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It'll be Sheffield's first outing won't it? And Brummies 3rd, you could catch 'em cold

3 points ain't bang average... it's pish poor!

Thought it was quite a disappointing crowd last night, especially as it was the first home team outing of the season, it also looked quite low at Belle Vue on Monday, maybe not helped by some of the riders referring to it as "only" the knockout cup, which I have heard a few say. I'm not sure why as it used to be quite a prestigious thing to win and is only 1 of 2 bits of silverware on offer. Listening to Drew Kemp after the meeting you would have thought he'd failed to score, could this be why he's not making the progress that he clearly should be, he scored 7+2, a score he's only managed to better twice in the top league around the Hydroscand Arena! Maybe a visit to a sports psychologist should be in order. Also, this maybe pedantic, but it's what I'm here for, I noticed that when Mr Dickson was being interviewed after the match the sponsor board in the background was still showing Eurosport & Pidcock Motorcycles... neither of which exist anymore unfortunately. Add into this the lack of a 2 minute clock and the possible non use of automated starts (they weren't being used at Dougy's testimonial) you have to wonder what they've been doing over the winter. And before @W9 Lion comes on to answer that, I do know what they've been doing over the winter and that is making adjustments to the track and if what we saw last night is a sign of things to come then that's a big thumbs up 👍. Last nights racing was probably the best I've seen around BP and far better than anything I've seen from the first 2 meetings at BV... bring the SGP to Leicester!

I wonder why Zagar didn't appear in 15? Would have done them good to nick am away win so early in the season especially after the spanking they took at home on Monday.

I don't know whether Birmingham will be relieved or Leicester worried after that... still early days though

You lot will never believe me... but there's been some fantastic action tonight!

16th of July 1969: Humanity puts the first man on the moon. 🚀👩‍🚀🌜 27th of March 2025: Leicester Speedway unable to put a 2 minute clock on the centre green ⏰️

It's a fair point @AFCB Wildcat makes, there were no end of floaters that went to Cardiff, just for the experience. I've taken friends in the past and I was going to meet up with a couple from Cardiff this year and we were all going in. My mum's hairdresser's husband and his mates used to go down from Leicester... even though they don't normally go to Speedway! And that's just me Billy no mates! How anybody can paint a reduction in crowd from 20,000 minimum to 6,500 as a positive is completely beyond me smh.

You've just described @mikebv 😂

I've just read that Leicester will meet Sheffield IF they can manage to beat Birmingham tonight.

Did you see the crowd on Monday night? I think half is a bit ambitious... maybe a third at the absolute best.

I hope you've been copying my posts on here and putting them on Facebook 😉😂

Me too, and the same design flaw still exists with the air fence to this very day.

I'm not on FB, is she a journo or something?

Maybe a lot of people waiting to see if Ben Barker qualifies from the British Final for both nights 😉

Jesus! That could have been written by me! The guy needs to stop complaining, get a life, post something positive etc. 😂 Whereabouts on Facebook was this copied from?

I hope not... I want to see Laguta or Sayfutdinov for the price I'm paying!

Absolutely they should... but they just don't have to be in a play off system. We've all seen riders giving that extra effort (100%) when the play offs come around, whether that's sustainable over a whole season is a different matter.

To be fair there was a pretty good crowd there in Monday and there weren't too many Lions fans present compared to usual... an opening gone defeat IS NOT going to help though

Are they really the Champions though? As all teams know the rules they could easily run at 58% effort all year and sneak into the play offs, assuming they don't care where they finish and then put 100% effort in to the "title"

Morally, if everybody knows the rules at the start of the season, then I think it's fine, when the play offs are fiddled at the end of the season that's where things start to get iffy... but don't get me started on all that again!

LEICESTER: Max Fricke, Luke Becker, Ryan Douglas, Kyle Howarth, Sam Masters, Drew Kemp, Sam Hagon. BIRMINGHAM: Tobiasz Musielak, Jonas Jeppesen, Michael Jepsen Jensen, Keynan Rew, Matej Zagar, Antti Vuolas, Jason Edwards.

A battered brummie sounds quite tasty 😋

I see the The Competition and Markets Authority have blasted Ticketmaster about the pricing of the Oasis tickets... wait until they hear about the SGP at the NSS!