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Rob Lyon said on the British Speedway podcast, that the trouble with his teams make up is that it's difficult to cover for R/R... I would have thought that having a team full of 6 and 7 pointers, it's the ideal team make up to cover for R/R as you've not got 1 or 2 big guns and then nothing after that. The reason they lost against Sheffield was partly due to a poor performance from your number 1 and a freak score from Lewis Kerr.

See above, 32 mins in

I think it said on today's British Speedway podcast that Joe Thompson will be taking his place.

Has anybody heard Nigel Tolley on this week's British Speedway podcast? 32 mins in:

Having been a Leicester, Long Eaton and Coventry fan I've heard a lot of BS over the years. As a Wolves fan you're early on your journey to a return and there has already been some false hope. As for the current outbreak of optimism, as I've said before, unless we're not being told something we're in exactly the same place we were a year ago, and until the site is acquired we'll remain in that same position. Slightly related, listening to Nigel Tolley on the British Speedway Podcast, some people just cant help themselves coming out with yet more BS!

Part of me is thinking, if all the riders were available to ride at noon on a Bank Holiday Monday, why was this fixture not originally arranged for noon on a BHM? They've now left themselves 5 days to "promote" this meeting!

If it needs 6, 5 or even 4 man teams, so be it. The current model is obviously not working.

LEICESTER’S next home match in the ROWE Motor Oil Premiership against Birmingham has been brought forward to this coming Bank Holiday Monday (May 26, midday start). The Watling JCB Lions were to face the Brummies on Thursday May 29; however, that date would now result in the absences of riders from both teams due to re-arranged fixtures in Poland. With the co-operation of all parties, agreement has therefore been reached for the meeting to take place at the Hydroscand Arena, Beaumont Park on Bank Holiday Monday at midday. The Lions will then travel to Sheffield for their early evening fixture at 6.30pm, whilst the Brummies have a home match against King’s Lynn at 7.30pm. As a consequence of this change, the scheduled fixture for the Lion Cubs at home to Belle Vue on Sunday May 25 has been postponed, with a new date to be announced.

DELETE SUNDAY MAY 25: Leicester v Belle Vue (NDL) INSERT MONDAY MAY 26: Leicester v Birmingham (Prem) 12pm DELETE THURSDAY MAY 29: Leicester v Birmingham (Prem)

That's fair enough... we'd have to go without them

The frustrating thing is it's not rocket science. We'd lose the "top stars" but riders like Tom Brennan, Josh Pickering, Sam Masters, Luke Becker, Ryan Douglas, Keynan Rew and all other riders in that bracket would have to make a decision of whether to commit to the UK as the new "top stars" with around 40-50 meetings or ride Poland, and for the non British riders, base themselves in Poland.

Realistically it needs to be one big league only with riders committed to British Speedway, 2H2A, no doubling up, on the best race night for the club.

Some decent stuff on track tonight, result was never in doubt though... the big 3 all won tonight more or less taking them out of sight.

Was it really worth showing that from King's Lynn? It was laughable!

Some of them look like they've got an appointment with the undertakers tomorrow!

Not many I'd have thought, and that's paying adults and 20% of that £25 would be VAT.

At least WBD have paid for him to be there tonight!

If the rumoured £100k per club per season tv money is to be believed that covers a club for 2,000 punters per tv match based on 2 showings per season. Maybe more as there'll be no VAT element.

I've never seen this 😳

That's the question that should be asked about Ritchie Worrall I think... didn't he cop a couple of fines?

Wasn't that NK doing deliveries for Tesco during Covid... at least he had a company vehicle 🚚

I see Nick Morris mentioned a lot on this forum... has he expressed any intention to return to speedway?

I agree, I believe Foord gave DT a nudge in a hard first bend though, absolutely nothing wrong with him doing that, that's tough Speedway.

Looking at the last 10 years BU21 Finals and the number of riders no longer riding (to my knowledge) Connor Bailey Henry Atkins Harry McGurk Kyle Bickley Alex Spooner Sam Bebee Archie Freeman Jack Parkinson Blackburn Jack Thomas Joe Lawlor Jamie Halder Alex Spooner Zach Wajtknecht Nathan Greaves Ryan Kinsley Luke Harris Luke Ruddick Josh Bailey Max Clegg Taylor Hampshire Ellis Perks Josh Bates Liam Carr James Shanes Oliver Greenwood Stefan Nielsen Ashley Morris Marc Owen Tom Stokes Ryan Terry-Daley Joe Jacobs Tom Perry Dan Greenwood Jack Kingston James Sarjeant All of these riders interested enough in Speedway to have got the kit and given it a go and good enough to have appeared in a BU21 Final. That's 35 Speedway riders! 5 complete teams worth! But the sport chooses to fly in riders from abroad, if they can be persuaded, pay them top dollar and some of who let them down at the drop of a hat. Or have riders riding for more than one club in the UK... It's complete madness.