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No it hasn’t. If he is in another team’s declaration then he can guest whether he is an assessed average rider or not. Assessed riders cannot guest as per the rule book but who cares now anyway, it’s not as if any one is watching. BSF & BSPL advocate guests above team members which to me seem wrong.

Dan Bewley achieved the same with the Colts, Comets & Aces. Maybe only Daniels can do this. 🤣

Don’t let the truth get in the way of a good trolling. 🤣

Glad to see the witches win after a long wait with a few near misses thrown in recently, after a similar wait I know how you must be feeling. I’ve seen heat 13 which was very entertaining and all played out in front of a superb crowd, oh to recreate that on a regular basis. Looking forward to our meetings next season and hopefully the powers that be don’t dilute things too much and we get to appreciate our stars battling it out on track. It’s an even numbered year again so fingers crossed we keep our format going, 2022, 2024 & 2026?

011.4 Absent rider(s) 1 - 5 by MA G or RR at the Team Managers discretion Absent 6 – 7 Premiership League if not a Rising Star = G Hopefully Adam is fit enough to participate

He’ll be replaced by The Rock, The Caretaker or a Monster Truck as any serious sport should do.

https://speedwayupdates.proboards.com/thread/23320/fim-speedway-belle-vue-2025

Interview with a troll. Ouch: I see Emil couldn’t be bothered on last night. Dimwit troll: Never mind Emil, what about Kurtz? Ouch: What about him? Dimwit troll: He didn’t bother trying in the semi final! Ouch: He had an off night, it happens. Dimwit troll: Off night! He didn’t even try. Four points from your number one, disgraceful. Ouch: Your number one scored four points. Dimwit troll: He had an off night. Ouch: He really did as Brady beat him twice supposedly without even trying. Dimwit troll: He wasn’t trying. Ouch: So our number ones can score four each but you decide that one wasn’t trying. Dimwit troll: Yes, got a problem with that, you saddo? Ouch: That’s illogical. Dimwit troll: Dan and Emil had off nights but Kurtz wasn’t trying, you should ask him for your money back. Ouch: And what about the cup? Dimwit troll: He had an off night. Ouch: Right ok, he rides bad at the same track in the same season and you decide one was an off night and one he wasn’t trying? Dimwit troll: Yes, he’s a wrong un! Ouch: That’s illogical. Anyway way would he not try? Dimwit troll: He was about to ride in the most important meeting of his career up to that point. To be honest, I don’t blame him for not trying. Ouch: Brady isn’t the type of rider not to try for his team. Dimwit troll: Rubbish, you’ll never convince me otherwise. All riders would do it. Mercenaries. Ouch: You do realise that only eleven months before the semi final Brady rode “in the most important meeting of his career up to that point”, the GP challenge. Dimwit troll: I didn’t know that but I can imagine his score, the disgrace. Ouch: He score a paid maximum for The Aces. Dimwit troll: Oh! Ouch: So why didn’t he score low due to not trying as you said any rider would do that but he didn’t. Dimwit troll: He didn’t try in the semi final but he did in the final last year. Ouch: You’re illogical. Dimwit troll: Don’t care what you say, you can shove your facts, you troll.

Interview with a troll. Ouch: I see Emil couldn’t be bothered on last night. Dimwit troll: Never mind Emil, what about Kurtz? Ouch: What about him? Dimwit troll: He didn’t bother trying in the semi final! Ouch: He had an off night, it happens. Dimwit troll: Off night! He didn’t even try. Four points from your number one, disgraceful. Ouch: Your number one scored four points. Dimwit troll: He had an off night. Ouch: He really did as Brady beat him twice supposedly without even trying. Dimwit troll: He wasn’t trying. Ouch: So our number ones can score four each but you decide that one wasn’t trying. Dimwit troll: Yes, got a problem with that, you saddo? Ouch: That’s illogical. Dimwit troll: Dan and Emil had off nights but Kurtz wasn’t trying, you should ask him for your money back. Ouch: And what about the cup? Dimwit troll: He had an off night. Ouch: Right ok, he rides bad at the same track in the same season and you decide one was an off night and one he wasn’t trying? Dimwit troll: Yes, he’s a wrong un! Ouch: That’s illogical. Anyway way would he not try? Dimwit troll: He was about to ride in the most important meeting of his career up to that point. To be honest, I don’t blame him for not trying. Ouch: Brady isn’t the type of rider not to try for his team. Dimwit troll: Rubbish, you’ll never convince me otherwise. All riders would do it. Mercenaries. Ouch: You do realise that only eleven months before the semi final Brady rode “in the most important meeting of his career up to that point”, the GP challenge. Dimwit troll: I didn’t know that but I can imagine his score, the disgrace. Ouch: He score a paid maximum for The Aces. Dimwit troll: Oh! Ouch: So why didn’t he score low due to not trying as you said any rider would do that but he didn’t. Dimwit troll: He didn’t try in the semi final but he did in the final last year. Ouch: You’re illogical. Dimwit troll: Don’t care what you say, you can shove your facts, you troll.

So after making up lies about Brady the Ipswich trolls then support their own team not bothering including one that couldn’t even be bothered to turn up. A clear indication of a troll is the elasticated morals and totally biased nonsense they trot out. Pick a lane and stick to it as you’d get more respect and appear less troll like if you didn’t yo-yo your opinions based on the riders involved. I presume you’re just looking for reaction all the time which in itself marks you out as a wrong ‘un. For all the true Witches fans I still hope you pull of the win that is needed after so so long but when I think of the riders, management and trolls I hope they lose big. Shame John Louis isn’t around as he would not put up with this. A true great that I had the good fortune to meet in the pits following the Superama at Hackney back in the 80’s. Top fella sadly missed.

Well done to Sheffield for topping the table. Best team in the league over the season and even more remarkable given the injury to Tai at the start of the season. You need commending for how you got on with the task of finishing top following that set back. No continued bleating about your misfortune or spouting what you would have won like some teams from down south where we’ve had to endure the same all this season as well being told they will take all before them. True class Sheffield and a lesson to those that are lacking in that department. Fingers crossed to more war of the roses encounters and seeing the bend two barmy army at the NSS again.

Hoping for an Ipswich win as it would be nice to spread things around the other teams. Sheffield 2023, Leicester the cup and a title for Ipswich would keep interest high at these clubs. We don’t want support waning again so that we see the witches dropping down a league, we can’t race ourselves in our league. Ipswich really need to win after all the talk at the beginning of the season, “best team since the ‘90’s” (they’re not), “We will go all season without defeat”, (they didn’t, not even at home) “a masterclass in team building” (it wasn’t as The Aces did it in 2023 but with a greater points boost). Hope it produces the kind of speedway you all enjoy though I won’t be watching (play offs not for me) and I’ve only junior speedway to watch now with two Colts meetings and the Ipswich U19 Grand Prix.

If there was a computer generated simulation that removed the race suits, helmet colours and surroundings, then fans both home and away would call out the excitement level presented. The thing is home fans think this kind of speedway is fine when it’s their home track and they are winning. This in turn makes promoters think they are doing a fine job and they not only do not look to create a racetrack, they search for more of the same. Being happy with a “race” that effectively last 7 seconds makes you a big part of the problem.

Sorry, I’m having trouble hearing you over the sound of the axe grinding.

And the KO cup in March where unbeknown to us he was saving himself for tonight. I’ve got that right haven’t I?

You cannot compared riders from different era’s and you cannot even compared results over the last few years as they are always peeing about with the points scoring system. 3,2,1,0 then add them all up.

Broken chain decides it. Dam Aces luck again.

I was given an Aces scarf as part of my season ticket package the other season. Very nice it was too. I agree with you that other clubs should follow suit.

He only scored 7 in a league meeting for Swindon before the GP round at Teterow in 2017, when double figure scores were the norm that season. Like Brady, it was just a bad night and there is no need for bogus conspiracy theories to be made up in either of these instances.

Brady isn’t great at Ipswich but the timing of the meeting has made some see a lack of effort on his part when this wasn’t the case, it was just Brady at Ipswich. What was the reason for his low scores there earlier in the season? Last year Brady’s most important world championship meeting was the GP challenge, in some ways more important than today’s meeting as the long term financial benefits of being part of the GP circus are huge for a rider and it was something he had missed out on time and time again. The day before he won the challenge he rode unbeaten for The Aces as our captain leading us to another league title. Rather than make up a conspiracy that isn’t there maybe focus your attention on why three of the most spectacular riders in world speedway were unable to strut their stuff in one of the most high profile meetings of the domestic season.

Disappointed with The Aces but you cannot win them all nor should you expect to. I’m pleased for Ipswich and hope they go on to win the final. If other second division clubs see teams that have moved up not only do well but positively challenge then all the better. I’d rather these teams prosper than see support dwindle again to the point they need to drop down a league as we need clubs to ride against in our league. Roll on next years play offs when hopefully normal service will be resumed - injury allowing that is. Go for gold witches and here’s to another winners medal for our super ex RS Tom.

It’s pretty good at Belle Vue as most of our team ride for only us in this country with many who have never ridden for another top flight club. Most are quite long standing Aces with Dan being with us since 2016. It’s not the norm but something we like to do with our team. As with decades ago points limits, like rider control sees us forced to lose riders, we would have loved to have kept Max and Tom for instance but it’s good to see these riders continue to prosper at other clubs. Several riders are in the Craven suite after the meeting and mingle with the fans chatting and having photos and this has helped create a real affinity with the fans (many decked out in club colours) who see them as part of our Belle Vue family.

Belle Vue can sort their fixtures in time for the play offs and we have a busier schedule than most. The desire needs to be there. I did mention at the start of the season that Belle Vue are always the first to get to 75% of fixtures thus reducing our window for potential injury replacements. Any club that cannot fulfill its fixtures in an appropriate manner a week or two before the play offs needs to give their head a wobble. Guests have always been around but not with the regularity of these days. In the most famous KO Cup final which we won after THAT run off, we had Jim McMillan guest for Chris Pusey. Guests can no longer be described as a necessary evil as there was a perfectly fine rule in place in 2022 whereby you could quite rightly replace an injured rider at any point of the season. This rule was dropped in favour of guests (or the less than effective RR). This guest move has been actively applauded by many on here following the 2022 season when the rule was correctly applied to both Peterborough & Belle Vue. Never been a fan of the play offs and I’m still yet to see the full 30 heats of any since its introduction, such is my apathy towards them.

I don’t think that will be the case at all as the play offs have something riding on them, not like the qualifiers that have filled the calendar long after the top four were settled (even if not mathematically). Brady’s most important meeting last season was the GP challenge the day after he scored a maximum and led his beloved Aces to another league title. I think we will see the Brady & Dan we saw last night come the play offs. Our bottom five have rarely set the world on fire this season and we only get around 20 points away and 25 at home. That leave Dan & Brady with potentially 28 points to add. When deciding on the winners it’s just a case of how many points you knock for those two from the potential final score of 48 away and 53 at home.

I agree and it’s a very different world today than only 10-15 years ago. Data capture and engagement with customers is so much easier and with AI keeping tabs on such data, tailored marketing is the way to go. You’re correct that keeping hold of customers is the hard part and deals are a must to keep them coming back. I’ve asked many times “What is that seat worth to you?” and the response is always £25. My argument is it’s currently worth zero as it’s constantly empty and an empty seat looks and feels bad so fill it in any way possible. We use to block out around 50 seats in F/G section for schools and the Hide Out Youth Zone but take up waned though the offer is always there. I would always have a full looking stadium for TV meetings, by hook or by crook as it adds a fomo factor to those looking in from their armchairs. Clubs need a dedicated marketing person and not treat it as an add on by one of the current staff. The more accomplished they are the better with remuneration being based on results. Over the years it’s always been someone’s mate having a go (I was one such mate back in Perrins era) and the focus is never quite there. Better still would be a British speedway sales team fighting for our portion on the leisure pound.