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They seem to draw the line at Eurosport though 😂 I think the Elite League was sponsored by SkyBet for a time during the Sky years wasn't it?

Speedway has dabbled with betting companies in the past and nothing has ever really come from it, which is a shame as it looks to be a huge untapped cash cow 🐄 for the sport and are effectively the modern day equivalent to tobacco companies, you only have to look at most other sports who have obscure betting companies plastered all over their clothing etc. Victor Chandler used to sponsor Coventry, I'm pretty sure there was some on course betting at a few tracks back in the noughties and Bet365 showed meetings (similar to dog meetings) for a while. Not sure why it didn't work as you'd think it would be a humane alternative to the doggies 🐕 Good for Oxford though 🎰

If (When) he falls off... will he have dropped his gusts (close enough 😁)

He's been a bit injury prone in recent seasons hasn't he?

You've certainly been tested in recent years as have Brummie fans

Assuming the word fan is shorthand for fanatic... I would suggest it does. You're probably more of a follower of Speedway or an occasional attendee than a "fan"

Is that really any way to build loyalty with the fans though? Especially if it's being reported elsewhere. Silence will probably be the order of the day.

Birmingham do have form for this... Adam Ellis

Tom Brennan?

... and so it has started 😁

Let's hope Brum don't sign Artem Laguta or the forum could go into meltdown 🤣

A decent enough signing, only ever really done 2 seasons over here and never really kicked on and reached the heights that I thought he would, a solid 6 and a half pointer (hopefully). I would suspect that if he's challenging for the No 1 spot Brummies will have had another disaster of a season! Didn't we used to have a "MJJRacingFan" on these forums? Hopefully they'll return 😂

Hope so 🤞

History suggests you should prepare yourself for a massive disappointment 😁

Surely Worrall will end up at brum or Oxford?

Maybe "all" is a bit strong and it's not really on topic but what's happened at Peterborough with the local plan just being totally ignored makes me bloody mad... people are paid thousands of pounds to write these plans and reports and they're so wishy washy that they mean virtually nothing in reality.

To cite 2019 as not being in the "recent past" is just using an undefined period of time to do what ever they want. The whole country was in lock down during 2020 and the start of 2021, so to use 2019 as their date seems a little unfair. It doesn't really matter anyway these rules that they allegedly work to aren't worth the paper they're written on as in Peterborough's case with their local plan stating an alternative site must be provided. They're all corrupt!

re-sign or resign? lol, you had a lot of Tigers fans worried there!

I hadn't been to Owlerton for many years but started going again occasionally when Leicester were the visitors, now they're in the same league. It seems to me that riders have to be a lot more extreme in their moves to get a passes done these days than the last time I went. Whether that's to do with the track, bikes or quality of rider I'm not sure but there were real heart stopping moments where riders seemed to have to risk everything to make a pass rather than just riding a faster line.

Soulsby will love that he's been mentioned on this forum lol

There's been a few mayor's receptions down the years for winning teams... not sure if anybody has received the freedom of a city?

Great idea!

I don't think it helps that they are situated quite low and far away from the track meaning that the air fence creates quite a shadow and when the riders go wide, as they tend to do on turns 3 and 4, they dissappear into this shadow making it quite difficult to pick them out, especially when wearing darker race suits caked in with dirt. I've mentioned it before but the sport should look at moving into the 21st century and fit led lights to the bikes. If Wiggy was still around he would have been all over led lights.

What struck me when attending Cardiff was that the demographic attending seemed to be a lot younger to that of a club league match and that was even after discounting the traveling Polish fans

WBD also did little to nothing to promote the event. Instead of throwing the doors open to Qualifying and holding it at Beer O'Clock on a Friday evening for office workers to attend before going home (similar to T20 cricket events) they decided to force punters to buy a programme to get in!