Fortythirtyeight

Total speculation then.

Inconsistent Bears are blowing it again, Bandits top end seeing them home.

You really need to read a fixture list, Redcar aren’t at home for another week

Article in the S/Star suggests it will take 5 to 10 years and half a million pounds to get the stadium up and running again 🫨 Wow!

Did 3 leagues last season but according to the article in S/S that left him too tired and with a young son , and no doubt being owed money by Oxford , he settled on 2 clubs this season Landshut have got to the Polish play offs without him so they have ‘ loaned ‘ him out for the play offs ( relegation ) in the top league.

You’re obviously not a Bears fan.

Lost count of how many times the Bears have looked comfortable for a win only to collapse towards the end. Allen, Edwards, Mulford just too inconsistent and Lambert a total non contributor again. Scott has to be ‘ Bear of the year ‘ and Pijper has had a good season, keep them and Wright but move the others on for 2027.

Didn’t think British Speedway could get any lower but it just did. No one believes that Kennet really wants to ride in the NDL for £10 a point, it’s just a move so he can guest elsewhere, we all know where , no doubt the ‘ Young Stars ‘ team manager , who loves a bit of publicity, will be ecstatic he can put Lambert and Kennet out in heats 13 & 15.

We all wonder what we can do to stop our sport disappearing but it just keeps on imploding from within, take this weekends NDL matches for an example. Jake Mulford, a Redcar Bear rode at Redcar the previous week for Kings Lynn, his NDL side but last Saturday he rode at Redcar again this time for Buxton against the Tigers. Then the very next day he rode for Kings Lynn against Buxton at Buxton. Same fixtures, Nathan Ablitt rode for the Tigers against Buxton but the following day rode for Buxton against Kings Lynn. Steen Pijper rode in the same matches, for the Tigers against Buxton but then for Kings Lynn against Buxton. Getting the picture ? Add in a lad, Booth, number 8 for Tigers v Buxton then at Buxton for Kings Lynn. Now try explain this to anyone you are trying to get to come to speedway matches with you…. I know there’s a shortage, I know it’s only NDL and I get the reasons why this happens but…..it isn’t helping attracting a new, younger crowd.

Question marks about not just Sheffield, add in Workington ( could go NDL, if there is one ) Oxford ( they needed financial assistance ) and rumours of some discontent at Redcar ( track staff ? and we know a good track man is as rare as a Poole home defeat ! ) Having seen dwindling attendances at Berwick, Workington and Redcar throughout this season it’s difficult times for the sport with patchy fixture lists, shortage of riders , no major tv coverage and no league sponsors , it all adds up to alarm bells and none of us have confidence in the current leadership of the sport that they have the capability or the will to turn things around. So ONE league called the PREMIERSHIP to keep Mr.Lemon happy 😆

So a Championship reserve , and relatively inexperienced , replaces a Championship heat leader and former International …… good luck with that.

I did hear a rumour, poor bloke does get a bit of stick , even from the home riders but he had the hardest of tasks following Terry then Jonathan . probably fell out with the brothers too !

Jonathan Swales ( brother of the promoter ) , fell out with the owners ( the brothers ) , like a lot of people have. Current ‘track man’ is an inexperienced volunteer, who only falls outwith them occasionally. He has 2 ‘assistants’ and a ‘mentor’ , but he’s better than nothing!

I didn’t blame it, it’s just a factor. You could see certain senior riders speaking with the track men after heat 1 and 2 , there not the greatest track men ( four of them, and one has been around northern tracks for years ) but they do what they can and I think Redcar would be buggered without them. Strange that the ‘Top Man’ never goes out on the tractor . I agree, they are inconsistent, that’s why I wrote it 😄

But weren’t they signed because the club thought that they would increase their average in the first place ? Yes, track doesn’t appear the same each week, not enough dirt or water in my opinion , but that’s not going to change . They failed on the ‘injury free’ aspect 😄