IainB

That was never really going to be difficult to sell-out tbh, how sustainable it is remains to be seen

Shut up Jock (strap)

It's gone because the FIM have let everything revolve around Polish Speedway. British Speedway is in no real worse state than it was in 2019 when there was about 40,000 attending Cardiff... WBD take over and the rest is history I'm afraid.

What's the NSS capacity with the East Stand?

Kubera, Lebedevs, Huckenbeck, Kvech, Thomsen, Michelsen and a tin pot local wild card (that's nearly half the field)... hard to pick a World Champion out of that lot!

I can and I will, it's not just about British Speedway... We've gone from Copenhagen to a track in the middle of an industrial estate, we've gone from Berlin/Gelsenkirchen to a field somewhere in Germany, we've gone from Gothenburg/Stockholm to the middle of a forest in Sweden, we've gone from Cardiff to the slums of Manchester! WBD have destroyed the SGP as a spectacle

GP will be being held at Plymouth by then!

Having it at the NSS may very well be good for the purist but as a showpiece event, the biggest Speedway meeting of the year in the UK it won't get any attention outside of the Speedway world at all, as it never did when it was held at Hackney, Bradford or Coventry WBD have absolutely run the whole event into the ground, no showpiece events anymore, except for Warsaw, a bunch of mediocre riders at a provincial stadium and costing a bloody fortune whether you decide to attend or watch it on TV. The sooner they are out of our sport the better!

12th of July

Rent boy?

That's one way of making sure your season extends beyond the first week of August I suppose 😂

https://www.sgpmanchester.com/tickets

Really?

I notice that the ticket sales state available from 21st March 10:00 BST... but we're currently GMT... add to this the owners of BV not even knowing the dates of the GP's when they were addressing the crowd on Monday night, they said it was the 12th & 13th, it all seems rather amateurish! ... £3.50 booking fee!!! cheeky buggers!

Great stats btw 👍

Maybe he has long Covid like Freddie Lindgren? 2020 World Bronze 2021 World 4th 2022 World 4th 2023 World Silver 2024 World Bronze 😂

That may very well have been the case, but Schlein wasn't signed up by a PL club and letting them down on the eve of the season. The first anybody officially knew about it was the press release. We already know that Cook "will be unavailable to race at this time"

As Berwick and Leicester riders seem interchangable maybe Luke Becker until Morris is available

You would have thought that Berwick might have released some kind of statement surrounding Cook's availability 🤷‍♂️

I agree, if and I stress if, because we never really hear the reasons behind his "episodes", is mental health related I sympathise on a personal level, I really do, but you can't keep on letting your club, team mates, fans and sponsors down like he continually does. He needs to find an occupation/lifestyle that is a little more suited to his condition

Are you talking about a team spot or something else? 😂

He's definitely in the wrong game then. He needs to retire and go and work for some Local Authority or something... where he can live the rest of his life on the sick.

Sound more like stayers than travellers!

I think MJJ's replacement has just made himself available from Leicester today 😂👨‍🍳

He's probably due a testimonial he must have signed for Leicester at least 10 times during his Speedway career (so far) 😂