IainB

Let's be honest though this is pretty pish poor Speedway, yes I know it's good to give the kids a chance and they're all giving it their best efforts etc. I've been trawling through last night's Poole topic while watching this and quite frankly the Speedway tonight is no better than last night and everybody on that topic has gone into meltdown! What's on offer tonight really should be 2nd half stuff (at all senior meetings)

Doesn't sound like the commentator is there, they'd be better off playing music between races 😂

I find it very much depends on the type of track as to how entertaining these type of junior meetings are. The big easy tracks like Worky, BV & Scunny tend to throw up some good action... I've seen some dross at Leicester where it takes a bit more technical ability to get round and understandably these kids just don't yet have that ability, Ippo is a similar style track to Ippo... having said that Foord & Trigger just had a decent race, they do have a bit of experience though.

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ITV showed England football, prime time, 5 teams in their league 😁

Looks like the Ipswich faithful have other things to do tonight 😁 Is there a curfew at Ippo?

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He'll be along soon to tell us all that Poole are the underdogs for the 2nd leg 😂

Can't afford his appearance fee 💰

Thank goodness that's over!

Now that I'd pay to watch!

'Arry beginning to realise he's done his money!

Yes, he's been fine, but only fine, normally when these riders come in with all the hype (and expectation) they will at least show flashes of something, even Boughen registered double figures a couple of times last season before his head went.

Not really set the Speedway world on fire since he's started CL... yet to score double figures, living up to the hype was always going to be difficult.

Emil, Bomber, Bewley, Picko, Danny King

That is out there... Ryan Reynolds not so much though 😁

I like the Polish scope for race line up changes but I'm not keen on the 2 nominateds at the end of the meeting I prefer our heat 15 nominees... so yes and no 😁

Crazy isn't it that all these repeat fixtures happen at the end of the season, BSN should have been done and dusted at the end of spring, the KO Cup mid Summer and Pay Offs now.

If it's the same as the old Odsal track the bends were plenty wide enough, can't remember the straights though, I suppose as long as they satisfy the FIM track specifications it could be potentially doable. Isn't Edinburgh even built to FIM standards? That doesn't strike me as being especially wide?

Would it not be more viable to have the neutral zone on the inside of the fence (i.e. a fence within the fence) the bends are certainly wide enough to do that, not sure about the straights though?

Testimonials aren't as lucrative as they used to be in this country especially to Ekstraliga riders. DJ Woff was due a testimonial this year and it was obviously not worth his trouble to organise one, he could probably make as much in a couple of races in Poland.

You'd have thought he would have remembered the podium... he was stood on top of it last year at Leicester!

I'm not saying he's going to single handedly revive the SGP series, but it's currently at its lowest ever ebb and there's not a single rider in the series they can hang their promotional hat on... Dan Bewley, as good as he is, is all a bit nicey nicey when interviewed, Robert Lambert a bit boring and neither have an individual World Championship to their name... and you can forget the rest although Jack Holder does seem to have something about him. There's only 3 World Champions in the 2026 series and 2 of them are wild cards and the other one can't speak English... I mean what do you do with that as a promoter?

Why do you say that? SGP has/is a brand, GB Speedway Team is a brand... and pretty much nobody outside of the sport are aware of them.

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