cup; GP Speedway and Eurovision. They seem to be having issues with their track though which can't help them in the long run.

Thank the Lord for Brian Buck and some honesty and sanity. May be the Mason should appoint Brian to guide them on PR! The fact is that IF they had announce "we cannot run this meeting as it would be a financial disaster" they would have been telling the truth and would not have lost faith. As Brian points out, the opponents (Eastbourne) had agreed to the request and rearrangement, so why not just tell it as it was. Hopefully David or Peter or Laurence or all of them will deliver the "holy trinity" apology on the Centre Green on Wednesday, a bit of humble pie and humility and then we can move on...

Birmingham enquired about BW-D told quite firmly he is focusing on Poland and would not be able to ride Saturday or Sunday in UK .

Wishing Tom Brennan all the best, spoke to him when at Arlington and a nice lad. Not surprised their crowd was down with Speedway GP 1st Round and Cup Final and Eurovision and believe they have been excellent down there so far. Tough to reshuffle a team with average north of 42. Seen Alf Bowtell a few times, great starter and period at reserve and winning races he should be fine, Wood I've never thought CL standard and Morley is a decent NL reider who looks to have stagnated. They always seem to have a pipeline of talent may be Daniel Spiller and Jason Edwards for the future ??

seen Bowtell a few times this season, fast starter and I think a very good propsect. Missing an NL berth to give him confidence like and will thrive at reserve I think. If Eastie could find a replacement for Morley would be very potent away not just at home. I understand why he rides 3 and gets Kerr in to Heat 14.

I have to say if I went to a Speedway Meeting and got turfed out after 15 rushed Heats in 60 mins I would feel short changed and somewhat disrespected. I think for a 15 Heat match with no major delays that 75-90 minutes is fine. If there are a few re-runs and an injury up to 2 hours is understandable. A lot depends on the weather of course but on a nice sunny evening up to 90-105 mins is perfect...

If Taylor Lanning has a License and takes good pictures and wants to try to make a living out of it fair play to him. Fair play too to the older Track Photographers, if they have a gripe only fair they are allowed to gripe. I think all are missing bigger culprits. Those who get licensed, have no interest in Speedway, more adding to "a portfolio" and who then flood social media with 100's of pictures from meetings they attend that they don't try to sell or pass on but which are just self publicising their own website or business. Some of them are very good but they are bigger threat to dedicated Speedway only photographers in my opinion.

The key word in this whole episode is "Trust". If the Promotion had come out at the weekend and admitted that there would be no Guest facility for Adam as the meeting v Berwick was rained off then they would have had the trust of supporters in being open and honest. I know for a fact a Guest was booked and then the Management was told he could not ride as Adam had not completed an Official Fixture. So on Tuesday morning we are fed a cock and bull story. I have no doubt that had the Guest been allowed that there would have been no electrical issues. This is where "Trust" comes in. If on Tuesday we had been told "we have applied for a guest but can't have one so have to use a NL rider so have decided to not race" it would have been the truth and trust would not have been lost. Various claims have been made about "evidence of proof" that there has been an issue. I can only go on my own evidence, ringing the Office and being told "no comment" and when I asked if there was a power issue, and asking a Member of Track Staff who I know quite well; who said and I quote "if you sneaked in and tried the power I'm sure it would be OK". I can't and wont name names and therefore I have lost "trust". It is up to every individual to make their own minds up, it is a free country and a free choice but this has left me both having lost trust and faith, less likely than I was to go to every home meeting and also very fearful for the future of the Brummies under the current regime, and sadly, I don't see any other options in terms of someone coming in on the horizon. The Club has in the past had excellent PR and excellent Commercial people in place, I would suggest right now that they find a proper PR man and not a paid employee of the media company milking half the teams in the League for nothing more than a bit of cutting and pasting and also a full time Commercial Manager to replace Lee, who did a great job but who obviously now has far bigger things on his hands at Swindon.

He is in Poland on 25th with the others in U21 Semi Finals that night as 3 different meetings across Europe. If he rides at Glasgow tomorrow and Eastbourne Saturday he gets his 4/4 to get proper average and on current numbers would be 4th highest average on 25th May when he could be replaced by a Guest or RR.

Thanks for clarifying that'll help me work out brummies team LOL..in case of Brennen I think that means after he rides at Glasgow away and home to them he will have done his 4 / 4 stint and will move in to the Team.