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Just wait til next year when the Coventry Bees ride out of their new "home" in Perry Barr...

Against Rosco???

A Graham Drury v Arthur Browning match race aboard old 2-valve Jawas would be worth seeing.

The team line up may come down to who people ask for...the Brummies Twitter feed has turned this into a request show.

So if Ive decyphered the clues correctly, opposite the grandstand will be the back "straightaway" and that no future riders whose names contain more than 2 syllables will be signed because he won't be able to pronounce them?

3 people? Or is this speedway's answer to the father the son and the holy ghost?

Is it better to die with dignity and honour than to live in disgrace?

Let's hope it's third time lucky, as the last two purchsers of the team didn't work out very well, did they?

Hot off the press... https://twitter.com/rguest92/status/910862174393905152 Place your bets as to who the "favoured bidder" is. Holding fire on what I think of the situation until I know who it is and what the plans for the future are,

A horrible vision comes to mind of a rider vaulting the air fence, then tap dancing over the tarpaulin dog track covers, avoiding the retaining tyres like they were IED's, then climbing over another fence and landing on top of some old lady sat in a camping chair that promptly collapses causing carnage and mayhem all over the place, not to mention a spilt cup of tea and a half eaten cucumber sandwich falling into the mud...

Ryan Sullivan will be so pleased to hear that he's been forgiven and forgotten

Obviously no concept of the word "some" in the phrase " is lacking in some of our so called top riders". Note that the context is also speedway specific. But if you want names for the frame, start with Craig Cook. The perpeptual big fish in the smallest of ponds. Sometimes a winner of the lesser competitions, sometimes scraping through as the "best of the rest". Scared stiff of plying his trade in Poland amongst the big boys on a regular basis though, isn't he? Such is the CV of Britain's Champion and second best rider. As for the third best and the rest...well...and yet some fans are happy with that.

Contrast that to the British attitude of "everyone's a little winner" and/or "well as long as he tried his best" and/or "the heroic loser"... no wonder the motivation to WIN is lacking in some of our so called top riders.

Not to mention accountants to file the annual report and accounts to HMRC, and lawyers to fend off those pesky noise complaints from recently moved in neighbours...

Congratulations to both the winning teams. Two gripping meetings. Can't complain about the entertainment value, and at the end of the day, some you win and some you lose. That's sport. Onwards and upwards. Poland's champions and some of the best riders in that league totally outclassed by a British rider (cue the arguements over that definition) All we need in this country is 3 or 4 more of that quality.

Yep, it's a funny old game...could still be a Stal v Falubaz derby for the bronze medal. And another 90-90 impasse again...who knows?

Poor old Mickey Mouse...semi-finalists two years running and always falling at the final hurdle in front of their own fans. My heart is bleeding all over the place :rofl:

Different situation. Cradley have the promoters but no home. Birmingham could have a home but don't have a promoter. Without someone to pay the bills, the team "squats" nowhere.

No. Proper Nouns are capitalised, verbs are not.

Strictly speaking there are only FOUR "professions" - Cleical (Clergy), Medical, Legal, and arguably Military....everyone else has a Trade. Yes I know that nowadays earning a wage or a salary likes to think of themselves as a "professional" but IMHO, sports people and tradesmen should be proud to be just that. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Profession https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Military Here's an idea for you then...Take this concept, together with the financial and performance results of speedway for the last 3 years onto BBC's "Dragons Den". See if you can persuade Peter Jones, or any of his co-horts to work for nothing based on future profits of a languishing sport that they know nothing about. See how you get on. Let me know when the BBC are broadcasting the show, and I'll keep my fingers crossed for you.

Can't believe how fans still hang their hats onto fantasies like this...can someone who advocates independent fantasy promoters please explain: 1. Who appoints these independent people 2. Who they have in mind to do the job 3. What the experience and expertise in speedway that an independent person has to have to be of benefit to the sport 4. Who pays these independent people and how payment is made to avoid the "he who pays the piper" accusations that will follow if not done correctly 5. How much should an Barry Hearn type of character be paid to make it worthwhile for them to take on the job? Bear in mind that these people didn't become millionaires out of altruism or charity. 6. Who gets rid of independent people who prove to be bad at their job?

Why not? The last time Cradley set up camp in the Potteries, the Loomer Road stadium got a fresh lick of paint...the same paint that's peeling off today. Cradley in, new paint job, and it's a win-win situation to all concerned.

One of the "flattest" Brummies performances I can ever remember. Apart from Liam Carr, I don't think any of the riders can look into their pay packets and think to themselves - "yeah, I've earned this".

Maybe the last "serious" (as far as that word applies in this joke sport) meeting of the year before some end of term revalry with Cradley in October. Maybe the last "serious" speedway of an era. Who knows? I wonder how many will venture out to see it? Let's just hope that the weather holds and that the track has time to dry out as it got a right good soaking today.