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Oxford v Ipswich Monday 7th July live on TV
IainB replied to racers and royals's topic in SGB Premiership Speedway League
Long covid? 😂 -
Probably thought if his shoulder could stand up to all the holes in the Poole track it could stand up to anything!
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1H1A instead of 2H2A
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I'm not exactly sure who's happy with this at the moment... Poole?
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Sheffield v Birmingham 03/07/25
IainB replied to 4thbender's topic in SGB Premiership Speedway League
At the beginning of the season you could have expected that your £25 admission, £3 parking & £4 programme fee would have allowed you to see Jack Holder, Tai Woffinden and Michael Jepsen Jensen 🤔 -
"Bike rides and runs" around the forests of Eskilstuna sounds a lot more favourable than around the concrete jungle of Birmingham!
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Worky get their BSPL membership back today, yay! When's their next meeting?
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You don't like talking about money do you... if IoW were doing as well as they said they were a ferry price increase should have been coverable, I suspect it's more to do with crowd levels outside of the holiday season.
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Please elaborate
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Okay, if that's what you want to believe...
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The ferry thing sounds like a bit of a red herring to me, more likely just waiting for the holiday season to start and their captive audience to arrive, and who can blame them... just as the rest of British Speedway goes on its mid season break. 7 meetings does not a Speedway season make.
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IoW is a better analogy... and look how that went 👎🏻
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Belle Vue v Ipswich Monday 30th June
IainB replied to Aries's topic in SGB Premiership Speedway League
#PrayForNorick 🙏 #NorickStrong 💪 -
Sheffield v Birmingham 03/07/25
IainB replied to 4thbender's topic in SGB Premiership Speedway League
I think young Mr Cairns is going to be a bit of a divisive character in Speedway, he's had the money thrown at him (kit & Hancock and all that) but has served his apprenticeship on the 250's and NDL, he seems a cocky/confident (take your pick) character, a bit in the Woffy mold without the effing and jeffing... did he have a little dig at Boughen? Or was it just a poor choice of words? At the moment he's backing his confidence up with performances (Audi estate in Poland excused). -
For first timers and noobs... you can't fail to be entertained (at a normally run meeting) just for the spectacle of 4 riders blasting around on 500cc bikes with no brakes. It's only when you've been to a few and that initial awe has worn off that you suss out that this really ain't very good at all... but if you stick at it you'll see a belter of a meeting, or a consistently winning team, that might keep you coming back for more. Define young fans... most "young fans" I've seen at Speedway couldn't really care less what's going on out on the track, they're normally just running around in circles causing a nuisance to everybody, but who cares the parents can come along and the kids only cost a quid. By the time the older "young fans" have developed an actual interest in the sport they are fast approaching a 2000% price increase and when they hit that they are lost to the sport for the next 20/30 years or so while they're out chasing boys/girls and drinking themselves into a stupor and maybe getting into other more mainstream sports.