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It's good to know that you're so confident in your product at Birmingham that you'll look for almost any clash to avoid running against it As a sporting club bang in the middle of it all Brummies should be part of it all, not hiding away... probably the reason you're struggling to make the end of the season. Even if you're afraid to run on the 3rd, why not the week before, the day before the opening ceremony?

Are Birmingham limited to running on Wednesdays? I wonder if ALL other entertainment establishments will be shutting up shop on that night?

So with the Commonwealth Games being held in Birmingham, just up the road, from Thursday the 28th of July to Monday the 8th of August in the height of the British summer, I assume the Brummies promotion is in full swing in trying to attract along some of the thousands of visiting people in the city and some of the athletes just a stones throw away from the stadium... by holding some kind of spin off Commonwealth Riders Championship, a money spinning meeting to boost the coffers? Oh, hang on... AUGUST Wed 03 - NO MEETING - HOME

we all know that won't finish until October

Sorry if you don't like my bedside manner but the league table really doesn't lie. Bandits are bottom of the table because they haven't won enough matches. For me it does look like a team that probably shouldn't be at the bottom of the table as when you look at it on paper Birmingham look far weaker, they're probably only above you due to a freak win at Oxford. For me an observer from a distance I think you're probably a heat leader short for heats 13 and 15, Flint has been promoted to a heat leader spot before he's really ready for it thanks to the under performance of Ricky Wells. Knudsen looks like he'll be a good signing once he masters your track "them's the breaks"

I'm not a Pirate... but the league table doesn't lie

... and they're crap

Erm... no

There's a Scunthorpe rider looking for a job... apparently

And criticising another rider for going slow is a case of the pot calling the kettle black!

He must be well used to whatever's coming his way by now

Justice probably done there

Was Bomber under power at the time of the stoppage? And did he just leave the track?

Top Bombing! Why though has it taken 12 races again for the track to come to the riders?

Heat 12 and we have a race! Great ride by Kingy

They were a bit slow in getting the red lights/flags on there... are they air bags at Bewick, doesn't look like there's much give in them!

Flint should have gone there for me

I like him, he tells it as he sees it, none of the usual "TV" stuff going on about how brilliant the racing is when it obviously isn't... which some of the other BSN crew keep parroting

Can you believe that speedway promoters expect people to turn up and pay to watch speedway racing like this?

Ooh I wonder which Scunny rider has just lost their job live on BSN

Seems a strange day to run this, especially with a 3pm start, when the likes of Chris Harris, Steve Worrall, Danny King, Richard Lawson & Leon Flint are riding later the same evening... especially when there are some blank Saturday nights coming up with no fixtures in the height of summer!

Yes, the slowing in heat 15, I think some tracks, the smaller ones, lend themselves better to this sort of thing than the big Peterborough track where the speeds are so much higher for longer. I can't understand why it's not being made a thing though, it's not everyday we hear a rider calling another rider dirty, not in the media anyway. You'd think the promotions would be trying to stoke some local rivalry up out of this... but nothing

Surprised to not see anybody comment on Ostergaard twice saying that Pickering's riding in heat 15 was "dirty" and he was pretty p1ssed off with it on the British Speedway podcast

That's a good thing then, you won't have a gap in your fixtures between the beginning of August and the beginning of October!

It's a good job the scores were close until the end because as a spectacle of Speedway it was total rubbish... except for heat 15, Picko almost doing a Joe Screen wheelie at full speed!