DaveWayne

It's very reminiscent of what was done at Long Eaton as well. The 'save the stadium' campaign was strong, but obviously with speedway fans being more regionalised and stock car fans following drivers rather than locations, the speedway side was far stronger. When the developers were not making any progress, they came up with a new plan which would rotate the track through 90 degrees, freeing up land that could be developed for industrial purposes. This development would generate the funds for the new track. Of course, this was never going to happen, but unfortunately the leaders of the campaign group were speedway fans and they bought the lies. Obviously, without pit space there was never going to be any stock cars there again, so a wedge was immediately driven between the two factions as the stock car fans felt like they were being sold out. This 'new speedway track' at Brandon will have exactly the same effect on the campaign groups at Coventry if the speedway side show any signs of weakness towards it. There is no way that a new stadium could survive purely on income from speedway and the developers know this.

Can anyone who has been before advise as to whether the best option is advance ticket or pay on arrival ?

Another subtle dig at Sheffield ? Maybe you never saw how much Tai was helping the other riders, even when he was injured and still turning up to the matches ? Or Chris Holder, or Picko ? Look at Flint last year compared to his previous few seasons. Team spirit is very high at Sheffield and all the younger riders comment on it.

You have to watch out for those flying cows. Awful mess if one of them craps on you. 💩

It doesn't say Speedway ended, it says the final event at Belle Vue Stadium. I'm pretty sure the new venue isn't called that, just the team ?

Will be interesting to see if this thread gets the same hour by hour analysis of the latest forecasts as the Lynn thread did on Monday, or was that just special treatment because people don't like Buster ? I assume the Ipswich fans who were all over it, despite the meeting not involving them, will be equally critical of their own team if the forecast rain doesn't arrive. 😉

I don't disagree with that, but why post about it on an Ipswich thread ? Previous references to him on here have been accusations of him not pulling his weight away from home for Belle Vue and that he has other priorities. All you have done is to back up that theory. 😉

No, but taking 3 laps to go from 1st to last at Owlerton last week was embarassing. It's laughable that Belle Vue fans are crowing about how well Kurtz is riding in Poland. All you are doing is proving that he is far more committed to them than he is to you.

In this future world you predict, would the Polish paymasters ban them from riding in GPs as well ?

Yet met office is showing 60-90% chance of rain all afternoon and evening. Let's wait and see before we start the abuse shall we ?

Seems to me that some on here will find something to moan about no matter what happens. Met Office is currently showing 60-90% chance of rain right through from 11am so it looks like a good call. They could always have left it and then called it off when everyone was in the stadium, although at least the away fans wouldn't have travelled 5 hours like the Belle Vue fans at Ipswich a couple of weeks ago.

Genuine question for the Belle Vue fans - what are your thoughts on Kurtz shutting down on the last lap of heat 15 ? My initial thought was that he had just spat his dummy out as he had his backside handed to him on a plate and didn't like it, but I have seen a suggestion that he did it to allow Cook to take the extra point. If it was the latter, then is it just more evidence that the top riders are really just racing for pocket money over here ?

Yes, Stead confirmed this in a post match interview on twitter.

He was in a f***ing coma ffs. The info about his injuries was coming from medical professionals, not from him over exaggerating.