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Do we know yet how Thomson sustained these horrific injuries? Saw a Polish rider go under the fence on Instagram yesterday, I don't think he walked away from it!

They looked poor on paper and so it has proved on track. Why they went for JT as a replacement for Gilkes I'm not sure, they turn to the same old riders every time 🤷‍♂️

Pointed this out a number of times at Leicester last season!

Looks like we'll be concentrating on the league... next year's league 😁

Tonight's match being covered by Lions TV apparently due to "travel issues" for BSN... I assume it's still being covered through BSN.

I've got to say what a massive improvement it is now the inter-race interviews and pit coverage is being shown on the big screen and piped through the pa system... credit where it's due 👍🏻

Love is in the air 🥰

We certainly don't help ourselves at times do we 🤷‍♂️

So even if he did provide a sick note he still gets a ban? That is ridiculous! I can understand a rule being in place for a rider wanting to give a meeting a miss because he doesn't fancy it but surely we as a sport shouldn't be doubting sick notes, don't know if I'm being naive there 🤷‍♂️

Yes he did a lot to improve things in the sport, especially the race night experience and the appearance of the sport on TV. He was never going to be allowed to make it into a proper sport as the powers that be just aren't interested in doing that. I think he may have had a hand in introducing some new riders to the UK. He did make the massive bottom burp of interfering with the play offs the season before last though but he did fess up to that understood it was wrong and owned it. Couldn't see him staying on as soon as the TV cleared off.

I think the UK may have aligned to other sports in this country though rather than any FIM dictat... either way it's not a good look (as we know) when riders are seen to be riding in other countries and not over here

If Blodorn was riding in Germany then surely he's fit to ride? Maybe an alignment of rules is needed. And why aren't sick notes required for illness like they are for injury? If "sick note" had provided a sick note last Monday for a genuine illness then surely he shouldn't receive any ban ruling him out of riding in this country.

"Manager Mark Lemon is forced into two changes following Norick Blodorn’s crash in Heat 1 last week which saw him signed out of UK racing for nine days, whilst captain Brady Kurtz is serving a mandatory eight-day suspension after missing the Sheffield away match due to illness." We certainly don't help ourselves in this country forcing riders to miss meetings when one assumes they actually could and want to ride!

LEICESTER: Ryan Douglas, Dan Thompson, Nick Morris, Kyle Howarth, Sam Masters, Drew Kemp, Joe Thompson. BELLE VUE: Tom Brennan, Jonas Jeppesen, Peter Kildemand, Zach Cook, Dan Bewley, Tate Zischke, William Cairns.

That's literally just gone up! BELLE VUE: Tom Brennan, Jonas Jeppesen, Peter Kildemand, Zach Cook, Dan Bewley, Tate Zischke, William Cairns. LEICESTER: Ryan Douglas, Dan Thompson, Nick Morris, Kyle Howarth, Sam Masters, Drew Kemp, Joe Thompson. Lions stand a chance of not getting battered with the Aces being without sick note 👌

... but, except for Edinburgh, nobody else could be arsed

No news...

Less than 24 hours to go... no news of any kind 🤷‍♂️

I've just tested my setup from last year as suggested above and it still appears to work 👍🏻 That's using the TvBro Web browser on the android tv platform.

Birmingham because they had a completely new team in 2024 & 2025 and there's so few meetings these days can you really say that they're is a home track advantage? There will be for your stalwarts Bewley, Kurtz, Holders etc.

Yes, 1 tac-sub per team, I assume it's the same for the non-knockout league and play offs What about a team with no home advantage like Birmingham for the last couple of years (completely new teams) and Northamptoningham this year?

Didn't he do the same with Leicester?

Personally I'd keep them, in fact I'd increase them, they can keep matches alive... not double points though!

Either... or both, amazing that in 2026, in the information age, information is so difficult to come by in Speedway

Must have been the bikes that did the damage then rather than the bags lifting? I wonder if these crashes are ever reviewed by anybody afterwards for safety purposes?