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"Opinions don't affect facts. But facts should affect opinions, and do, if you're rational." -Ricky Gervais

Is should say, if he feels he can give it a go then he has to wait until his next UK fixture to try it. Trying it abroad will not be tolerated by the UK even if there is a gap of nearly three weeks between fixtures. Give your head a wobble and stop trying to make an issue when one isn’t there. You do know where we now stand in the pecking order don’t you? It’s like the Isle of Wight saying Emil is banned if he doesn’t host the next meat raffle.

Good to see the SCB confirm Brady’s injury and that the paperwork is in order. Now can you stop all this silliness BSF and wish him a speedy recovery.

The (R)Aces won’t get anything away in this gate ‘n’ go league. Still, you got the win so that’s the main thing though I can’t help thinking an entertaining night would get the turnstiles clicking and help you in the long run. Big picture and all that. We all would have spent over £150 on admission, food etc and would visit ten times or more a season with Owlerton being so close, not now.

Source please.

Using the word if indicates that if it isn’t your van then you are not responsible and in control. Is that correct?

With the Jason ruling no rider needs suffer penalty if they are to miss a meeting anymore. Jason‘s mode of transport suffered a technical fault so he couldn’t complete his onward journey. All riders need to do now is say that their mode of transport, a van suffered a technical fault so they couldn’t complete their onward journey.

The boneheaded lot that run this sport have amended a perfectly adequate rule for one that now favours guests. That necessary evil of the sport is being implemented unnecessarily. All this due to the fact they removed the long term injury clause from the 75% rule. Unbelievable! We’ve all seen teams over the years decimated by injury and taking to the track with only one member of the top five in place and rest full of guests. Should this happen at play off time and be long term injuries then the plumb event of the year would be (another) farce. Might not happen you say, don’t run your sport where you implement rules that see you crossing your fingers in the hope you don’t become a laughing stock, I say. The other crazy scenario we now have is riders from Belle Vue and Kings Lynn could get injured in Poland in the same race in August and one team could sign a replacement, the other not. Thank god nobody is watching anymore.

The precedent was set years ago with Collins and Carter.

Irrespective of the politics of the sport let’s hope both these riders get well soon so we can see them on a regular basis. Riding through the pain barrier for world championship glory is nothing new, however misguided it may be.

Scores nice and close so it’s a good meeting by UK standards. Fingers crossed for a last heat decider to make it a classic. Not my cup of tea but I’m old school.

Ipswich have been adept at covering Jason in recent fixtures so there’s no reason why they cannot continue doing so. Sure their form will drop but they aren’t going to move from 1st to 5th in 11 weeks. With the rules reverting to those used in 2022 they can then make a signing outside the transfer window due to “long term injury’. Another option is to use a quality rider from the opposition with an assessed average. It’s against the rules but was allowed last year so it’s worth considering.

Most if not all British track's are prepared the same and made for gaters, pin the throttle and hold the line pretty much, that ain't technical.

Great idea. Even easier for Belle Vue as Mohammed literally comes to the mountain every week with all the kids who play football on our centre green. We need to make the picture of Dan bigger at the front so the kids and parents realise what goes on here.

Belle Vue need to……. Have an advert on local radio over an extended period of time. Have an advert in local newspapers over an extended period of time. Have an advertising board on some of the busiest roads in Manchester. Have posters in shops and businesses. Had out flyers in local shopping areas. Have a float or attend local fairs and carnivals. Attend local trade shows. Give out free tickets to schools and businesses. Take bikes and merchandise into schools to accompany the talk they deliver on the sport. Be featured on local tv news’s 4 or 5 times between March and October. Get hours of live and prerecorded coverage on sports/terrestrial channels Have a regular editorial in local papers. Have a 30 minute highlights programme on a local tv satellite station. Form a tie up with local groups and offer free entry and supporters club membership. Attend (and hopefully win) local sports team of the year awards. Just a start but if they did all that it would be just a case of counting the money - wouldn’t it?

People would prefer to go to United, City, County etc or the Palace, Opera House, Royal Exchange etc or Odeon, Cineworld, Everyman etc or Museums, Science, Manchester, War etc or Lowry, Whitworth, Manchester Art Gallery. The visit Manchester website lists nearly 500 things to do (of which speedway is one) but like I say people don’t like speedway so you can put any amount of glitter on this particular turd, you ain’t going to get the numbers needed. The tenth thing to do in Ipswich on the visit Suffolk website is “shop for a Suffolk souvenir”. This isn’t a dig at Ipswich but an indication what we’re up against. The other thing to consider is people like to do nothing. Work, home, TV, bed, repeat. They should promote it as a bank/school holiday thrill fest with goodies and baddies, thrills and spills in the same way as WWE because it has as much sporting credibility as WWE. The trouble is the powers that be still try to front us up as an actual sporting contest - with all the entertainment constraints attached - when it’s no such thing when you look how the rules are continually flouted and everyone competes for each other etc.

We need to drop down then. Top tire Oxford is nothing to write home about from experience.

It’s been done in the past. The simple thing is people don’t like speedway anymore and I find it difficult to disagree with them having gone from 100+ meetings a season to less than 20. Take away the allegiance to a club and it’s a bloody tedious watch.

Don’t go to any other track as you’ll get 15!

Track was gate ‘n’ go which played into the tigers hands and this was cemented by the heat 10 finish as they would have felt properly at home. The 16 or so Sheffield fans enjoyed it as would BSF/BSN but it’s not for me. I left immediately after heat 10 as I now watch speedway if I’ve nothing better to do and I had something else on at 2.30. Can’t believe it took so long to call it off or that fans stuck around thinking it would continue. Speedway fans eh. Looking forward to the playoffs and a decent crowd/atmosphere, as this bank holiday meeting was dire and could well have been one of our last.

This has been going on for years, I remember Peter Collins finishing second in a world final then missing subsequent Belle Vue fixtures with injury. Sheffield should win this but we’ll still qualify so it doesn’t matter, which btw is what a lot of former fans realised since the play offs came in. Saves them doing a complete season and provides big crowds for the final - right.

Shame we didn’t win but if you’d have offered me the bonus once Brady was ruled out I’d have bitten your hand off. Keeps things ticking over for qualification, which is all that matters these days. Pre play offs I’d have been gutted so maybe there is a positive to them after all. Nice close score to keep the fans happy to.

Current away race average 2.15 x 5 = 10.85 Brady 1.55 Jaimon 1.25 Ben 1.74 Dan 1.12 Norick 1.55 Jaimon =7.21 7 points instead of 11. Ouch! We’ll probably use one of the RR’s as a Tac though.

If the (R)Aces show their usual gating skills then it’s a lost cause. If we can master the crucial task of dialling into the starts then it might be a contest. Jaimon will do well.

You’re forgetting we only beat Ipswich by that many as Doyle wasn’t the (copy-write BSF). We only secured the win against Oxford in heat 14 so hardly a walkover, despite our massive home advantage.